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Aircraft carrier "São Paulo" (ex R99 Foch, built in France between 1957 and 1960) was incorporated into the Brazilian Navy in 2000, based on an opportunity purchase from the French National Navy, for US$30 million — no aircraft were included in the price — with the primary purpose of replacing the former "Minas Gerais" Light-Aircraft, at the end of its useful life, and providing the evolution of airborne operations using fixed wing aircraft and A-4 Skyhawk jet propulsion.

Although it already has 37 years of active service at the moment of acquisition, the Ship fulfilled its mission in the first years in activity by the Brazilian fleet, enabling the Navy to acquire the qualification to operate high performance aircraft embarked.

After several attempts to recover operational capacity of the brazil aircraft carrier "NAe Sao Paulo" (A 12), the Brazil Admiralty concluded that the modernization would require high financial investment contain technical uncertainties and would require a long completion period and decided to demobilize the environment, over the next three years.

A program to obtain a new ship-aerodrome x aircraft set will occupy the Navy's third acquisition priority, following the PROSUB / Nuclear Program and the Tamandaré Corvette Construction Program. The cost of acquiring this new binomial will be substantially lower than the cost of the modernization of the "Sao Paulo" and of the obtaining new aircraft compatible with this aircraft carrier. The AF-1 aircraft are expected to be at the end of their life when São Paulo ends its modernization.

NAe : Navio Aerodromo
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An internal Defence Ministry report reveals more details about an unfolding scandal at a Baden-Württemberg barracks involving "sadistic rituals". The internal report seen by Spiegel and DPA describes a female soldier being forced by her trainers to pole dance and also separately being touched in intimate areas.

The report comes from the woman’s account of an incident last year at the Pfullendorf barracks, which has been the centre of scandal in recent weeks. The woman said that she was forced to undergo some kind of recruitment test where she had to dance against a pole in a common room. She also said that throughout the training sessions, trainees were made to strip naked, and women were touched by trainers, not wearing any gloves, in intimate areas. The trainers then did a ‘smell test’ in front of the whole group. The trainers also had trainees sign a consent form, and took pictures which they said were for training purposes.

Internal research also found that the dancing pole had been installed and used regularly while soldiers were drinking. The report also noted that investigators had largely confirmed the woman’s account. Seven soldiers have been suspended amid an ongoing investigation into grievous bodily harm against trainees, as well as false imprisonment, and sexual assault. The investigation reportedly dates back to last October when a female lieutenant reported incidents directly to the Defence Ministry. The lieutenant described how she saw unbelievable scenes of recruits being forced to strip naked in front of their comrades, with trainers filming.

She also reported that trainers had forced the recruits to do exercises that served no purpose other than sexual ones, such as reviewing how to insert medical devices into the anuses of male and female recruits, which was also recorded.
In the US Army Female army members allegedly pressured into prostitution.

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Un Rafale Marine a réalisé un tir d'évaluation des forces (TEF) depuis la base aérienne 702 d'Avord
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Plusieurs dizaines de personnels des FS Air vont participer à un exercice de haut niveau à Hulburt
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L’après-Hollande se prépare déjà en coulisses dans le monde des services secrets. Nomination à la DGSE, réforme des structures existantes, les services de renseignements seront en haut de l’agenda du prochain chef de l’Etat

