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So we know some time in the early 80s, France split with the UK, West Germany, Italy and Spain, and developed the ACX into the Rafale, and the others made the Typhoon. the disagreement stemmed from a carrier variant. What if in this scenario, France never left and somehow the five of them...

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Not sure where to ask but here it is: Is there a comprehensive list of French Radars (Both land and naval based) which was developed? Did France able to start developing radar technology before the capitulation or it was kick-started by British and American equipment after the war? To my...

While some weird dudes are celebrating the epitomized image of an autocrat*, the french AdlAE discretely commemorates one of its hero pilot (Poet and novelist), Mr Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Free French air Force pilot, Croix de Guerre with palms, MIA, with the birth of its most famous...

Does anyone have any information on the French design at least? The program was a precursor to the equally ill-fated (non-nuclear) Polar 8 icebreaker program of the 1980s. The only hard info I have on the French proposal at the moment is that the reactor was a CAS (Advanced Series Boiler)...

First flight of the Dassault Falcon 6X https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/business-aviation/2021-03-10/first-flight-dassault-falcon-6x

https://earth.esa.int/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/cospas https://cospas-sarsat.int/en/ https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/space/galileo/sar_en

The French Navy mirrored the RN Type 22 with its own ASW escort programme https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Leygues-class_frigate Comparisons are interesting and there were even 2 AD derivatives. The French built three large ASW destroyers in the 70s...

I have always been struck by the fact that France made much better use of the Surcouf class, their equivalents of the RN Daring class http://www.seaforces.org/marint/French-Navy/Destroyer-Frigate/Surcouf-class.htm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daring-class_destroyer_(1949) 4 Tartar or Ikara...

Hello there! I've been trying to find data on French aircraft carrier designs between the Joffre and the Clemenceau (PA-54). I've found plenty of data on the PA-28, but I'm very interested in the supposed PA-25 design from Vichy France and the PA-27, PA-29, PA-31 designs from 1945 onwards...

May 17 1965 - with some differences. The supersonic requirement for a trainer is canned, end result is an AlphaJet / Hawk hybrid. Staunchly subsonic, can't growth into Jaguar. Breguet still goes under and is forced into Dassault as a job program 1967-69. The program is consolidated as a Fouga...

Budget is a whopping 1.5 million Euro so I'm not sure where they are going with this. The picture accompanying the article even has a Zumwalt type ship firing the railgun. I guess for 1.5 million Euro you don't want to waste money on artwork...

I have come across a turbofan variant of the RTM.322, the RTM.322-20 rated at 2,338lbf. The project was circa 1984. The only aircraft I know of proposed for the engine was the BAe P.164-108A trainer. I found a diagram of the RTM.322-20 which is attached. Does anyone have any further details...

Back in the Cold War the France, Germsny and the UK embarked on an ambitious programne to produce a family of third generation anti tank missiles. The only survivor is the long range helicopter launched version https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARS_3_LR. Like the SP70 gun and RS80 (described in...

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2020/02/07/spain-seen-joining-greece-france-italy-on-european-patrol-corvette-program/

Louis Breguet died in 1955, unfortunately, and the company was finally eaten by Dassault in the late 60's. They nonetheless gave a lot of worries to Dassault when they won ECAT in 1963, later known as the Jaguar. Because, you see, by the late 50's Dassault had managed to crush any opposition on...

Hello! We all know the Alvis Unipower variant of BR-90 Brigde System, but M-series had a whole family of vehicles as mentioned in this link: https://www.trucksplanet.com/catalog/model.php?id=1149 Does anyone has blueprints with dimensions, brochures etc? There was also a 12x8 variant which...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51104579 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51109166

From Icare 1969, here is ONERA VTOL Transport Aircraft Project of 1969

https://www.france24.com/en/20190725-france-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons-minister https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-space-defence/france-to-launch-fearsome-surveillance-satellites-to-bolster-space-defences-idUKKCN1UK1TR?utm_source=reddit.com