Daily Archives: Dec 15, 2025

"The best combat aircraft ever developed"  this is how the U.S. Air Force once promoted the F-22 Raptor. Designed in the later stages of the Cold War, it brought together stealth, supercruise, and unprecedented maneuverability to dominate the air. But even as it earned its fearsome reputation, the Raptor's...

"Range is nothing without detection." That bitter truth from experienced pilots summarizes the irony at the heart of the Su-35's fighting profile. Russia's top 4++ generation fighter boasts sizzling speeds, insane maneuverability, and a heavy weapons package, but in trying to engage in beyond visual range (BVR) combat, it's...

It does not happen too frequently that a single weapons system alters the defense policy direction of a nation, but that is what has happened with the Indian S-400 'Sudarshan Chakra'. Having entered service in Operation Sindoor where it destroyed scores of Pakistani fighter aircraft well behind enemy lines...