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Archives – CSFA: ‘COMBAT PROVEN’ (II of II)

August 15th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Interview with Air Force Lieutenant General Jean-Marc Laurent, Commander of the Air Force Support Command – CSFA - (conducted in 2014). This second part focuses on the lessons learned from Operation Serval...

Military MRO: a tale of generations (II of II)

June 20th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte   Military MRO and the Need for Customisation   The second part of this article focuses on two broad characteristics about what could be referred to as "multigenerational military MRO".   1....

Military MRO: a tale of generations (I of II)

June 15th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte Recently held in France, the defense and security exhibit Eurosatory 2024 has just witnessed the announcement by Leonardo of its new helicopter program, the AW249, designed to replace the A-129 Mangusta which...

Military Aviation MRO and the concept of « war economy » (I of II)

May 8th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte While the conflict in Ukraine has restored a vocabulary not used since World War I, the choice of words and the scope of their meaning must be interpreted in the context of the 21st century and in the light of...

France: “MCO-A” Summed Up In A Few Words And Figures

April 8th, 2024 - By Murielle Delaporte - Following a logic of domains   In the defense and security sector, operational maintenance (MCO in French for “Maintien en condition opérationnelle”) “covers all the resources (human, technical...