In the aftermath of the White House’s announcement on January 4 that Russian forces were utilising North Korean ballistic missiles in their ongoing war effort in Ukraine, the possible future avenues that growing defence cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang could take have gained growing
North Korean state media on January 15 announced the first test launch of a new class of intermediate range ballistic missile the previous day, with the new asset having the potential to revolutionise the country’s ability to launch strikes against targets across much of the Pacific as far as
The Slovak Air Force has received its first two F-16 fighters from the United States, with these ordered with 12 more of the aircraft under a $1.8 billion contract signed in December 2018.The aircraft were delivered at Lockheed Martin’s Greenville, S.C., production facility, and will arrive in
Russian state-owned defence conglomerate Rostec has announced that it is set to place the PBK-500U Drel 500kg precision guided cluster bomb into serial production in 2024, with the weapons system having “already undergone all types of tests specified by the customer.” The bombs were designed to
On December 13 Russian Air Force MiG-31K strike fighters launched a major ballistic missile strike on Ukrainian military industrial targets, with facilities producing 155mm and 152mm artillery rounds and drone workshops having been targeted. Gunpowder factories and facilities producing 125mm tank
The American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is supporting Israeli efforts to gather intelligence on leading officials from the Palestinian political party and militia group Hamas, according to unnamed U.S. officials who spoke to the New York Times. The CIA created a special task force focused on
Amid growing reports from a multitude of sources indicating that Ukrainian Air Force fighter units have suffered increasingly heavy losses, and that the severe and worsening depletion of Ukraine’s air defences widely reported by Western sources has placed remaining manned air units at increasingly greater risk,
The Russian Air Force has reportedly begun deploying a new class of Iranian drone in combat in Ukraine, with the first evidence of the new aircraft class operating in the theatre emerging on January 8. Pictures released on social media that day appeared to show the remains of a Shahed-238 which had
Ukrainian Army frontline personnel speaking to the New York Times have widely reported devastating damage from a new wave of Russian air strikes using glide bombs. Personnel told the American paper that while long having suffered from constant artillery attacks, since the spring they had endured
The Israeli Air Force has deployed two of its longest ranged fighters, F-15 Eagles, for a low altitude flight Lebanese airspace. The aircraft followed a trajectory from the Golan Hill area over southern Lebanon and across the Lebanese coastline, taking them across the capital Beirut and towards the
