An enhanced version of Russia’s Su-57 next generation fighter was confirmed to have performed its maiden flight on October 21, with this reported by the state run United Aircraft Corporation days later. Details regarding the new variant were scarce, except for that it flew at the Gromov Flight

The Korean People’s Army (KPA) Air Force, the official name of the North Korean military’s air service, is expected to receive two sophisticated new air to air missiles to equip its existing fighter fleet as part of ongoing modernisation efforts – according to a new report by expert on East Asian

The U.S. Air Force is set to withdraw its F-15C/D Eagle air superiority fighters from Kadena Air Base in Japan, sparking criticisms from within America and raising significant questions regarding what kind of units could replace them. Located in Okinawa, southern Japan, Kadena has for decades been

The world’s largest defence manufacturer Lockheed Martin has released a new concept art for a sixth generation fighter currently under development to equip the U.S. Air Force under the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program, which is expected to produce an aircraft for active service by 2030.

In the early 1970s the Imperial Iranian Air Force sought to acquire an advanced fourth generation air superiority fighter, something no nation other than the United States had in service at the time. Iran’s military had long enjoyed a special relationship and maintained extensive connections with

As Russian and Ukrainian forces and their various external supporters continue to focus attentions on a struggle for the city of Kherson, which both countries now claim as their own territory, the possibility has increasingly been raised by analysts on all sides that a new front against the Ukrainian Military could be opened on the country’s northern

Forming almost all carrier based fighter units in the United States Navy, the F-18E/F/ Super Hornet first entered service in xx and remains in production today to form new squadrons. The aircraft was for several years the only fourth generation fighter on order by the Pentagon, with the F-16 and

In January 2022 the Russian Military began to make unprecedented deployments of high performance weapons systems to military bases on the territory of its neighbour Belarus. These deployments came amid closer integration of the two countries’ armed forces, with Minsk seeking closer ties with Moscow

Since the 1980s as the world’s first fifth generation fighter programs began to materialise in the United States and the Soviet Union, the ability to fly supersonically for sustained periods without using engine afterburners was seen as a defining capability for the new generation of aircraft – a

In February 2011 NATO member states initiated military operations against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, an African republic founded in 1969 which had long aligned its foreign policy against Western interests. The assault saw militias and mercenary forces armed and supplied by Western powers and allies