The Russian Defence Ministry reported on May 14 that the country’s armed forces shot down a single Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 Flanker fighter aircraft ear the settlement in the Donetsk region. The ministry issued the following statement: “Fighter jets of the Russian aerospace forces downed a Su-27
Following accusations levelled on May 11 by U.S. ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety that the country was providing armaments to Russia, with weapons produced in the country loaded onto a Russian ship in December, Pretoria has come under sharp criticism from Washington and
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has over the past 35 years modernised at a rate with few if any rivals in the world, coming from a force that in 1988 relied overwhelmingly on and still widely produced 1950s fighter designs, to today being on the cusp of fielding some of the
The Russian Military on May 9 launched major strikes on the Ukrainian Capital Kiev, coinciding with Victory Day celebrations held across Russia to mark 78 years since the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany. The strikes are reportedly the largest to have been launched on the Ukrainian city since
Following Finland’s formal accession to NATO on April 4, Washington and Helsinki have been involved in negotiations for a Defense Cooperation Agreement which, according to Finnish media, will allow the United States to set up extensive military infrastructure in the country to facilitate forward
The Algerian Air Force has deployed air defences for live fire exercises, with multiple batteries from what appear to be S-300PMU-2 systems seen active of which at least one fired a long range missile. The exercises come amid an increasingly uncertain international security situation, and as the
Russian air defences on the Crimean Peninsula intercepted a strike by two Ukrainian Grom-2 ballistic missiles on May 6, in what marked the latest of multiple attempted attacks on the territory by Ukraine in recent weeks. The Grom-2 was developed based on Soviet technologies Ukraine inherited when the state disintegrated,
The American HIMARS rocket artillery systems widely fielded by the Ukrainian Military has repeatedly become “increasingly less effective” in terms of its accuracy when employed against Russian forces, according to five US, UK, and Ukrainian sources familiar with the matter cited by CNN. The GPS
Taiwanese Defence Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng announced on May 4 that the 66 F-16 Block 70/72 fighter aircraft ordered from the United States would be delivered a year late, with deliveries to begin in the second half of 2024. The minister elaborated that Taipei had requested the U.S. work to “make up
On May 3 the Russian Ministry of Defense published footage of a Russian Air Force Su-35 fighter aircraft flying a patrol mission in support of ongoing military operations in Ukraine, before being approached by a Ukrainian aircraft which it subsequently destroyed. The aircraft was shown taking off,
