<p >The Russian state owned United Aircraft Corporation on June 4 announced that the license production deal for Su-57 fifth generation fighter aircraft currently being offered to India would unprecedentedly provide the Indian Defence Ministry with full access to the aircraft’s source code. Such access would ensure full autonomy not […]
<p >The Royal Thai Air Force has confirmed that a decision has been finalised to procure Swedish Gripen E/F fighters, which are expected to supplement older Gripen C/D and F-5TH fighters in the service’s fleet. Although no contract has yet been signed, the framework for negotiations with the manufacturer Saab, […]
<p >India has faced renewed pressure from the United States to curb its continued procurements of Russian defence equipment, which was a leading point of contention between Delhi and Washington from 2017 under the first Donald Trump administration and has since the beginning of the year increasingly been raised. U.S. […]
<p >China’s first supercarrier the Fujian has been confirmed to have begun its eighth sea trials, during which it will test the integration of an electromagnetic catapult system, which the ship is the only one outside the United States Navy to have installed. The testing of this system indicates that […]
<p >The Ukrainian Air Force has found its newly acquired F-16s to be far outmatched by Russian fighters and air defence systems, according to a statement by spokesman Yuri Ignat on June 3. "Unfortunately, today Russia has jets that see farther and missiles that fly farther. That’s even when compared […]
<p >The Ukrainian Armed Forces’ <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukraine-most-successful-strike-russian-bomber-bases" target="_blank">successful attacks</a> on major strategic bomber facilities across Russia on June 1 under Operation Spider’s Web has drawn renewed attention to the future of the Russian strategic aviation fleet, which currently remains highly uncertain. The <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russia-tu95-fleet-never-recover-ukraine-drone-attack" target="_blank">losses</a> of Tu-95MS intercontinental range bombers, […]
<p >A decade ago in 2015 the Russian Armed Forces unveiled T-15 infantry fighting vehicle, which alongside the <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russias-t14-turret-revolutionary-improvement" target="_blank">T-14 Armata tank</a>, the 2S35 Koalitsiya send propelled howitzer, and other advanced ground forces equipment displayed at the time appeared poised to tremendously enhance the Russian Army’s fighting capabilities. A […]
<p >On the afternoon of July 3 the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched an attack on the Kerch Strait Bridge connecting the disputed Crimean Peninsula to the Russian mainland using multiple unmanned boats.The operation successfully managed to cause an underwater explosion, although reportedly failing to hit any of the bridge supports, […]
<p >New images from the frontlines of the Russian-Ukrainian War have confirmed the induction of North Korean made 60mm mortars into Russian Army service, and their use by regular units. Alongside its deployment of the world’s largest arsenals of towed, mobile and rocket artillery, the Korean People’s Army’s use of […]
<p >Following the <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukraine-most-successful-strike-russian-bomber-bases" >successful initiation</a> of Operation Spider Web by the Ukrainian SBU on the afternoon of June 1, which saw <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/ukraine-most-successful-strike-russian-bomber-bases" target="_blank">large scale done strikes</a> launched from trucks within Russia against multiple major bomber bases, one of the most significant achievements of the operation was the […]