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Let’s assume that in the mid-1990s, the governments of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary signed a joint agreement to purchase around 250 new fighter jets. Such a large order would likely attract the attention of the European Eurofighter consortium. Due to limited availability of...

Via Slashdot: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/exclusive-europe-braces-mobile-network-blackouts-sources-2022-09-29/ Things may be even worse than they think, there are a fair few computer systems that rely at least in part on mobile phone networks, not to mention reliance on...

https://www.reuters.com/world/afghanistan-pullout-spurs-eu-revive-rapid-reaction-force-2021-09-01/ A bit of background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Battlegroup

Few years before I came over a unique HOT missile launcher mounted on a rover. Known as HOT ATLAS, it is the only man-power operated HOT launcher, service in Moroccan Army. Any further info or pics about it?

Looks like we don't have a thread for this...so me again! Estonian MILREM TheMIS Type-X UGCV capability demo in Estonia few days back.

Hi, HIGHTRIP is a project co-financed by the European Commission in the frame of Clean Sky 2 (Horizon 2020). Consortium, coordinated by NLR, is composed of four partners. Institute of Aviation will take part in the design activities, whereas companies P.W. Metrol and Szel-Tech in the...

As a kid I spent a lot of time browsing through Janes Fighting Ships in our local library. One of my favourite group of ships were the big cruisers which were the hallmark of major European navies. The most modern of these were the helicopter carrying Terrier armed ships of the Italian navy plus...

CAPTION: The complex nature of intercepting hypersonic weapons may predicate air-breathing propulsion technologies to provide additional range, speed and energy. Credit: MBDA https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/european-states-plan-hypersonic-defense

Not trying to provoke either side of the current debate but I am old enough to remember a time when the 6 original members of the European Community discussed the setting up of a full blown EDF in the 1960s. It was never a runner politically but had it been, I imagine the following equipment...

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Momentum_builds_for_creation_of_moon_villages_999.html http://news.yahoo.com/european-space-boss-crazy-moon-village-plan-151401886.html

Tuesday, September 22, 2015 "Made in the USA: Airbus’ New Facility to Strengthen Global Stance" by Juliet Van Wagenen Source: http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/topstories/Made-in-the-USA-Airbus-New-Facility-to-Strengthen-Global-Stance_86088.html#.VhwqliuGMdg

In the 1960s children's comic TV21 Alan Fennell enlarged on the puppet shows of Gerry Anderson by creating a fictional world of 2065. He even provided a back history in which a limited nuclear in Europe had been started by an accident in 2028. A Prime Minister talking to an Air General (sic)...

EADS has a design for a Zero Emission Hypersonic Transportation (Zehst) rocketplane. Of course there's an animation too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e33aPdoUxc I really don't get what EADS think they'll achieve publicising such designs that no one (not even the EU) will ever fund ...

http://www.capcomespace.net/dossiers/espace_europeen/hermes/index.htm

Here is the original November 22 (American Thanksgiving!) story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7108146.stm Here is the wattered down November 23 story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7108872.stm Does this amount to a retraction? Just what did Tom Enders really say?

Hi, The Rheimetall Germany company is developing a new recce UAV called the KZO.

Some projects from Le Bourget Naval 1992

This information might date from 2002, but this the best and only illustration of the Saab "Project 518," a clean sheet of paper design proposal for the 12-nation Eurotraining requirement. http://svt.se/svt/articles/45100-45199/45130/ http://theworldofpolitics.com/showthread.php?t=891 Testing...