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Key Points and Summary – In 2015, the French Navy’s compact Rubis-class nuclear attack submarine Saphir slipped through the layered defenses of the aircraft...
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Key Points and Summary – In 2015, the French Navy’s compact Rubis-class nuclear attack submarine Saphir slipped through the layered defenses of the aircraft...
Key Points and Summary – Carl von Clausewitz rose from a young Prussian cadet to a battlefield-tested officer shaped by the Napoleonic age. -Mentored...
Key Points and Summary – Spain’s S-80 submarine program almost sank under its own weight—literally. -A major design miscalculation left the first boat about...
Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Future Combat Air System faces a make-or-break decision as Germany, France, and Spain near an end-of-2025 deadline to...
Key Points and Summary – A 2015 NATO exercise saw France’s nuclear attack submarine Saphir penetrate a U.S. carrier strike group and achieve a...
Key Points and Summary – In February 2009, Britain’s HMS Vanguard and France’s Le Triomphant—both ballistic-missile submarines—collided while submerged in the Atlantic during routine...
Key Points and Summary – France’s Rafale F5, the “Super Rafale,” is a major modernization meant to keep France’s flagship fighter relevant into the...
Key Points and Summary – Dassault Aviation CEO Eric Trappier has reignited doubts about the Future Combat Air System, warning that FCAS may not...
Key Points and Summary – Despite lacking stealth, the Eurofighter Typhoon fields a weapons loadout that keeps it dangerous in real combat. -A 27mm...
Article Summary – France’s Charles de Gaulle (R91) is the Navy’s lone aircraft carrier and first domestically built nuclear-powered flattop. -Commissioned in 2001, the...