By Robbin Laird When I sat down with then Chief of the Australian Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, in 2017, one of the quieter points he made has aged into one of the more prescient ones. Amid the launch of the largest Royal Australian Navy recapitalization since the Second World…
By Pierre Tran Paris – Lysk, a European start-up company, plans to bring Lore, its AI-backed software package, to the European military market this summer, offering officers a secure means to transcribe radio calls into written reports when working out in the field, two co-founders said June 2. The Lore…
By Robbin Laird When Franklin Roosevelt invoked the phrase ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ in December 1940, he was describing a specific industrial mobilizationL American factories redirected toward supplying a world under siege. The phrase has echoed through successive generations as shorthand for the proposition that democratic nations, marshaling their combined industrial…
By Pierre Tran Paris – The executive chairman of Dassault Aviation, Eric Trappier, called March 4 on Airbus to accept management leadership of the French industrial partner on a new European fighter jet, otherwise the project would die from lack of corporate support. “If Airbus maintains the probability of not…
By Robbin Laird On September 26, 2025, the U.S. Department of Defense and Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company, signed one of the largest helicopter procurement contracts in military history. The five-year, multi-year procurement (MYP) agreement, valued at up to $10.855 billion, authorizes the production and delivery of up to 99…
By Pierre Tran Paris – The armed forces minister, Sébastien Lecornu, visited Feb. 27 Turgis Gaillard, a private company developing and building a low-cost medium-altitude, long-endurance combat drone, dubbed Aarok, at Blois, central France. “Turgis Gaillard had the honor to welcome the armed forces minister, Sébastien Lecornu, on its site…
By Pierre Tran Paris – The French unit of KNDS and Texelis have signed an outline agreement on the acquisition of the builder of powertrains for armored vehicles by the manufacturer of land weapons, KNDS said in a Jan. 29 statement. “On January 29, 2025, KNDS and the shareholders of…
By Pierre Tran Paris – The French aerospace industry was entering 2025 with an “exceptional” geostrategic and political outlook, seeking to respond to strong demand for products and services, while bracing for a gathering storm of U.S. trade tariffs expected from an incoming administration, Guillaume Faury, chairman of Gifas, an…