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How come no-one is accusing NSA Director Michael Flynn of taking bribes from Turkey's dictator Recep Erdogan? Not long ago, they did. Last November 18,Commentary Magazine's Noah Rothman called Flynn a "dubious choice" for the National Security Council because his consulting company had a Turkish client, adding that Flynn’s views on Turkey raised a “conflict of interest.” Flynn had published an article in The Hill on Nov. 8 warning that America's dalliance with the messianic Turkish Islamist and alleged coup plotter Fethullah Gulen might undermine the country's relationship with NATO, at a time when Russia was giving Turkey the full-court press.
On Dec. 2, I wrote in Asia Times that Commentary's Rothman probably was stooging for a CIA disinformation campaign against Flynn. Not only did Flynn propose to deep-six Gulen, a longstanding friend of the CIA, but he had blown the whistle on CIA incompetence in Syria. Flynn's Defense Intelligence Agency produced a now-notorious 2012 report warning that chaos in Syria's civil war enabled the rise of a new Caliphate movement, namely ISIS. For full background, see Brad Hoff's July 2016 essay in Foreign Policy Journal: Flynn humiliated the bungling CIA and exposed the incompetence and deception of the Obama administration, and got fired for it. If anyone doubts the depth of CIA incompetence in Syria, I recommend an account that appeared this month in the London Financial Times.
In November, Flynn warned that the U.S. stood to lose its Turkish ally, to the benefit of Russia--and got attacked as a Turkish agent. That doesn't square with the current round of disinformation, which paints Flynn as pro-Russian. Flynn's detractors rely on a fake-news media which forgets the story it spun a couple of months ago when it contradicts the story it is spinning today.
I don't know why Flynn talked to the Russian ambassador about the incoming Trump administration's prospective policy on sanctions, or what transpired in the White House regarding mis-statements that Flynn may or may not have made about such discussions. Senior officials speak to their counterparts in other countries all the time, and for obvious reasons do not want these conversations to become public. The intelligence community, though, was taping Flynn's discussions, and the transcripts (of whose existence we are told but whose contents we have not seen) were used to embarrass him.
First, the allegation of various Democrats that Flynn violated the 1799 Logan Act is silly. No-one ever has been prosecuted under the Logan Act. It forbids U.S. citizens from communicating with foreign governments "with intent to influence the measures or conduct of any foreign government or of any officer or agent thereof, in relation to any disputes or controversies with the United States, or to defeat the measures of the United States." Flynn reportedly was talking about prospective policies of an administration that would take office in a matter of days; it is absurd to construe such discussions, whatever they may have contained, as an intent to undermine disputes with the United States.
Second, two narratives are running simultaneously in the media which appear to support each other, but actually consist of entirely independent bubbles of hot air. One is that Flynn misspoke about his contacts with the Russian ambassador, an allegation I cannot evaluate but find neither important nor interesting. The second is that the "Intelligence Community pushes back against a White House it considers leaky, untruthful and penetrated by the Kremlin," as retired intelligence officer John Schindler alleged today in The Observer. Not a single fact is presented in Schindler's account nor in several similar accounts circulating in the media. What leaks? Penetrated by whom? Sen. Joseph McCarthy could do better than that.
Third, the CIA has gone out of its way to sandbag Flynn at the National Security Council. As Politico reports: "On Friday, one of Flynn’s closest deputies on the NSC, senior director for Africa Robin Townley, was informed that the Central Intelligence Agency had rejected his request for an elite security clearance required for service on the NSC, according to two people with direct knowledge of the situation." Townley held precisely the same security clearance at the Department of Defense for seventeen years, yet he was blackballed without explanation. At DoD, Townley had a stellar reputation as a Middle East and Africa expert, and the denial of his clearance is hard to explain except as bureaucratic backstabbing.
Fourth, Gen. Flynn is the hardest of hardliners with respect to Russia within the Trump camp. In his 2016 book Field of Fight (co-authored with PJ Media's Michael Ledeen), Flynn warned of "an international alliance of evil movements and countries that is working to destroy us....The war is on. We face a working coalition that extends from North Korea and China to Russia, Iran, Syria, Syria, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua." The unsubstantiated allegation that he presides over a "leaky" National Security Council tilting towards Russia makes no sense. The only leaks of which we know are politically motivated reports coming from the intelligence community designed to disrupt the normal workings of a democratic government--something that raises grave constitutional issues.
Flynn is the one senior U.S. intelligence officer with the guts to blow the whistle on a series of catastrophic intelligence and operational failures. The available facts point to the conclusion that elements of the humiliated (and perhaps soon-to-be-unemployed) intelligence community is trying to exact vengeance against a principled and patriotic officer. When the Turkish smear against Flynn came out in November, I smelled a rat. The present affair stinks like a dumpster full of dead rats.

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(B2) L'Union européenne a lancé, via sa délégation au Liban, un appel d'offres pour soutenir les forces armées libanaises ainsi que la Direction générale de la sécurité générale (DGSG), par la fourniture d'équipements. Cet appel, financé par l'Instrument européen de voisinage et de partenariat (IEVP), s'inscrit dans le « soutien en faveur de la sécurité […]

La situation du gouvernement libyen d’union nationale, seul exécutif reconnu par les Nations unies et la communauté internationale (du moins, officiellement), se complique chaque jour davantage. Contesté par les autorités établies à Tobrouk, et donc par le maréchal Khalifa Haftar, il doit aussi faire face à la fronde de l’ancien gouvernement à dominante islamiste, auquel […]

