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  4 novembre 2021 | International, Aérospatial, Naval, Terrestre, C4ISR, Sécurité

  Autonomie de la défense européenne : entretien avec Jean-Pierre Maulny (IRIS)

  Jean-Pierre Maulny, Directeur adjoint de l'Institut de relations internationales et stratégiques (IRIS), accorde un entretien à Capital. Il insiste sur la nécessité pour la France de rester dans l'OTAN, suite à l'abandon des commandes australiennes de sous-marins et la formation du pacte de défense Aukus, et souligne les progrès de l'autonomie de la défense européenne. Au niveau industriel, « il y a déjà eu de nombreuses coopérations en Europe dans le domaine de l'armement avec les Italiens, les Allemands ou les Britanniques, par exemple les Fremm, l'Airbus A400M, l'hélicoptère Tigre ou encore les missiles Meteor. Le lancement du programme du drone de reconnaissance MALE, qui regroupe la France, l'Allemagne, l'Espagne et l'Italie, est acté. II est soutenu à hauteur de 100 M€ par l'UE », détaille-t-il. Le Fonds européen de défense, disposant de « dispose de 8 Md€ utilisables sur sept ans pour la R&D, soit plus de 1 Md€ par an, dont environ 300 M€ pour la recherche fondamentale », a de plus été adopté en avril 2021. « Le Rafale, notre plus belle vitrine, est très compétitif », souligne Jean-Pierre Maulny, qui cite également « les missiles conçus par MBDA, numéro 2 mondial dans sa spécialité, les hélicoptères NH90 d'Airbus ou le Caesar, un canon autoporté développé par Nexter, qui en a vendu plus de 300 à l'exportation, et les sous-marins Scorpène ». « La force de notre industrie de l'armement est d'être présente sur tous les créneaux », conclut-il. Capital, novembre 2021

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  3 février 2022 | International, Aérospatial

  U.S. Fifth-Generation Fighters Will Return To UAE

  The U.S. military will send fifth-generation fighters to the United Arab Emirates as that country is facing increased attacks from rebels in the region, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced following meetings with Emirati leaders.

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  18 novembre 2019 | International, Terrestre

  Here’s who will build the US Army’s heavy common robot

  By: Jen Judson WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has chosen FLIR's Kobra robot to serve as its heavy version of the Common Robotic System that will be used for explosive ordnance disposal and other heavy-duty jobs. The production contract will run for a period of five years and could be worth up to $109 million. The Army wanted its Common Robotic System-Heavy, or CRS-H, to weigh up to 700 pounds and to carry a variety of sensors and payloads to support missions. “The Kobra [unmanned ground vehicle] delivers unmatched strength, power and payload support in an easy-to-operate robot package,” according to a FLIR statement sent to Defense News. Kobra has a lift capacity of 330 pounds and can stretch up to eleven-and-a-half feet to get at difficult-to-reach places, but it is also still nimble enough to climb jersey barriers and fit into the back of a standard utility vehicle, according to FLIR. FLIR's legacy business, Endeavor Robotics, won a contract in 2017 to provide the Army with a medium-sized UGV — the Man Transportable Robotic System Increment II. FLIR is delivering the Centaur UGV for the program. FLIR bought Endeavor Robotics in February, an acquisition that made sense because FLIR's camera and sensors — its bread and butter — have been used on countless manned and unmanned vehicles like those developed by the Massachusetts-based robotics company. FLIR also acquired Prox Dynamics in 2016, the Norwegian maker of the tiny micro-drone — the Black Hornet — that is now used as the Army's soldier borne sensor. Endeavor also competed for the CRS-Individual system — a man-packable robot that is less than 25 pounds — but lost to fellow Massachusetts-based robotics company QinetiQ North America in March. For the CRS-H program, FLIR beat out QinetiQ. Kobra is also participating in a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency effort to build a system-of-systems solution that can operate in subterranean environments. The company's solution consists of the Kobra robot that will enter subterranean environments carrying radio repeaters —based on the company's small, throwable FirstLook robots — and drop them off along the way to continue connectivity as it travels deeper underground. The system will also carry a four-legged robot supplied from Ghost Robotics to explore more rugged and difficult terrain as well as a quadcopter that will investigate vertical shafts and other hard to reach places. The winner of the challenge is expected to receive $2 million in 2021. The CRS-I and CRS-H programs are part of a larger Army program to streamline its robotics inventory. By necessity, during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army clamored to buy UGVs that could help provide a level of standoff between soldiers and the dangers faced on the battlefield, mostly improvised explosive devices. The Army procured roughly 7,000 UGVs and ended up with a petting zoo of robots from Talons to PacBots to Dragon Runners, to name a few. The service had roughly nine variants of robots used for explosive ordnance disposal, two robots for engineering battalions to conduct route clearance, two for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) tasks and three for contingency and global response forces. The Army's way forward uses just a few common platforms where systems and sensors can be swapped out easily for different missions and which are all controlled using one universal controller. It's been the season for major headway in Army robotics programs across the board. The service is also underway with development of robotic combat vehicles in light, medium and heavy categories. The Army invited four teams to compete to build prototypes for its future light RCV last month: A Textron and Howe & Howe team, a team of QinetiQ and Pratt & Miller, HDT Global and Oshkosh Defense. And three teams were picked earlier this month to move on in the Army's competition for a medium-sized RCV: General Dynamics Land Systems, QinetiQ and the Textron and Howe & Howe team. The Army also awarded, at the end of last month, a contract to GDLS to provide the Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET) unmanned vehicle. GDLS offered up its Multi-Utility Tactical Transport — or MUTT — in that competition. https://www.defensenews.com/land/2019/11/15/heres-who-just-won-a-contract-to-build-the-armys-heavy-robot/