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Taiwan's air force scrambled again on Sunday to warn away 27 Chinese aircraft that entered its air defence zone...
"Taiwan calls China's repeated nearby military activities "grey zone" warfare, designed to both wear out Taiwan's forces by making them repeatedly scramble, and also to test Taiwan's responses."
"A highly intriguing U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor stealth fighter was caught in the camera lens of talented aviation photographer Santos Caceres as it blasted out of Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada on the morning of November 19th, 2021. The aircraft is seen largely covered in a tile-like reflective metallic coating that is unlike anything we have seen on a Raptor ever before."
An exotic test jet has been spotted wearing a similar coating in the past, but an F-22 wearing it is a major development.
Israel's badass F-15I...
"Known as Ra’am (Hebrew for Thunder), the F-15I is similar to the F-15E but has some electronic components adjusted to meet IAF requirements, including a different avionics system. Many of those components were built in Israel."
While anti-stealth radar is primitive, it will improve. This will force aircraft design to adapt to the threat. I predict less stealth and more speed in the future.
Great Britain 🇬🇧 continues development of their 6th generation fighter - Tempest. The stealth aircraft prototype is scheduled in mid-2020s and deployed by 2035.
Like any good socialist country that can't innovate... If China acquires Russian Ka-52K attack helicopters, they'll most likely reverse engineer the technology and eventually build their own...
A flurry of recent reports suggests China is considering the purchase of thirty-six advanced Kamov Ka-52K naval attack helicopters from Russ
The Achilles heel of Chinese aviation has been their engine technology... That may be changing...
At the Zhuhai airshow in China this week, China showed off its J-20 jet, known as the “Mighty Dragon.” According to a report by Eurasian Tim
While China is rapidly increasing their military capabilities, this is more saber-rattling for now until they can acquire more amphibious landing units to invade Taiwan. However, I do believe we're entering a pre-war period like 1935 with Japan prior to WW2.
China reacted furiously on Thursday to the possibility that President Joe Biden might invite his Taiwanese counterpart, Tsai Ing-wen, to a v
“Heavily armed” hijackers seized the Panama-flagged Asphalt Princess tanker while it was transiting the Gulf of Oman on Aug. 3 and demanded
"If Iran’s involvement is confirmed, this latest incident would mark a significant escalation in Tehran’s other recent acts of maritime aggression, with Iranians actually boarding the ship. Unlike the tanker attacked by a suspected Iranian drone off the coast of Oman last week, the Asphalt Princess also has less of a direct connection to Israel. In addition, the hijacking occurred on the same day of Ebrahim Raisi’s Aug. 3 confirmation as Iran’s next president. This may indicate an attempt by Tehran to set the tone for a more hard-line administration, which will make negotiations with the West on the nuclear deal more difficult."
Chinese Navy may be building a forth aircraft carrier...
To what end is Beijing building this force?
I'm concerned with U.S. fighter aircraft design philosophy of shoot missiles from a distance and avoid traditional dogfight. This philosophy failed in the 1960s when North Vietnamese pilots forced U.S. pilots into dogfights.
Now today, stealth technology helps U.S. pilots engage from a distance without being detected; however, this advantage will eventually be lost as more advanced air defense systems are added.
Russian design philosophy integrates stealth, but focuses still more on the dogfight. If the F-35 or F-22 are engaged in a dogfight, they'll be challenged by these Russian aircraft designs.
While Biden administration is no friend to Israel, they have not stopped weapon sales into the country.
Cold War style training on U.S. highway...
"The highway exercise is certainly in keeping with the Air Force’s emerging operational concepts, especially Agile Combat Employment (ACE), which aims to ensure that airpower can be sustained even without access to regular airbases, which are likely to be high-priority targets for the enemy in any peer conflict, whether in Europe or the Pacific."
The U.S. government was short-sighted when they canceled the F-22 program. Because of this decision (seen below), we're stuck with an inferior fighter like the F-35...
"At the time of its cancelation, the United States was still embroiled in two protracted conflicts against low-technology opponents, for which an expensive stealth air superiority fighter was particularly ill-suited. As a result, then-Secretary of Defense Robert Gates – who was concerned that the U.S. military was too focused on preparing and equipping the armed forces for a potential future fight against a great power opponent at the expense of the wars the United States was actually waging, an attitude that he saw as reflected in the Air Force’s push for more Raptors – lead the charge for the F-22 program’s cancelation."
Russia's Tu-160 bomber gets a facelift...
"In February of this year, the first heavily upgraded Tu-160M prototype derived from an operational Tu-160 bomber was flown for the first time. The upgraded bomber featured advanced flight and navigation equipment, communications, a new radar and electronic countermeasures system. The Tu-160M is capable of carrying up to a dozen strategic cruise missiles on two multi-position rotating launchers inside the fuselage."
Philippines becomes more aggressive against China...
Move by China has seen one country reach its limit and completely change its strategy.
I'm sure Russia's new Su-75 Checkmate will be an impressive aircraft, but can they get enough foreign investment to manufacture in large numbers to be effective? This has been the problem with their very capable Su-57.
A new player in the ever-expanding field of fifth-generation stealth aircraft has emerged. After having previously teased its reveal, and fo