Altay Main Battle Tanks

Turkey Advances Armoured Autonomy with 2026 Delivery of 11 Altay Main Battle Tanks as Indigenous Production Scales Up

Turkey is set to deliver 11 ALTAY Main Battle Tanks (MBTs) to its Land Forces in 2026, a milestone that marks a decisive turning phase in Ankara’s decades-long effort to reduce strategic vulnerabilities arising from reliance on foreign defence suppliers....
F-16V Block 70

Peru Abandoned Gripen for F-16 Block 70 as Political Collapse, Impeachment Fallout, and US Strategic Pressure Reshaped Its Fighter Choice

Peru’s decision to abandon the Saab Gripen E in favour of the Lockheed Martin F-16 Block 70 represents one of the most consequential fighter procurement reversals in modern Latin American defence history. What began as a technically grounded, cost-conscious modernisation...
Su-57

India Can Breathe Easy: S-400, Su-57 Acquisition Plans Secured; Russia Counters China with Full-Cycle Domestic Microwave Chip Production

The governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast, Denis Pasler, has announced a significant milestone in Russia’s defense technology capabilities: the design and construction of the country’s first factory capable of serial production of microwave microchips across the full technological cycle. According to...
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...
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...
GCAP, Italy

British-Led 6th-Gen GCAP Under Fire: Italy Slams UK for Withholding Critical Technology as Jet Program’s Price Tag Soars to $21.8 Billion

Europe’s ambition to field a sovereign sixth-generation combat aircraft is entering one of its most uncertain phases yet, as political mistrust, industrial rivalries, and ballooning costs threaten to derail two flagship programs: the Global Combat Air Program (GCAP) and the...
SSN-AUKUS

Australia’s $368 Billion AUKUS Bet in Doubt: With Nuclear Submarines Nowhere in Sight, Can B-2 Bombers Step In to Counter China?

More than four years after the AUKUS security pact was unveiled with fanfare, serious doubts are deepening in Australia over whether its most ambitious promise — nuclear-powered submarines — can ever be delivered as planned. While the United States and...
F-47

Boeing F-47 Gamble: How Trump’s NGAD Fighter Award Gave Crisis-Hit Aerospace Giant a Lifeline-And Sparked Deep Fears Over America’s Sixth-Generation Air Superiority

In March 2025, just weeks into his second presidency, US President Donald Trump handed Boeing the most consequential military aviation contract of the decade: the engineering and manufacturing development deal for the crewed sixth-generation fighter under the US Air Force’s...
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