Entente frugale
Entente frugale is the cooperation between the British and French governments, particularly in military procurement, which is driven by cost constraints, which was announced in November 2010[1][2][3][4][5][6] as part of the Lancaster House Treaties.
The name is a wry reference to the Entente Cordiale of 1904.[7]
Together, France and the United Kingdom accounted for half of all military spending in the European Union in 2010 and two thirds of research and development.[8]
Proposed activities
[edit]- Combined Joint Expeditionary Force, with land, sea, and air components[9]
- Cooperation on the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft: The French armed forces may pay to use an Airbus A330 MRTT if there is spare capacity.[10]
- Possible cooperation in Afghanistan[11]
- Cooperation on aircraft carriers: Interoperability improvements, so warplanes from either country (F-35B Joint Strike Fighters and French navy's Dassault Rafales) could use each other's aircraft carriers.[9][12]
- Joint development of new technologies for nuclear submarines
- Shared support for A400M fleets, including training[5][9]
- Sharing of military communications satellites
- Cyber security
- Mine countermeasures
- Coordination of nuclear tests, and cooperation between AWE Aldermaston and CEA Valduc.[2]
- Unmanned air vehicles, including the BAE/Dassault Telemos
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: The entente frugale". Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ a b "England und Frankreich schließen enge Militärkooperation - Nachrichten Print - DIE WELT - Politik - WELT ONLINE". Retrieved 2010-11-10.
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- ^ ""Entente frugale" ruft Spötter auf den Plan - Rüstung - derStandard.at " International". Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ a b "Comment: UK/France defence pact spells a tale of two cities". Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ "FT.com / Europe - Cameron and Sarkozy seek entente cordiale". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ "Misstro blir vänskap när pengarna inte räcker - Världen - Sydsvenskan - Nyheter dygnet runt". Archived from the original on 2011-10-05. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ "" Entente frugale " entre Paris et Londres - Les blogs du Diplo". 2010-11-10. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ a b c "UK–France Summit 2010 Declaration on Defence and Security Co-operation". Number10.gov.uk. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ "L'Europe de la défense est franco-britannique - ce n'est pas une première". 2010-11-10. Archived from the original on 2010-11-10. Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ "Afghanistan: l'Europe, combien de divisions ?". Retrieved 2010-11-10.
- ^ "Joint carrier operations, UAV developments in UK/France defence pact". Retrieved 2010-11-10.