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The Soviet Union began to introduce its first fourth generation combat aircraft into service from the late 1970s, with the Su-24M strike fighter joining the fleet in 1979 followed by the MiG-31 heavyweight interceptor in 1981, the MiG-29 medium weight fighter in 1982, and the Su-27 Flanker heavyweight air superiority fighter in […]
The F-16 Fighting Falcon first entered service in the United States Air Force in 1978, and remains both the world’s second oldest fighter in production and the most widely fielded fourth generation fighter in the world. Developed as a lighter and cheaper counterpart to the heavyweight F-15 Eagle which formed the […]
Russian state media outlet TASS has announced that the new MiG-31I jet will feature in the Army 2022 international military technical forum, which is scheduled to run from August 15-22 and has traditionally featured some of the country’s most advanced weapons systems for display. The aircraft will appear alongside the […]
The British Defence Ministry is set to increase supplies of rocket artily systems to the Ukrainian Army, after London led the Western world in pressing for arming the Eastern European state with such weapons. Such arms shipments, the provision of accompanying training to Ukrainian forces, and embedding of Western officers […]
Since before the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian War in late February Russian government sources have widely claimed that the Ukrainian Military has benefitted from support from mercenary units from Western-aligned states, most notably Poland, Georgia and the Baltic States. These allegations come amid growing revelations from Western sources regarding the […]
The Russian Army has received a new batch of T-90M ‘Breakthrough’ main battle tanks from the Uralvagonzavod company, which other than experimental units of T-14 Armatas represents by far the most capable tank class in the Russian Military. Preceding the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian War in February, the Russian Defence […]
Explosions at Russia’s Saki Airbase on the Crimean Peninsula on August 9, which Russian officially claims to be the result of an accident, have fuelled speculation that Ukraine may have struck the facility with some form of previously unknown standoff ground launched missile. Ukrainian officials have claimed that the incident […]
Following reports from the Donetsk and Luhansk self proclaimed people’s republics and from Russian state media that North Korea may dispatch tens of thousands of military personnel to support the Russian-led war effort in Ukraine, the kind of Korean assets which could be sent to the front has been widely […]
On August 8 U.S. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Colin Kahl confirmed that the United States had supplied “anti radiation missiles” to Ukraine which could be launched from some aircraft in the Ukrainian fleet. The statement followed the publication of images showing the remains of an AGM-88 HARM anti […]
Reports from both the self proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics in eastern Ukraine, and from a number of Russian sources, have indicated that North Korea is set to dispatch up to 100,000 personnel to support the three parties’ ongoing war effort against the Ukrainian government and its NATO supporters. […]