Gripen Fighters

Sweden Considers Advanced Security Package for Ukraine: Gripen Fighters, Meteor Missiles, Saab Air Defense Systems, and Deep Strike Drones Could Reshape Aerial Combat

Sweden and Ukraine are discussing what could become one of the most consequential security assistance packages of the war, with talks covering advanced air defense systems, combat aircraft, long-range missiles, and deeper industrial cooperation aimed at strengthening Ukraine’s domestic defense...
UK-French

Once Enforcers of Unequal Treaties, UK and France Re-engage Beijing 166 Years After the Opium Wars That Defined China’s ‘Century of Humiliation’

For much of modern Chinese political consciousness, history begins not with triumph but with trauma. It began with the Opium Wars of the 19th century, when European imperial powers forced China’s Qing dynasty into a series of humiliating defeats that...
Cigarette bundles smuggled through balloons from Belarus

Balloon Threat Evolves: F-22 Raptor Shootdown a Chinese Spy Balloon, NATO Now Grapples With Cigarette-Laden Balloons Over Its Eastern Flank

NATO is grappling with an unusual but increasingly disruptive challenge along its eastern border: balloons filled with helium or hydrogen drifting in from Belarus into the airspace of Lithuania and Poland. At first glance, the objects appear almost farcical—low-tech, slow-moving,...
Avro Arrow

Was Canada’s Indigenous Fighter Jet Sabotaged by the US and Secretly Smuggled to Britain? The Avro Arrow Mystery Revisited

By any measure, Canada’s long and tortured decision to buy the F-35 fighter jet has become more than a procurement dispute. It has turned into a national reckoning—one that has dragged a 66-year-old wound back into the open and reignited...
US Navy AIM-174B air-launched missile

US Navy’s AIM-174B Emerges as Counter to China’s PL-15 and PL-17 in Expanding US–China Long-Range Air Battle Over Indo-Pacific

The United States Navy’s public unveiling of the AIM-174B ultra–beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile during the Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024 exercise marked a rare and deliberate disclosure of a capability normally kept shrouded in ambiguity. Far from a routine weapons...
British Army drone warfare

Drones Are Changing Warfare, but Infantry Will Still End Up Fighting in Muddy Holes, British Officers Warn

A British Army infantry battalion that has rapidly embraced drone warfare says the technology may reshape the battlefield, but it is unlikely to fundamentally alter the daily reality of infantry soldiers anytime soon. The 1st Battalion of the Irish Guards,...
Chinese military

China’s Military Faces a Serious Leadership Problem Amid Investigations Into Senior PLA Commanders

China’s sweeping anti-corruption campaign inside the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) has reached its most dramatic and destabilizing phase yet, with the investigation of one of the country’s most senior generals shaking the foundations of the world’s largest military force. The...
KF-21 Boramae

Saudi Arabia Weighs South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae Fighter in Major Airpower Recalibration Airpower Amid Regional Threat Shifts

Saudi Arabia’s growing engagement with South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae fighter programme is emerging as a clear signal of a deeper strategic recalibration in Riyadh’s long-term airpower planning, reflecting both shifting regional threat dynamics and the Kingdom’s determination to diversify and...
Shahed Drone, Iran

Iran’s 80,000-Shahed Drone Arsenal Claim Sparks Concern Over Global Shift From Precision Strikes to Endurance Drone Warfare

Claims that Iran now possesses up to 80,000 combat-ready Shahed loitering munitions, while producing as many as 400 drones per day with reported Russian assistance, have vaulted Tehran’s unmanned warfare programme into the centre of global strategic debate. If operationally...
MiG-21

MiG-21 to Su-57: How Su-30MKI Experience and Deep India-Russia Defence Ties Could Shape India’s Fifth-Generation Fighter Future

Russia is once again pressing India to take a decisive step in defence cooperation by co-producing the fifth-generation Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter. The renewed push comes at a time of shifting global power balances, rapid advances in Chinese and Pakistani...
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