<p >Following Israel’s initiation of large scale air attacks against Iran on June 13, significant attention has been drawn to the capabilities of the Iranian Air Defence Forces’ surface-to-air missile network and its ability to intercept Israeli cruise missiles, drones, fighters and ballistic missiles. Although the most significant attention has […]
<p >Following Israel’s initiation of large scale air attacks against Iran on June 13, significant attention has been drawn to the capabilities of the Iranian Air Defence Forces’ surface-to-air missile network and its ability to intercept Israeli cruise missiles, drones, fighters and ballistic missiles. Although the most significant attention has […]
<p>Following the initiation of Israeli attacks on Iran on June 13, and the penetration of Iranian airspace by Israeli fighter aircraft to launch strikes on targets across <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/israeli-f35s-take-out-iran-most-valuable-aircraft" target="_blank">much of the country</a>, the role played by the <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/poor-deterrent-iran-fleet-300-fighters-equipped-stop-israel" target="_blank">Iranian Air Force’s fighter fleet </a>in defending national airspace has […]
<p >The U.S. Air Force is currently redeploying <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/custom-built-specifically-war-iran-modified-israel-f35i" >F-35A fifth generation fighters </a>to the Middle East on a significant scale, responding to Israel’s large scale air assault on Iran on June 13, and the subsequent <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iranian-revolutionary-guards-success-turning-israeli-air-defences" >exchange of air and missile strikes</a> between the two countries. Following […]
<p >The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) next generation fighter program being jointly developed by France, Germany and Spain has continued to face growing difficulties, as the program’s viability has for years been in serious question. Most recently, disagreements between two of the primary participating firms, Airbus and Dassault, have […]
<p >In one of the lesser known incidents of the Cold War, a Soviet-built MiG-25 Foxbat combat jet landed in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on October 2, 1987, making the UAE one of the few countries in the world to ever host the aircraft. The MiG-25 was, and remains […]
<p >On June 15 an Israeli air strike destroyed one of the Iranian Air Force’s small fleet of aerial tankers, which are among the highest value aircraft fielded by the service. The aircraft was destroyed at Mashhad Airport in northeast Iran, with Israeli military officials referring to it as “most […]
<p >The Russian Aerospace Forces have for the first time deployed <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/tu160-13-hour-nato-north-mig31" target="_blank">Tu-160 strategic bombers</a> for sorties against Ukrainian targets, marking the first ever combat sorties flown by aircraft against a state adversary. Russia’s two classes of intercontinental range strategic bomber the Tu-160 and Tu-95 both first saw combat […]
<p >Following a second day of ballistic missile strikes on Israeli territory, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps which operates the country’s arsenal has reported the use of “new methods” to accelerate the depletion of Israeli air defences. This was achieved by making anti-missile systems’ surface-to-air missiles shoot down one another, […]
<p >The U.S. Air Force has made an unprecedented mass deployment of KC-135 and KC-46 aerial tankers&nbsp;across the Atlantic&nbsp;from bases on the American mainland, fuelling considerable speculation that the aircraft may be intended to participate in the ongoing Israeli-Iranian War. The number of aircraft has continued to rise, and was […]