MT-LB-2M-3s. Via social media Those bizarre, improvised armored vehicles the Russian army is manufacturing—80-year-old naval guns on top of only slightly less aged armored chassis—are starting to make...
Tag: AirDefense
Russia Built A Dozen Air-Defense Vehicles For War In The Arctic. Then Sent Them To Ukraine To Get Blown Up.
Test of a Tor-M2DT. Russian defense ministry photo Russia built a dozen special air-defense vehicles specifically for shooting down enemy warplanes in the brutal cold of the snowy Arctic. But the Tor-...
There’s A Good Reason The Russian Air Force Is Faltering. Ukrainian Air-Defense Crews Have Better Apps.
Kropyva in action in an Osa air-defense vehicle. Via social media It’s not for no reason the Russian military is using Iranian-made, explosives-laden drones to bombard Ukrainian cities. The Russian ai...
Ukraine’s Ex-German Air-Defense Guns Are In Action, Supporting The Counteroffensive
A Ukrainian Gepard near Kharkiv. Via social media We’ve gotten our first glimpse of ex-German Gepard anti-aircraft guns in Ukrainian service. And there’s a surprise. The Ukrainians appear to be deploy...
Afraid Of Ukrainian Missiles, The Russians Are Chaining Air-Defense Vehicles To Ships
A Project 22160 with a Tor aboard. Photo via social media The Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet still is strapping Tor air-defense vehicles to at least one of its corvettes, clearly hoping to protect the...