Monthly Archive: Giugno 2022

PARIS — On 22nd June 2022, the French Armed Forces conducted Operation THUNDER LYNX, a force projection operation towards Estonia.

Operation THUNDER LYNX enabled, at very short notice, to deploy about 100 paratroopers from the 11th Airborne Brigade over an area secured by Estonian soldiers.

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Twenty-nine Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) warplanes entered the island of Taiwan’s self-proclaimed air defense identification zone on Tuesday, marking the third largest PLA aerial drill around Taiwan this year, which according to Chinese military observers indicated that the PLA could be pr…

A central feature in the annual updating of the Investment Plan is the preparation and publication of an unclassified overview of long-term requirements and objectives.

This publication does not examine each planned project in detail but establishes a platform for in-depth discussions between the…

— The Ariane 5, operated by Arianespace, has successfully placed two telecommunications satellites into geostationary orbit: MEASAT-3d for the Malaysian operator MEASAT, and GSAT-24 built by the Indian Space Agency ISRO on behalf of NSIL.
— Carrying out its first mission of the year, and the 113t…

We see an underappreciated risk in the aerospace supply chain regarding Russian titanium. Industry focus has been on sanctions, but we see a possibility that Russia could choose to stop selling titanium products to the OEMs, hampering ability to ramp-up production. We dive deep into VSMPO-AVISMA.

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KONSTANTINIVKA, Ukraine — Ukrainian soldier Vitaly hasn’t taken his Australian Bushmaster troop carrier back to the front-line for two weeks. He can’t.

Five of his comrades were captured by the Russians in the open green fields of the sprawling Donbas region of eastern Ukraine before he and his…