The launching of the corvette “Sumaysimah”, the fourth of the Al Zubarah-class (or Doha-class) of four vessels ordered to Fincantieri by Qatar took place at the Muggiano (La Spezia) shipyard on Tuesday. The ceremony was attended by H
The Russian Ministry of Defense has claimed that it downed five Ukrainian planes including four Su-24s and a Su-27 over the Chernihiv and Donetsk regions in a single day. "Aircraft and air defense systems of the Russian Aerospace Forces shot down four Su-24 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force over the Chernihiv region in a day in the air, two of them in the Repka area, and two more in the Gorodnya area," the official said on Monday
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Greece inked a deal for the procurement of six additional Rafale combat jets and three Belharra frigates with France. Eric Trappier, Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, and Vice-Admiral Aristidis Alexopoulos, Director General of Armaments and Investments of the Greek Ministry of Defence, signed in Athens, in the presence of Florence Parly, French Minister of the Armed Forces, and Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Greek Minister of National Defence, a contract for the acquisition of six additional new Rafale aircraft, Dassault Aviation confirmed in a
Pakistan Navys Agosta 90B Class Submarine PNS/M HAMZA (S-139), modernized by Turkish firm STM managed to hit and sink a decommissioned frigate with a single torpedo shot. The trial was conducted during the SEASPARK-2022 Tactical Exercise, which was held biennially by the Pakistan Naval Forces Command
South Koreas Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) launched a new 2,800-ton frigate with enhanced anti-submarine capabilities. Launching ceremony for the Chuncheon took place at the shipyard of Hyundai Heavy Industries Co
At least one of Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navys upgraded version of the J-11B fighter – likely fitted with a brand-new AESA radar – participated in a recent mock combat exercise featuring more than 10 jets over the South China Sea. Organized by a brigade affiliated with the PLA Southern Theater Command Navy Aviation Force, the round-the-clock flight training featured free aerial battle and offensive and defensive tactical maneuvers, the PLA Southern Theater Command said in its Weibo account on Monday
Russia and Ukraine reportedly exchanged the first prisoners of war (POW) during their ongoing conflict. Human Rights Commissioner in Russia Tatyana Moskalkova told during an interview with RT that nine Russian servicemen were exchanged for Ivan Fedorov, Mayor of Ukrainian town, Melitopol
Russia's first ever use in battle of its hypersonic missile called ‘Kinzal' (Dagger in Russian) on March 19 was intended to incapacitate a Soviet era bunker located several meters underground which was being used as a weapons and fuel storage facility by the Ukrainian Army. Located in the village of Delyatyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region, Western Ukraine, it was one of four Central Nuclear Weapons Storage Bases built in the middle of the last century, Russian publication,
The Russian Ministry of Defense claimed to have attacked a training center for foreign mercenaries in Ukraines Rivno region with its high-precision air-launched cruise missiles, killing 80 people. In a regular press briefing Monday, Igor Konashenkov said the attack on the Novaya Lubomirka training ground took place in the intervening night of March 20-21