In October 2013, Romania bought 12 second-hand F-16AM/BM aircraft from Portugal to replace part of its fleet of Russian built MiG-21 Lancer fighter aircraft. Romania was rumored to have paid about 638 million EUR with 120 million EUR for the acquisition of the planes. The contract also included modifications and upgrades performed by Lockheed Martin;…
Voir notre entrée de blog sur l`Armée suisse ici 26 minutes 25.02.2017. 20h10L’invité de la rédaction : Lt Col Karl-Heinz InäbnitLe lieutenant-colonel Karl-Heinz Inäbnit, suppléant du commandant de la place d’armes de Bure, évoque le concept Progress, lancé par l’armée suisse pour ménager les nouvelles recrues. Sources :http://www.tdg.ch/news/news/armee-futur-veut-menager-recrues/story/12868954 26 minutes 04.02.2017. 19h15L’invité de la…
Egypt had agreed to buy two Mistral warships (futur L1010, Gamal Abdel Nasser ; from June 2 2016 and L1020, Anwar el Sadat ; from September 16 2016) and which France built for Russia before scrapping the sale over the Ukraine crisis, the deal is the second big military contract this year between France and…
L’exercice d’alerte “Noble Jump” en Pologne a mis en lumière les défauts de la Force de réaction rapide de l’OTAN (NATO NRF) face à la Russie. La capacité de déploiement de la nouvelle force de réaction rapide de l’Otan, testée du 9 au 19 juin sur le camp d’entraînement de Zagan (ouest de la Pologne),…
K-141 Kursk was an Oscar-II class nuclear-powered cruise-missile submarine of the Russian Navy which was lost with all hands when it sank in the Barents Sea on 12 August 2000. It was the penultimate Oscar II class submarine designed and approved in the Soviet era. KURSK, A SUBMARINE IN TROUBLED WATERSCARRE Jean-Michel(2005) In August 2000,…
