Military Balance

China’s PLAAF has officially surpassed Russia in combat aviation strength, fielding the world’s largest modern fighter fleet outside the United States as J-20 stealth fighters, J-16 strike…

India is rapidly expanding the strategic footprint of its BrahMos supersonic missile across Southeast Asia, with Vietnam officially joining the Philippines and Indonesia nearing a similar…

Vietnam is accelerating the retirement of its aging Su-22 and Su-27 fighter fleets as rising South China Sea tensions force Hanoi to choose between the French Rafale and Russia’s…

Israel’s US$758 million (RM2.88 billion) sale of 36 PULS rocket artillery launchers to Greece marks one of the most consequential military deals in the Eastern Mediterranean, dramatically…

India has commissioned the INS Aridhaman nuclear ballistic missile submarine and INS Taragiri stealth frigate in a powerful display of expanding naval strength, raising the stakes in the…

China is projected to field nearly 1,000 J-20 fifth-generation stealth fighters by 2030, a development that could mark the end of America’s long-held monopoly on advanced airpower in the…

China’s decision to accelerate J-35 stealth fighter deliveries to Pakistan could fundamentally alter the military balance with India, giving Islamabad a fifth-generation capability before…