Ukraine says it shot down more than 200 warplanes, 410 drones and 160 helicopters operated by the Russian forces since the start of their invasion of the country on February 24. In an official Twitter post, Kyiv said, “200 Russian military planes have permanently landed thanks to the skills of the Ukrainian military
Russia will display full-scale samples of weapons meant for export at the Army 2022 Forum to be held in August, even as the war with Ukraine continues. "In 2022, full-scale samples of Russian weapons and military equipment exported by Rosoboronexport will be presented to journalists and specialized foreign experts in the widest possible way as part of the Army-2022 International Military-Technical Forum (August 15-21, Kubinka),” state-owned Rosoboronexport said in a statement
Moscow will host a massive military parade on May 9 to commorate the 77 th annivarsary of its victory in the Great Patriot War (WWII) even as it continues its nearly two-month long war against Ukraine. The aviation part of the parade will include 15 helicopters and 62 aircraft, including the Il-80 nuclear command plane, known as the "doomsday aircraft", which will fly in formation accompanied by MiG-29 fighters, the Russian MoD said in a statement quoted in local media
Serbia has procured Chinese FK-3 air defense missile system (ADS), its President Aleksandar Vučić confirmed on Wednesday, local media reported. As the export version of the PLA's HQ-22, the FK-3 is seen as a competitor to the U
Russia said it destroyed an S-300 air defense system which was recently supplied to Ukraine by Slovakia using one of its Kalibr cruise missiles. "On Sunday, April 10, on the southern outskirts of Dnepropetrovsk (close to Dnipro city), high-precision sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed an S-300 air defense system hidden in a hangar, which was delivered to the Kyiv regime by one of the European countries," Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said at a daily press briefing in Moscow
A Russian precision missile strike destoryed Ukrainian S-300 air defense systems (ADS) in the Mykolaiv and Kharkiv on April 9."High-precision air-launched missiles in the area of the village of Starobogdanovka in the Mykolaiv region and at the Chuhuiv military airfield destroyed the launchers of Ukrainian S-300 anti-aircraft missile systems identified by reconnaissance," Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing on Sunday
Slovakia will provide an S-300 air defense missile battery to Ukraine to help bolster its air defenses against Russian warplanes; in turn the United States will ‘reposition, one PATRIOT missile system in Slovakia. U
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A number of NATO member countries signed a joint statement Monday stressing the urgent need to modernize Ukraines air defense systems. "Today, our friends, parliamentarians of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Poland, France, Georgia, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden, Great Britain, the United States signed a joint statement on the need to modernize the air defense of Ukraine,”