The F-16 Fighting Falcon is by far the most widely used Western fighter class in the world, with more than 4500 having been built since the 1970s and over two dozen air forces operating or having operated them. Although the U.S. Air Force ceased orders in 2005, and several countries have begun to draw
The Soviet Union began to introduce its first fourth generation combat aircraft into service from the late 1970s, with the Su-24M strike fighter joining the fleet in 1979 followed by the MiG-31 heavyweight interceptor in 1981, the MiG-29 medium weight fighter in 1982, and the Su-27 Flanker
The F-16 Fighting Falcon first entered service in the United States Air Force in 1978, and remains both the world’s second oldest fighter in production and the most widely fielded fourth generation fighter in the world. Developed as a lighter and cheaper counterpart to the heavyweight F-15 Eagle which formed the Air Force’s elite, the Falcon has long
Russian state media outlet TASS has announced that the new MiG-31I jet will feature in the Army 2022 international military technical forum, which is scheduled to run from August 15-22 and has traditionally featured some of the country’s most advanced weapons systems for display. The aircraft will appear alongside the MiG-31BM/BSM Foxhound interceptor from which it is derived,
The British Defence Ministry is set to increase supplies of rocket artily systems to the Ukrainian Army, after London led the Western world in pressing for arming the Eastern European state with such weapons. Such arms shipments, the provision of accompanying training to Ukrainian forces, and embedding of Western officers in Ukraine for logistics, targeting support and a range of other roles, have created further difficulties for Russian military operations in the country.
The Russian Army has received a new batch of T-90M ‘Breakthrough’ main battle tanks from the Uralvagonzavod company, which other than experimental units of T-14 Armatas represents by far the most capable tank class in the Russian Military. Preceding the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian War in
Explosions at Russia’s Saki Airbase on the Crimean Peninsula on August 9, which Russian officially claims to be the result of an accident, have fuelled speculation that Ukraine may have struck the facility with some form of previously unknown standoff ground launched missile. Ukrainian officials
Following reports from the Donetsk and Luhansk self proclaimed people’s republics and from Russian state media that North Korea may dispatch tens of thousands of military personnel to support the Russian-led war effort in Ukraine, the kind of Korean assets which could be sent to the front has been
Reports from both the self proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine, and from a number of Russian sources, have indicated that North Korea is set to dispatch up to 100,000 personnel to support the three parties’ ongoing war effort against the Ukrainian government and its
The Sudanese Defence Ministry has reportedly begun talks for the acquisition of Chinese J-10C fighter jets, which follows years of uncertainty regarding the East African state’s choice for its new generation of combat aircraft. Sudan was previously reported in 2017 to be discussing the purchase of
