Ukrainian tankers train on a Leopard 2A4. Via social media It appears the 4th Tank Brigade will be the first Ukrainian army unit to operate those Leopard 2 tanks Kyiv’s allies have pledged to the war ...
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Swedish Missiles. Emirati Armored Trucks. The Ukrainian Army’s Newest Mechanized Brigade Has A Weird Mix Of Weapons.
An 88th Mechanized Brigade Panthera F9 armored truck. 88th Mechanized Brigade photo The Ukrainian army has been forming new mechanized brigades as fast as it can recruit, train and equip the troops. I...
‘Bottlecap Balloon Brigade’ Hobbyist Group Might’ve Launched Object Shot Down By F-22s—Drawing Political Heat For Biden
Topline A missing balloon launched by a small group of Illinois hobbyists emerged Thursday as the latest potential theory behind one of the unidentified objects the U.S. military shot down over the we...
How Ukraine’s 1st Tank Brigade Fought A Russian Force Ten Times Its Size—And Won
The 1st Tank Brigade in training in 2021. Ukrainian army photo The 1st Tank Brigade, arguably Ukraine’s best tank formation, didn’t just survive the brutal bombardment that preceded Russia’s wider inv...
Ukraine’s Super-Upgraded M-55S Tanks Have Equipped A New Kind Of Brigade
Valery Markus and M-55Ss. Valery Markus photo We finally know which Ukrainian army unit took ownership of those super-upgraded, but very old, M-55S tanks that Slovenia donated to Ukraine. It’s the 47t...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Personal Brigade Is Fighting One Of the Ukraine War’s Hardest Battles
A 1st Presidential Brigade trooper near Bakhmut. Ukrainian defense ministry photo Officially, it’s the mission of the Ukrainian national guard’s 1st Presidential Brigade to defend the leader of Ukrain...
Three Countries Team Up To Send A Whole Brigade Of T-72s To Ukraine
T-72s. Czech defense ministry photo The United States, The Netherlands and the Czech Republic are teaming up to deliver to Ukraine 90 upgraded T-72B tanks. It’s a complex arrangement involving America...
A Fierce Ukrainian Mechanized Brigade Is Routing Russian Mercenaries In One Symbolic Eastern Town
The 93rd Mechanized Brigade around Bakhmut. Photo via the Ukrainian general staff When Ukrainian forces launched twin counteroffensives in eastern and southern Ukraine starting in late August and earl...
Ukraine’s Busiest Tank Brigade Is Fighting On Two Fronts
17th Tank Brigade in the east. Ukrainian defense ministry Amid relentless fighting and heavy losses, the Ukrainian army has struggled to form new tank brigades. But the tank brigades it has formed are...
Russia’s Reindeer Brigade Is Fighting For Its Survival In Southern Ukraine
The 80th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade. Russian army photo In late 2014, the Kremlin organized a new army brigade for a new kind of war. Anticipating escalating tensions in the resource-rich—and ra...
In 2014, Ukrainian Defectors Formed A New Russian Brigade. In 2022, The Ukrainian Army May Have Destroyed It.
BTR-80s belonging to the 126th Guards Coastal Defense Brigade on a train from Crimea in August. Via social media When Russian troops invaded Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in February 2014, the Ukrainian...
Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade Just Liberated A Village From The Russians
The 93rd Mechanized Brigade with a captured ex-Russian T-80 tank. Ukrainian army photo Lately you’ve had to look really hard to find unambiguous good news for either of the armies fighting in Ukraine....
A Russian Mountain Brigade Is Having A Hard Time In Mountainless Southern Ukraine
49th Mountain MRB MT-LBs during training in late 2021. Photo via social media Elements of the Russian army’s 34th Independent Mountain Motor Rifle Brigade reportedly were on the rail bridge across the...
T-72s To The Rescue? Ukraine’s 5th Tank Brigade Could Roll Into Battle Any Day Now.
Ukrainian tanks train in 2021. Ukrainian defense ministry The Ukrainian military’s success in sinking and damaging Russian warships could have a happy side-effect for Ukraine’s war effort on land. The...
Ukraine’s Best Tank Brigade Has Won The Battle For Chernihiv
1st Tank Brigade in training in 2021. Ukrainian army photo When a Russian tank army swept southwest from the Russia-Belarus border region into northern Ukraine on the morning of Feb. 24, a single Ukra...
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...