The Korean People’s Army Air Force (KPAAF), the official name of North Korea’s Air Force, has deployed fighter and bomber aircraft for operations near its border with South Korea, prompting a southern deployment of 30 of its F-15K fighters which took part in an hour long standoff at the border. The

The first aircraft carrier of the Gerald Ford Class, the USS Gerald Ford, has begun its first ever operational deployment after it left Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia on October 4, two days behind schedule, to join the U.S. Navy Second Fleet for deployments in the northern Atlantic. This marks

The Russian Air Force has allocated three newly built Su-35S fighter jets to the 185th Combat Training and Combat Application Center of the Aerospace Forces based at Privolzhsky Air Base near the city of Astrakhan – unit tasked with simulating the capabilities of enemy aircraft in combat to provide

One of the most iconic fighter/interceptors of the Cold War era, the MiG-25 Foxbat which entered service in the Soviet Armed Forces in 1970 was the first in a new generation of heavyweight combat jets which could fly much higher and faster, carry higher weapons payloads and employ larger more

Ukrainian air defences near Lyman have neutralised a Russian Su-34 strike fighter, with photos confirming that the aircraft from the from the 21st Air Division based in Shagol Airfield in the Chelyabinsk region serial number RF-81852 was destroyed. The Su-34 became operational in the Russian Air

Former CIA Director and U.S. Army General David Petraeus predicted on October 2 that Washington would lead a NATO response with overwhelming force to any use of nuclear weapons by Russia in Ukraine, destroying all Russian assets and bases in the region. “We would respond by leading a NATO, a

Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian War in February Ukraine’s widespread deployments of man portable surface to air missile systems (MANPADS) has been a major obstacle to the effective use of Russian air power to support its ground forces. Integrated widely among the country’s millions of

Germany has increasingly emerged in 2022 as a country willing to more assertively pursue Western Bloc security interests overseas, with the government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz having recently escalated Berlin’s foreign policy turn away from the Angela Merkel era  engagement with China and conflict

Russia’s Su-57 fifth generation fighter program has become a prominent symbol of delays and a struggle to move past Soviet era designs in the country’s military aviation sector, with the country expected to field its first squadron of the aircraft only in 2023 while only six airframes have been

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters on September 30 that the sabotage of Russian Nord Stream gas pipelines were seen in Washington as a “tremendous opportunity” to reduce European energy imports from Russia. This follows years of calls by the U.S. under multiple administrations to