On March 12 the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps launched a missile strike on the Iraqi city of Erbil, reporting that the attack targeted secret Israeli bases in the Kurdish majority region. Erbil is the capital of the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, and the targets struck were near the American […]
The European Meteor long range air to air missile was for years anticipated as a game changing platform which would belatedly bridge the gap with the latest foreign designs for the continent’s three classes of fighter: the Swedish Gripen, French Rafale and British, German and Italian jointly developed Eurofighter. Beginning […]
As the Russian military intervention in Ukraine approaches its fourth week the Russian Air Force has expanded the scope of airstrikes to engage targets in Ukraine’s western regions. With the Russian Army having gained considerable ground in eastern Ukraine, where it has enjoyed considerable public support in the largely Russian […]
On March 11 the Pakistani Air Force inducted its first squadron of J-10C ‘4++ generation’ single engine fighters into service, marking the first time in close to 15 years that the country has commissioned a new fighter class. The event was notably attended by Prime Minister Imran Khan, who examined aircraft […]
On March 11 the first footage emerged reportedly showing a Russian Su-57 Felon fighter operating over Ukraine, which is thought to be part of the country’s sole squadron of an estimate five serial production aircraft deployed under the Southern Military District within range of Ukrainian airspace. The fighter was observed […]
Ukrainian air defences have been a priority target for Russian forces since the outbreak of hostilities on February 24, and while Russian sources reported that defences were largely depleted within hours efforts to neutralise the remainder of its defence assets remained ongoing into the war’s second week. During the second week […]
China’s military aviation sector has since the mid 1950s produced a wide range of engines for various combat jet models, with its military aircraft such as the J-7 fighter and H-6 bombers powered by indigenous engines and gaining export orders across much of world. By the end of the Cold War, however, the […]
Amid ongoing hostilities between Russian and Ukrainian forces, the latter’s most potent air defence system the S-300 has gained its first kills. Following reports on March 3 that eight Romanian military personnel had been killed, with a single MiG-21 fighter and IAR 330-Puma helicopter crashing killing both the pilot of […]
In the afternoon of March 9 the Russian Defence Ministry announced that 90 percent of Ukraine’s military airports, which housed the majority of its air force, had been neutralised two weeks in to a Russian military intervention in the country. This came after it was announced just hours into the […]
The outbreak of open hostilities between Russian and Ukrainian forces on February 24 saw assessments of the latter’s aerial warfare and air defence capabilities gain a newfound relevance. Ukraine’s armed forces have received little new hardware since the 1980s, when they inherited a vast arsenal from the Soviet Union including […]