The first Russian forces under a Collective Security Treaty Organisation force have deployed to Kazakhstan, after President Kassym-Zhomart Kemelevich Tokayev requested support under Articles 2 and 4 of the Collective Security Treaty. The deployment follows reports of beheadings of police officers, with least a dozen killed, and as insurgents have […]
Following the outbreak of major riots in Kazakhstan centred around the second city of Almaty on January 4th, rioters targeted police officers causing at least 12 casualties and moved to seize administrative and media buildings. On January 5th the first footage emerged of rioters armed with assault rifles, some of […]
North Korea has announced that a ballistic missile test launched on January 5 was its new Hwasong-8 platform, which had first been launched in September 2021 and housed a hypersonic glide vehicle. State media outlet Rodong Sinmun announced that the test accelerated work on “modernising the national strategic force,” verified […]
The first images of the first serial production batch of JF-17 Block III fighter jets indicate that the type could be entering service in the near future, following the prototype’s first flight at the end of 2019. The airframes are expected to be produced in both China and Pakistan, although […]
Confirmation that Pakistan has become the first client for the Chinese J-10C ‘4++ generation’ single engine fighter has raised multiple questions regarding the future of the Pakistani Air Force and how the balance of power in South Asia will be affected. The acquisition was confirmed by Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh […]
Algeria has for over a decade consistently been the second largest client for Russian arms exports after India, and has by far the largest defence budget on the African continent over double that of its rival Egypt. The country’s armed forces have consistently ranked in the world’s top fifteen, and […]
Following its reported entry into service in September after well over a decade in development, the Russian S-500 long range surface to air missile system was tested in the Arctic region according to reports from multiple state media outlets. “Routine tests of S-500 anti-missile defence systems have recently been held […]
Pakistan’s Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed has reportedly confirmed that the country’s armed forces will field a full squadron of J-10C ‘4++ generation’ fighter jets by March 2022 in time to participate in the country’s March 23rd Parade. This follows months of unofficial and unconfirmed reports of a Pakistani J-10 acquisition, […]
France’s Rafale and the jointly developed British, German, Italian and Spanish Eurofighter twin engine lightweight fighter jets were developed in parallel from the late 1980s as two distinct but in many ways very similar fighter programs. The Soviet Union and the United States had by the early 1980s inducted a […]
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 Russia and Ukraine were consistently at odds over a range of defence issues, with tensions only worsening after the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014 and the installation of a new more overtly pro-Western regime in Kiev. The aftermath saw […]