The U.S. Air Force on January 31 confirmed that an F-16 Fighting Falcon fourth generation fighter aircraft under the 8th Fighter Wing had fallen into the sea near the western South Korean city of Gunsan, after local media had reported such a crash earlier in the day. The website of Kunsan Air Base,
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has seen delivery rates of J-20 fifth generation fighters increase rapidly since 2021, after the aircraft was reported to have entered production on a much larger scale at the end of that year. The PLA Air Force is the sole operator of the J-20,
The majority of German built Leopard 2 tanks operated by the Ukrainian Army have been rendered inoperable in combat with Russian forces, with over one quarter totally destroyed and the remainder damaged beyond the Army’s ability to repair them. Foreign Affairs, the journal of the United States’
The F-16 Fighting Falcon on January 20, 2024 marked 50 years since its first flight in 1974, making it the second oldest fighter class still in production today other than the F-15 Eagle. The F-15 first flew in 1972 and was the first fourth generation fighter developed for a Western air force, with
On January 28 U.S. forces at the Tower 22 military facility on the Jordanian-Syrian border took over 30 casualties in an overnight drone attack, with three U.S. Army soldiers killed in the strike. This represents the highest casualty count for an attack on American forces in the region since
Following months of reports of increasingly heavy losses suffered by Ukrainian Army units operating Bradley Fighting Vehicles, which were supplied by the United States from April 2023, CNN reported that Ukrainian forces have expressed growing dissatisfaction with the asset’s performance against
The U.S. State Department on January 26 approved a possible $8.6 billion sale of 40 F-35 fifth generation fighter aircraft to the Greek Defence Ministry, with this occurring in parallel to the approval of a $20 billion contract for the modernisation of neighbouring Turkey’s F-16 fleet and supply of 40 new F-16s to the country. The Greek government formally requested the acquisition of 40 F-35As and two spare Pratt & Whitney
Following the escalation of Russian-Ukrainian hostilities into a full scale war from February 2022 it was widely speculated that the United States could seek to supply A-10 Warthog ground attack jets to the Ukrainian Armed Forces as part of a surge in arms supplies to the country. Although the
The Lebanese militia and political party Hezbollah has resumed strikes on the Israeli Iron Dome air defence system near the Lebanese-Israeli border, with two single use ‘kamikaze’ drones reported on January 25 to have been employed to neutralise one such system near the Israeli settlement of Kfar
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps on January 15, 2022 launched the longest ranged ballistic missile strike in its history with an attack on Turkestan Islamic Party (TIP) Islamist group targets in northern Syria’s Idlib governate. The corps is an elite branch of the Iranian Armed Forces
