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Hopes are fading that Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his foreign minister Amir-Abdollahian have survived a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain and icy weather, an Iranian official said on Monday (May 20) after search teams located the wreckage.
Turkey’s fifth-generation fighter jet, known as “KAAN,” is set to proceed as initially planned, despite speculations suggesting that the Mediterranean nation might be granted re-entry into the F-35 fighter jet purchase program.
During the week of May 11 to 17, Russian military claimed to have successfully destroyed five Leopard 2A1 tanks, manufactured by the German company Krauss-Maffei but donated to the Ukrainian Armed Forces to help the Eastern Europe country in its armed conflict with Russia.
South Korea’s 4.5 generation fighter jet, the KF-21 “Boramae,” is set to be stationed near the North Korean border to enhance its capability to address aerial threats from the Pyongyang regime.
Singapore will resume flying its F-16 fighter jets after suspending their operations earlier this month after one of the aircraft crashed during takeoff from Tengah Air Base early this month.
French aerospace company, Dassault Aviation, plans to increase the production of its Rafale fighter jets from two to three units per month this year due to a surge in demand from customers.
On May 16th, two F-22 “Raptor” fighter jets from the United States Air Force (USAF) and two F-35A fighters from the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) conducted air combat training exercises (dogfights) over South Korean airspace.
The projected cost to sustain the entire fleet of fifth-generation F-35 fighter jets, employed by all three branches of the U.S. Armed Forces, is expected to surpass $1.5 trillion (RM7 trillion) by 2088, the year marked for their decommissioning.
Recently, a photo that shows an American-made “MIM-104 Patriot” missile defense system being transported on a trailer in China went viral on social media.
Russia has reportedly escalated its deployment of fifth-generation Su-57 “Felon” fighter jets in targeted airstrikes against key locations in Ukraine.