Hours before Kabul fell to the Taliban on Aug. 15, the Afghan Air Force was melting down. Instead of unleashing air attacks against advancing insurgents, some airmen were fighting each other. At the Kabul airport, some Afghan Air Force personnel guarding the airfield tried to force their way onto a military helicopter preparing to lift […]
At the port of Douala in Cameroon, Ezder Yalchin vehicles are transported for the Chadian army. These armoured vehicles were produced by the private sector (Nurol Makina company), of course with the support of the Turkish state. Turkey is using its defence industry to spread its influence across the African continent. Ankara now produces and […]
The production of engines for the Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles that the country is supplying from Turkey has already started in Ukraine. In an interview with Focus on Christmas Eve, the head of the Ukrainian presidential office, Andriy Yermak, made some particularly interesting statements about the country‘s defence relations. Specifically, he said that cooperation […]
In 2021, Air Force laid a path for big changes coming down the line in 2022 and beyond.
According to the White House, at least $7 billion will also be allocated for operations in the Indo-Pacific. “On Monday, December 27, 2021, the President signed into law: S. 1605, the ‘National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022,’ which authorizes fiscal year 2022 appropriations principally for Department of Defense programs and military construction, Department […]
An Israeli channel reported that the United Arab Emirates opposes Israeli efforts to use the military option against Iran, despite the normalisation agreement between Tel Aviv and Abu Dhabi. Channel 12 added in a report, “The Arab country with which Israel developed a hot relationship after the Abraham Accords now says that military threats to it are not the way to deal […]
Saudi Arabia is reportedly developing ballistic missile technology with Chinese expertise and assistance. The revelation was made by the American CNN citing sources from the US intelligence services. A US satellite has detected ballistic missile production materials at at least one location. Saudi Arabia is the country that converted the dollar into the world‘s reserve currency when it agreed […]
A recent launch of the Russian Zircon hypersonic missile may make Russia’s diplomatic notes to the West “more convincing,” Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Sunday. “Well, let’s hope that notes become more convincing this way,” Peskov told Rossiya 1 when asked about the launch. The Kremlin spokesman also said that it was President […]
The HMS Westminster frigate of the UK Royal Navy is currently in the North Sea, ready to watch for Russian submarines, The Telegraph reports. The frigate, which was last upgraded in 2014 and is equipped with the Sea Ceptor surface-to-air missile system, is being held at “very high readiness” in the Shetland Islands, the newspaper […]
More than 10,000 Russian soldiers are returning to their permanent bases after a month of exercises near Ukraine, the Interfax news agency reported today, citing the Russian military. Interfax reported that the drills took place in several areas near Ukraine, including Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, as well as in the southern Russian regions of Rostov and Kuban. Russia‘s deployment of tens […]