The first 10 days of Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine have been notable for the lack of resistance from Ukrainian armour, with Ukraine fielding by far the largest tank force in Europe which under different circumstances would be expected to shoulder a large portion of the burden for fighting particularly […]
The first week of March 2022 has seen three of the most prominent 21st-century weapons systems for high and aerial warfare have their first engagements against enemy aircraft reported – namely the American F-35A stealth fighter, the Russian Su-35 heavyweight air superiority fighter and Russia’s S-400 long range air defence […]
In December 2021, following over a decade of speculation regarding a possible Pakistani purchase of Chinese J-10 fighter jets, Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed stated that the country was set to acquire the latest variant of the aircraft the J-10C and would field them by mid-March 2022. Although dismissed […]
The United States is reportedly planning to supply Poland with F-16 fighters as aid, or possibly at a much reduced cost, as the eastern European country moves to donate its squadron of Soviet built MiG-29 jets to neighbouring Ukraine. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on March 6 that […]
Russia’s S-400 long range air defence system has reportedly seen its first combat and gained its first kill during the country’s military intervention in Ukraine, engaging and neutralising a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 fighter near the country’s capital Kiev according to a number of reports. The shootdown reportedly took place […]
On March 5 the first ever combat loss of Russia’s prime strike fighter the Su-34 was confirmed to have taken place over Ukraine, with footage showing the aircraft with tail number 24 was brought down. The fighter’s pilot, reportedly a Major Krasnoruchev, was taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces in the […]
On the evening of March 5 it was reported that the Ukrainian Air Force had taken unprecedented losses in air to air engagements, with Russian ground based air defences shooting down an Mi-8 helicopter, Su-25 attack jet and Bayraktar drone while four of Ukraine’s top fighters, the elite Su-27 Flankers, […]
Amid ongoing operations by the Russian Military on the territory of neighbouring Ukraine, the largest air battle of the conflict on March 5 reportedly saw four Ukrainian Su-27 Flanker fighter jets shot down in an air battle around the western Ukrainian city of Zhytomir. While it was specified that Russian […]
The American F-35A and French Rafale fighter jets have from the late 2010s emerged as leading competitors among Western combat aircraft for export contracts across much of the world, with the two competing directly against one another in many of the same markets ranging from Belgium and Switzerland to the […]
On March 3 the first J-10C fighters were delivered from China to Pakistan, marking the first export of a post-Cold War fighter designed for Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) service to a foreign client. A Pakistani J-10C acquisition was long suspected, but was only confirmed in December 2021 in a […]