LONDON— Successful tests of the advanced short-range air-to-air missile [ASRAAM], also known by its United States designation AIM-132, have been carried out and the missile has thus reached its initial operational capability. This means that this year the British Eurofighter Typhoon fighters will be armed with this missile, and within two years the American F-35 […]
Strikes came the same day Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country’s biggest patriotic holiday without being able to boast of major new battlefield successes
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that troops and volunteers fighting in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region were fighting for their Motherland. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that troops and volunteers fighting in the eastern Ukrainian Donbass region were fighting for their Motherland. “You are fighting for your Motherland, its future,” he […]
Sixty civilians died in Russia’s bombing of a school in Ukraine’s Lugansk region this weekend, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday. “Just yesterday in the village of Bilohorivka, Lugansk region, a Russian bomb killed 60 people. Civilians. They were sheltering from shelling in a regular school which was hit by a Russian air strike,” Zelenskyy […]
Russia’s defense ministry said on Sunday it destroyed weapons and military equipment supplied by the US and other Western countries at a railway station near the Ukrainian town of Soledar, state news agency TASS reported. Russian air force used “high-precision air-launched missiles” in the strike, Russian defense ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov said. He […]
WASHINGTON: The US says it shared intelligence with Ukraine about the location of the Russian missile cruiser Moskva prior to the strike that sank the warship, an incident that was a high-profile failure for Russia’s military. An American official said Thursday that Ukraine alone decided to target and sink the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea […]
Russia’s defense ministry on Wednesday announced a daytime cease-fire for three days at the steelworks to evacuate civilians from the plant
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, said the UAE Armed Forces will continue their significant contributions to the nation’s track record of achievements over the coming 50 years and beyond, just as they did over the past five decades. Noting that economic development can hardly […]
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea launched a ballistic missile toward its eastern waters on Wednesday, South Korean and Japanese officials said, days after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed to speed up the development of his nuclear weapons “at the fastest possible pace” and threatened to use them against rivals. The launch, the […]
SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. — The first overseas deployment of the Vermont Air National Guard’s F-35 fighter jets will have the pilots and their aircraft patrolling the skies of Europe during one of the most tense periods in recent history. More than 200 Vermont air guard personnel, their equipment and eight F-35s are now in Europe, […]
