Defence`s Feeds

While the Cobras served in the PAF for a short period of just five years, the Broncos were used in the Philippines for over three decades. The Philippine Air Force’s (PAF) 15th Strike Wing retired two each of its two AH-1S Cobra attack helicopters and the last two OV-10 Bronco aircraft at the Major Daniel […]

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On Sept. 8, 2024, months before the final collapse of the Assad regime, elite Israeli Air Force units assaulted an Iranian facility in Syrian territory, over 124 miles from Israel, destroyed the missile-making complex, and exfiltrated unscathed after 2.5 hours. Israel has recently revealed footage and details of a daring and complex raid that was […]

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The State Department has approved the possible FMS, worth a staggering $3.64 billion, which will provide the Japan Air Self Defense Force with up to 1,200 AMRAAMs to be used by its fighters. The U.S. State Department has approved a possible FMS (Foreign Military Sale) of AIM-120D-3 and AIM-120C-8 AMRAAM (Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles) […]

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Ukraine is expected to receive a first batch of three Mirage 2000-5F fighters in the first quarter of 2025, with France also providing six-month training courses for both pilots and ground personnel and a full support package. Six months after French President Macron announced that an unspecified number of Dassault Mirage 2000-5 fighters is set […]

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In their latest violation of the ceasefire that started on November 27, 2024, Israeli forces have targeted and set ablaze homes in southern Lebanon.

The Israeli military continues to violate last month's ceasefire agreement with Lebanon by carrying out fresh attacks on the country.

Israel has carried out a series of new incursions and attacks on Lebanon in violation of a ceasefire agreement the regime reached with the Arab country.

Governments must do more to address the root causes of mass migration, UN Children's Fund UNICEF's Special Coordinator for the refugee and migrant response in Europe said on Thursday.

Thousands of households in Moldova's breakaway region of Transdniester have been forced to cope without gas, heating, and hot water after supplies of Russian natural gas abruptly stopped on January 1 due to the expiration of a supply contract with Ukraine, a major transit hub for the gas.

The world's largest coast guard vessel, a Chinese ship known as "The Monster," has arrived at the disputed Scarborough Shoal inside the Philippine exclusive economic zone to boost Beijing's control over the maritime area, an American analyst said.

Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby says all French military units will leave the African country by the end of January, weeks after the former French colony announced it was terminating its defense pact with Paris.

Israeli airstrikes killed at least 40 people across Gaza on Thursday, including 10 people in a tent encampment sheltering displaced families, medics said.

Civilians are not safe anywhere in the Gaza Strip, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned on Thursday.

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The Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, has issued a statement, condemning the escalation of Israeli attacks in Gaza, particularly the bombing of tents sheltering displaced Palestinians across the enclave.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza has declared that the total death toll from the Israeli regime's genocidal war in Gaza has has reached 45,581.

An Israeli airstrike on a tent camp sheltering displaced families in the southern part of the Gaza Strip has killed the chief of police force in the coastal territory Mahmoud Salah along with his deputy Hussam Shahwan and several others, including children.

At least 52 people have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on several areas of Gaza, medical sources say.

There is no safety for civilians anywhere in Gaza, with more than 80 percent of the Gaza Strip under Israeli evacuation orders, UN humanitarians said on Thursday.