File photo of an MQ-9 Reaper drone taking off at Wheeler-Sack Army Air Field in Fort Drum, N.Y., … [+] Feb. 14, 2012. U.S. Air Force A Russian fighter jet collided with a U.S. surveillance drone...
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Russia’s Best Tank Army Might Have No Choice But To Reequip With 60-Year-old T-62s
A T-62 lays a smokescreen in 1984. Wikimedia Commons Russia’s tank shortage has gotten so dire that the United Kingdom for one believes the Russian army’s best tank formation, the 1st Guards Tank Army...
Energy Diplomacy Isn’t Helping Russia In Africa
Russian President Vladimir Putin (C) gestures as Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (L) and … [+] South African President Cyril Ramaphosa (R) pose for a family photo with African count...
The Russian Army Is Running Out Of T-72 Tanks—And Quickly
A Russian army T-72B. Russian defense ministry photo Russia’s tank shortage is worse than some observers previously thought. The Kremlin’s stocks of its most numerous tank, the Cold War-vintage T-72, ...
Those Weird Russian Vehicles With 80-Year-Old Naval Turrets Might Have An Air-Defense Role
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...
Radar Fuzes Would Turn Ukraine’s Glide-Bombs Into Urban Wrecking Balls
A U.S. Air Force airman installs a DSU-33 fuze. U.S. Air Force photo A few weeks after the first rumors circulated that the Ukrainian air force would be getting satellite-guided glide-bombs from the U...
To Keep Open Its Supply Line Into Bakhmut, The Ukrainian Army Rolled In One Of Its Armored Bridgelayers
A U.S. Army bridgelayer in 1985. Wikimedia Commons Ukraine’s foreign allies have pledged to the war effort potentially dozens of armored bridgelayers. And the ongoing battle for Bakhmut has illustrate...
Take A Captured Russian Turret, Add It To Any Spare Chassis
2S17. Via social media After a year of hard fighting, the Ukraine war zone is a scrapyard for more than 10,000 wrecked armored vehicles, both Russian and Ukrainian. The sheer scale of the losses helps...
Are Slovakia And Poland Finally Serious About Giving Ukraine Their Old MiG-29s?
A Slovakian air force MiG-29. Wikimedia Commons Here we go again. For at least the third time since Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February last year, the government of Slovakia has proposed don...
The Ukrainian 4th Tank Brigade Was Running Out Of Tanks. Then It Got Leopard 2s.
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 ...
From Brando To Halle Berry, Sean Penn To Spike Lee
Topline Here’s a timeline of the political protests and outbursts at the Academy Awards, including plenty of anti-war statements (from Vietnam to Iraq to Ukraine) and booed speeches. Spike Lee accepts...
Russia Raises Stakes With Wave Of Hypersonic Missile Attacks On Ukraine
Russia launched a wave of missiles and drones at Ukraine last night in the biggest strike for weeks, again targeting the electricity infrastructure, causing blackouts and civilians deaths at several l...
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...
Who Could Train Ukrainian Pilots To Fly Those F-16s They’re Not Supposed To Be Getting?
Arizona Air National Guard F-16 Fighting Falcons with the 162nd Wing fly in formation during an air … [+] refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker from the 161st Air Refueling Wing during a local so...
Was Pipeline Sabotage A ‘False Flag’ To Blame Ukraine? German Defense Chief Raises Theory
Topline A top German official Wednesday said the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipeline may have been a “false flag operation” designed to blame Ukraine, and warned against reaching premature conclusion...
Ukraine’s New Stryker Recon Vehicles Can See Six Miles Away, And Call In Mortars And Missiles
A U.S. Army M1127. Wikimedia Commons Those 90 Stryker wheeled fighting vehicles the United States pledged to Ukraine have arrived in Germany aboard a roll-on, roll-off cargo ship. Video of the Stryker...
‘Hero Of Ukraine’ Dies In Battle As Russian Advance Continues
Topline The commander of a Ukrainian volunteer force who had earned the highest Ukrainian award—the so-called Hero of Ukraine—and was featured on Forbes’ Under 30 list in Ukraine last year died in bat...
Daniel Yergin Talks CERAWeek, Energy Security And The Energy Transition
S&P Global Vice Chairman Daniel Yergin listens during CERAWeek, an international energy conference, … [+] in Houston, Texas, on March 6, 2023. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELI...
The T-80B Was A Great Tank—In 1978. Now It’s The Latest Obsolete Vehicle To Join The Russian War Effort.
A T-80B in its heyday. Wikimedia Commons In 1978, Soviet tank-maker Omsktransmash took the basic T-80 tank, which had appeared just two years earlier, and added a new turret with a better autoloader a...
Paper Planes? Ukraine Gets Flat-Packed Cardboard Drones From Australia
As previously noted, Ukraine is massively enhancing its drone fleet with a variety of new models — but few of them are as unusual as the Corvo drones which Melbourne company SYPAQ has just announced i...
Some Of Ukraine’s Heavy Brigades Don’t Have Real Tanks Yet. Here’s How They Might Fight.
M-55S. Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian army doesn’t say no to armored vehicles. Whatever surplus tanks, fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and reconnaissance vehicles some ally offers, the ...
Binance recommends P2P as Ukraine suspends hryvnia use on crypto exchanges
Ukraine temporarily suspended the use of its national currency, the hryvnia, via banking cards for fiat deposits and withdrawals on crypto exchanges. While the move immediately impacted how investors ...
The Ukrainian Army’s Speedy M-113 Ambulances Help It Save More Wounded Troops
M-113 ambulance. Wikimedia Commons The 1960s-vintage M-113 armored personnel carrier is thinly armored and lightly armed. In a serious firefight, it’s a poor substitute for tougher, more modern infant...
Binance recommends P2P as Ukraine suspends fiat deposits on exchanges
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is recommending the use of peer-to-peer (P2P) services following restrictions imposed by the National Bank of Ukraine (NBU). Ukraine temporarily suspended hryvnia, its ...
Military Casualties In Russia-Ukraine War Are Likely Less Than Commonly Stated
At the start of March, the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces stated that the Russian military casualties exceeded 150,000. Meanwhile, several reports indicate that Ukrainian military casua...
Binance releases update on card support in Ukraine – Cryptopolitan
Binance has announced that it has halted crypto trades carried out using local bank cards in Ukraine. According to a statement from Binance and some other local exchanges in the country, the hryvnia b...
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...
Secretary Of State Blinken Unexpectedly Meets With Russian Counterpart At G20 Meeting
Topline Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had an unscheduled meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in New Delhi, multiple outlets report, as tensions esca...
Russian Tanks Have Crude Mine-Defenses. They Don’t Work Against The Latest American Mines.
KMT-5. Russian army photo The Russian army’s winter offensive is failing almost everywhere that isn’t Bakhmut. Ukrainian anti-tank mines—some buried, others scattered by special artillery shells—are a...