With several times more bases overseas that all other air forces combined, the United States Air Force confronts multiple potential adversaries across the world from Iran and Syria in the Middle East to Russia and Belarus in Eastern Europe. While the service currently has two classes of fighter on order, […]
The detection of structural damage on at least six of the U.S. Navy’s Independence Class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), namely cracks in their hulls resulting from design flaws, has drawn the future of the class in service into question. This represents the latest of multiple serious issues affecting the platform’s […]
During the Cold War Syria was the first country in the Arab world to align itself against Western interests and form defence ties with the Soviet Union, which was a trend followed by multiple other Arab states after it. As a result the Syrian Arab Army was considered a priority […]
On May 10 Japanese officials reported that the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy carrier Liaoning had launched over 100 sorties over the past week near the island of Okinawa. The deployment of the warship and its escorts comes amid high tensions between China and the United States, and following Chinese pledges in […]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko stated on May 10 that his country would develop a new ballistic missile system with Russian support, elaborating that it could be based on the Russian Iskander system. “In my presence, President [Putin] told Rogozin to provide immediate support, so we wouldn’t build it from scratch […]
Following the latest of multiple dismal reports by the Government Accountability Office on the performance on the F-35 fifth generation fighter program, a nearly two hour hearing on Capitol Hill saw the head of the F-35 Joint Program Office Lieutenant General Eric Fick answer questions as congressmen vowed to “raise […]
Following reports on May 8 that Ukrainian fighters had begun to launch strikes on Russian forces based on the strategically located Snake Island 50km off Ukraine’s southern coast, the Russian Defence Ministry reported that a two day battle for control of the island had concluded and seen an assault ordered […]
May 2022 marks 50 years since the United States initiated a campaign to cut North Vietnam off from international trade by sea through concerted attacks on its harbour network under Operation Pocket Money. The campaign began on May 9 when the U.S. Navy launched six A-7 Corsair and three A-6 […]
On May 6 it was confirmed that the secretive death of one of the United States Air Force’s top pilots near Area 51, Lt. Colonel Eric Schultz, occurred during the flight of a former Belarusian Air Force Su-27UB Flanker heavyweight fighter. The pilot was reportedly not even supposed to fly […]
Following deep cuts to numbers in the aftermath of the Cold War, and continuing during the War on Terror and following the 2008 financial crisis, the United States Air Force’s goal of recovering some of its former strength and rebuilding its fleet to 386 squadrons of aircraft has been abandoned. […]