Monthly Archives: June, 2022
Europe
Mirage-2000C Fighters: French Air Force Retires Its Iconic Warplanes While India Continues To ‘Bet Big’ On Battle-Hardened Jets
On June 23, 2022, a ceremony at Air Base 115 in Orange saw the French Air and Space Force bid farewell to the final...
Americas
NASA Scripts History! Launches The First Rocket From Australia In 27 Years To Study The Alpha Centauri
On June 27, the US space agency NASA successfully launched a commercial rocket from Australia's remote Northern Territory for the first time. It marks...
Americas
NASA Stops Auction Firm From Selling ‘Lunar Dust’ Collected By Neil Armstrong During Apollo 11 Mission In 1969
NASA has asked a Boston-based auction firm, RR Auction, to pull the plug on the sale of moon dust collected during the 1969 Apollo...
Asia Pacific
Cold War-Era F-16, MiG-29 Jets More Relevant In ‘New Cold War’ Than Stealth F-35, F-22 Raptor: Russian Expert
Need, durability, practicality, socio-economy, and political economy, if not triumphs, takes precedence over technology. Put differently, when new technology emerges, the old finds relevance...
EurAsian Region
World’s 2 Largest Submarines — Russian Navy’s Belgorod & Dmitri Donskoi Caught On Surface Of White Sea
Since the onset of Russian military operations against Ukraine, the Black Sea has played host to several attacks on targets deep inside the territory...
Asia Pacific
China Could Gobble Taiwan In About 100 Days If Beijing Launches A Full-Scale Invasion – Opinion Poll
An opinion poll released in Taiwan recently shows that less than half of Taiwanese people are optimistic about Taiwan's ability to resist the Chinese...
Americas
Challenging Rafale – IAF’s “Top Officials” Shortlist Only Aircraft That Can Outflank Dassault Jets To Win India’s MRFA Deal
OPED By Girish Linganna
The Indian Air Force plans to acquire 114 fighter aircraft amid a big push for the Atmanirbhar Bharat (self-reliant India) scheme...
EurAsian Region
Bayraktars Are Falling! Turkey’s ‘Much-Hyped’ TB2 Drones Are Losing Steam Against Russian Missiles As Ukraine Limits Their Usage
There are signs that the hype around Turkish TB-2 Bayraktar drones' lethality is being busted. Cracks have emerged in the Ukrainian military over continuing...
Americas
AH-64E Helicopter: With New Engine Stuck & No Long Range Missile, US Army Confused On Apache Modernization
With a new powerplant stuck in supply chain issues and the absence of a new long-range missile, the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), has...
Americas
Powered By Tesla’s Artificial Intelligence, World’s Richest Man Is Launching A Human-Robot (Humanoid) To Space
Elon Musk-owned space company SpaceX somehow manages to stay in the global limelight. SpaceX's Starlink internet constellation has managed to secure close to half...
Americas
Chasing A UFO! Fighter Jets Scrambled To Hunt Hypersonic ‘Alien Aircraft’ In One Of World’s Most Intriguing Events From The Past
Brazil has become the latest country to take action on unidentified flying objects (UFOs), with the Brazilian Senate holding its first-ever public hearing on...
Asia Pacific
History In Making! Chinese Space Station ‘Tiangong’ Aims To Outdo The ISS & Have The Most ‘Precise Clock’ In Orbit
China is set to make history when it finally completes the construction of its Space Station 'Tiangong' and makes it operational this year.
It...
Middle East
After Rafale, IAF’s Su-30MKI Fighters Get Mid-Air Refueled By Emirati Air Force In Growing India-UAE Military Ties
Ahead of Indian PM Narendra Modi's visit to the UAE on June 28, Foreign Secretary Vinay Mohan Kwatra stated that the bilateral relationship between...
Americas
US Diplomat’s ‘Middle Finger Salute’ Infuriates Moscow; Russian Lawmaker Warns Of ‘Consequences’ For The Insult
A Naval attache with the US Embassy in Moscow, Captain Dale Samuel, was found taking pictures pointing his middle finger to the letter 'Z,'...
Americas
A Whopping 22,600 Feet Deep — Explorers Discover The Remains Of A US Navy Warship, The World’s Deepest Shipwreck
The remains of a US Navy destroyer from World War II, now known as the world's deepest shipwreck, have been discovered more than 22,600...
Americas
World’s No.1 Defense Contractor Lockheed Martin Is Out Of Hypersonic Interceptor Program Race
The United States considers the hypersonic missiles of its adversaries, China and Russia, as one of its biggest security threats to the country. To...
Americas
Biden ‘Invests Big’ In Rebuilding Japan-S.Korea Ties As China Challenges ‘Global Order’ In The Indo-Pacific
As the 30 members of the NATO meeting in the Spanish capital Madrid on June 28 -30 for what will be the 32nd summit...
Europe
‘Gobbling Satellites’ – In A First-Of-Its-Kind Mission, UK To Clean Space Debris By Removing Dead Satellites From Earth’s Orbit
Earlier this month, the International Space Station (ISS) had to swerve and conduct an avoidance maneuver to avoid being hit by space debris from...
Asia Pacific
‘Aping A Human Brain’ – Chinese Supercomputer, 4th Most Powerful In World, Achieves Big Breakthrough In AI?
In the latest series of claims and counterclaims, Chinese scientists recently claimed to have run an artificial intelligence program with architecture as complicated as...
Asia Pacific
China’s Longest Intrusion! PLA Navy Ships Made A 64-Hour Long Intrusion Near Disputed Islands — Japan
Japanese authorities claimed on Friday that China sent two coast guard ships to navigate through Japanese territorial waters close to a group of disputed...
