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This webinar took place January 15, 2021 and sponsored by Makino.

It’s difficult to train pilots. Here's 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 air force. Then Islamic State militants seized the planes from the rebels. Finally, forces loyal to...

This webinar took place January 15, 2021 and sponsored by Makino.

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. Here's What You Need To Remember: The DF-26 could be vulnerable to the latest American defenses. The U.S. Navy's SM-6 interceptor missile theoretically is capable of hitting a DF-26 in two phases of its flight -- shortly after launch, as the Chinese missile is climbing and gaining speed, and then again in the...

Which is not to say the PLA knows how to use all these new vehicles. Here's What You Need To Remember: These massive numbers doesn't 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 viewed as the world’s leading armored forces. But China, not the United States or Russia, possesses...