The Lockheed Martin F-35A fifth generation fighter developed for the United States Air Force has continued to gain new contracts across the European continent, with a growing number of countries far beyond the aircraft’s limited number of initial program partners placing orders for the fighters.
Following the outbreak of widespread hostilities between the Gaza-based Hamas militia group and Israel on October 7, which commenced with mass Palestinian offensives into Israeli held territory, the possibility of escalation into a wider regional conflict has been widely raised. Hamas’ demonstration
Amid ongoing hostilities between Israeli and Hamas forces, after the latter launched the largest offensive in its history and captured multiple Israeli military facilities, Israeli envoy to the United Nations Gilad Erdan has stated his country’s intention to “obliterate” the Palestinian political
The Russian Defence Ministry is planning to expand production of Su-34 strike fighters, as the class continues to be widely relied on for both strategic nuclear deterrence and for tactical strike missions across all theatres from Syria to the Arctic to the Western Pacific. In production in
The Swiss Defence Ministry is set to spend over $330 million to modernise multiple airfields to accommodate new F-35A fifth generation fighters, with new infrastructure set to be built at bases of Payerne near Geneva, Meiringen near Interlaken and Emmen in the canton of Lucerne in central
Rising to power during the Lebanon War in the 1980s, the Lebanese political party and militia Hezbollah was formed as a resistance group in Shiite majority southern Lebanon at a time of Israeli military occupation. The militia gained its initial combat experience carrying out multiple attacks
Following the initiation of widespread offensives against Israeli positions in October 7, personnel from the Palestinian Hamas militia group have used drones to strike Israeli armour and gained at least one kill against an Israeli Merkava main battle tank. Footage taken by the unmanned aircraft
A growing number of lawmakers in the United States House of Representatives have raised concerns regarding the ability of the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), which manages the development of the Western world’s sole production stealth fighter, to fix serious issues with the aircraft’s availability
The U.S. Air Force has withdrawn its F-35A fifth generation fighters from the Middle East, after forward deploying the aircraft to an unknown facility in the region under the 421st Air Expeditionary Squadron from July 26. The aircraft had been deployed at a time of high tensions with Russia and
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, indented primarily to develop a next generation replacement for the fourth generation F-16 Fighting Falcon, saw its first aircraft enter service in 2014 when the F-35B variant joined the U.S. Marine Corps. The overwhelming majority of fighters set to enter
