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Research Unravels Another Weak Point in Russian Air Force

January 16, 2023

Researchers suggest that the length of the conflict in Ukraine has exposed the weak state of the Russian air force. The Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank, has View More ›

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There Is No Easy Way To Counter Iranian Drones Striking Ukraine

December 11, 2022

Last week in a piece for Newsweek I told them that the drone Iran is sending to Russia are not very effective weapons in spite of the fact that they View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Aviation, News + Intel, Russia, Technology, Ukraine, World
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No Air Superiority, No Winning for Russia

November 9, 2022

In a previous analysis by our very own Guy McCardle, SOFREP noted that one of Russia’s most significant gaps is its Air Force. With the US focusing on more ways View More ›

SOFREP 1 Comment Aviation, Russia, Ukraine
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The Indian Air Force’s Best Fighter Jet: The Russian SU-30MKI

September 29, 2022

While India maintains a tight geopolitical relationship with the United States, it’s no secret that it also keeps a transactional relationship with Russia, particularly regarding its military equipment. The same View More ›

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Russia Has Stolen Over 400 Commercial Jets and No One Seems to Care

September 22, 2022 A commercial jet aircraft takes flight. Image Credit: Sebastian Grochowicz via Upsplash

Claiming Them for Their Own Imagine that you rented a car, drove it a bit, then got ticked off at the rental car company for whatever reason and refused to View More ›

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The Bargain Bin War; Air Force May Unload the A-10 Thunderbolt II on Ukraine

September 14, 2022

Just about 10 days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated that he was “not aware of any current plan, or even discussion of a current plan View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Expert Analysis, Foreign Policy, Military, Russia, Ukraine
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The Bargain Bin War; Air Force May Unload the A-10 Thunderbolt II on Ukraine

September 12, 2022 First Lt. Micha Stoddard, flying the lead aircraft, and his wingman, Capt. Casey Peasley, fly their A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in an echelon formation March 26, 2014, enroute from Barksdale Air Force Base, La., to their home base in Boise, Idaho. The crews performed an in-air refueling with a Utah National Guard KC-135 Stratotanker after the air combat exercise Green Flag East. Stoddard and Peasley are assigned to the 190th Fighter Squadron. U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Becky Vanshur/Released

Just about 10 days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall stated that he was “not aware of any current plan, or even discussion of a current plan View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Expert Analysis, Foreign Policy, Military, Russia, Ukraine
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UK Will Send $1.2 Billion more in Weapons to Ukraine

September 6, 2022

During a NATO conference in Madrid, Prime Minister Boris Johnson a Madrid that the United Kingdom will send an additional one billion pounds (or 1.2 billion USD or 1.16 billion View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Army, Art of War, Europe, Featured, Firearms, Foreign Policy, Gear, Gear Review, Global Politics, History, Life, Military, News, News + Intel, Outdoors, Politics, Russia, Security, Ukraine, US Politics, Weapons, World
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US to Send Another $400 Million in Weaponry to Ukraine

August 29, 2022 Then Vice President Joe Biden at a Meeting with Ukrainian Legislators, April 22, 2014. (Source: U.S. Embassy Kyiv Ukraine, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US President Joe Biden has approved the shipment of a brand-new type of precision-guided artillery rounds as part of its new tranche of military assistance to Ukraine, according to a senior View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Admin, Air Force, Army, Art of War, Featured, Foreign Policy, Global Politics, Law Enforcement, Military, Military History, News, News + Intel, Politics, Russia, Security, Ukraine, US Politics
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What’s Next for the Russian Navy?

August 16, 2022 Navy Day celebrations in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2017. (Source: Mil.ru, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

When the Russian forces declared the fire with Ukraine, they forcefully displaced millions of Ukrainians, killed hundreds-of-thousands civilians, and left Ukraine under massive destruction while occupying all its key cities View More ›

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