Following the delivery of American M2 Bradley fighting vehicles to Ukraine in April, multiple Western sources have reported at least one third of the vehicles have been visually confirmed as having been abandoned, damaged or destroyed. This was supported by prior reports, including one from the New
Monthly Archives: July 2023
The United States is considering possible military options to respond to Russia’s military presence in Syria, according to an anonymous Pentagon official cited by the Associated Press (AP). This would be aimed at “address increasing Russian aggression in the skies over Syria,” and comes after U.S.
NATO warplanes violated Syrian airspace 10 times from July 12-13, according to a report from the Deputy head of the Russian Centre for Reconciliation of the Opposing Sides in Syria, Rear Admiral Oleg Gurinov. “In the Al Tanf area, which is a zone of international air traffic, ten violations of
A Russian Navy source has announced that plans to modernise the Kirov Class nuclear powered battlecruiser Pyotr Veliky have been cancelled, with the ship instead set to be decommissioned. The Kirov Class ships are by far the largest surface combatants serving in the world, and at 28,000 tons they
The Russian Air Force has received a new batch of Su-35S heavyweight fighter aircraft from the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant located in the Russian Far East, according to the press office of the state tech corporation Rostec. “The Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aircraft Plant named after Yu. Gagarin has
At a time of rising tensions with NATO, and following growing integration of its armed forces with those of Russia from 2020, Belarus has begun to invest heavily in modernising its conventional military capabilities as it perceives growing challenges to its security from Western forces near its
The Ukrainian Air Force has reportedly received its first SCALP air launched cruise missiles from France, according to Agence France-Presse reported citing French Defence Ministry. “The first missiles were delivered at the time when French President Emmanuel Macron made this announcement,” the
North Korean Minister of National Defence General Kang Sun Nam has warned the United States that continued operations of U.S. military aircraft near its territory could soon be met with a more forceful response. He claimed that American RC-135 and U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft and RQ-4B had
Amid growing reported shortages of surface to surface missiles, the Ukrainian Military has repurposed Soviet S-200 surface to air missile systems to fire their primary munitions ballistically for strikes on Russian targets. The areas targeted include the Crimean Peninsula and the Rostov and Kaluga
In the latest of multiple incidents between Russian and U.S. forces in Syria, which have resulted in a gradual rise of tensions in the theatre, three Russian Air Force Su-35S Flanker air superiority fighters on July 5 conducted aggressive manoeuvres near three U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper attack