Light Armored Vehicles (VBL): Regeneration

By the end of the next ‘Loi de Programmation Militaire’ (LPM) 2019-25, the French Army plans to have 800 to 2,000 Light Armored Vehicles [VBL] for liaison and reconnaissance missions.…

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FCAS Programme – Shaping the Future of Air Power?

On Monday the 17th of June France, Germany and Spain signed a legal-frame document to develop the FCAS - Future Air Combat System – for Horizon 2040. This ambitious project…

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Casualty aversion in Western Countries

The night of the 9th and 10th of May, twenty elite French soldiers from the Hubert Commando conducted an operation in Burkina Faso to free two French nationals that were…

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