Monthly Archives: August, 2022
Americas
Challenging J-20, Su-57 Fighters, US Air Force Looks To Acquire Stealthy Target Drones To Prepare Against Chinese, Russian Threats
The US Air Force (USAF) is moving towards concluding the QF-16 Target Drone program while looking to acquire stealthy target drones to train against...
Asia Pacific
China Tests ‘Hypersonic Bullets’ On Live Target; Can Travel At 4000M Per Second & Hit The Opponent From Miles Away
Chinese military researchers are conducting tests on hypersonic bullets to study their impact on humans, per a recent report by the South China Morning...
Americas
Robotic HIMARS: Both US, Russia Are Developing Autonomously Firing MLRS As Ukraine War Provides Vital Lessons
The US Army is working on an autonomous version of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) Multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS), which rose...
Americas
US Skyborg Program Ready To Take Off With A Heavily Modified F-16 Fighter Jet Redesignated As X-62A Aircraft
After decades of being inducted into the US Air Force, the F-16 fighter jets are still of massive utility. As the Skyborg Autonomy program...
Asia Pacific
Singapore’s Air Force Base Will Make Way For Nearly 150,000 Homes After It Is Relocated In 2030
Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsein Loong, shared details of the redevelopment of the area belonging to the Paya Lebar Air Base in a...
Americas
Israeli F-35 Stealth Fighter Breached Iran’s Airspace; Evaded Powerful Russian, Iranian Radars – Reports
Over the past two months, Israeli Air Force F-35 advanced fifth-generation fighter jets repeatedly penetrated Iranian airspace while successfully evading Russian and Iranian radars,...
Americas
B-21 Bombers For Australia? US Says Could Equip RAAF With ‘Stealth Raider’ For Long Strike Missions
US Air Force (USAF) Secretary Frank Kendall has indicated that Washington could consider providing Australia B-21 Raider long-range bombers if Canberra requested them, reported...
Americas
Russia Develops Switchblade-Like Drone; Company Fact Sheet Claims It’s Twice As Lethal As US-Made UAV
Russia has developed a drone similar to the US-made Switchblade but twice as powerful, as per the fact sheet of the drone doing the...
EurAsian Region
Turkey’s ‘Fully Loaded’ Baykar Akinci Combat Drone Completes Test Flight Armed With All Weapon Stations
The Turkish Drone manufacturer, Baykar, announced on August 22 that Turkey's state-of-the-art unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV), Akinci, has completed a test flight loaded...
Asia Pacific
Viral In China! Stunned Taiwan Soldiers ‘Attack’ Chinese Drone With Rocks As UAV Gets Too Close For Comfort
On August 24, Taiwan's military confirmed that a picture circulating on Chinese social media of Taiwanese soldiers looking up at a Chinese unmanned aerial...
Asia Pacific
China’s Mid Air Spectacle! 1st Photo Showing Y-20 Tanker Refueling J-20, J-16 Jets Surfaces; PLAAF Can Now Reach ‘Everywhere’
A photo released by the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) on Wednesday showed the J-20 ‘Mighty Dragon’ stealth fighter and the J-16 fighter-bomber...
Americas
‘Floating HIMARS’ – Ukraine Threatens Russia With Inflatable MLRS As It Stares At Crimean Kerch Bridge – Watch
After a series of deadly attacks on Russian military targets in the Crimean Peninsula, Ukrainian Defense Ministry posted a video message on Twitter with...
Americas
US May Integrate Australia-Made Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat Drone Into NGAD Family To Replace F-22 Fighter Jets
The US Air Force could integrate the Australian-made Boeing MQ-28 Ghost Bat drone into the Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) family of systems, according...
Asia Pacific
China Says Its Heat-Seeking Radar Can Detect Stealth Aircraft 300 Km Away; Scan The Entire Sky In Few Seconds!
Chinese engineers have built a small infrared search-and-track system that can detect the heat signature of a high-speed mobile aircraft at an unusually long...
Asia Pacific
Two Distinctive Models Of China’s H-20 Stealth Bomber Surface Online; Experts Decode The Mysterious Images
Chinese state media hinted in July that the country was planning to conduct a flight test of its upcoming H-20 Bomber in the foreseeable...
Asia Pacific
Escorted By Su-30 Jets, Russian Tu-95 Bombers Stormed Into ADIZ As US, South Korea Conduct Military Drills
When tensions between the United States and China over the Taiwan issue are already high in the region, Russia's defense ministry said on August...
EurAsian Region
S-400 Exposed! Russian Tourist Inadvertently Revealed The Location Of S-400 Missiles; Ukraine Says Thank You
A Russian tourist who recently posted a picture of himself on a beach near Crimea appears to have unintentionally assisted the Ukrainian army by...
Americas
Multi-Billion F-35 Deal ‘Hangs In Balance’ As Switzerland To Hold Referendum On US Stealth Fighters Acquisition
A referendum on the procurement of US-made fighter jets F-35 will take place in Switzerland on March 12, 2023, after the country faced a...
Americas
6th-Gen Fighter Program – US Air Force Picks Five Defense Giants To Develop Prototype Engines For NGAD
The US Air Force (USAF), on August 19, awarded contracts worth around $4.9 billion to five companies for the prototype development of an adaptive...
Americas
MQ-9 Reaper Drone ‘Shot Down’ Near Benghazi Airport; Video Shows US-Origin UAV Burning & Plunging
On August 22, Libyan National Army (LNA) forces reportedly shot down what appeared to be a US-origin MQ-9 Reaper drone near Benghazi's Benina airport.
Ukraine...
