The Ukrainian Army’s elite 47th Mechanised Brigade stationed in the town of Avdiivka in the disputed Donetsk region has been surrounded and forced to contend with growing ammunition shortages, according to multiple reports from Ukrainian and Western sources. British reports indicate that the
The Russian Defence Ministry has commissioned work for the creation of a new facility dedicated to the development and testing of a next generation strategic bomber being developed under the PAK DA program. The announcement comes a month after the rival American program the B-21 saw the first
On December 12 the Russian Defence Ministry reported that a Su-35 fighter had been deployed to destroy a Ukrainian radar station near the hotly contested Kupyansk region, after the fighter detected the target using onboard sensors. The kind of radar installation was not confirmed. “While on a
The Pakistan Air Force has reportedly formally begun to commission the JF-17 Block III fighter into service, with the long awaited combat aircraft seen to have a unique potential to revolutionise the country’s tactical combat aviation fleet due to its tremendous capability advantages over prior
The Sri Lankan government has been forced to take significant measures to prevent widespread efforts by Western actors to recruit its citizens into mercenary groups operating in Ukraine, according to a statement by Foreign Minister Ali Sabry published in December 9. The minister elaborated that Sri
Despite significant contraction in the Russian combat aviation industry to a small fraction of its Soviet era size, Russia continues to maintain by far the largest production capacity for fighter aircraft outside China and the United States. Fighters are today assembled at one of four plants,
Multiple new pieces of footage from Ukraine has shown Russian soldiers capturing several pieces of heavy equipment recently supplied by NATO member states, with personnel seen driven an American Bradley infantry fighting vehicle and trying to start the engine of a German Leopard 2A4 tank. The
On December 6 the Russian Air Force deployed Su-35S fighters to escort President Vladimir Putin on a rare visit to the Persian Gulf Region, which marks his third trip outside the territory of the former Soviet Union since the escalation of war in Ukraine in February 2022 following visits to Beijing
The F-22 Raptor joined the U.S. Air Force in December 2005 as the world’s first fifth generation fighter aircraft, with the collapse of the rival Soviet MiG 1.42 program after the state’s disintegration in 1991 ensuring that the new American aircraft would have no near peer rivals in performance
The Republic of China Air Force, the official name of the air arm of Taiwan’s armed forces, has faced an increasingly unfavourable balance of power in the Taiwan Strait since the late 1990s due to the rapid modernisation of the capabilities of the Chinese mainland’s People’s Liberation Army Air
