Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev on February 22 revealed why the Army had not put the T-14 Armata next generation main battle tank into service in Ukraine. “the Armata is a new tank, which has not yet fully passed all trials,” he stated, emphasising that it was also “not the
Pentagon Inspector General Robert P. Storch has warned that the United States has not made plans or preparations to maintain, service or repair the tanks, armoured vehicles and air defence systems Washington has supplied to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. This failure to plan “puts at risk Ukraine’s
Russian President Vladimir Putin led a high level delegation to the Kazan aircraft plant on February 21 to inspect four new Tu-160M intercontinental range strategic bombers. Although the first newly built Tu-160M bomber was delivered to the Russian Air Force in, the country’s existing fleet of
Ukrainian Attorney General Andriy Kostin reported that Russia had employed at least 24 North Korean supplied ballistic missiles in recent strikes on the country between December 30 and February 7. Areas targeted included Zaporizhzhia, Kiev, Kharkiv, and multiple targets in the Kirovohrad,
Multiple Russian sources have reported that the Russian Air Force has lost a Su-35 heavyweight fighter during hostilities over the strategically located Donbas town of Avdiivka, which was captured by Russian forces on February 17. Sources have conflicted over whether the loss was an incident of
Current and former U.S officials interviewed by the Wall Street Journal have reported that approximately 1,000 227kg MK-82 unguided gravity bombs are being reviewed for delivery to Israel, among a range of other military equipment intended to further reinforce the Middle Eastern state. The Israel
The Russian Air Force has reportedly made first use of the new Kh-59MK2 cruise missile to support ongoing operations in Ukraine, with the new weapon having been designed specifically for the Su-57 fifth generation fighter to be deployed from its internal weapons bays. Ukrainian sources claim such a
Since the outbreak of full scale Russian-Ukrainian hostilities in early 2022 both sides have made extensive modifications across much of their tank fleets to respond to the expanding threats to their armour. Among the most iconic has been the addition of raised roofs, sometimes with explosive
The Russian Army has expanded its fleet of T-80 main battle tanks with the delivery of a new batch of modernised and up-armoured T-80BVMs delivered by the Omsktransmash Transport Engineering Plant. The press office of Russia’s sole tank producing firm Uralvagonzavod reported on February 14
The Australian Defence Ministry in March 2023 first floated the idea of donating 41 of the Royal Australian Air Force’s retired F/A-18 Hornet fourth generation fighters to Ukraine, two months before the United States gave the green light for the re-export of fighters to the Eastern European
