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“If NATO shoots down a Russian plane, this will mean the beginning of a military conflict,” — Russian Ambassador to France.

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Indian airforce retires last Mig-21 fighters after more than 60 years of service.

More than 480 of the 872 MiG-21s inducted into the Indian Air Force crashed.

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Hamas tried to shoot down Ah-64 Apache with MANPADS.

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Spain has to spend €3.7 billion on airborne assets.

€1 billion on 45 Turkish Hurjet trainers.
18 Airbus C295 transports.
13 H-135 training helicopters.
54 H-145M light helicopters.
6 H-175 for VIPs.
32 NH-90 medium transport helicopters.

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C295 is uselessly small.
To end up with 77 NH-90 which are as reliable as 90y/o dick is hell for mechanics.

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Syrskyi:
Depending on many factors up to 40% of Russian long range drones are shot down by combat helicopters.

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You can pretty much disregard this.

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Fire point made new stats public, previous assumptions were based on educated guesses.

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In development are new warhead types like clusterbomb, in-house engine production of AI-25T with planned less than 10h or service life using cheap steel instead of titanium.

The FP-5 has carbon fiber fuselage built in 6 hours slightly reducing radar visibility.

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The main kicker is flying below 50 meters a survivability enhancer making it essentially Tomahawk survivability equivalent. This is mode will likely shorten the range to less than 1500km.

🇮🇷 ☢️🇷🇺 Tehran and Moscow signed a $25B agreement to build nuclear power plants in Iran, deepening the two’s ties in the nuclear energy sector

🇩🇪🚫🇮🇱 Germany has not approved any new arms exports to Israel since German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke about a partial halt to equipment that is usable in Gaza.

This shows a clear freeze in German arms licenses to israel.