In the early 1970s the Imperial Iranian Air Force sought to acquire a fourth generation heavyweight air superiority fighter to meet increasingly strenuous requirements for air defence, with this being a kind of asset no country other than the United States had in service at the time. Iran’s armed forces […]
As Russian and Ukrainian forces and their various external supporters continue to focus attentions on a struggle for the city of Kherson, which both countries now claim as their own territory, the possibility has increasingly been raised by analysts on all sides that a new front against the Ukrainian Military could […]
Forming almost all carrier based fighter units in the United States Navy, the F-18E/F Super Hornet first entered service in 1999 and remains in production by Boeing in St Louis, Missouri. The aircraft was for several years the only fourth generation fighter on order by the Pentagon, with the F-16 […]
In January 2022 the Russian Military began to make unprecedented deployments of high performance weapons systems to military bases on the territory of its neighbour Belarus. These deployments came amid closer integration of the two countries’ armed forces, with Minsk seeking closer ties with Moscow under the ‘Union State of […]
Since the 1980s as the world’s first fifth generation fighter programs began to materialise in the United States and the Soviet Union, the ability to fly supersonically for sustained periods without using engine afterburners was seen as a defining capability for the new generation of aircraft – a capability known […]
In February 2011 NATO member states led by France and the United States initiated military operations against the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, an African republic founded in 1969 which had long aligned its foreign policy against Western interests. The assault saw militias and mercenary forces armed and supplied by Western powers and allies Qatar […]
Following reports that a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 fighter and accompanying Su-24 strike fighter were shot down by Russian forces following a strike on Russia’s Belgorod region, conflicting reports from a number of Russian and Indian news outlets have indicated that a Russian Su-57 fighter was responsible. These have contradicted […]
The Russia Military is reportedly expected to soon receive Iranian Fateh-110 short ranged ballistic missiles and the class’ extended range derivative the Zolfaghar, which provide lighter and less costly complements to Russia’s own limited arsenal of Iskander-M tactical ballistic missiles that have been used extensively in the conflict. Both Iranian […]
On October 20 a Russian Air Force Su-27 Flanker fighter intercepted a British Royal Air Force RC-135W electronic surveillance aircraft over the Black Sea, and after shadowing the British jet for 90 minutes fired a missile in what appeared to be a warning shot. RC-135s and other Western surveillance and airborne early […]
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