Head of the Russian state tech corporation Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, has reported success in doubling the production of combat aircraft since the start of full scale hostilities in the Ukrainian theatre in 2022, following years of sustained efforts to increase output of fighters, bombers and attack helicopters. Chemezov made the claim directly to President Vladimir Putin at a meeting.
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RBS 58 anti-tank missile units are on their way to the Swedish military after first approaching France for the design five years ago.
The National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology based in Taoyuan has developed a “digital fire control, all-electric fire control, and high-resolution observation and aiming” system for the U.S.-supplied M60A3 main battle tank, which currently forms the backbone of the Republic of China Army’s tank fleet. The Institute is confirmed to be collaborating with foreign firms to market this new fire control system abroad, due to the Republic of China Defence Ministry having neglected to finance it for the domestic M60 fleet under its current spending plan.
The delivery of S-400 long range air defence systems to equip the seventh and eighth Indian Air Force battalions has been confirmed on May 7 to have begun, as the Indian Defence Ministry and local media mark a year since the country’s brief but high intensity border conflict with Pakistan. Confirming the dispatch of the systems from Russia, Deputy Chief of Air Staff Air Marshal Awadhesh Kumar Bharti observed: “we should be having [it] with us within a month.” He added that systems on order to equip two further battalions are due for delivery by the end of 2026.
The Egyptian Air Force has deployed Rafale fighter aircraft to Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi visiting the country and inspecting the fighters alongside UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan. The Egyptian Air Force has seldom in its history stationed fighter aircraft beyond its borders, with the confirmation of the aircraft’s presence being given just hours after new rounds of Iranian-UAE hostilities saw strikes launched successfully against targets across the Arab Gulf country.
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The drones hitting Gulf Arab states daily since the United States and Israel launched large-scale military operations against Iran in February are not merely Iranian. They are originally Iranian, yes. But these designs and production processes were improved and refined by Russia through years of battlefield testing against Ukrainian defenses. So, they were returned to Tehran from Moscow. Confronted with a threat that Ukraine has spent four years learning to counter, the United States found itself in unfamiliar territory.
On the eve of the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, 56 tankers sailed through the Strait of Hormuz. Two days later, Lloyd’s List, the maritime industry’s journal of record, counted just seven tankers and a single gas carrier — all small and three of them shadow-fleet vessels — with hundreds more drifting in the Gulf of Oman. One of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints had not been mined, blockaded, or seized by a navy. Rather, it had been priced shut by a handful of drone strikes and the insurance market.Within two days of the first U.S.-Israeli strikes on Feb.
The B-21 Raider next generation intercontinental range strategic bomber currently under development for the U.S. Air Force has completed a major developmental flight testing program in just 73 days, which represents under half of the planned 180 day testing period. The speed at which this process could be completed has been interpreted by analysts as a signal of both the urgency with which the aircraft is considered to be needed in active service, as well as high levels of software maturity and systems integration which were achieved before testing began.