Tag: Military Watch

<p >Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on May 13 praised the performance of the country’s Russian-supplied <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russia-compromised-legally-resell-s400" target="_blank">S-400 long range air defence</a> systems, stating that a combination of advanced technology and capable personnel had helped the Indian Armed Forces hold their own against Pakistani forces in <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/pakistani-j10c-shot-down-indian-rafale" target="_blank">recent […]

<p >The Russian state run United Aircraft Corporation was confirmed in May 12 to have  supplied a new batch of <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/su35-headbutting-f16-alaska" target="_blank">Su-35 fighter aircraft </a>to the Russian Defence Ministry for service in the Russian Aerospace Forces, following significant efforts to expand the scale of the aircraft’s production. "The United […]

<p >The Polish Army has received a second batch of M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams main battle tanks, with the delivery of 19 new vehicles bringing the total fleet up to 47 of a total of 250 tanks. The tanks were ordered in April 2022 under a $4.8 billion contract. This followed […]

<p >Production of the U.S. Armed Forces’ latest class of tactical nuclear bomb, the B61-13, is scheduled to begin in June 2025, with the program intended to provide a new much higher yield class of modern nuclear weapon for the country’s combat aviation assets including its <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/f35-program-cost-2trillion" target="_blank">F-35 stealth […]

<p >Work on the modernisation of the U.S. Air Force’s B-52 bomber fleet to the B-52J next generation standard has faced a further major hurdle, as cost overruns with the B-52 Radar Modernisation Program have triggered a law requiring the Air Force to notify Congress – a Nunn-McCurdy cost breach. […]

<p >Since the first technology demonstrator of China’s <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/new-phase-single-crystal-blade-ws15" target="_blank">J-20 fifth generation fighter</a> was unveiled in December 2010, considerable speculation has arisen as to the possible scale on which the aircraft could be produced. Fighter production scales across the world have decreased significantly with each generation as aircraft became […]

<p >The Korean People’s Army has launched exercises simulating a nuclear response to an attack on its territory, with the KN-23 short range ballistic missile system used to simulate nuclear strikes on targets 800 kilometres away. KN-25 600mm rocket artillery systems were also utilised. The KN-23 can carry both nuclear and conventional […]

<p >The Russian Army has received new batches of T-90M and <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-t72b3-abrams-ukraine" target="_blank">T-72B3M main battle tanks</a>, which were delivered to frontline units from the Uralvagonzavod tank plant in the first week of May, and benefit from a number of capability improvements reflecting lessons learned from high intensity combat in […]

<p align="justify" >A growing body of evidence pointing to major Pakistani victories in a series of air battles with the Indian Air Force, which initiated Operation Sindoor on May 6 to neutralise targets in the country and in disputed neighbouring regions, has raised serious questions regarding the future procurement decisions that will […]

<p >Following the publication of Pakistani claims that an Indian Air Force Rafale fighter was shot down during air clashes between the two countries on May 6, the emergence of images confirming the destruction of a Rafale and its crash on Indian territory has resulted in a <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/indian-air-force-faces-pr-crisis-240-million-rafale-destroyed" target="_blank">public relations […]