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British Army to Phase out AS-90s Artillery: What’s Next? The British Army will soon begin the phasing out of its AS-90 Vickers artillery, which is nearing the 30-year mark. The British Army will soon begin the phasing out of its AS-90 Vickers artillery, which is nearing the 30-year mark. With shifting types of warfare and important evolutions in technology, the replacement will require much scrutiny from the general staff. But if replacing Britain’s howitzers will necessarily be a complex a...

The F-35 lacks both active jammers and a compatible radar-homing missile. Heres What You Need to Remember:  Two U.S. Air Force F-35 stealth fighter had a close encounter with a mobile air-defense system during combat operations over the Middle East. The encounter underscores the stealth fighter’s potential as a platform for suppressing enemy air-defenses, a service official said. A dozen F-35s from the 388th and 419th Fighter Wings in April 2019 traveled from their home station at Hill A...

With its simple shape and apparent fiberglass fuselage, the new UAV probably is unsophisticated. Heres What You Need To Remember: Iran around a decade ago began arming some of its drone types with missiles and bombs. Iran Aviation Industries Organization in 2014 revealed a Mohajer variant that Iranian media claimed could shoot down other aircraft. Iran has revealed a new attack drone. The Kian jet-powered unmanned aerial vehicle appears to be around 10 feet in length. With its simple shape and...

America does it too.

Russia and its proxies are to blame.

America's submarines are stealthy, but China is finding new ways to locate them. How might the game of cat-and-mouse evolve?

It’s difficult to train pilots. Heres What You Need To Remember: It’s possible, Cooper wrote, that the SyAAF overhauled the surviving planes and returned them to regular service. The Syrian air arm has made a concerted effort to upgrade dozens of surviving L-39s, subsequently deploying them for nighttime air raids Between 2013 and 2017 a small number of L-39 light attack jets at a Syrian air force base east of Aleppo changed hands several times. Syrian rebels captured them from the Syrian ...

A South China Sea Missile War Would Change Asia Forever China in recent years has occupied several disputed islands in the China Seas, dredged their endangered coral reefs and built atop them sprawling airfields and barracks and installations for cruise missiles and air-defense systems. Heres What You Need To Remember: The DF-26 could be vulnerable to the latest American defenses. The U.S. Navys SM-6 interceptor missile theoretically is capable of hitting a DF-26 in two phases of its flight --...

By-now familiar weapons on display included Wing Loong-II combat drones used extensively in combat in Libya, the Type 15 light tank intended for operations on the Tibetan Plateau, and DF-26 missiles with enough range to strike Guam and guidance systems designed to enable targeting of moving aircraft carriers. But the parade also showcased several advanced new weapons, including several types which so far have no equivalent in service elsewhere on the planet.  Let’s look at six systems in par...

Which is not to say the PLA knows how to use all these new vehicles. Heres What You Need To Remember: These massive numbers doesnt necessarily translate to military strength, though. Many of the older tanks are obsolete against modern American or Russian ones - and there is some evidence that China could not use the newer ones properly if it came to a war. In 2019 both the U.S. and Russian armies introduced new versions of their primary main battle tank, helping to enhance what is widely vie...