An Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Su-22 strike fighter was reportedly lost in an accident on December 16, with the incident occurring in southern Fars province. The aircraft crashed near Lake Persian in the Kazerun district, with the pilot ejecting safely without injury. The Revolutionary Guard
A new missile regiment has entered combat duty in the Russian Strategic Missile Forces, according to a statement by the forces’ commander Colonel General Sergey Karakayev. “A missile regiment has gone on combat duty within the Bologovsky missile compound, which is equipped with a RS-24 Yars mobile
On December 16 the Russian Defence Ministry has released footage showing reconnaissance and attack drone operators tracking and neutralising Ukrainian infiltrators in the direction of the city of Bakhmut. While the country’s drone fleet was highly limited in its capabilities when full scale
The LGM-35A Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) currently under development for the United States Air Force is facing growing prospects of deep cuts and possible cancellation due to tremendous cost overruns very early in development, which have fuelled concerns that fielding such
The Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai on December 14 has moved its fourth Type 075 carrier for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy out of dry dock, with a ceremony marking the event which brings the combined carrier fleet to close to 360,000 tons. The fleet of Type 075 Class ships was
American lawmakers and defence officials have revealed in a new wide-ranging hearing on the F-35 fifth generation fighter that the United States was able to surge supplies and accelerate the provision of upgrades to the Israeli Air Force in the wake of the escalation of hostiles between the country
The air forces of neighbouring Pakistan and Iran in 2023-24 have both moved to induct new generations of fighter aircraft into service, with the former acquiring the JF-17 Block III in parallel to smaller numbers of the larger J-10C, both of which were acquired from China to fulfil complementary
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
