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Iranian Air Force F-5E/F fighter pilots involved in a penetration strike operation against Camp Buehring in Kuwait on March 1 have shared details regarding how they carried out the operation and evaded multiple layers of local and U.S. air defences. Although Iranian state media widely publicised footage of F-4 and F-5 fighters taking off to participate in the war effort, after the U.S. initiated an assault on the country on February 28, little has been know regarding their roles before these penetration strikes were confirmed in late April.
Saab launched the Giraffe AMB D radar at Eurosatory, where it was revealed that the FMV already placed an order for units in previous weeks.
LRMV displayed its new Main Battle Tank, now under consideration to replace Italy’s Ariete MBT fleet, at the Eurosatory 2026 exhibition.
In early March, French President Emmanuel Macron stood at a windswept submarine base on the Breton coast and quietly buried four decades of French nuclear orthodoxy. The arsenal would grow. The numbers would be hidden. And for the first time, nuclear weapons that France built to defend Paris might one day be deployed to protect Berlin.
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has provided new information on the factors that led the Russian Armed Forces to suffer major setbacks in the early stages of its military campaign in the Ukrainian theatre in February-March 2022. He assessed the conflict could have ended quickly in the early stages, when Russian forces were near the Ukrainian capital, observing: “At the time, not only I, but everyone in the world understood that the war would end quickly with a Russian victory. This was primarily because the Russians were in Kiev.
The Russian Navy frigate Admiral Grigorovich fired warning shots near a British yacht in the English Channel, with the Russian Defence Ministry having reported that this was done after the yacht took“a dangerous course that would bring it into close proximity with the warship,” and after other options had been exhausted. The Admiral Grigorovich was sailing in international waters between the Isle of Wight and Normandy at the time of the incident near midday on June 16.
New enhancements made to the U.S. High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) design have quadrupled its missile firepower, while providing a 67 percent increase in engagement range, which is a potential game changer for the strike capabilities of the very widely deployed assets. The most important improvement is the integration of the new PrSM ballistic missile, which are significantly smaller than the ATACMS ballistic missiles that were previously relied on.