Yearly Archives: 2023
Americas
Why Did Russia ‘Down & Drown’ MQ-9 Reaper Drone? Top Official Says To Cut US ‘Strategic Eyes’ From Middle East To Caucasus
Following the downing of the MQ-9 Reaper drone by a Russian Su-27 fighter over the Black Sea, officials from both countries have claimed diminished...
Americas
China ‘Bombs’ Hawaii AFB, Drone Hits San Diego Naval Base, Oil Tankers Ambushed: Ex Colonel Sketches Start Of US-China War
A former US Marine Corps colonel has painted a rather gloomy picture of how the conflict between the United States and China might play...
EurAsian Region
Russian S-400 Triumf Confronts ‘Enemy’ Su-27 Fighters; Repels Air Strikes On Kaliningrad Region In Baltic Drills
The combat teams of the S-400 air defense systems belonging to the Baltic Fleet have carried out military drills in Russia's Kaliningrad Region, reported...
EurAsian Region
Fight Leopard Tanks With T-62s: Russian Military Historian Suggests Deploying Old MBTs As Self-Propelled Artillery
In the face of significant armored losses suffered by Russian forces in Ukraine, a Russian military historian has recommended utilizing modernized T-62 tanks as...
Americas
War In Ukraine By Far The Most ‘Hi-Tech’ The World Has Ever Seen; Experts Call It A ‘Field Day’ For American Firms
Like the US invasion of Iraq in the past, the Russian invasion of Ukraine is proving to be a great source of lessons for...
Americas
Third Largest Operator Of Chinooks, South Korea Approves Plan To Procure More CH-47F Choppers From US
South Korea has approved a defense project to acquire an unspecified number of CH-47F Chinook helicopters to replace the army's outdated CH-47D heavy-lift helicopters.
On...
Americas
Japan’s F-35 Pilots To Train For Combat Ops Using ‘Digital Coach’; Tokyo Propels Defense Budget To $55 Billion
The Japanese government, led by Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, took a historic leap when it announced that the defense budget for 2023 would amount...
EurAsian Region
Russia Is Replacing Its Older Jets With Powerful Su-35s; New-Gen Fighters Give RuAF A Decisive Edge Over Ukraine
Ukrainian officials have claimed that Russia has 12 times more aircraft than Ukraine and that Moscow's newer generation fighter jets are providing "increasing dominance"...
Americas
GLSDB: US Says Cannot Confirm Russia’s Interception Of Small Diameter Bomb As Moscow ‘Hails’ Its First Downing
The US cannot confirm reports on the interception GLSDB (Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb) smart bomb, White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said on Tuesday.
"I...
EurAsian Region
Not Upgraded Since 20 Years, Outdated British Challenger-2 Tanks Arrive In Ukraine Only To Get A Brave Death – Russian Media
Two months after they were first promised, German Leopard-2 and British Challenger-2 tanks have finally been handed over to Ukraine in a move expected...
Americas
US Air Force Announces Failure Of Hypersonic Missile Test; Comes After Tasting Success In December 2022
The latest test of US air-launched hypersonic missile was not successful, US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall confirmed.
"Those tests that we just conducted were...
Americas
US Prepared B-52 Bombers For Devastating Nuclear Strikes; Declassified Video Shows US Training Its Crew
Russian President Vladimir Putin recently announced that Russia would soon station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus. Although the announcement was more of a warning...
Americas
First Kill! US GLSDB-Guided Missile ‘Shot Down’ By Russian Military In Ukraine, RuMoD Says
The Russian Ministry of Defense, for the very first time, claimed shooting down an American GLSDB-guided missile in Ukraine.
https://youtu.be/lfrZ7bAS67c
“Air defense systems intercepted eighteen HIMARS...
Americas
US F-16 Pilot ‘Heaps Praises’ On MiG-29 Fighter Jets After Dogfight; But Why Is Ukraine Still Keen On F-16s?
The first four Slovakian MiG-29s arrived in Ukraine, marking the first NATO delivery of fighter jets to the war-torn country. However, experts contend these...
EurAsian Region
Russian Military ‘Splits Open’ Ukraine’s Air Defenses By Attacking From North East With ‘One Way’ Suicide UAVs
In its most recent assessment, the British Defense Ministry claimed that Russia has begun to receive regular resupplies of a small number of Shahed...
Expert Reviews
Singapore Polls Show India’s Growing Influence In ASEAN As More Nations Put Trust In Delhi Over Beijing
OPED By Satoru Nagao
A recent survey by ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute of Singapore shows that India's status among ASEAN nations is rising. The respondents...
EurAsian Region
Ukraine Tried Bombing Russia’s ‘Most Sophisticated’ Aircraft; NATO Official Explains Why Death Of A-50 Is Vital For Kyiv
A Russian A-50U Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft was attacked by a Belarusian partisan group BYPOL using a drone on February 26....
EurAsian Region
EW Attack: Russia ‘Disables & Downs’ Ukraine’s Suicide Drone By Crippling Its Navigation System – RuMoD
Russia claims to have brought down a Ukrainian Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh (Swift) unmanned aerial vehicle on Sunday by disabling it only with Electronic Warfare...
Asia Pacific
J-15 Pilot Makes Emergency Landing On China’s Shandong Aircraft Carrier; Rewarded ‘First-Class Merit’ In 2022
On March 3, China state-affiliated media outlet, CCTV, said that a J-15 pilot was granted first-class merit in 2022 for successfully landing his fighter...
Europe
Better, Bigger, Heavier: Turkey Unveils Bayraktar TB3 Drone; To Be Deployed With Kizilelma On Naval Drone Carrier
After the combat success demonstrated by the Bayraktar TB2 drone in the ongoing Ukraine war, Turkey, with a burgeoning drone manufacturing industry, has released...
