The Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) released footage on January 31 of a tailless fighter jet concept widely speculated by Chinese sources to be associated with a sixth generation program. China and the United States are currently in a neck to neck race to field the world’s first and
The armed forces of North Korea, officially the Korean People’s Army (KPA), unveiled what is thought to be their first solid fuelled intercontinental range ballistic missile. This followed months of speculation that the weapon would be prepared for entry into service in the near future, and reports
The Russian Navy has formerly decommissioned its last Typhoon Class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine the Dmitry Donskoy, according to the state media outlet TASS. This follows longstanding speculation regarding the ship’s fate, with the possibility having raised that it could still
Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian War there have been wide ranging allegations from a number of Western sources claiming that various third parties are supplying Russia with armaments or dual use goods to bolster its war effort, with some claims such as those of Iranian drone sales having
The British Army no longer fields any serviceable AS-90 self-propelled artillery guns, after all units were donated to the Ukrainian Military, leaving the future of the service’s artillery regiments. The local paper The Sun was among several to highlight regarding the consequences: “The decision
On February 4 2023 the F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighter gained its first ever air to air kill, after one of the aircraft was deployed by the U.S. Air Force from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to shoot down a Chinese meteorological balloon over the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South
Since the beginning of the Cold War the number of countries able to independently produce fighter aircraft has declined sharply, with advances in technologies and growing complexity and cost meaning that today only China and the United States can produce their top fighters without foreign
The Russian Navy is set to receive a new 400km range surface to air missile, according to defence industry sources cited by the state media outlet TASS on February 4. The missiles will be integrated onto the Project 22350M frigates, an enlarged version of the Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov frigates
On February 3 the German government announced an aid package to Ukraine of 88 Leopard 1 tanks, which was valued at €100 million and will see the vehicles drawn from reserve stocks. While the country in the final week of January announced that it would deliver more modern Leopard 2s to Ukraine, with
The Russian government has claimed that NATO’s entire network of satellites, and more broadly the alliance’s entire military infrastructure, is working to support Ukraine’s war effort. “We see how NATO’s entire military infrastructure is working against Russia, and we see how NATO’s entire
