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France's lower house of parliament on Tuesday voted in favour of a law to battle "Islamist separatism" that is billed by the government as a riposte to religious groups attempting to undermine the secular state. The draft legislation, which has been criticised for stigmatising Muslims and...

Deperming, or degaussing, is a procedure for decreasing or eliminating the remnant magnetic field from ships and submarines in order to camouflage them against magnetic detection by enemy sensors or naval mines. For the...

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Four Rafale fighter jets of the French Air Force have been at the Tanagra air base since yesterday, participating in the “Skyros 2021” exercise with Greece. The exercise began on Tuesday and will end on Friday. As part of the bilateral exercise, in addition to the French Rafale jets, the...

According to a Tweet published on February 2, 2021, the Normandie (D651), an Aquitaine-class frigate of the French Navy successfully test-fired Aster 30 surface-to-air missile in collaboration with the French defense procurement agency DGA. The Normandie is a frigate in service with the...

Swedish soldiers have deployed in a new European special forces mission fighting jihadists in Mali, French military sources said on Friday. "The first operations have been carried out," French military spokesman Frederic Barbry said of the Swedes, adding that they would stay in Mali until the...

The French armed forces have placed an order for 3,000 O-NYX goggles with Thales. The additional 3,000 night vision goggles ordered by the French Armament General Directorate (DGA) will be delivered in 2021 for deployment into French Army units alongside the 3,500 O-NYX goggles already...

Nexter Munitions successfully fired the KATANA smart artillery ammunition and tested its flight control capability during a test campaign in Sweden from December 7 to 11, 2020. This success marks a decisive milestone for the KATANA development program. These test firings, carried out from a...

MBDA has successfully demonstrated the Missile Moyenne Portée’s (MMP) drone-guided beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) engagement capability. The capability demonstration was carried out at the Canjuers military camp in the south of France. It was supported by the French Army and the Direction...

France's Army issued a restricted tender last weekend for the supply of multi-caliber sniper rifles, according to French website Forces Operations Blog. The weapons in question must be able to fire .408 CheyTac (CT) and .50 caliber ammunition via a barrel change. According to the website, there...

If you made it to the 31th of december it means you have survived this difficult year. Hope you were safe during this year as well as your family members and friends. Been busy lately with family,work and because of the holiday season but i'll be more active soon! 😀 Je souhaite à vous et à...

This delivery is part of the 2019-2025 Military Programming Law which embodies the efforts "at human height" led by Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, in particular a broader desire to renew small equipment intended for the French forces. The 5th Generation PSA Glock-17 FR replaces...

European missile maker MBDA within the scope of an upstream study program of the French Directorate General for Armaments has developed a capacity for autonomy tracking threats and object acquisition by imagery using Artificial Intelligence (AI). According to a recent company’s statement, this...

Opération Bourrasque. For more than a month, 3,000 soldiers from the Barkhane Force, the Malian and Nigerien armed forces jointly carried out a large-scale operation in Liptako-Gourma. Objective: deal a blow to the Armed Terrorist Groups (GAT) in their refuge area. You can translate the...

The gunman behind a foiled terrorist attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 has been sentenced to life behind bars. Ayoub El Khazzani was convicted of attempted terrorist murder on Thursday, at a French court. On August 21, 2015, Khazzani boarded the high-speed Thalys service to Paris at...

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s parliament on Tuesday approved a 40 percent increase in the defense budget for 2021-2025 because of tensions in the Baltic Sea region in recent years, with officials saying Russia is the main reason for the move. The 349-member Riksdag assembly approved the largest hike in...

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The trial of 20 people charged over the November 13, 2015 jihadist attacks in Paris that were France's deadliest peacetime atrocity will get underway in late 2021, sources close to the case and prosecutors said on Friday. The night of carnage on November 13, 2015 saw 130 people killed and 350...

Every three months, dozens of French air force fighters, tankers and radar planes take off at bases across France, form up over the Atlantic Ocean then split up and practice penetrating air-defenses and dropping nuclear bombs on French soil. These quarterly exercises, code name “Poker,” don’t...