Monthly Archives: September, 2022
Asia Pacific
‘Restrictive’ Chinese Drones No Good! Bayraktar Says Beijing’s Customers Are Turning To Turkey For TB2 Drones
Turkey and China have emerged as prominent players in this drone export industry. While Turkish drones have demonstrated their superiority on the battlefield, Chinese...
Americas
Arming The World’s Most Powerful Military, Swedish Saab To Sell Ammunitions, Anti-Tank Weapons To US Army
The US has awarded Saab an $81.8 million contract for producing and delivering AT4 anti-tank weapons and Carl-Gustaf ammunition. The US Army, US Special...
Americas
Sniffing Stealth Fighters, Modern Air Forces Are Banking On IRST System To “Track & Whack” Stealth Aircraft
After spending decades and hundreds of billions of dollars on developing stealth aircraft, countries are fast developing counter-stealth technologies such as the Infrared Search...
Asia Pacific
Controlling Southeast Asia – China’s Cambodian Dream Is Nothing But A Debt Trap & Security Concerns For Asia
It is not news that China has been trying to establish control and authority over global politics. It has gone to lengths to develop...
Asia Pacific
Kim Jong-Un Says ‘Will Never Give Up Nukes As North Korea Declares Itself A Nuclear Power At Legislative Level
Pyongyang has declared by law that North Korea is a nuclear-weapon state and its leader Kim Jong-un has the sole right to make any...
Americas
America’s ‘Black Program’ – NGAD Loyal Wingman Drone Concept Inches Closer To Reality, Competition In 2024
The US Air Force (USAF) is pursuing its Next-General Air Dominance (NGAD) program on a war footing. In tandem with developing a manned sixth-generation...
Americas
World’s 1st Fifth-Gen Fighter Completes 25 Years! Lockheed, Boeing, USAF Celebrate F-22 Raptors’ Global Dominance
On September 7, the F-22 Raptor marked the 25th anniversary of its first flight. This advanced stealth fighter aircraft by Lockheed Martin was designed...
Asia Pacific
India, China Begin Troop Disengagement In Ladakh While New Delhi, Tokyo Vow Stronger Defense Ties
India and China have started a new phase of the disengagement of forces on the border in Ladakh in the area of Gogra-Hotsprings, India's...
Americas
US Doing A Europe To Asia; Wants ‘Asian Allies’ To Raise Their Defense Budgets To Counter China But Does Not Do Much For Indo...
To face the challenges arising out of the growing Chinese hegemony in the Indo-Pacific, the United States wants its allies and partners to increase...
Americas
US Navy’s F-18 Super Hornet Conducts First Flight With Northrop’s LITENING Advanced Targeting Pod
Northrop Grumman announced on September 7, 2022, that the LITENING ATP (advanced targeting pod) had completed its first test flights aboard the US Navy...
Americas
US Approves To Sustain Pakistan’s F-16 Fighter Jet Fleet; To Reverse Trump-Era Suspension Of Security Assistance
The Biden administration has approved the potential sale of F-16 fighter jet fleet sustainment and related equipment to Pakistan in a deal valued at...
Americas
F-35 Stealth Fighters Run Into Trouble Again; Deliveries Suspended Over ‘Made In China’ Component
The Lockheed Martin-manufactured F-35 Lightning II fighter jet has hit a snag, with the US State Department abruptly halting deliveries of the stealth aircraft...
Europe
Hypersonic Defense! Germany & Spain Begin Work On ‘HYDEF’ Interceptor Program Amid Russia Firing Its Kinzhal Missile
The Russian Defense Ministry announced in March 2022 that its troops had fired a hypersonic missile (Kinzhal) at a target inside Ukraine. The unprecedented...
Asia Pacific
China Conducts Ground Test Of A Powerful Engine For Long March 9 Rocket; Claims It’s More Potent Than Its US Counterpart
On September 5, China conducted a ground test of a new rocket engine that it claims is two times more powerful than its American...
Middle East
Israel Issues ‘F-35 Warning’ To Iran; Tehran Commissions Stealth Corvette In Honor Of Killed Commander
The F-35 Lightning II stealth fighters of the Israeli Air Force, considered its most valued possession, are again in the spotlight. The Israeli Prime...
EurAsian Region
Ukraine ‘Shoots Down’ Low Flying Su-25 Fighter With A MANPAD; Launches Kharkiv Offensive To Maximize Gains
A Russian Su-25 fighter jet was reportedly shot down in the Balakleya area of the Kharkiv region in northeast Ukraine, where the Ukrainian forces...
Europe
Germany Negotiating Common Air Defense System With European Neighbors Amid Russian Aggression – Defense Minister
Germany is conducting talks with its neighboring countries about the creation of a common air defense system to ensure better European coordination, Germany's Defense...
Americas
US Navy’s Next-Generation Subsonic Aerial Target BQM-177A Achieves Full Operational Capability
On August 28, the US Navy's next-generation subsonic aerial target achieved full operational capability during a joint maritime exercise in the Philippine Sea, marking...
Asia Pacific
Allies China & Russia Challenge US Dominance In Indo-Pacific; Destroy Hostile Submarine In Contested Sea Of Japan
The Russian Defense Ministry has revealed that days after Chinese and Russian naval flotillas gathered in the Sea of Japan for joint naval operations,...
EurAsian Region
Russia Offers Reward Of 1 Million Rubles To Anyone Who Captures Ukraine’s First Battlefield Robocop – THeMIS
Ukraine received an Estonia-made tracked unmanned ground vehicle, THeMIS, manufactured by Milrem Robotics.
https://eurasiantimes.com/russia-is-buying-missiles-from-fiji-ak-47s-from-sudan-netizens-mock/
In a peculiar move, Russia's Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies...