In November 1971 the Soviet MiG-25 Foxbat saw its first combat when deployed for reconnaissance missions over the Israeli held Sinai-peninsula in Northeast Africa. The Foxbat had entered service just a year before, and at the time was operated by the USSR alone. The aircraft would be developed into multiple […]
North Korea’s armed forces have held artillery exercises “inspecting and evaluating” performance “in order to increase their mobile artillery combat capabilities,” the Korean Central News Agency state media outlet reported on November 7th. The drills were held the previous day, and saw the Korean People’s Army (KPA) demonstrating its firepower […]
Intense competition between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and an arms race in all major areas of their defence sectors from armour to ballistic missiles, saw both states contend to develop the most capable fighters and interceptors for air to air combat. Each viewed the other […]
China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force has long been reported to have turned hundreds, and possibly thousands, of J-6 fighters into remotely piloted attack drones since the type was retired from frontline service. The J-6 is an indigenous derivative of the Soviet MiG-19, and was at the core of […]
China and Russia have put forward a draft resolution at the the United Nations Security Council to ease economic sanctions on North Korea, in particular relaxing the latest rounds of restrictions imposed in 2017 on the East Asian state’s export of statues, textiles, and seafood and its imports of refined […]
Following the overthrow of the Abdullah Hamdok government in Sudan in the final week of October, which had been installed following a Western-backed military coup in April 2019, Sudan’s new interim government has indicated that it will proceed with plans to construct a Russian military base on the Red Sea. […]
The Director of the Russian Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation (FSMTC), Dmitry Shugaev, haas elaborated on the possibility of Russia exporting its S-500 long range air defence system. “We are considering India, as well as China and all the states with which we have a longtime partnership and predictable mutual […]
The Chengdu Aircraft Corporation’s test airfield has been home to most of China’s most innovative fighter jets in their early development stages, and has recently housed a new aircraft which resembles concepts seen in the U.S. for a next generation air dominance fighter. The sighting follows the unveiling of two […]
One of multiple sixth generation fighter programs being pursued in the United States has been to replace the US Navy’s Boeing F/A-18E Super Hornet combat jets, which are currently the services only for the operational fighters that operate from its Nimitz and Gerald Ford class supercarriers. The F-18 is currently […]
Russia has deployed a contingent of Su-35 heavyweight air superiority fighters to Qamishli Airport in northeastern Syria, marking the first ever major deployment of Russian fighters to the facility. The airport is very near the positions of Turkish and U.S. forces, which have deployed alongside various auxiliary militia forces to […]