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KNDS France unveils new land-based variant of the 40 mm RAPIDFire Naval defence system. Here's an update about the program: ➡️ 14 naval units firmly ordered by the DGA to equip vessels of the French Navy. ➡️ 5 systems delivered (4 for tankers + 1 for future OPV) 📸 KNDS France

🇫🇷French Rafale and Mirage 2000 fighter pilots recently practiced destroying several stratospheric balloons at very high altitude using MICA air-to-air missiles, following the "🇨🇳2023 Chinese balloon incident" over the 🇺🇸USA that got destroyed by a F-22 using an AIM-9X missile.

There are some potentially useful capabilities for countries looking for aircraft on the cheap in that mix. Those are not the A-10s.

Tervetuloa "meille" töihin!

French Air Force A400M delivering red wine to the front line.

If this is confirmed, Paris must know that this demand will effectively kill the project. In that case it might just be the attempt to make Berlin be the one that ultimately skips out.

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

I will admit I am somewhat surprised by the CB 90 continuing to be the choice of platform decade after decade - at some point you would think a brand new design might offer benefits - but it is a statement of just how good the original design is that it lives on!

Russian forces guided an FPV drone and killed a 14 month old baby inside his home with his great grandmother in Kherson today. I won’t post the picture. Russian drone units terrorizing this region’s civilians are twisted and sick.

Corrosion is obviously an issue that’s hard to tackle, but both lack of engineers and spare parts shortages are relatively easy to solve *if* you are ready to throw a bunch of money at the problem and make some serious decisions about retention and warfighting capabilities.

What better way to celebrate #14Juillet than by reading my reporting from exercise #AtlanticTrident25 where I got the opportunity to tag along with the French media tour? 🇫🇷 corporalfrisk.com/2025/07/14/atl…

I am once more noting #ArmyRecognition are not serious outlets, and have for years been known to operate in bad faith, playing swift and loose with attribution, copyrights, and so forth. I urge defence brands and PAOs to consider whether they want to be associated with them.

#ICYMI

Greg Bagwell If NATO airpower can achieve a similar result to Jutland, namely sending the enemy running screaming the moment they realise the full force they had nightmares about was coming for them, then it would be doing exceptionally well.

Risk Intelligence’s Senior Advisor Corporal Frisk shared insights on Finland’s evolving defence stance in Sud Ouest’s Sunday edition. 📅 Published 29 June 2025 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4lS82Is #geopolitics #security #defencestrategy #riskmanagement