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Un largage par la porte latérale
Dans ce type d’action, une sangle reliée à la soute de l’avion permet de déployer automatiquement le parachute sous l’effet de la gravité, une fois que le parachutiste a quitté l’avion. Tous les tests et exercices ont permis de valider cette nouvelle possibilité d’emploi. Le premier entrainement opérationnel de largage automatique de parachutistes a eu lieu mardi dernier (12 mai) à l’école des troupes aéroportées de Pau, avec un A400M de l’armée de l’Air et des parachutistes de l’armée de Terre.
La panoplie opérationnelle de l’A400M complétée
C’est « une étape importante » dans la montée en puissance des capacités tactiques de l’avion dénommé « Atlas » dans la terminologie française. Cela vient compléter la panoplie opérationnelle de l’A400M. L’appareil pouvait déjà larguer des parachutistes par la rampe arrière, comme du matériel. Une capacité validée en février. 25 tonnes, réparties sur 10 palettes, avaient alors quitté l’avion, pour rejoindre la terre. En un seul passage et sans atterrir !
Un atout en opération
Ce type de largage de personnel est « un véritable atout en opération », surtout en « zone hostile » ou sur un terrain complexe explique-t-on à l’armée de l’Air. C’est un gage de rapidité également, un « volet essentiel à la projection de puissance ». L’aérolargage permet en effet « de concentrer des forces et du matériel au plus près d’un objectif ».
Prochaines étapes
Cette capacité est limitée aujourd’hui à 30 parachutistes par une seule porte. Prochaines étapes : augmenter l’altitude de largage et le nombre de parachutistes. L’objectif est fixé : autoriser, dès l’année prochaine, le largage simultané par les deux portes latérales. Soit un peu plus tard que prévu par le constructeur Airbus (cf. encadré).
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Des essais réussis pour 80 parachutistes
Le constructeur européen Airbus avait annoncé en octobre dernier avoir réalisé plusieurs essais en vol de certification. L’un pour le déploiement simultané par les deux portes latérales de 80 parachutistes (40+40) avec leur équipement complet, en un seul passage. L’autre pour le largage de 58 parachutistes par une seule porte latérale, soit la capacité maximale de l’A400M. Des essais menés en étroite coordination avec la direction générale (française) de l’armement (DGA) et les forces armées françaises et belges, sur la zone de saut de Ger (bois d’Azet), dans les Pyrénées. Un camp géré par le 1er régiment de hussards parachutistes (1er RHP). La fin de la phase d’essais de certification ouvrait la voie au déploiement simultané de 116 parachutistes et à la certification des opérations mixtes. La fin des activités de certification est prévue au premier semestre 2020, annonçait alors le constructeur. Le tout a pris un peu de retard aujourd’hui.
Cet article A400M. Les parachutistes peuvent filer en douce via la porte latérale. Un atout en opération est apparu en premier sur B2 Le blog de l'Europe politique.
By David Nabarro and Joe Colombano
GENEVA, May 19 2020 (IPS)
When the COVID-19 virus travelled from Wuhan, China halfway across the world through Europe, the Americas and beyond in the space of a few weeks, it gave us proof, if one was ever needed, of how tightly interconnected we all are. Not only are our globalized economies interdepended, but also we ourselves are one with the environment around us, and with one another. We are one humankind sharing one planet. And yet, all too often we seem to forget it, as we carelessly revert to misguiding differences between “us” and “them.” Take, for example, the distinction between rich and poor countries, or as economists put it, between advanced economies and least developed countries. In the face of COVID-19, the only difference that matters is if we are sick or healthy. Other than that, we are all the same, regardless of economic status or geographic location.
Or are we really? Clearly we do not mean to say that differences do not exist. Indeed, the virus has shown us that, far from being the great leveler and equalizer that it was initially purported to be, it matters who you are and where you are. It matters if you are an African American in Chicago, a member of the First Nations in Northern Canada, a Rohingya refugee in Myanmar, a Dharavidweller in Mumbai, an informal worker in Nigeria, an older person in a residential home in the UK, an inmate in a South American prison, a meat processor in America, an immigrant labourer in a dormitory in Singapore, a female healthcare professional in any hospital around the world, or someone on a low income just about anywhere. It matters a lot. It makes the difference between being infected or not; between having access to testing or not; between health and illness, life and death. COVID-19 may be a challenge we all face, but it is our ability to respond to it that differswhether within or between countries.
David Nabarro
People in the developing world are most at risk. Take, for example, the first line of defense against the virus, as recommended by the WHO: frequent hand-washing. While this is part of daily life for all of us in the North, the latest UN SDGs Progress Report reminds us that 2 out of 5 people worldwide do not have a basic hand-washing facility with soap and water at home. In the least developed countries, it is less than one out of three people (28 per cent). This means that, globally, an estimated 3 billion people are still unable to properly wash their hands at home, and are therefore deprived of the most basic and effective prevention measure against COVID-19.Or look at extreme poverty, a scourge that burdens the developing world most. According to the World Bank, COVID-19 has the potential of pushing an additional 40-60 million people back into extreme poverty. This would be an unfortunate reverse in decades of progress against global poverty. To make things worse, developing countries risk being hit by COVID-19 at the time when their economies are already weakened by the effects of low commodity prices, fleeing foreign capital and weakening currencies. In some instances, this volatility impacts the prices of food, with potential deleterious effects on the nutrition of the most vulnerable.
In the face of COVID-19, the advanced economies cannot afford to leave the developing world to fend for itself. After all, developing nations now suffer the impact of the pandemic through no faults of their own, the virus having reached their shores from the North, in the form of international travel. There is a real possibility, even likelihood, of major fiscal and financial crises in several large emerging economies and perhaps dozens of smaller ones. This would hamper our efforts to bring the pandemic under control. It would trigger social instability that is hard to reverse, and compound existing humanitarian crises. Even without invoking the moral imperatives dictated by our common humanity, it is in the political and economic interest of every country that the developing world is protected and spared the worst of this crisis.
Joe Colombano
The good news is that we know how to do this. Our multilateral system is designed to face multidimensional challenges and has decades of experience: the WHO to help keep the pandemics under control, the FAO to help identify the food import needs and food supply bottlenecks, the IMF to promptly fund what is needed, the World Bank to help rebuild, etc. What is now needed is adequate urgent international financing coupled with unequivocal political support. We need a “pandemic Marshall plan” for the developing countries, possibly in the form of a massive open spigot from the IMF, to do what the Fed did in the U.S., or the ECB in Europe, to inject liquidity, help orchestrate a rollover of sovereign debts and avoid the risk of a financial crisis.It is true that COVID-19 knows no borders and makes no distinctions when it strikes. In that sense it is the ultimate global challenge. But countries are not equally equipped to deal with it, and it would be bad for the world if differences between nations blunt the collective response. The world needs the multilateral system like never before: budgets should be increased and not cut, and political support should be undivided. Our world is tightly interconnected: we are only as strong as the weakest amongst us.
David Nabarro, WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19, and Joe Colombano, economist
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