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Since Britain’s Defence Ministry announced plans for the induction of the Challenger 3 battle tank into service later in the decade, a number of analysts and military enthusiasts have questioned whether this is an efficient way off improving British armoured warfare capabilities – or whether purchasing advanced variants of the Leopard 2 tank from Germany…

China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has considered air defence to be a priority field of investment since the early 1990s, largely as a result of the overwhelming defeat of the Iraqi Army after the U.S. and its allies gained total air superiority during the Gulf War. The PLA vastly expanded its air defence capabilities from this time,…

Iraq today fields only a single class of fighter aircraft, a squadron of 34 F-16IQ Fighting Falcon lightweight fighters acquired from the United States, which are fielded alongside 24 South Korean T-50 very light trainers  and an unknown number of Russian Su-25 attack jets – some of which were delivered second hand from Iran. The F-16s…

Palestinian militant groups operating in the Gaza Strip launched their largest ever strike on Israeli targets on May 11-12, amid escalating tensions in the longstanding conflict between the two sides. The Al Qassam Brigades, the militant wing of Hamas which governs Gaza, but is considered a terrorist organisation by Israel and the United Sates, reported…

Pentagon spokesman John Kirby announced on May 13th that 120 U.S. Department of Defense officials had been evacuated from Israel that day, amid escalating clashes between the Israel Defence Forces and Hamas and Islamic Jihad forces based in the Gaza Strip. According to the Pentagon statement, the U.S. personnel had been planning for an event…

Amid ongoing issues with maintenance and availability rates, the U.S. Air Force is reportedly planning to cut its fighter fleet from seven different classes to just four in the coming years. Air Force Chief of Staff General Charles Brown Jr. announced on May 12th that the future fleet would be built around the cheap and…

As the capabilities and importance of precision guided long range weapons have continued to grow, and are set to continue to increase quickly as hypersonic weapons are more widely adopted in the 2020s, the ability to neutralise satellites which are vital to locating adversaries and guiding such weapons has become all the more important. Beyond…

First unveiled in a military parade in February 2018 marking the 70th anniversary of the the Korean People’s Army’s founding, North Korea’s new solid fuelled tactical ballistic missile, the KN-23, has seen multiple flight tests from the spring of 2019 and into 2020 demonstrating a range of advanced capabilities. The missile makes use of a…

Belarus’ armed forces have alleged that NATO air units have likely been practising strikes against their territory, as well as that of Russia, while carrying out demonstration flights in Eastern Europe. First Deputy Chief of Staff of the Belarusian Military, Major General Igor Korol, warned on May 16th regarding these operations: “Unfortunately, demonstration flights of…

The Russian Borei Class nuclear powered submarine began development in the waning years of the Soviet Union, but due to the chaos that followed the superpower’s collapse the first ship was only commissioned by the Navy in 2013. The latest variants of the 24,000 ton ships deploy 16 RSM-56 intercontinental range ballistic missiles (ICBM), each…