J-10C lightweight single engine fighters deployed by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force have taken centre stage in the latest Falcon Strike joint air exercise in Thailand, with the fighter type’s advanced capabilities having gained growing attention internationally after its first combat test in May 2025. The Chinese contingent includes J-10C fighters, J-10S fighter trainers, Y-20 strategic transport aircraft, early-warning aircraft, aerial refuelling tankers and ground-based air defence systems.
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China has significantly increased the missile capacity of its latest Type 054B guided-missile frigates, with satellite imagery indicating that a vessel under construction has received a 50 percent greater number of vertical launch cells for cruise and surface-to-air missiles. The development was identified in satellite imagery captured by U.S. intelligence company Vantor, showing a Type 054B under construction at the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai. The first two Type 054Bs, Luohe and Qinzhou, are understood to feature four eight-cell launch modules, providing 32 vertical launch cells.
New footage of China’s first sixth generation fighter has provided a new demonstration of the type’s high manoeuvrability, highlighting its ability to conduct previously unseen new manoeuvres. As the first sixth generation fighter type developed worldwide, which is expected to enter active service around 2030, around a decade before rival programs abroad, the new aircraft developed by the Chengdu Aircraft Corporation is currently at the forefront of pioneering new combat aviation capabilities.
China and Belarus have conducted joint airborne counter-terrorism training with the launch of the fourth iteration of the Swift Eagle exercise. The exercise is focused on joint counter-terrorism operations in urban terrain, with participating forces training in surveillance and counter-surveillance, seizure and control of objectives, protection operations, and the elimination and defence of positions. The programme will also include seminars and cultural exchanges.
According to one recent report, a Russian pilot is said to have shot down two Ukrainian fighters during what is, if true, one of the war in Ukraine’s increasingly rare fighter-on-fighter aerial engagements.
“One of the most striking examples was the feat of a young pilot who, flying a Su-35S, was conducting a combat patrol to provide cover for an advancing group of troops.
Su-27 Flanker from U.S. Air Force Museum. Image Credit: National Security Journal.
Su-27 Flanker Fighter from Russia. Image Credit: National Security Journal.
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But while the world watched the skies over Ukraine, another transformation in warfare was taking place beneath the ground.
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President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to consider foreign-built warships and auxiliary vessels for the U.S.
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