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Commander of the Air Force of the Islamic Republic of Iran General Hamid Vahedi announced on September 4 that the service is currently considering acquiring Su-35S fighter aircraft from Russia, highlighting that the final decision rested with the Army Command and the Armed Forces General Staff Command. He added that […]
In December 2005 the United States Air Force became the first service in the world to introduce fifth generation fighter aircraft into service, with the F-22A Raptor gaining an initial operating capability that month after over 25 years of development and over seven years after its first flight. The aircraft […]
Rocket artillery has since the Second World War provided an effective means of conducting long range bombardment beyond the reaches of guns of any calibre, and today allows armies to lay down fire more cheaply and usually at shorter ranges than ballistic or cruise missiles, albeit at a higher cost […]
Entering service in 1970, the MiG-23 Flogger variable swept wing fighter remained in production in the Soviet Union until 1985, with its derivative built for ground attack roles the MiG-27 being built for nine years longer until 1994 to meet export orders from India. While initially a troubled fighter which […]
The Northrop F-20 Tigershark lightweight fighter was one of six American fourth generation fighter designs developed during the Cold War, was the smallest and least expensive of all of them in terms of both manufacturing and operational costs. Where the F-15 and even larger F-14 occupied the very high end of the […]
In 1982 the first of many air battles between Cold War era heavyweight fighter/interceptors marked the beginning of a new era in tactical combat aviation – an event which had been led up to for two decades by ambitious programs in the United States and Soviet Union. Heavyweights with armed […]
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force’s fast growing fleet of Xi’an Y-20 heavy airlift jets has gained growing international attention as its international presence has expanded, most notably since six of the aircraft were used to rapidly deliver HQ-22 surface to air missile systems to Serbia in April at […]
President and CEO of the Swedish aerospace and defence firm SAAB AB Micael Johansson had informed reporters of his “extreme frustration” at the years long lack of export successes for the Gripen fighter jet. He told several defence media outlets at the firm’s Stockholm headquarters on August 26 that the […]
On August 27 the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force gave its first public demonstration of the subsonic manoeuvrability of its J-20 fighter, with two of the aircraft deployed at the Changchun PLA Air Force Open Day in Northeast China’s Jilin province. Its performance contrasted to the basic flying past and […]
The Polish Ministry of National Defence had confirmed that new South Korean supplied FA-50PL lightweight fighters will be deployed to Minsk Mazowiecki Air Base, providing the latest of multiple indications that the aircraft will replace Soviet-supplied MiG-29s currently based there. Alongside orders for 32 F-35A fifth generation fighters, which are […]