<p >German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has praised Israel’s ongoing military offensive against Iran, stressing that these operations remain&nbsp;strongly in line with the interests of the Western world, and that the Israeli government and armed forces were courageously doing the “dirty work” on the West’s behalf.&nbsp;During an interview on the sidelines […]
<p >Iranian government sources on June 17 reported the successful shootdown of an Israeli Air Force F-35 fighter aircraft in the skies above the city of Tabriz, with ground-based air defence systems credited with the kill. Previously two F-35s were reportedly shot down on June 13-14, with a female pilot […]
<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 […]