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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

Amid ongoing hostilities between Israeli forces and militias serving under the Lebanese political party Hezbollah, on January 25 the first publicly available footage was released showing a new class of anti-tank missile being deployed against an Israeli surveillance outpost. The missile’s flight

Amid rising tensions across the Middle East the United States has sought to support accelerated modernisation of the armed forces of one of its two leading strategic partners in the region, namely NATO member Turkey, with President Joe Biden on January 23 sending letters to Senate Foreign Relations

Th Russian Air Force has redeployed S-300 air defence systems from the S-300P family to support the air defence of St Petersburg, after successful Ukrainian drone strike destroyed the Ust-Luga gas export terminal. Footage captured by a local resident showed one battery from such a system being set

Following the White House report on January 2 that the Russian Armed Forces were using North Korean KN-23B ballistic missiles in combat in Ukraine, speculation has grown that Russia could seek to export combat aircraft to its East Asian neighbour to help offset the costs of the acquisitions.

Throughout much of the Cold War the Soviet tank industry was estimated to be larger than those of the rest of the world combined, with an annual output over 4000 vehicles per year in the 1980s from five separate tank factories, the largest three of which were the Malyshev and Omsktransmash

On January 16 Ethiopia was confirmed to have become the fifteenth country to operate the Russian Su-30 twin seat heavyweight fighter, with the state-owned Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation reporting an undisclosed number of the aircraft had been received. A least two of the aircraft are currently in the country, which has the same blue camouflage scheme as the older Su-27 fighters the country already operates. It has long