Unconfirmed reports in the Iranian press suggest that the country could receive the first batch of Su-35 Flanker-E fighters it ordered from Russia in the coming weeks.
In an article that authorities have since removed, the Islamic Republic of Iran News Agency (IRNA) reported that the plans, also known as “Super Flankers,” would soon arrive in Iran.
Author: Michael
The German Defense Ministry has announced a new military aid package for Ukraine, including an additional 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 30 Leopard 1 tanks and four IRIS-T-SLM air defense systems.
Germany has promised Ukraine new arms deliveries worth 2.7 billion euros ahead of a possible visit to Germany by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the German Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.
According to the ministry, the package includes another 20 Marder infantry fighting vehicles, 30 Leopard-1 tanks and four IRIS-T-SLM air defense systems.
A video posted on Facebook yesterday, May 12, 2023, reveals that Oleksii Rezikov, the Ukrainian Defense Minister, has personally tested the domestically produced T-84 Oplot main battle tank (MBT).
At the same time, Rezikov confirmed that the Ukrainian Defense Ministry has decided to order T-84 Oplot tanks from Ukroboronprom, a state defense conglomerate, for the nation’s military.
After testing the Ukrainian-made T-84 Oplot main battle tank, Defense Minister Oleksii Rezikov said: “It is always nice to test front-line teams. But when it comes to Ukrainian stuff, it’s much nicer.
The AT-802U Sky Warden. (L3Harris/Air Tractor).
After years in the making, U.S. Special Operations Command’s dream of a fleet of brand new multi-role “armed overwatch” aircraft is about to become a reality.
Defense contractors L3Harris and Air Tractor, which won a $3 billion contract to produce the aircraft last August, have officially entered low-rate initial production of their single-engine turboprop AT-802U Sky Warden light attack aircraft for SOCOM, Flight Global reports.
A picture taken on February 20, 2018 shows a Russian air force Sukhoi Su-34 fighter jet flying over the sky in the rebel-held town of Arbin, in the Eastern Syria (Amer Almohibany/AFP via Getty Images).
In one of the worst days for Russia’s air force since the start of the war in Ukraine, four aircraft were shot down today inside Russia’s borders, including two planes and a pair of helicopters.
All four aircraft went down on Saturday in the Bryansk region of western Russia, near the Ukrainian border.
Several high-profile humiliations, such as the sinking of the Black Sea flagship Moskva in the conflict’s early days, have dealt a severe blow to the Russian navy. With its surface fleet in decline, the Russian military no longer poses a direct danger to NATO.
Most of Russia’s investment in the maritime sector has been channeled into its fleet of high-tech submarines. Russian submarines are widely regarded as a formidable force, and the neglect of war under the waves by the United States and its NATO allies has left the Alliance scrambling to make up ground.
The Alliance Future Monitoring and Control (AFSC) Project has reached a new milestone in its Concept Phase following the Risk Reduction and Feasibility Studies (RRFS) completion.
In March 2022, the Agency awarded three contracts for these RRFS, one per study, to the ABILITI team led by Boeing, the ASPAARO team led by Airbus and Northrop Grumman, and a third team led by General Atomics.
The studies aimed to develop and test the feasibility of three promising concepts identified during the AFSC Project’s initial high-level concept (HLTC) studies.
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Details remain very scarce at this time, but video that has emerged on social media claiming to show a massive fireball rising from a site near Khmelnitsky, Ukraine. The explosion has a similar profile to what we have seen when mass ammunition or explosive storage areas detonate in a chain reaction, although that is a preliminary assessment at this time.
Another video of the detonation of an ammunition depot in Khmelnitsky. pic.twitter.com/5WfGXLdJFp
— Clash Report (@clashreport) May 13, 2023
More shots from the best angle with explosions in Khmelnitsky.
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Guest post by Dale Lawson
“When in the course of human events” (hopefully sounds familiar) is the opening of our Declaration of Independence. It goes on to list the reasons for our complaint. In the latter part of the document Jefferson goes on to say we asked for redress and were ignored. Then in the closing paragraph comes the dissolution of any relationship with the Crown.
All of us of my generation and the next learned this early on in what used to be a decent public education system.
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The Russian Air Force appears to have had one of its worst days of the war in more than a year on Saturday. While details remain limited and are likely to change, it appears Russia lost two Mi-8 “Hip” helicopters, a Su-34 “Fullback” strike bomber, and a Su-35 “Flanker-E,” with no survivors. What makes all this especially troubling for the Russian Air Force, is that all these losses happened in its own country, in areas not too far from the border with Ukraine.