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On May 24 China and Russia concluded a joint 13 hour bomber patrol in the Pacific, which was the latest of several carried out over four consecutive years beginning in July 2019. It was described by Chinese state media outlet the Global Times as demonstrating “a high level of military […]
Following the announcement that the Russian Navy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was set to be imminently transferred to a newly expanded dry dock at the Sevmorput Naval Shipyard, multiple images emerged in the third week of May showing that this had materialised. The carrier had previously seen work suspended for […]
Since the second week of March reports of Russia’s Su-57 next generation fighter operating in support of the country’s war effort in Ukraine were followed by sightings of the stealth fighter over the city of Zhytomyr, fuelling widespread speculation as to what its mission may have been. With only a […]
Since the early 1950s air to air missiles have been increasingly envisaged as representing the future of aerial combat, and following the first use of infrared guided visual range missiles in 1958 over the Taiwan Strait longer ranged radar guided missiles were heavily invested in by all major aviation powers […]
The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Rocket Force University of Engineering in Xian has made progress towards developing a new hypersonic weapon capable of engaging small mobile targets precisely enough to hit a moving car, according to team leader Yang Xiaogong. He stressed that “important progress” had been made towards […]
The Indian Air Force has tested a new enhanced variant of the BrahMos cruise missile, which was launched from a Su-30MKI heavyweight fighter in the Bay of Bengal and had an extended 450km range. The new missile improves on the 290km range for prior air launched variants, with development occurring […]
On May 17 a number of reports emerged that S-300 surface to air missile batteries fielded by the Syrian Arab Army had been confirmed as operational, and may have been used to fire on Israeli Air Force fighter jets to repel an attack on a Syrian research centre. Reports of […]
The F-22A Raptor and F-35A Lightning II were designed to be fielded in parallel as complementary fifth generation fighters in the United States Air Force, replacing the respective F-15 and F-16 of the fourth generation with the former being a heavyweight twin engine designs fielded in smaller numbers, and the latter […]
On May 14 the C919 airliner produced by the state owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) completed its first pre delivery three hour test flight in Shanghai. “This marked a successful test flight of the first C919 plane ahead of its delivery to the first customer,” Comac announced, highlighting […]
Following escalated testing of a range of new ballistic missiles, which has included the world’s first ground launched missile with a tactical hypersonic glide vehicle outside China and the first intercontinental range ballistic missile tested since 2017, satellite footage has reportedly shown North Korea taking steps towards construction of a […]