Yearly Archives: 2022
Americas
F-35 vs Su-35: NATO Expert Says F-35 Stealth Fighters Would ‘Turn Back’ On Spotting The Russian Flanker
Earlier this month, a senior US official disclosed that Iranian pilots trained in Russia to fly Sukhoi Su-35 Flanker-E multirole jets and suggested that...
Asia Pacific
Answer To India’s ‘War Drills’, China Holds Live Fire Using Long-Range Artillery At 15,000 Feet & -20°C
Days after the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Indian Army troops clashed at the disputed Line of Actual Control (LAC) in the...
Americas
US Lures Key Russian Ally Vietnam With Drones, Choppers & Other Defense Deals As Moscow Reels Under Sanctions
The United States has made some lucrative military offers to Vietnam as it looks to wean itself off its reliance on Russian military equipment...
Expert Reviews
China’s ‘AI-Enabled’ WZ-7 Soaring Dragon Appears Near Indian Border; IAF Expert Says Use China’s ‘Own Strategy’ To Thwart PLAAF
Chinese air force drones at the Shigatse air base enhance PLA's intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance (ISR), Electronic Warfare (EW), and limited strike capabilities, far surpassing that of...
Asia Pacific
Roaring Like A ‘Liaoning’: China’s ‘Most Powerful’ Carrier Group With Record Number Of Destroyers Flex Muscles In Western Pacific
On December 16, China's aircraft carrier Liaoning, escorted by a record number of Type 055 destroyers, sailed via the Miyako Strait and reached the...
Americas
Russia Amplifies Long-Range Strikes On Ukraine To Avoid Losses. But US’ Most Advanced PAC-3 Missile Could Change The Trend
On December 16, the Russian troops launched dozens of missiles at Ukraine's capital in one of the war's worst attacks that caused massive power...
EurAsian Region
More Missiles For Ukraine! UK Equips Kyiv With Precision-Guided, Double Range Brimstone 2 Missile – British MoD
The UK has sent a batch of Brimstone-2 precision-guided missiles to Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defense announced on Twitter.
As part of its aid...
Americas
Russian Su-27 ‘Intercepting’ F-35 Stealth Fighter Over The Baltic Sea Appears On Web; Media Says ‘Becoming A Norm’
Russian fighter jets often "intercept" US-origin, fifth-generation, F-35 stealth aircraft near its border, which has now become a norm for the RuAF pilots, according...
Americas
‘Battle Of 35s’: US F-35 Or China’s J-35 Stealth Aircraft, A Battle Of Equals Or Comparing Apples With Oranges?
The first high-resolution images of China's fifth-generation J-35 stealth aircraft took social media by storm not so recently, with aviation enthusiasts comparing it with...
Expert Reviews
India-China War: New Book ‘What They Don’t Want You To Know’ Busts Myths About ‘Namka Chu’ & 1962 Battle
The government of India's Forward Policy did not leave soldiers in poorly defended and armed 'penny packets'; the military planning was free of political...
South Asia
Agni-5: Did India Test Hypersonic Missile As Exhaust Trail Indicates Hypersonic Glide Vehicle Firing?
The latest Agni-5 missile test piqued defense observers' curiosity, based on videos of its exhaust trail in the night sky over eastern and northeastern...
Americas
Ukraine War: Greece Offers Its S-300 Air Defense Missile To Kyiv In Exchange For US Patriot Systems
In an interesting twist to the excruciating task of arming Ukraine against Russia, Greece has offered to transfer its S-300 surface-to-air missile (SAM) system...
EurAsian Region
Ukrainian MiG-29 Pilot Talks About AGM-88 HARM & Shahed-136 UAVs; Explains Why Is It Hard To Counter Iranian Drones
The Ukrainian MiG-29 pilot, who goes by the call sign 'Juice,' has provided a glimpse of the ongoing aerial battle. The dynamics in air...
EurAsian Region
Ukraine War: Russia’s 2nd Regiment Of Avangard Hypersonic Missile, With ‘Mach 27’ Speed, Takes Up Combat Duty
One of Russia's superweapons, the Avangard hypersonic missile, is now on combat duty in the Orenburg Region, the Russian Defense Ministry told reporters on...
World
‘Double HARM’: Ukrainian MiG-29 Fires Two AGM-88 Missiles Simultaneously Presumably At Russian Positions
On December 16, a video showing a Ukrainian MiG-29 jet launching two AGM-88 HARMs surfaced online, indicating that these missiles still play an important...
World
Hypersonic Mayhem! US OKs Another Air-Breathing Missile Program Days After Tasting Success With ARRW
Just days after the United States successfully tested a hypersonic air-to-ground missile prototype, another hypersonic project codenamed 'Mayhem,' which has remained cloaked in secrecy...
Europe
‘Historic Agreement’: France OKs $3.4B Contract To Develop ‘System Of Systems’ For Future Combat Air System (FCAS)
On December 16, the French Directorate General of Armaments (DGA) granted a contract to build flying demonstrators for a Future Combat Air System (FCAS).Â
The...
Americas
‘Rocket Showdown’: Philippines Furious With China Over Unacceptable Swarming Of PLA Vessels In South China Sea
The Philippines' Defense Chief, on December 14, strongly criticized recent Chinese incursions in disputed waters in the South China Sea (SCS) as an 'unacceptable'...
Americas
USAF Strategic Bomber Fleet With B-21 Raider ‘Much Superior’ To Anything That China & Russia Have – Air Warfare Expert
OPED By Gp Cpt TP Srivastava
It took 34 years for a technologically advanced nation with the largest economy in the world to unveil a...
Expert Reviews
Pakistan Could Upgrade Ukraine’s T-80UD Tanks Despite Wanting To Stay Away From ‘Disputes & Clashes’: OPED
Speaking to Channel News Asia (CAN) on December 9, Pakistan's foreign minister, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said that his country was neutral in the war...
