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China holds a quarter of Montenegro’s debt, and despite delays to the highway’s construction, the first repayment is due in July © Savo Prelevic/AFP/Getty Images Montenegro has asked the EU for assistance with paying off a $1bn Chinese loan for an incomplete highway project that has...

France had never taken part in Iniochos, an international air exercise, organized annually - and for two weeks - by the Greek air force. But for the 2021 edition of these maneuvers,France has sent 16 aircrafts. Out of the more than 60 aircrafts taking part in this exercise,which will take place...

As part of an exercise organized by CREC (Centre de Recherche des Ecoles de Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan), Optio, Ultro and Nerva could be used by EMIA students to assess the operational gain brought by the use of robots during different defensive and offensive scenarios. Test conducted with a Nexter...

Dublin, Ireland (CNN)The White House joined Northern Irish, British and Irish leaders on Thursday, expressing concern as parts of Northern Ireland experienced a week of violence as unionists and nationalists clashed with police and each other. Unrest first broke out last week amid rising...

Do you know journalist Laurène Beaumond? We neither. In fact, no one knows her and yet this person who does not exist is at the heart of an imbroglio between certain Chinese and French media. Currently, Beijing does not hesitate to respond blow by blow to any criticism since the European Union...

Airbus and Dassault Aviation have proposed to the governments of France, Germany and Spain to build a demonstrator under Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS) project. The two companies reached an agreement Friday that paves the way for political talks to resume among the governments, a...

The French Direction générale de l'armement (DGA) has taken delivery of the 18th Airbus A400M transport aircraft. “The DGA has just taken delivery of the 18th A400M equipped with all the capabilities validated to date, including the simultaneous release of paratroopers from the two doors and...

After a decade of counter-insurgency, plans are changing IN THE FORESTS and plains of the Champagne-Ardenne region, where once the great powers went into battle, the French armed forces are beginning to prepare for the return of a major conflict. Planned for 2023, Exercise Orion is a...

I think it's time to create a thread about the ongoing (and growing) insurgency in Cabo Delgado province,Mozambique where security forces are facing Islamist groups (including ISIS) wishing to establish an Islamic state in this part of Africa. (A region also rich in natural ressources) The...

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has signed a new contract with state-owned Kharkiv Morozov Design Bureau (KMDB), part of the UkrOboronProm, for the serial production of an indigenous BTR-4 8×8 armoured fighting vehicle. The long-awaited contract for up to 75 new armoured vehicles includes two...

At least 10 suspected YPG/PKK terrorists were detained in southwestern France, French media reported Tuesday. Local media, citing judicial sources, reported that the operation against the PKK was carried out at the request of the Paris anti-terrorism judge. The suspects, including a woman...

A local community leader speaks to the crowd of parents outside a Batley Grammar School, West Yorks, after a teacher allegedly showed derogatory caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. Photograph: Lee McLean/SWNS...

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Britain’s army, navy and air force will all be cut back over this parliament, despite promises made by Boris Johnson during the election campaign “not to be cutting the armed services in any form”. A five-year defence review, published on Monday afternoon, confirms that the army target size...

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The contract for the development of the SAMP/T NG (New Generation) for France and Italy has been signed today at OCCAR premises in France (Paris area) in the presence of the French Air and Space Force staff, the Italian Army staff, the OCCAR Director and National representatives of the French...

The French MoD announced the order of 367 MICA NG air to air missiles in addition to the 200 already ordered. The missiles are ITAR free. Total program cost €1.8 billion. (Development costs,missiles purchase and upgrade of MICA missiles already in service within the French Air Force)

Who would have said that a buoy could be strategic in terms of defense? The Ministry of the Armed Forces will announce that France will now manufacture its own acoustic buoys, equipment used in particular for the detection of submarines. France needed to regain its sovereignty in the field of...

"The Mediterranean area will be the challenge of the coming years as the factors of crisis which combine there are numerous: contestation of maritime areas, clashes between neighbor countries, destabilization of Libya, migration, trafficking, access to resources", summarized the President...

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