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India’s long-running effort to acquire 114 additional Dassault Rafale fighter jets has stalled, with a contract that was expected to be signed in early...
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India’s long-running effort to acquire 114 additional Dassault Rafale fighter jets has stalled, with a contract that was expected to be signed in early...
Europe’s Answer to the F-35 Has 2-3 Weeks to Live — France and Germany Can’t Agree on Who Leads, and the Program Is About...
France Wants the PANG Aircraft Carrier: Nuclear Powered and Ready to Defend NATO In March 2026, President Emmanuel Macron formally named France’s next-generation aircraft...
The Dassault Rafale Fighter Might Be the Best Fighter Not Called F-35 or F-22 Unlike other Western nations, which either rely on American-made weapons...
The France Libre: Inside the 80,000-Ton Aircraft Carrier Future of the French Navy Along with the United States, France is the only nation to...
The announcement of the "France Libre" (Free France) as the official name for the Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Génération (PANG) marks a historic pivot for...
The Nuclear Exception: Why France’s Charles de Gaulle is a Global Strategic Heavyweight You already know that the United States dominates the seas with...
France is spending $12 billion on the largest warship ever built in Europe — a nuclear-powered supercarrier meant to project Macron's vision of strategic...
The deployment of the Charles de Gaulle is a calculated gamble that highlights the "Single-Point-of-Failure" in French strategic autonomy. In the 2026 landscape of...
Isaac Seitz, defense columnist and Strategic Intelligence graduate, examines France's Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Génération — Europe's largest warship ever planned. At 310 meters and...