2019 test-launch of the Neptune missile. Ukrainian defense ministry The Neptune anti-ship missile is one of the iconic weapons of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine. Two of the 17-foot missiles, fired by a...
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An Atmospheric Trick May Have Helped A Ukrainian Missile Battery Find And Sink The Russian Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Moskva’ sinking. Via social media In days and weeks after a Ukrainian navy anti-ship missile battery sank the Russian Black Sea Fleet cruiser Moskva on April 13, a lot of rumors circulate...
Russian Navy Crews Are Under Orders To Avoid The Ukrainian Coast
‘Moskva’ burns on April 13, 2022. Photo via social media The commanders of the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet are scared to send their surviving surface warships beyond sight of the Crimea...
The Russian Navy Keeps Exposing Its Vulnerable Support Ships To Ukrainian Attack
The Russian rescue ship ‘Vsevolod Bobrov.’ Russian navy photo When a Ukrainian navy anti-ship battery put two Neptune anti-ship missiles into the side of the Russian navy cruiser Moskva on...
A Journalist Just Spotted Russia’s ‘Admiral Makarov’ Frigate, Intact And At Sea
‘Admiral Makarov’ before the war. Photo via Wikimedia Commons H.I. Sutton, an independent journalist focusing on naval warfare, has spotted more than a dozen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet...
Russia’s Black Sea Fleet Started The War With Eight ‘Raptor’ Patrol Boats. It Might Have Three Left.
A ‘Raptor’ patrol boat. Photo via Wikipedia In 10 weeks of fighting, Ukraine’s TB-2 drones and anti-tank missile teams have wreaked havoc on the Russian Black Sea Fleet’s patrol boat floti...
Another Russian Warship Is Burning In The Black Sea
The Russian warship “Admiral Makarov” passes through Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey on August 13, … [+] 2021. (Photo by Muhammed Gencebay Gur/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) Anadolu ...
The Russian Frigate ‘Admiral Makarov’ Might Be The Juiciest Target In The Black Sea
‘Admiral Makarov.’ Russian navy photo After the dramatic sinking of the missile-cruiser Moskva by a Ukrainian missile battery on April 14, the Russian Black Sea Fleet is down to just three...
U.S. Reportedly Gave Ukraine Intel To Help Sink Russian Warship Moskva
Topline Ukraine used U.S.-provided intelligence to confirm the location of the Russian warship Moskva before striking it in April, several media outlets reported Thursday, reflecting a close intellige...
Ukraine’s Drones Are Peeling Back Russian Defenses On Infamous Snake Island
A Ukrainian TB-2 strikes a Russian Strela-10 air-defense system on Snake Island. Ukrainian defense ministry capture Ukraine’s Snake Island was one of Russia’s first conquests in the wider war between ...
The Russians Are Losing The Naval War Off Ukraine—To An Enemy With No Warships
A TB-2’s view of a ‘Raptor’ patrol boat right before hitting it with a missile. Ukrainian defense ministry Ukraine’s navy, which after scuttling its flagship no longer has a single l...
The Russians Appear To Be Sending A Deep-Diving Submersible To The Wreck Of The Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Kommuna’ and her AS-28 submersible. Russian navy photo The Russian navy reportedly is trying to salvage sensitive materials from the wreck of the guided-missile cruiser Moskva, which sank...
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...
Ukrainian Missile Strike Sank Russian Warship Moskva, Pentagon Official Says
Topline The Russian cruiser Moskva sank after it was hit by two Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles Wednesday, a U.S. defense official said Friday, contradicting Russian claims that an accidental exp...
Air Cover Might Have Saved Russia’s Cruiser ‘Moskva’
‘Slava’ in 1982. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Early Wednesday morning, the Russian navy cruiser Moskva exploded around 60 miles off the Ukrainian coast near Odessa. The 612-foot, Slava-clas...
Russian Warship Moskva Sinks Off Ukraine, State Media Reports
Topline The Russian warship Moskva sank in the Black Sea, Russian state-owned news outlet RIA Novosti said Thursday, two days after Ukrainian forces claimed to have launched a missile attack against t...
Ukraine’s Bayraktar Drone Helped Take Out Russian Flagship
Russian media has confirmed that the cruiser Moskva, its 12,000-ton Black Sea flagship, suffered a major explosion and has been abandoned due to fire. Ukraine claims to have struck the ship with two N...
The Ukrainians Claim They Damaged A Russian Cruiser
Cruiser ‘Moskva.’ Photo via Wikimedia Commons A Ukrainian navy missile battery reportedly has struck the Russian navy cruiser Moskva off the coast of Odessa, a strategic port city on the B...