Yearly Archives: 2023
Asia Pacific
Rafales To Roar In China’s Backyard As France & Japan To Conduct First-Ever Joint Fighter Drills
To strengthen defense cooperation, the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) announced that the Japanese and French air forces are set to engage in their...
Asia Pacific
Ominous Signs For Japan & Taiwan: Russia, China ‘Grills & Drills’ Adversaries With Massive Military Exercises
Russia and China's naval drills in the Sea of Japan have ominous signals for the US-led Western alliance that has identified the two nations...
EurAsian Region
Sleeping Death! Russia Claims Developing Drones That Can Hibernate For Weeks Before Slaying Its Target
Russian engineers have claimed to have developed a technology for their Joker line of First Person View (FPV) drones that allow the Unmanned Aerial...
Americas
‘NEMESIS’ To Chinese Warships, US Marine Corps Fire Naval Strike Missile Designed To Deflate PLA Navy
The US Marine Corps (USMC) earlier this month tested the land-based anti-ship missile that it could use against Chinese warships as a part of...
Asia Pacific
China Completes 10 Years Of $1.4 Trillion BRI Project; Puts South Asia, Barring India & Bhutan, In A Bind
This year marks the tenth year of the People’s Republic of China’s $1.4 trillion Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Xi Jinping’s ambitious project to...
EurAsian Region
Russian Tanks, IFVs Are Heading To The UK; British Engineers Decode Tech & Develop Countermeasures
In an unusual revelation, the British Chief of Staff told the media recently that his country was examining the Russian armored vehicles captured in...
South Asia
Tehreek-e-Jihad Pakistan, The ‘New Kid On The Block’ Emerges As A Big Threat To China’s CPEC: OPED
"Baloch insurgency is on resurgence, and its widened targets include CPEC projects and Chinese nationals in Pakistan. The Pakistani security establishment is under pressure...
EurAsian Region
Russia’s S-70 Stealth Attack Drone Accompanied By MiG-29 Fighter Jet Spotted Flying In A Formation
Amid speculations that Russia may have started operating its S-70 Okhotnik heavy-strike stealth drone against Ukraine, a MiG-29 fighter plane and the Russian S-70...
Americas
Chinese Warship Blatantly Snoops On ‘Largest-Ever’ Talisman Sabre Military Drills Involving US & Australia
A Chinese navy surveillance ship has been seen off the eastern coast of Australia, observing the multi-nation Talisman Sabre exercise. It is expected to...
Americas
USAF B-1B Lancer, B-2 Spirit & B-52H Integrate For A Joint Mission; Aim To ‘Stabilize’ Indo-Pacific Region
In a combined mission at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on July 18-19, elements of three distinct US Air Force bomber task forces - the...
Europe
French Dassault Banks On Indian & Indonesian Rafale Aircraft Deals To Make-Up For Slow Start In 2023
Dassault Aviation had a slow start to the year, with its order book almost empty. However, the French aircraft maker is hopeful of bagging...
Americas
F-16s For Ukraine: US ‘Moves Rapidly’ To Transfer Fighting Falcons To Kyiv By End Of The Year – US NSA
Biden administration's top spokesperson has stated that they expect US-manufactured F-16 fighter jets to reach Ukraine by year-end, indicating a heightened urgency to deliver...
EurAsian Region
Russian Navy ‘Sinks’ Ukrainian Warship In Live-Fire Drills That It Captured During Crimea Annexation
In what could be a direct message to Ukraine and NATO, Russia staged a live fire "exercise" in the Black Sea just days after...
World
‘Surpassing’ Mt. Everest, China Drills One Of World’s Deepest Boreholes To Meet Its Energy Needs
On July 20, China started drilling a superdeep borehole to explore and tap into hidden natural resources situated tens of thousands of feet beneath...
Asia Pacific
Taiwanese Wargames – Unambiguous Trilateral Military Pact Between US, Japan & Taiwan A Must To Stop China
Japan, Taiwan, and the United States (US) need to coordinate, communicate more and foster greater military and security dialogue, the lack of which will...
EurAsian Region
Ukraine War Proves Multi-Layered Defense, SEAD Missions Hold The Key To Repel Big Enemies; 10 Key Lessons For IAF
The conflict in Ukraine has revealed serious shortcomings in planning, percepts, weapon systems, and tactics associated with aerial warfare in a peer-to-peer conflict. Most...
Americas
Ukraine’s US-Supplied Cluster Munitions Begin To Pound Russian Military; Putin Vows Retaliation
Some informed sources have confirmed that Ukraine has started using US-supplied cluster munitions on Russian forces in southeast Ukraine to dislodge heavily defended Russian...
Middle East
Iran-Russia Su-35 Flanker-E Fighter Jet Deal “Collapses”, Tehran Could Go Indigenous – Iranian Media
In what could be bad news for Iran, there are speculative reports that the much-awaited Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets that the country was set...
Americas
US Army ‘Bets Big’ On Laser Defense System To Protect Its Infra; Lockheed Contracted To Develop Prototype
The US Army has given Lockheed Martin a contract to build a high-energy laser prototype for defending stationary and semi-fixed locations against aerial threats...
Asia Pacific
Super FAST! Two FA-50 Fighter Aircraft Delivered To Poland By South Korean KAI In Record Time
Just over ten months after Poland signed an agreement for the FA-50 with emerging Asian defense giant Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI), the first two...