Ukraine getting Swedish Gripen fighter jets equipped with Meteor 350 km-range air-to-air missiles would give the country a counter to Russian Su-34 and Su-35 aircraft that have been hammering frontline positions, analysts said. Russia occasionally […]
Ukraine’s Armed Forces have struck advanced Russian military aircraft at a base deep inside Russian territory, according to a statement from the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on May 1. The operation, […]
Satellite images published on April 14 by Exilenova+ show multiple collapsed roof spans at Shop No. 46 of Russia’s KnAAZ plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, confirming major structural damage from the April 11 fire that halted Su-57 […]
A fire broke out at Shop No. 46 inside KnAAZ in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Russia’s sole serial producer of the Su-57 Felon fighter, per OSINT community Cyberboroshno. Shop No. 46 manufactures approximately 300 polymer composite component types […]
A few new close-up photos on X (formerly Twitter) show screws and rivets on the production variant J-20’s airframe, raising questions about China’s longstanding propaganda claim regarding the aircraft’s stealth characteristics. This is the first […]
India is once again at the center of a complex geopolitical and defense debate as the United States signals possible sanctions over the acquisition of Russian-made Su-57 fourth-generation fighter jets. The warning comes at a […]
The United States warned that Algeria could face sanctions under the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) over its reported purchase of Russia’s export-variant Su-57E fourth-generation fighter jets, known to NATO as the “Felon,” […]
The international intelligence community InformNapalm, in cooperation with the Fenix Cyber Center, conducted a multi-level operation against the Russian company OKBM, which specializes in the production of components for strategic aviation and spacecraft. As a […]
The Su-57’s production challenges include slow production rates, limited industrial capacity, and difficulties in acquiring high-tech components such as advanced avionics and microelectronics due to international sanctions. The Soviet mentality, exemplified by the “quality over […]
Algeria and Iran remain loyal and are ordering Russian fighter jets as they confront Morocco and Israel in regional arms races. At the same time, India, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and Malaysia diversified their arms procurement needs […]
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