Articles

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…]

The Army has been immersed in a profound process of change known as force 2035, and within it it is preparing to incorporate what will be the fundamental vehicle on which said force will be based, the VCR 8×8 Dragon; intended to replace a good part of our fleet of combat means, such as the TOA, Antelope, BMR and VEC. With regard to cavalry, the latter is essential, since the capacity for action of almost all of its units rests on the future VEC Dragon. (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 British Armed Forces, once guarantors of an immense empire, suffered a succession of cuts and reorganizations since the end of the Second World War that ended up undermining their ability to defend the country's national interests. To the point that, in successive reviews of the defense strategy, it increasingly relied on NATO and the United States as the ultimate guarantors of British security, thereby renouncing its “strategic autonomy.” Now, in a period characterized by persistent competition between great powers, after the completion of Brexit and under the influence of the acute crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the United Kingdom has published its new plans for the coming years. Documents such as the review of the defense strategy ("Defence in a competitive age") and the integrated review ("Global Britain in a competitive age"), as well as other complementary documents, if applicable [Keep reading…]