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
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
