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Last year, Pakistan unveiled its most ambitious airpower project to date with the JF-17 PFX (Pakistan Experimental Complex), a next-generation variant of the JF-17 fighter platform designed to confront India’s advancing aerial capabilities and emancipate the country from reliance on foreign defence suppliers.
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China’s next-generation J-35A stealth fighter, developed under a shroud of secrecy for over a decade, has reportedly conducted its maiden flight as the first airframe to emerge from full-rate mass production.
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ROSOBORONEXPORT JSC, Russia’s state arms export agency and a key instrument of the Kremlin’s defence diplomacy, has unveiled a sweeping initiative to market its fifth-generation Su-57E stealth fighter to Southeast Asian air forces, signalling a renewed push for influence in a region increasingly caught in the crosswinds of US-China strategic competition.
France’s steadfast refusal to provide India with access to the Rafale fighter jet’s source code has reignited strategic tensions, exposing the limitations of high-end arms procurement when digital sovereignty is off the table.
In a rare and symbolic demonstration of strategic camaraderie, a Chinese Air Force (PLAAF) Chengdu J-10C fighter jet was recently photographed displaying “kill marks” of Indian Air Force assets—signifying a tribute to the Pakistan Air Force’s (PAF) combat success during its most recent aerial engagement with India.
In the waning hours before a tentative ceasefire was enacted, bringing a fragile pause to open hostilities between nuclear-armed neighbours Pakistan and India, Islamabad deployed some of its most advanced and disruptive battlefield systems—capabilities that have sent shockwaves through Indian military command circles.
Unverified reports emerging from Indian media outlets and amplified by social media chatter suggest that India may have executed a high-stakes precision strike using cruise missiles on Kirana Hills, a site long suspected to house elements of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons infrastructure.
Shares of French aerospace giant Dassault Aviation, the manufacturer of the Rafale multirole fighter jet operated by the Indian Air Force (IAF), have plummeted by 9.48 percent over the past five days following the outbreak of hostilities between India and Pakistan.
In a show of force and forensic rebuttal, the Indian Armed Forces on Monday publicly displayed wreckage of advanced Chinese and Turkish weapon systems allegedly used by Pakistan in one of the most volatile aerial escalations in South Asia since the Kargil conflict.
The Chinese-built J-10C “Vigorous Dragon” has surged into the global spotlight following substantiated claims that Pakistan Air Force (PAF) units used the jet—armed with advanced PL-15E beyond-visual-range air-to-air missiles—to shoot down three Indian Rafale multirole fighters in a single engagement.