An ex-Norwegian M-109 howitzer in Ukrainian service. Ukrainian defense ministry As many as a hundred Ukrainian soldiers die every day in the battle for eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, Ukrainian Defen...
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Ford Unleashes Heavy Artillery Against Tesla and GM
And now comes the seventh generation… Ford Motor Co. (F) – Get Ford Motor Company Report said on June 2 that it plans to build the next generation of the Mustang Coupe, the iconic vehicle...
Ukraine Will Get HIMARS Rocket Systems, But Not Long-Range Missiles
EAST COAST, SOUTH KOREA – JULY 05: In this handout photo released by the South Korean Defense … [+] Ministry, U.S. M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System firing an MGM-140 Army Tactical Missil...
One Small Town. A Dilapidated Road. These Are The Russians’ Main Targets In Eastern Ukraine.
Ukrainian gunners fire an FH-70 howitzer. Ukrainian army photo A tiny town called Siversk and a potholed road running through it. That’s the current focus of the combined might of the Russian army’s b...
Russian TV Shows Off Rare 2S4 Mega Mortar-Then Ukraine Blows It Up
A Russian 2S4 self-propelled mortar explodes near a building in southern Rubizhne, Luhansk Oblast, … [+] as recorded by a Ukrainian military drone. Video capture. As Russian troops attempt to br...
Giant Artillery Opens Fire As Russia Goes On The Attack In Donbas
A Russian 2S4 mortar in Donbas. Telegram user @epoddubny capture Fighting has sharply escalated in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region. Both sides are bringing in more and heavier artillery, adding to the...
Ukraine’s Guns Are In Range Of Izium. That’s Bad News For Russia.
Ukrainian howitzers are no farther from Izium than this circle. David Axe/Google Maps art Ukrainian gunners shelled a Russian air-defense system in eastern Ukraine probably sometime in the past couple...
Which Ukrainian Troops Are Getting American Howitzers? The Ones Preparing For A Major Counteroffensive.
Ukrainian troops with an M777. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Ukrainian army brigades have begun shooting their new American howitzers at Russian invaders. And not just any brigades. Ukrainian comma...
The Russians Lost Nearly An Entire Battalion Trying To Cross A River In Eastern Ukraine
The aftermath of the Russian attempt to cross the Siverskyi Donets River. Ukrainian army capture The better part of a Russian army battalion—50 or so vehicles and up to a thousand troops—in recent day...
Ukraine Made Exactly One Copy Of Its Best Cannon. It Just Joined The War.
The 2S22 in action. Photo via Sergey Pashynsky The Kramatorsk Heavy Machinery Plant, in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, built exactly one 2S22 howitzer around five years ago. As a Russi...
Ukraine’s Citizen-Soldiers Are Shooting 60-Year-Old Artillery At Russian Tanks
Ukrainian troops train with an MT-12 in 2019. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s territorial troops are true citizen-soldiers. Volunteers all, they enlist with local brigades and fight in their hom...
Ukraine’s Artillery Might Be Winning The War With Russia
Ukrainian 2S3 in Donbas in March 2015. OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine photo As Russia widened its war in Ukraine in late February, many observers assumed Russian artillery would dominate t...
The Dutch Are Sending Huge German Armored Howitzers To Ukraine
PABRADE, LITHUANIA – JUNE 08: A Panzerhaubitze 2000, which is a German 155mm self-propelled … [+] howitzer of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces, takes part in Thunder Storm 2018 mult...
Ukraine’s Shift To A New NATO Arsenal Is Unprecedented-And Inevitable
Ukraine will need 155mm guns—like this M777 artillery piece. ASSOCIATED PRESS Defending your country is hard enough. Managing to defend yourself while shifting from Russian-derived heavy weaponry to a...
To Resist A Russian Attack From Crimea, The Ukrainian Army Has Deployed A Whole Artillery Brigade
55th Separate Artillery Brigade gunners train near Crimea in February 2022. Ukrainian army capture With more and more Russian battalions, warplanes and warships staging along Ukraine’s borders, analys...