The S-400 Triumf, also known as the SA-21 Growler in NATO reporting, is Russia’s latest long- and medium-range surface-to-air missile system. It entered service in 2007.
FEBRUARY 6 — NEW DELHI, /TASS/. Russian Ambassador to India Denis Alipov stated on Monday that the final shipment of S-400 air defence systems to India is nearing completion.
I can confidently state that the third batch of S-400 supply orders will be fulfilled very soon.
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It is clear that Russia is not giving up the Su-57 Checkmate fifth-generation light tactical fighter project. Despite the difficulties in its development and financing, Moscow intends to go ahead with a plan it announced early last year.
However, as far as is known, the Su-75 project is currently almost on hold, as many Russian resources go to finance the war in Ukraine.
In this context, the Russian news agency TASS has reported that Moscow will present the Checkmate at the upcoming Aero India 2023 military exhibition.
The US Navy has released the first images of their efforts to recover the Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down on Saturday. The balloon was shot down about six miles off the coast of South Carolina, within American territorial waters, by an F-22 Raptor hailing from the 1st Fighter Wing at Langley Air Force Base, […]
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11th Airborne Division troops watch an atomic explosion at close range on November 1, 1951. (Getty Images photo).
In the winter of 1981, CBS correspondents Dan Rather and Harry Reasoner traveled to West Germany to observe a little bit of U.S. Army training for a television segment titled The Defense of the United States: The Nuclear Battlefield. There, they followed a unit in the field training for the possibility of a fight that would be waged on a nuclear battlefield.
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Iran has unveiled the latest in its line of underground bases, with a cavernous facility now apparently being used to protect fighter jets. From the imagery released so far, the aircraft currently in these caverns are veteran F-4D/E Phantom IIs that continue to make up a significant portion of its air power. With around 60 examples still in service, the F-4 is the most numerous IRIAF combat jet, by some margin.
The man admitted his guilt and is being held without bail while an investigation into him is underway.
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The Navy seeks a “unique” sensor to help the sea service defend against hypersonic weapons, and it wants the small business community to help prototype the technology.
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor approaches a Chinese spy balloon in the skies above South Carolina on Saturday, Feb. 4, 2023. (Chad Fish/Associated Press).
Editor’s note: this article by Alex Hollings first appeared on Sandboxx.
On Saturday, an American F-22 Raptor shot down a Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina using an AIM-9X Sidewinder missile. In the days leading up to the intercept, the balloon had traversed the U.S. mainland and portions of Canada, leaving a flood of conspiracy theories in its wake.
He had a weird fascination with the Goonies film, to even uttering the famous phrase from Goonies, “Hey you Gu-uys!” upon his arrest.
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Piotr Butowski
From 1956 onward, the reconnaissance balloons that drifted at high altitudes from the Western nations into the territories of the Warsaw Pact states had become a serious nuisance for the Soviet military authorities. Balloons of this kind might be carrying propaganda leaflets, but they could also be carrying reconnaissance equipment or even a bomb. A full 67 years before a U.S.