March 2022 marks five years since the entry into service of the world’s first fifth generation fighter developed outside the United States, the Chengdu J-20, which joined the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force just six years after its first flight in January 2011. The anniversary closely coincided with the […]
The Moroccan Air Force is expected to become the world’s last new operator of the ageing French Mirage 2000 fourth generation fighter, with the country reportedly set to invest in replacing its ageing third generation Mirage F1 and American sourced F-5 fighters with the newer but still increasingly obsolete design. […]
On March 18 Russia employed the Kh-47M2 Kinzhal ‘Dagger’ hypersonic ballistic missile in combat for the first time to engage targets in Western Ukraine, neutralising a large underground warehouse according to a Defence Ministry statement. The target was located in the village of Delyatyn in Ukraine’s Ivano-Frankivsk region near the […]
The outbreak of open hostilities between Russia and Ukraine on February 24 and the resulting sharp deterioration in relations between Russia and the Western Bloc have raised multiple questions regarding how the Russian Military will be affected in the medium and long term. Speculated changes have ranged from accelerated moves […]
The first Chinese naval aviation unit has received newly modernised J-11BGH fighters, an extensive modernisation of the J-11B from the late 2000s with fifth generation level sensors and avionics which is gradually being applied to airframes across the Chinese People’s Libration Army (PLA). Although PLA Air Force units have been […]
Following a March 13 Russian missile strike on a military facility at Yavoriv in western Ukraine, which reportedly killed several dozen Western combatants, Western volunteer fighters have reportedly begun to flee the country when faced with a much more intense kind of warfare than expected. After the outbreak of hostilities […]
Following the announcement in December 2021 that the Chengdu J-20 fifth generation fighter had entered full scale mass production, it was confirmed on March 17 that a new fighter unit in the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force had received the aircraft. The 56th Air Brigade based in Zhengzhou, […]
Following multiple reports of high casualties among Western combatants who have poured into Ukraine since the outbreak of hostilities there on February 24, a veteran of the NATO intervention in Afghanistan from the Royal Canadian Infantry’s 22nd Regiment has reportedly been killed in action. Having served from 2009 to 2011, […]
On March 14 Commander of the U.S. Pacific Air Forces, Air Force General Kenneth Wilsbach, gave rare insight into prevailing American thought on China’s J-20 fifth generation fighter, commenting on the aircraft as he confirmed the first ever encounter between America’s own sole production fifth generation jet the F-35 and […]
Although Russia has refrained from committing many of its most capable assets to its military operation in Ukraine, which was initiated on February 24, the conflict has provided some insight into the country’s military capabilities particularly as it has made extensive use of standoff ballistic and cruise missiles for precision […]