One month after T-54/55 tanks were seen being taken out of storage in the Russian Far East, the vehicles have begun to appear with Russian forces in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region indicating they may have already begun to take part in hostilities. Russia is thought to have several hundred tanks of
On April 15 MiG-29 Fulcrum fourth generation fighter aircraft were filmed operating over the Sudanese capital Khartoum and firing air to surface missiles, as part of a much larger air campaign by the Sudanese Military aimed at countering the Rapid Intervention Forces (RIF) militia group. Having
On April 14 North Korean state media announced that the country had the previous day conducted the first test launch of the Hwasong-18 intercontinental range ballistic missile, which is the country’s fourth ICBM class. The state run Voice of Korea outlet announced that the new weapon would
After multiple delays and accidents the Russian Navy is expected to return its sole aircraft carrier the Admiral Kuznetsov to frontline service in 2024, with a major step towards achieving this taken in February as the ship finally departed its dry dock after five years in a long overhaul. A range
Continued from Part OneDuring the Iran-Iraq War the Iranian F-14 fleet was forced to develop its own tactics to intercept the MiG-25, as the country’s U.S. made air defences and third generation F-4 fighters were otherwise totally incapable. Iranian Tomcats were forced to climb to maximum altitude
The first Western fourth generation fighters the heavyweight F-14 Tomcat and F-15 Eagle entered service in 1974 and 1976 respectively the former in the U.S. Navy and the latter in the Air Force, with the two relied on to provide an elite air superiority capability until the first fifth generation
The U.S. Air Force is seeking to press through congressional resistance to its efforts to begin retiring F-22 Raptor fifth generation fighter aircraft in 2023, with 32 airframes or 17% of the fleet marked for removal from the fleet this year. Plans to retire the F-22s were first announced in March
Among a wide range of assets designed to delivery nuclear weapons which have seen intensive recent testing in North Korea, the Haeil-2 underwater drone saw its second round of testing at see commence from April 4-6, during which it simulated a 1000km journey at sea over 71 hours. The drone’s
The United States is continuing to deploy new F-35 fifth generation fighters to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, where they are replacing ageing F-15C/D Eagle aircraft from the previous generation which were kept on permeant deployment there for over four decades. The F-35As are being deployed from the
After Finland began to move towards formal accession to NATO Russian Defence Minister Sergey Shoigu announced that a new army corps would be formed in Karelia and the region around St. Petersburg, adjacent to the Russian-Finnish border. The corps would be comprised primarily of assets from the
