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Just a few days ago we spoke to you in depth about the future logistics base of the Army and everything that has surrounded the decision to grant Córdoba the privilege of being its headquarters. Also about the conceptual errors that, a priori, a complex, controversial project seems to have, requiring a huge investment that is not assured. In the next lines we will delve into the technological part of the program, since what characterizes this project and differentiates it from previous initiatives is, among other things, the central role that technologies, in many cases disruptive, play in it. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

The phenomenon known as Brownout suffered by helicopter crews is a situation in which there is a total or partial lack of visibility in the cabin generated by dust and sand that are removed by the slipstream of the rotors, mainly during maneuvers. take off and take off in arid areas. Similar situations can arise in operations over snowy areas called Whiteout, and also, although with less intensity, in maneuvers over water. These phenomena that generate what is known as Degraded Visual Environments (DVE) require that pilots depend largely on the instruments, adequate coordination and communication with the rest of the crew, as well as their experience and expertise at the controls. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new [Keep reading…]

In the last few hours, after days of enormous expectation and within the framework of the MAKS 2021 aeronautical fair, the Russian corporation United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has presented the Sukhoi Su-75 Checkmate, a light fighter-bomber, supposedly fifth generation and with an evident export vocation. So far it is unknown where the funds that have allowed the very rapid implementation of this design came from, although the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Yuri Borisov, has declared to reporters from the Interfax agency that it is being developed for a specific client. While speculation continues, in the following lines we will review both what is known about this device and the questions raised by its future. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Revista Ejercitos taking advantage of our offer to [Keep reading…]

The future B-21 Raider strategic bomber of the United States Air Force faces a series of challenges that are as unique as they are, apparently, incompatible. If on the one hand it must replace aircraft as different as the B-2A Spirit, B-52H Stratofortress or B-1B Lancer, on the other it must do so within a very limited budget for what is typical in this type of project. Furthermore, incorporating new technologies, such as the use of gregarious drones or the launch of swarms that, a priori, could make it an unparalleled weapon. So far, the progress of the program has been dazzling, with two units in the assembly process and waiting for a first flight that could arrive before the end of the year, as a prelude to its entry into service in 2025 or 2026. However, There are several shadows that threaten the future of a revolutionary project. (Continue…) Dear [Keep reading…]

When in just over five years, God willing, the future logistics base of the Army has been built and put into operation, military logistics in Spain will have advanced to a remarkable level. Thanks to a group of people, who with great effort, enthusiasm and dedication designed the facilities - starting with the Chief of the Army Staff - the Spanish military in the national territory and deployed abroad, will greatly facilitate the to be able to fulfill the missions assigned to them. We hope that the basis is one more of the correct decisions made in the country and serves as an example of joint action, generating wealth and prosperity. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

The growth of the People's Republic of China's submarine weapons, together with its increasingly aggressive practices, is forcing its neighbors to rearm, especially in the naval sector. Curiously, for economic and diplomatic reasons, some of these countries are relying on Chinese products, while others are striving to create their own industry, seeking not to depend on third parties. After analyzing the cases of Australia or Taiwan, today we dedicate this article to Thailand, another of the regional actors that seeks to provide itself with a submarine force. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

Four years ago, the Madrid company Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E) began working on a unique project in our country: the design of guidance kits that can be used in both rocket ammunition and artillery and mortar projectiles. Since then, the dozens of people working on the FGK (Fuze Guidance Kit) program have made significant progress and surpassed numerous milestones. Without going any further, on June 7 we had the opportunity to attend, at the Torregorda Test Center (CET), dependent on INTA and located on the outskirts of the city of Cádiz, the launch of five 155 mm projectiles equipped with as many guided fuzes. The results of the tests, which were a resounding success, achieving a precision impossible to achieve without these kits and demonstrating the reliability of the design, allow the promoters of this initiative to have great hopes. [Keep reading…]

The arrival of the VERT (Land Exploration and Reconnaissance Vehicle) to the Army, and more specifically to the Cavalry weapon, opens a series of perspectives yet to be developed but that favor options such as in-depth reconnaissance. Assuming relatively few changes, the most suitable acquisition elements (SEV, RPAS, ETP, sensors/radars, etc.) can be brought together within a specialized squadron, and thus the Cavalry Groups and/or Regiments would offer the capacity to perform reconnaissance ( except special reconnaissance) throughout the depth of the battlefield. (Continue…) Dear reader, this article is exclusively for paying users. If you want to access the full text, you can subscribe to Ejercitos Magazine taking advantage of our offer for new subscribers through the following link.

In the decades immediately following World War II, light aircraft carriers progressively decreased in number, becoming the solution for those navies that could not afford to maintain true fleet aircraft carriers. This trend became even more pronounced with the end of the Cold War and the withdrawal of many of the last exponents still in service. Now, faced with a new scenario of competition between great powers in which naval supremacy is no longer assured for the US and its allies and faced with the impossibility of operating a greater number of supercarriers of the Nimitz and Gerald R. Ford classes , the light aircraft carrier concept is regaining much of its appeal. Furthermore, not only thanks to the possibility of access - at least for some US partners - to the F-35B, but as a platform from which to operate fixed-wing drones, something in [Keep reading…]

Last March, the French Minister of Defense, Florence Parly, announced the signing of a contract worth several billion euros that marks the launch of the construction phase of the four third-generation nuclear ballistic submarines, the future SNLE 3G. This news had been brought forward by the DGA (General Directorate of Armament) to Naval Group and TechnicAtome, a contract that allowed continuity to a series of studies that had been commissioned to these two companies in 2017 to carry out a validation study of a detailed preliminary design. In this case, it was about carrying out the general design of the future French 3G SNLE and detailed studies of critical systems, before the first sheet metal cut in 2023 and in 2025 the detailed design phase, with a view to its delivery in [Keep reading…]