As Western arms transfers to Ukraine continue to mount, with weapons valued in the tens of billions of dollars set to be delivered by the middle of the year, growing signs have emerged that the Ukrainian Army will receive its first Western battle tanks with Poland, Britain and Spain being among the
The Central Asian Soviet successor state of Georgia has come under growing pressure from Ukraine to supply BuK surface to air missile systems and other equipment free of charge, with Ukrainian officials claiming that BuK systems were supplied in the 2000s as aid and ought to be returned. Although
The British Ministry of Defence has confirmed that the Russian Air Force has “almost certainly” employed its Su-57 next generation fighters for combat in the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian War, with its Defence Intelligence update on January 9 focused exclusively on the aircraft. While the aircraft was
In May 1982 the Egyptian Air Force acquired its first F-16 Fighting Falcon airframes, making it the first country in Africa to field fourth generation fighters and one of the first clients in the world for the lightweight fighter class. The F-16 has formed the backbone of the country’s fleet over
Reports from official U.S. sources in the final quarter of 2022 that Russia and Iran had concluded a deal for the sale of Su-35 fighters, and corroborating prior reports from Iranian Air Force officials that Su-35s acquisitions were under consideration, has led to expectations that the first two
Three years after entering service with the Russian Navy in the final days of 2019, the first Zicron hypersonic cruise missiles have gone to sea with a warship on combat duty carried by the frigate and lead ship of its class the Admiral Gorshkov. The ceremony marking the event on January 4 was
A Ukrainian strike on January 1 has killed 89 Russian military personnel, according to a report by the Russian Defence Ministry on December 4, after six rounds from U.S.-supplied HIMARS rocket artillery systems struck a temporary barracks in the Donetsk region. Formerly a self proclaimed people’s
The year 2022 was the first in which the Russian Su-57 next generation fighter was produced on a large scale, according to a statement from the Head of the state run United Aircraft Corporation Yury Slyusar in a live broadcast on the Rossiya-24 TV channel. “This is actually the first year of the
On New Year’s Day North Korea’s armed forces conducted three launches from a battery of the new KN-25 600mm rocket artillery system, as 30 newly built units of the systems were delivered to the Army in a major early morning ceremony. Attended by the Chairman of the ruling Korean Workers’ Party Kim
Russia is set to significantly increase production of the Tu-160M strategic bomber, according to a statement by Sergey Chemezovthe head of one of Russia’s leading state tech firms Rostec. “The Tu-160 is a major part of Russia’s nuclear triad and, therefore, the upgrade of the operational aircraft
