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We don't know what the 6th gen will look like. Many of the pictures online are just PR pictures. We only know that GCAP will be a 6th generation fighter.
Poland Starts Construction On New Miecznik Frigate...
Steel cutting ceremony of the first Miecznik frigate. Polish MoD picture.
Steel cutting ceremony of the first Miecznik frigate. Polish MoD picture.
Only the first Miecznik-class frigate will be a fully armed frigate. Follow-on ships will receive a complete combat system when the budget allows. (Babcock picture)
Military equipment of Poland. On August 15, a military parade took place in Poland, which the authorities consider the largest in the history of the country. The parade was timed to coincide with the anniversary of the Battle of Warsaw in 1920, also known as the Miracle on the Vistula. The parade was attended by about two thousand Polish military and NATO countries, as well as 200 units of military equipment. 92 helicopters and planes took to the skies. The parade was attended by armored personnel carriers, artillery pieces, as well as HIMARS MLRS and Patriot air defense systems. Among the tank equipment were presented German tanks Leopard 2, American Abrams and Korean K2. In 2023, Poland will spend $34 billion on defense, giving four percent of national GDP to military spending. According to this indicator, Poland overtakes many countries - members of NATO.
The British Navy has landed an HCMC drone on the deck of the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales for the first time. The British HCMC transport drone, created by W Autonomous Systems, was used to land on the aircraft carrier. HCMC drones are equipped with a new autopilot system that does not require the presence of an operator. The HCMC UAV is capable of transporting a payload weighing 100 kg over a distance of up to 1000 kilometers in difficult weather conditions. The HCMC drone can land on unprepared runways and requires a runway of just 150 meters to land and take off, which is just over half the length of the decks of Britain's Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers. In the future, these UAVs will be used to deliver supplies to the British carrier strike group, replacing the helicopters currently used for this purpose. The Merlin and Wildcat helicopters themselves will be used for their main tasks - detecting submarines or enemy ships.
Idiotic. The Leclerc is much more advanced than the Leopard 2 in the first place. It was designed almost two decades later.
For example the Leopard 2 still does not have an autoloader.
Only reason Leopard 2 had much more export success is that is was cheap, coming out of old German stocks from Cold War era, and other countries in NATO had to meet defense requirements so they bought these tanks.
No matter how much lipstick you put on the Leopard 2 it is an obsolete tank at this point.
These multinational military projects are dumb.
Looks like the French dodged a bullet, just like the Eurofighter.
Broccoli
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French of then stay as long they can get something out of it and then leave the project.