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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
China Type 076 Amphibious Assault Ship ‘Sichuan’ Starts Sea

China’s Type 076 LHD Seen Carrying GJ-21 UCAV Mock-Up, Reinforcing Its Emergence Drone-Centric Amphibious Assault and Light Carrier Platform

China’s newest and most ambitious amphibious assault ship, the Type 076 Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) Sichuan, has again drawn intense scrutiny after recent imagery appeared to show a fully shrouded unmanned aircraft positioned on its expansive flight deck. Defence analysts...
NATO Is Readying Soldiers for a Frozen Arctic War as Russia and China Eye Region, Training Troops to Fight on Skis and Snowmobiles

NATO Is Readying Soldiers for a Frozen Arctic War as Russia and China eye region, Training Troops to Fight on Skis and Snowmobiles

 Soldiers moved cautiously through a snow-covered forest in Finland’s far north, their white camouflage melting into the trees as their skis slid almost silently across the frozen ground. Spotting an unaware enemy patrol ahead, they dropped to a knee, lined...
Chinese Fishing Boats East China Sea

Chinese Fishing Boats Have Been Making Some Unusual Moves Lately in East China Sea, Fueling Fears of Gray-Zone Maritime Tactics

Thousands of Chinese fishing vessels assembling in precise, linear formations across vast stretches of the East China Sea in recent weeks have alarmed regional observers and maritime security experts, who say the movements appear far removed from ordinary commercial fishing...
J-20 Stealth Fighter

China Flies Upgraded J-20A ‘Fat-Neck’ Stealth Fighter With WS-15 Engines, Closing Gap With F-35-Class Performance

China has reportedly crossed another critical threshold in military aviation, flying an upgraded version of its J-20 stealth fighter equipped with the long-awaited high-thrust WS-15 engines and improved avionics. The development places Beijing in an elite club of nations capable...
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