The Russian Air Force is scheduled to begin receiving an enhanced new variant of the Su-57 fifth generation fighter from 2025, the Su-57M, which was reported in October 2022 to have begun flight testing and will integrate a new engine designated AL-51F. Although Russia’s fighter aviation industry
Following the outbreak of full scale hostilities between the Israeli Defence Forces and Gaza-based Palestinian militia groups led by the territory’s ruling party Hamas, world attention has been focused on the conflict zone as Israel has launched an invasion of the territory and mass air
Amid a surge in deliveries of J-20 fifth generation fighters to brigades across the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force, unconfirmed reports from early 2023 indicated that the 131st Air Brigade based under Luliang Air Base, Yunnan Province, Southern Theatre Command had received the new
The U.S. Navy has deployed three out of its fleet of eleven nuclear powered supercarriers for operations in the Western Pacific, according to reports from multiple Japanese sources, with this deployment intended to strengthen the American military presence near China and North Korea. This marks the
The U.S. Air Force on January 31 confirmed that an F-16 Fighting Falcon fourth generation fighter aircraft under the 8th Fighter Wing had fallen into the sea near the western South Korean city of Gunsan, after local media had reported such a crash earlier in the day. The website of Kunsan Air Base,
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has seen delivery rates of J-20 fifth generation fighters increase rapidly since 2021, after the aircraft was reported to have entered production on a much larger scale at the end of that year. The PLA Air Force is the sole operator of the J-20,
The majority of German built Leopard 2 tanks operated by the Ukrainian Army have been rendered inoperable in combat with Russian forces, with over one quarter totally destroyed and the remainder damaged beyond the Army’s ability to repair them. Foreign Affairs, the journal of the United States’
The F-16 Fighting Falcon on January 20, 2024 marked 50 years since its first flight in 1974, making it the second oldest fighter class still in production today other than the F-15 Eagle. The F-15 first flew in 1972 and was the first fourth generation fighter developed for a Western air force, with
On January 28 U.S. forces at the Tower 22 military facility on the Jordanian-Syrian border took over 30 casualties in an overnight drone attack, with three U.S. Army soldiers killed in the strike. This represents the highest casualty count for an attack on American forces in the region since
Following months of reports of increasingly heavy losses suffered by Ukrainian Army units operating Bradley Fighting Vehicles, which were supplied by the United States from April 2023, CNN reported that Ukrainian forces have expressed growing dissatisfaction with the asset’s performance against
