The Junta’s Aerial Menace: Helpless Witnesses – Issue 181

The tenth month of the year has yet to end, but the number of aerial attacks by Myanmar’s military junta has already surpassed the number of such attacks recorded in 2024, which was the year with the highest number of such attacks since the coup.

The military junta, which claims countless lives of Myanmar people daily, employs various means in its aerial attack operations. The aerial vehicles used for these attacks must be dubbed as the aerial menace, or the ‘sky demons’. These sky demons roam day and night across the Myanmar’s skies. They include fighter jets, combat aircraft, helicopters, as well as drones, paramotors, and gyrocopters.

This week’s BNI-Myanmar Peace Monitor’s Bi-Weekly News Review examines the aerial menace or the ‘sky demons’ that the military junta relies upon, based on events and available data.

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