On May 6 it was confirmed that the secretive death of one of the United States Air Force’s top pilots near Area 51, Lt. Colonel Eric Schult, occurred during the flight of a former Belarusian Air Force Su-27UB heavyweight fighter. The pilot was reportedly not even supposed to fly on the day of the crash on September 5, 2017, but he too the place of a pilot in the front seat of the twin seat Soviet jet after he had been grounded due to medical issues. The mission was a 45 minute “local area proficiency sortie” carried out under the secretive

Following deep cuts to numbers in the aftermath of the Cold War, and continuing during the War on Terror and following the 2008 financial crisis, the United States Air Force’s goal of recovering some of its former strength and rebuilding its fleet to 386 squadrons of aircraft has been

The U.S. Air Force’s sixth generation fighter currently being developed under the Next Generation Air Dominance Fighter program has been confirmed to have a cost measured in the hundreds of million of dollars, making it by far the most costly fighter in world history with a price tag likely several

Entering service from December 2020, only five Su-57 next generation fighters are currently though to be in service in the Russian Air Force out of a total order of 76 fighters placed in the summer of 2019. As the first Russian fighter to become operational which is not based on a Soviet-era

Following reports that the first Russian T-90M battle tanks had been deployed to Ukraine in the final week of April, the first footage emerged on May 4 showing that at least one of the vehicles had been left inoperational after engaging in combat in the theatre. The T-90M is considered the most

Speaking at a Lockheed Martin missile plant in the state of Alabama, U.S. President Biden declared in May 3 that the world was at a historic “inflection point [that] comes along every six or eight generations,” the beginning of which was marked by the Russian-Ukrainian War which broke out on

The Serbian Defence Ministry has begun to consider options for acquisitions of new fighter aircraft to modernise the country’s ageing air force, which has contracted in recent years with the retirement of the MiG-21 fighter leaving only a single squadron in service formed of 14 MiG-29s. With the

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force owes much of its success it becoming a world leading service to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the country’s ability to subsequently acquire vast sums of the some of the world’s most capable armaments and technologies from cash

As work continues in the United States on the development of the country’s first sixth generation fighter the F-X, which is expected to replace the fifth generation F-22 in service providing a high end air superiority capability, questions regarding the affordability of the platform have

In the latest of multiple missile strikes targeting depots for Western armaments recently supplied to Ukraine, the Russian Military has deployed P-800 anti ship missiles for a land attack role to neutralise caches at a military airfield near the Black Sea port of Odessa. Russian Defence Ministry