Iran might soon receive advanced Su-35 Flanker-E multirole fighter jets from Russia and possibly other military equipment, including S-400 air defense missile systems. How substantially these acquisit...
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The Russian Helicopters And Missile Systems Iran Might Soon Acquire
Iran expects to receive the first of the 24 Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets it ordered from Russia as soon as Mar. 21, the Persian New Year. Tehran also claims it has ordered helicopters and missile syst...
Who Will Fly Iran’s New Russian Su-35s?
A Russian Sukhoi Su-35 fighter bomber lands at the Russian Hmeimim military base in Latakia … [+] province, in the northwest of Syria on May 4, 2016. Syria’s conflict erupted in 2011 after...
Russian Su-35s Won’t Give Iran Air Superiority Over The Persian Gulf
The United States has announced that Russia will deliver Iran Su-35 Flanker-E fighter jets within the next year. While this would undoubtedly mark Iran’s most significant fighter acquisition in ...
Fly Low, Get Aggressive—How Ukrainian Pilots Fought The Russian Air Force To A Standstill
Russian Su-35 aircraft intercept a P-8A Poseidon patrol aircraft assigned to U.S. 6th Fleet over the Mediterranean Sea on May 26, 2020. U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa For all its profound faults, the...
Speculation Iran Will Swap Drones For Russian Su-35 Fighters
The latest speculation about the future of Russia-Iran defense relations is that Tehran might procure Russian Su-35 Flanker fighter jets in return for supplying Moscow with various types of its indige...
Russia Shoots Down Another Of Its Own Jets —Are American Rockets Confusing Them?
A day after ignominiously shooting down one of their own top-end Su-34M jets, Russian surface-to-air crews seem to have repeated the mistake, this time apparently knocking a Russian Su-35 out of the s...
Ukraine Has Launched Its Southern Counteroffensive
Ukrainian army M-777 gunners in action near Kherson. Social media capture A Ukrainian air force MiG-29 fighter shot down one of the Russian air force’s best jets—an Su-35—near Russian-occupied Kherson...
Now That An F-15 Sale Is On The Cards, Will Egypt Give Ukraine Its MiG-29s?
Much has already been written about which countries can give what systems, especially leftover Soviet-era platforms, to Ukraine to help it fend off Russia’s ferocious invasion. In March, Poland ...
What Joint Russian-Syrian Air Patrols Might Mean For Foreign Air Forces Over Syria
In late January, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that Russian and Syrian warplanes had conducted joint patrols along the Golan Heights and the Euphrates River. “The mission route include...
Will Turkey Seek Chinese Or Korean Fighters If F-16 Request Is Denied?
The Turkish Air Force is paying a heavy price for Ankara’s purchase of Russian S-400 air defense missile systems. It has missed out on the chance to acquire fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II stealth ...