The mouthpiece of the ruling Chinese Communist Party asserts that Russia “humiliated” an “arrogant” United States with its warplane passes near a U.S. missile destroyer in the Baltic Sea on Tuesday, an incident that the Pentagon described as a “simulated attack”. Video released by the U.S. military yesterday shows two Sukhoi SU-24 warplanes conducting repeated close attack passes near... 

The Russian Air Force base in Latakia will be reinforced with S-400 “Triumf” antiaircraft missile system, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said on Wednesday. The US military is very concerned about Russia’s imminent deployment of an advanced missile defense system to Syria, an American official says. The Kremlin has announced that it is sending S-400 anti-aircraft missiles... 

Turkish claims that the downed Russian Su-24 jet “violated” its airspace have sparked outrage among Greeks, who took to social media to say it is a clear-cut case of double standards as Turkish jets breached Greek airspace 2,244 times in 2014 alone. They wondered what would happen if Greece had authorized engagement of Turkish aircraft, which breach the country’s borders on a regular basis. On... 

A Russian Su-24 fighter has been shot down in Syria, the Russian Defense Ministry said, adding the plane hadn’t violated Turkish airspace and was flying at an altitude of 6,000 meters. “During the flight, the aircraft was flying within the borders of Syria, which was registered by objective monitoring data,” the ministry said, adding that the aircraft was “supposedly shot down from the... 

The Ministry of Defense (MoD) is reporting this morning that yesterday, 30 May, President Putin used the powers and authorities granted to him as Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, in accordance with Article 4 of the Federal law “On Defense”, to authorize the sinking/disabling of an American warship by Federation naval air forces as it neared the maritime border of Russia in the Black...