Tag: Military Watch

<p >The Ukrainian Army has been assessed to have lost 87 percent of its M1A1 Abrams main battle tanks, with 27 of the 31 vehicles delivered by the United States in late 2023 having been destroyed or captured since they <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/new-footage-shows-ukraine-s-u-s-supplied-abrams-tanks-in-first-combat-images-indicate-possible-combat-loss" >began to be utilised</a> for frontline operations in […]

<p >Following unconfirmed reports that the British Ministry of Defence was <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/britain-considers-restoring-second-nuclear-f35a" >considering plans to procure</a> F-35A fifth generation fighter aircraft and nuclear gravity bombs to restore an air-launched nuclear strike capability, Minister of State for Defence Maria Eagle on June 9 confirmed for the first time that such procurements […]

<p >Developed from the mid-2000s as a heavily enhanced derivative of and successor to the <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/mig29-fighter-marks-40-years-in-service-how-russia-s-extremely-manoeuvrable-fighter-has-evolved" >Soviet MiG-29</a>, the MiG-35 medium weight fighter program had by the middle of the 2020s fallen far short of expectations, with just six aircraft in service and no apparent plans to produce more. […]

<p >The Russian Aerospace Forces have redeployed Tu-160 strategic bombers from Engels-2 Airbase located just 500 kilometres behind the Ukrainian frontlines, to one of its easternmost facilities just 500 kilometres from the U.S. state of Alaska. At least two of the aircraft were seen at Anadyr Airbase, located over 6,600 […]

<p >China and Pakistan have secured a $4.6 billion order for 40 <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/jf17bl3-pakistan-revolutionise-fleet" target="_blank">JF-17 Block III fighters</a>, with the Azerbaijan Defence Ministry procuring the aircraft to significantly expand and modernise the country’s combat aviation capabilities and phase out Soviet-built MiG-29 fighters. The order expands Azerbaijan’s procurement from a previous […]

<p >The U.S. Department of Defence is reportedly considering cutting funding for the U.S. Navy’s <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/delays-contact-award-many-sixthgen" target="_blank">F/A-XX sixth-generation fighter </a>program, which is intended to provide the service with a much needed successor to its F-18E/F and F-35C fighters, in order to prioritise financing for the development of the <a […]

<p >On June 8 the Russian Army for the first time advanced into the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, with the 90th Tank Division operating under Battlegroup Centre having spearheaded the assault over the western border of the Donetsk region to reach the border with Dnipropetrovsk, before continuing to advance […]

<p >New footage from training grounds in Russia has shown that Russian Army personnel are now training to operate North Korean supplied 140mm mortars, reflecting part of a broader trend towards the widespread adoption of equipment from the East Asian state. The <a href="https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-reliance-nkorean-armaments-extreme-60mm-mortars" target="_blank">scale on which</a> a very wide […]

<p >The F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) has confirmed that funding to produce the next two batches of the fifth generation fighter aircraft, Lot 18 and Lot 19, has been delayed, after having originally been scheduled to be finalised before the end of June. Uncertainty remains regarding the total number […]

<p >On June 4 the election of opposition leader Lee Jae-myung as president of the Republic of Korea ended hopes in the Western world both for a more active South Korean role in the ongoing cold conflict between the Western Bloc and China, and more immediately for Seoul to begin […]