A week after the outbreak of hostilities between Israeli forces and the Palestinian militia group Hamas, the possibility that other parties will be drawn into the war has increasingly been raised with the Israeli Army having already exchanged fire with Iranian-aligned militias on its Syrian and
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Amid ongoing clashes between Israeli and Hamas forces, the paramilitary group’s ongoing offensive against Israeli forces appears increasingly likely to significantly impact not only global oil prices, but also the outcome of the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War. Israel’s shortages of munitions, and
The U.S. Congress Strategic Posture Commission final report released on October 12 has called for Washington to update and expand its nuclear and conventional forces with urgency, highlighting the potential need to face a combined Chinese and Russian force. “The United States and its allies must be
Entering service with the Russian Air Force from December 2020, a notable feature of the Su-57 next generation fighter is that it was designed to be able to deploy superior firepower to rival aircraft from its generation. One of the greatest restrictions on the combat performances of fifth
The Lockheed Martin F-35A fifth generation fighter developed for the United States Air Force has continued to gain new contracts across the European continent, with a growing number of countries far beyond the aircraft’s limited number of initial program partners placing orders for the fighters.
Following the outbreak of widespread hostilities between the Gaza-based Hamas militia group and Israel on October 7, which commenced with mass Palestinian offensives into Israeli held territory, the possibility of escalation into a wider regional conflict has been widely raised. Hamas’ demonstration
Amid ongoing hostilities between Israeli and Hamas forces, after the latter launched the largest offensive in its history and captured multiple Israeli military facilities, Israeli envoy to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has stated his country’s intention to “obliterate” the Palestinian political
The Russian Defence Ministry is planning to expand production of Su-34 strike fighters, as the class continues to be widely relied on for both strategic nuclear deterrence and for tactical strike missions across all theatres from Syria to the Arctic to the Western Pacific. In production in
The Swiss Defence Ministry is set to spend over $330 million to modernise multiple airfields to accommodate new F-35A fifth generation fighters, with new infrastructure set to be built at bases of Payerne near Geneva, Meiringen near Interlaken and Emmen in the canton of Lucerne in central
Rising to power during the Lebanon War in the 1980s, the Lebanese political party and militia Hezbollah was formed as a resistance group in Shiite majority southern Lebanon at a time of Israeli military occupation. The militia gained its initial combat experience carrying out multiple attacks