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...
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Desperate Russian Forces Are Sticking 80-Year-Old Naval Guns On 70-Year-Old Armored Tractors
A Russian army MT-LB with a 2M-3 naval gun mount. Via social media The Russian army is welding 80-year-old gun mounts, originally built to arm patrol boats, onto 70-year-old armored tractors—and sendi...
ZK dark pool startup Renegade breaks cover with $3.4 million from Dragonfly, Naval Ravikant
Published 35 minutes earlier on Renegade, a start up building a new type of decentralized exchange, emerged from stealth with a $3.4 million seed round, led by Dragonfly Capital and former AngelList C...
Six Months After The Russians Shot Down Ukraine’s Last Naval Rescue Helicopter, the U.K. Is Sending Replacements
A Westland Sea King HU5 in Royal Navy service in 2013. Via Wikimedia Commons The United Kingdom is sending three Westland Sea King helicopters to Ukraine. The 1970s-vintage rotorcraft, which once serv...
Ukraine’s Drone Boats Are Winning The Black Sea Naval War
A Ukrainian unmanned surface vehicle, beached near Sevastopol. Via social media An apparent Ukrainian drone-boat strike on Novorossiysk, a hundred miles from Russian-occupied Crimea in southern Russia...
How Unmanned Warships Might Provide A New Paradigm For Naval Shipbuilding
The U.S. Navy is operating or developing nearly a dozen different unmanned sea vehicles for use in maritime security operations. Some of the vehicles operate on the ocean’s surface, and others beneath...
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...
A Russian Attack On Odessa Could Be Naval Suicide
‘Saratov’ burns in Berdyansk. YouTube capture Russia had a chance to cut off Ukraine from the sea. It blew it. Now it’s highly likely, however and whenever the war ends, that Ukraine still...