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France performed the primary firing of the renovated ASMPA nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile (ALCM) on Dec. 9, French Ministry of the Armed Forces introduced. The missile, developed by MBDA, was fired from a Dassault Rafale fighter jet which took off from Cazaux Air Base (Base aérienne...

(CNN)The French armed forces now have permission to develop "augmented soldiers" following a report from a military ethics committee. The report, released to the public on Tuesday, considers medical treatments, prosthetics and implants that improve "physical, cognitive, perceptive and...

Prosecutors in France have asked for sentences ranging from five years to life in prison for 14 suspected accomplices of the Islamist gunmen who murdered cartoonists and other staff at the satirical weekly, and killed hostages at a Jewish supermarket in Paris in 2015. Sixteen people were killed...

The urban training center of the French army is going to be extended with the creation of underground combat facilities (caves,sewers,cellars....) to train French army units to underground and confined space warfare. A network of concrete and burried tunnels is being built.

PARIS (Reuters) - France’s next-generation aircraft carrier will be nuclear-powered and replace the national fleet’s flagship warship, the Charles de Gaulle, in 2038, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday. The 11th carrier-vessel in the French Navy’s will be equipped with the new...

The French army has received its first Spy'Ranger mini UAVs from Thales. They will replace the DRAC system (contact intelligence drone) in service since 2008. The first drones were delivered to the mini drone sections of the 61st regiment of artillery. Up to 70 systems will be delivered to the...

France will launch the Future Combat Air System (SCAF) demonstrator next year as part of the enhancement of the armed forces' operational capabilities. Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, made the announcement as part of the discussion of the Finance Bill (PLF) for 2021 in the French...

The French Army took delivery of first four regenerated armoured infantry fighting vehicles (VBCI) from Nexter last week. Since 2013, the VBCI in-service support contract (MSS) has linked the Nexter industrial prime contractor and the French Army. It is one of the four support contracts in...

The PROMETEUS PTD, is a project which aims to ensure the overall protection of the French army vehicles of the Scorpion program by combining 3 technologies: versatile passive protection, reactive protection and active protection

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian Army Chief of Staff General Andika Perkasa received French Army Attache Colonel Sven Meic at his office recently to discuss military cooperation between the two countries. Under the cooperation, the Indonesian Army will send its troops to take a joint exercise...

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The DGA (French procurement agency) has qualified the command post version of the VBMR GRIFFON. The first 3 vehicles were delivered on the 16th november. 333 vehicles of the command post variant were ordered for the French army with half to be delivered before 2025.

The French army will test its new warfighting doctrine this spring in a major exercise with U.S. and British forces as it prepares to face a future fight against a state adversary. Much like the U.S. Army’s Multi-Domain Operations concept, which assumes strategic challenges from a near-peer...

How can military vehicles be made more discreet on the ground? This is the question addressed by the Caméléon project of the Directorate General of Armaments (DGA), involving Nexter group and IMT Atlantique in the framework of the Télécom & Société numérique Carnot Institute. Taking inspiration...

According to Savvas Vlassis, editor of the Greek news site Doureios, Greece is preparing to send a Special Forces contingent to Mali to join French military forces in carrying out operations against jihadist terrorists. Talks between Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and French President...

The French anti-submarine frigate FREMM Auvergne, right, sails alongside U.S. Navy and Greek warships during an exercise in the Mediterranean Aea. (Jack Guez/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS — Fresh off a pair of frigate and submarine cruise missile tests, the French Navy is readying for...

The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that the Anglo-French Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF) has reached full operating capacity. The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that the Anglo-French Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (CJEF) has reached full operating capacity. The...

The Paris Fire Brigade (French Brigade des sapeurs-pompiers de Paris, BSPP), is a French Army unit which serves as the primary fire and rescue service for Paris and certain sites of national strategic importance. The brigade's main area of responsibility is the City of Paris and the surrounding...

LYON, France (AP) — A Paris criminal court sentenced a 29-year-old Algerian man Thursday to life in prison for killing a woman and trying to bomb a church near the French capital in a failed 2015 attack that investigators said was plotted by Islamic State group extremists in Syria. The court...