regional airpower balance

Singapore’s $4.059 billion acquisition of 20 F-35 stealth fighters will create a trans-Pacific combat force spanning Tengah and Arkansas, reshaping RSAF readiness, logistics and Indo-Pacific…

Türkiye’s Eurofighter Typhoon programme is entering a decisive operational phase as Turkish pilots begin training in Britain, creating a critical bridge toward the KAAN fighter while…

Malaysia is accelerating its MRCA planning as South China Sea uncertainty and neighbouring acquisitions of F-35s, Rafales, Gripen E/Fs and other advanced fighters transform Southeast Asia’s…

Bangladesh’s reported plan to acquire 24 Chinese J-10CE fighters is being viewed by India as more than a conventional arms purchase, with the proposed US$2.2 billion programme potentially…

Indonesia is poised to become the first foreign operator of India’s Astra Mk1 BVRAAM after agreeing to procure more than 150 missiles for its Sukhoi fleet, reshaping Indo-Pacific air combat…

Egypt and Turkey have launched their first joint F-16 air force drills in nearly two decades, marking a dramatic military rapprochement capable of reshaping Eastern Mediterranean…

China has begun operating the J-10C within an integrated “system-of-systems” combat architecture linking the fighter with airborne early-warning aircraft, radar stations, surface-to-air…

India and Thailand have elevated their defence partnership to a new operational level as Su-30MKI and Gripen fighter jets conduct a strategically significant joint air exercise near the…