Yearly Archive: 2021

On December 1, 2021, an A400M dropped paratroopers from the 8th Marine Infantry Parachute Regiment (RPIMa) in Cote d’Ivoire after a non-stop flight from France. This airborne exercise was a ‘first’ for the French armed forces.

After taking off from Toulouse-Francazal airport and after a 7-hour no…

The Navy wants to begin procuring a new class of nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN), called the Next-Generation Attack Submarine or SSN(X), in FY2031. The SSN(X) would be the successor to the Virginia-class SSN design, which the Navy has been procuring since FY1998.

The Navy’s proposed FY2022…

The Navy’s DDG(X) program envisages procuring a class of next-generation guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) to replace the Navy’s Ticonderoga (CG-47) class Aegis cruisers and its older Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) class Aegis destroyers. The Navy wants to procure the first DDG(X) in FY2028. The Navy’s propo…