french fifth republic

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2kpkq90ygno (Headline is slightly misleading)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-fde5876a-c35c-48a2-b4cf-d255bd25611b https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgk0y97v0go

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/07/french-navys-first-new-offshore-patrol-vessel-breaks-cover/ View: https://youtu.be/d9a_-9JN1HY

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/07/france-unveils-its-defense-strategy-for-the-arctic/

The US avoided becoming the main supplier of Israel until 1968, despite being the major indirect supporter/financier for many years before that. The US preferred Israel buy their weapons from Europe, stepping in when the Europeans couldn't (HAWKs 1964) and wouldn't (tanks when West Germany...

Our esteemed forum comrade ‘flateric’ made the last post in the ‘Dassault/SAAB/Alenia nEUROn UCAV’ thread on 3 July 2022. Since then, Dassault has launched a new UCAV programme to meet an Armée de l’Air et de l’Éspace requirement, for an unmanned collaborative combat aircraft or ‘Remote Carrier’...

Since the Global Military Spending thread is currently locked for some reason, I'll put this here for now: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/12/france-blocking-britain-from-eu-massive-defence-fund/ So much for the reset...

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/05/apollon-france-just-fired-the-strongest-laser-on-earth/ Regards,

Piecing together what information there is regarding this alleged loss (or losses?), it seems that the IAF were caught off guard and were not expecting a long range BVR exchange on that day. It also seems to be the case that both sides initially had ROE that only allowed the use of long range AA...

Wasn't sure where to put this.

Dassault Aviation expresses willingness to commit to a Space Plane project, meeting AdlAE recent new long term perspectives: (Link in Fr - You might want tuse an auto-translator)...

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/04/02/france-calls-for-new-eu-ammo-plan-speeding-up-satellite-constellation/

https://crecy.co.uk/product/sepecat-jaguar

Part 1 of the Air Historical Branch's history of Typhoon https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/air-historical-branch/post-coldwar-studies/eurofightertyphoonpart1coldwarorigins1983-1990/

Beloved singer and unparalleled French aerospace historian/writer died yesterday, the 2nd of March 2025, at 80 after a long battle with cancer: For those that are unfamiliar with his top selling history of Soviet and German aircraft, might you find in the below titles a glimpse of what was his...

I recently read that France is considering deploying some nuclear capable Rafales to Germany, to strengthen deterrence further east. I thought this was interesting enough and it might be useful if the British did it as well, but of course they retired their aircraft nukes in 1998 and now only...

Raised to standard 2, the A330 MRTT tanker aircraft will have an electronic warfare capability https://www.opex360.com/2024/10/10/dissuasion-porte-au-standard-2-la330-mrtt-aura-une-capacite-de-guerre-electronique/

Project Musher Airbus Helicopters and its partners have conducted a full scale demonstration of a manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) system developed as part of a project funded by the European Union and code-named MUSHER. The demonstration took place in France and Italy from 30 September to 9...

Just published. The first volume is dedicated to European operators. An interesting page dealing with the potential C-130 production by Sud-Aviation in France in the sixties. The author, Xavier Capy, is well known for his previous books on Noratlas and Transall. More details on www.c-130.eu.

I was able to aquire this fantastic wind tunnel model / model of the CT41. It has a scale size of 1:10 (the original size was 9,79m / model size is 96cm) My question to all of you (as being much more experienced in this cases) is, if you think it is a real wind tunnel model or "just" a...