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Russia’s air defenses may pose a more significant threat to NATO air forces than they would have before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a top air defense analyst warned in a recent report.Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine has been able to destroy numerous Russian air defense…
US forces that executed a raid in Venezuela to capture its now-former leader walked away with no aircraft lost to the country’s Russian-made air-defense systems and Chinese-made radars.In the aftermath, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said that it “seems those Russian air defenses didn’t quite work so well, did…
ŠIAULIAI AIR BASE, Lithuania — A Spanish fighter wing deployed to the Baltics for air patrol missions alongside anti-drone defenses for the first time, a reaction to growing uncrewed threats to European infrastructure.Spain’s 15th Wing arrived at Šiauliai Air Base in December to begin a four-month rotation contributing to NATO’s…
Ukraine’s elite “Alpha” unit destroyed or disabled Russian air defense systems that were worth a total of around $4 billion over the past year, the country’s security service said.The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Monday that its “Alpha” special forces unit conducted long-range strikes on Russian air defense…
The US expected “significant resistance” from Venezuela’s air defense systems during the nighttime raid to capture the country’s former president, Nicolás Maduro, a newly released memo reveals.The heavily redacted memorandum from the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel sheds new light on the Trump administration’s planning efforts ahead of…
