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France is offering precisely what fighter buyers want: a proven, combat-tested, continuously improving fighter that answers to no one but its owner. That's the...
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France is offering precisely what fighter buyers want: a proven, combat-tested, continuously improving fighter that answers to no one but its owner. That's the...
For all the talk of spending targets, the Ankara NATO summit's real work happened elsewhere. Europe is being handed responsibility for NATO's conventional defense...
France gave its next aircraft carrier a name meant to signal independence. The €10 billion ship will launch its fighters using three catapults it...
South Korea and Japan want nuclear-powered submarines, and a stronger allied undersea force would bolster deterrence against China's expanding navy. But diplomatic friction, labor...
In 1988 the Soviet Union launched two ambitious spacecraft toward Phobos, a tiny moon of Mars, carrying what would have been the first robot...
Exploring Venus is extremely challenging. A landing probe or lander must withstand crushing pressure, with atmospheric pressure roughly 90 times Earth’s, equivalent to being...
In the 1960s France built Israel's air force and sold it the Mirage that won the Six-Day War. Then France embargoed Israel and kept...
Rafale Won Europe’s Fighter Competition–and the Eurofighter Typhoon Shows Why: For years, military aviation enthusiasts have debated which fighter is superior: the French-built Rafale...
Europe's flagship joint fighter program, FCAS, has collapsed over a Franco-German feud. France's answer: pour its money into the Rafale F5, an upgrade so...
France has named its next aircraft carrier the France Libre, after Charles de Gaulle's wartime Free French movement — and it will be nearly...