The French military is scheduled to receive a 46% increase to its annual budget by 2025, compared to 2018. As part of this, Project Scorpion aims to replace almost all mechanized vehicles in the army and upgrade the Leclerc tanks. The air force was, on the other hand, expanded in 2020 to cover space force activities as well. Meanwhile, the French Navy received the first of the Barracuda-class nuclear attack submarines in 2020. Overseas, the French military intervention in the Sahel continued fighting against the Islamic State in the Greater Sahara.