Following rising tensions between Kosovar authorities and the local Serb minority, NATO forces based on the territory clashed with Serb demonstrators in the Serb majority town of Zvecan on May 29. Serbian sources reported that Serb demonstrators staging a sit-down protest outside municipal
The Ukrainian Military has reportedly relied on mass deployments of conscripted soldiers, often with little to no training, in its campaign to engage Russian forces in the Donbas regions which both countries claim as their territory. A recent Wall Street Journal report highlighted that the military
At the MILEX-2023 defence exhibition in Minsk Belarus unveiled a range of new pieces of domestically developed military equipment, with one of the most notable being the new T-72BM2 main battle tank prominently displayed at the centre of the event. The T-72 forms the backbone of the Belarusian
On May 26 Serbian President and Supreme Commander in Chief of the country’s armed forces Aleksandar Vucic placed the military on high alert, according to reports from local media, ordering forces to immediately move to the administrative border of Kosovo and Metohija. These moves were made in
Saudi Arabia and China are reportedly in talks over the potential sale of Chengdu J-10C fighter jets to the Middle Eastern Kingdom, according to a report from the Tactical Report intelligence service. Riyadh is reportedly also interested in other Chinese acquisitions including the Sky Saker FX80
British Royal Air Force Eurofighter fourth generation fighter aircraft participated in the U.S. Air Force’s Agile Combat Employment exercise held over the skies of Estonia on May 8-12, with the British IX (B) Squadron joining American F-22 Raptors from the 94th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, 1st
The Russian Air Force’s successful operation to destroy a Patriot missile system guarding the Ukrainian capital Kiev on May 16, using MiG-31K strike fighters armed with Kh-47M2 Kinzhal hypersonic ballistic missiles, represents the first serious air defence suppression effort against Western long
Following the increased publicity gained by Russia’s Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ballistic missile for its successful destruction of an American Patriot air defence system on May 16, reports have emerged from a number of sources that the country quintupled production of the missiles some time after operations
The U.S. Air Force’s sole squadron of stealth bombers, the the 509th Bomb Wing based at Whiteman Air Force Base, has returned to operations with the flight of one of its B-2 bombers on May 22 being the first by the squadron in over six months. An accident at Whiteman Air Force Base on December 10,
Russian forces spearheaded by contractors from the Wagner Group were reported in the early hours of May 21 to have completely captured the city of the city of Bakhmut in Eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region – an area which Russia has since September recognised as part of its territory and which was