Cet article Libye : Des groupes armés prétendent former une « garde nationale » à Tripoli est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

L’aviation américaine pourrait être présente au défilé du 14 juillet

L’Italie tient un place importante dans le programme d’avion de combat F-35 (ou Joint Strike Fighter, JSF) ou F-35 puisque, avec les Pays-Bas, elle fait partie des partenaires dits de niveau 2 de ce projet conduit par le groupe américaine Lockheed-Martin. Ainsi, plusieurs entreprises transalpines, emmenées par Leonardo (ex-Finmeccanica), fournissent des composants destinés à équiper […]

Cet article Un responsable italien dénonce les promesses non tenues du programme F-35 est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

De tous les types de bâtiments de combat que possédait la Marine nationale durant la Première Guerre mondiale, les contre-torpilleurs de la classe Aventurier font partie des plus méconnus. Pourtant, l’histoire de ces unités nées à la Belle Epoque est riche de rebondissements, comme nous allons vous le faire découvrir aujourd’hui.

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Chers lecteurs, nous allons comme d’habitude profiter de cette période de vacances scolaires en France pour prendre le temps de réaliser de nouveaux reportages. Par conséquent, la diffusion de Mer et Marine sera adaptée au cours des deux prochaines semaines. Sauf évènement majeur, l’édition d’actualité quotidienne reprendra le 27 février. Nous vous proposerons toutefois, ce vendredi 17 février, une édition hebdomadaire d’information, alors que notre Fil Info restera actualisé d'ici là.

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Alors qu’elle ne représente que seulement 1% de la surface des mers, la Méditerranée concentre plusieurs enjeux stratégiques de taille. Le premier est qu’elle reste une zone de passage essentielle au commerce maritime, avec 25% du trafic global, dont 30% du trafic pétrolier mondial, notamment grâce au Canal de Suez, essentiel pour l’approvisonnement en hydrocarbures […]

Cet article UE : Selon un rapport, la Marine nationale est la seule à être « réellement présente et crédible en Méditerranée » est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

(Crédit: EUTM Mali)

(B2) La mission européenne de formation de l’armée malienne (EUTM Mali) ne veut pas se limiter à la formation de premiers soins au combat mise en place pour les forces armées maliennes (FAMA) en novembre 2016 au camp de Koulikoro. Les Européens ont lancé une formation complémentaire au profit de la Direction centrale du service de santé des Armées (DCSSA). La première du genre s’est centrée sur l’aspect logistique. Pendant deux semaines, EUTM Mali a formé une dizaine de stagiaire en comptabilité et gestion de stock, au camp Kati, à proximité de Bamako. « Ce cours devrait permettre à la DCSSA d’optimaliser la gestion du matériel médical et d’améliorer l’appui médical aux troupes déployées en opération », explique-t-on depuis la mission. La cérémonie de fin de formation, lundi 6 février, a été l’occasion d’inaugurer la rénovation des entrepôts de matériel médical et de médicaments financée par EUTM Mali.

(Leonor Hubaut)

Entrepôt médical de la base militaire de Kati (Crédit: EUTM Mali)

 

Dans le cadre du réaménagement du quartier des Bassins à flot, la SCI Bordeaux Port Immo et Eiffage Immobilier signent un Contrat de Promotion Immobilière afin de réaliser un programme immobilier multifonctionnel de plus de 22 000 m².

Situé face au Hangar G2, le long de la rue Lucien Faure, ce vaste ouvrage portera le nom de « G1 », sera construit en lieu et place de l'ancien « Entrepôt maritime » et comportera : • un parc de stationnement de plus de 500 places payantes, • 3 000 m² d'espaces commerciaux, • 4 000 m² de surfaces pour les activités tertiaires et de formation.

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Secrétaire général du mouvement politique « En Marche! », lancé par l’ex-ministre Emmanuel Macron pour appuyer sa candidature à l’élection présidentielle, Richard Ferrand a fait état, ce 13 février, de « centaines, voire des milliers d’attaques » contre « le système numérique », la « base de données » et les « sites  » de sa formation. Et, a-t-il continué alors qu’il était invité […]

Cet article Pour le directeur de l’ANSSI, attribuer des attaques est le « grand problème » du cyberespace est apparu en premier sur Zone Militaire.

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Le Breton Gaël Taburet, dernier pilote du régiment de chasse Normandie-Niemen s'est éteint
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