The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy deployed the aircraft carrier Liaoning to sail through the Taiwan Strait on April 20, marking the first transit of the waterway by a carrier warship since the beginning of the year. The deployment has been assessed to be a response to the Japan Maritime Self Defence Force’s deployment of the Murasame class destroyer JS Ikazuchi to itself transit the strait on April 17, which Beijing referred to as “a deliberate provocation.
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Think of a violin made by a master craftsman: beautiful, precise, capable of extraordinary performance, but impossible to produce quickly or cheaply. It takes time, rare expertise, and materials that cannot be sourced at scale. You would not equip an entire orchestra with instruments like that. Yet that is essentially what the United States has attempted with its tactical air fleet.The F-35 program’s total lifetime cost is projected to exceed two trillion dollars, the most expensive Major Defense Acquisition Program in history. The United States plans to purchase thousands of them.
The Franco-German-Spanish Future Combat Air System (FCAS) next generation fighter program is facing an imminent collapse, according to recent reports by Reuters. As China and United States, followed several years behind by Russia, are currently the only countries have their own fifth generation fighters into serial production, European states have been left increasingly heavily reliant on the U.S. F-35 as the only NATO-compatible option for a fully up to date fighter type.
In Sept. 2025, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia signed a mutual defense pact, formalizing what decades of quiet cooperation had already made real. The defense pact signed in Riyadh was presented in official communiqués as a natural deepening of bilateral ties. It was that, but it was also something larger: The latest installment in a pattern that has persisted for half a century and that continues to confound the logic of power politics.
The state intermediary agency for Russian defence exports Rosoboronexport has displayed the Su-57 fifth generation fighter at the Defense Services Asia (DSA) international armaments and military equipment exhibition in Malaysia, which is being held in Kuala Lumpur from April 20-23. It reported that the fighter is “an excellent option for the modernisation and development of the Royal Malaysian Air Force, taking into account the compatibility of a number of systems and weapons with the existing Su-30MKM fleet.
The Royal Norwegian Air Force scrambled F-35A fifth generation fighters to intercept a Russian Il-38 maritime patrol aircraft, with the fighters proceeding identify and tracking the target in a sortie that lasted approximately two hours. Norwegian Air Force spokesperson Major Stian Roen stated regarding the operation: “F-35s were sent out on a completely normal QRA mission. It is standard procedure that the aircraft take off as quickly as possible in such situations.
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Footage published on Chinese social media has shown multiple launchers carrying DF-27 intermediate range hypersonic ballistic missiles travelling through a city, in what multiple sources have assessed to be an urban warfare drill. The vehicles moved in convoy formation through streets, representing a rare development for the country’s strategic arsenal.
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The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy deployed the Type 054A frigate Honghe to drive away a foreign warship intruding on Chinese territory, resulting in a 20 hour long standoff, according to a new report from state media. Multiple reports indicate that the foreign vessel was a U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke class destroyer, although this remains unconfirmed. It was confirmed that the ship was larger in tonnage, and that the two vessels were approximately two hundred meters away from each other at the closest. Engagements between U.S.