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The Ukrainian Army’s Helicopter Crews Could Be in Big Trouble If Russia Attacks
A Ukrainian soldier assigned to 1st Battalion, 80th Air-Mobile Brigade lies in the prone position to … [+] provide coverage for an air-assault mission in conjunction with a situational training ...
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...
Ukrainian and Russian Su-25 Pilots Alike Face A Potentially Bloody War
Ukrainian Su-25s. Ukrainian air force The war in Ukraine has been brutal for fighter pilots and helicopter crews whose job it is to provide close air support to front-line ground troops. The sheer den...
Ukraine’s Best Fighter Pilots Are Preparing For War. But Will They Fight?
The 831st Brigade during training in January 2022. Ukrainian air force photo The Ukrainian air force is hopelessly outnumbered and outgunned by its most likely foe, the Russian air force. Kiev at best...
Wartime Sanctions Could Squeeze Russian Space Programs
A Fregat rocket launches a Glonass-K satellite in October 2020. Roskosmos photo If Russian President Vladimir Putin pulls the proverbial trigger and orders his troops to widen Russia’s war on Ukraine,...
One Of Ukraine’s Best Brigades Defends One Of Its Most Vulnerable Cities
92nd Mechanized Brigade Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Ukrainian government this month put into effect a new law creating a framework for everyday civilians to join territorial defense battalions. Ar...
Kiev Could Mobilize 130,000 Volunteers To Fight The Russians
The Ukrainian Volunteer Corps in 2014. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Eight years ago, everyday Ukrainians—thousands of them—formed volunteer battalions, grabbed whatever weapons they could find and race...
Ukraine Has A Tiny Amphibious Force With A Very Dangerous Job
Naval infantry storm ashore from ‘Yuri Olefirenko.’ Ukrainian defense ministry photo The Russian navy is assembling what is, for the Kremlin, a powerful amphibious force in the Black Sea—o...
Russian Bombers Could Pummel Ukraine … Without Going Anywhere Near Ukraine
A Tu-160 fires a Kh-101. Russian defense ministry photo The Russian air force possesses the world’s third-biggest bomber fleet after the Chinese and American air forces. Expect many of these 137 Tu-22...
Ukraine’s Giant Howitzers Have A Problem. Russia’s Own Huge Guns Are Faster.
A Ukrainian 2S7. Ukrainian army photo Seven years ago, the desperate Ukrainian army—relentlessly pummeled by Russian artillery along the front line in Ukraine’s separatists-controlled Donbas region—op...
If Russia Invades Ukraine, Its Front-Line Air-Defenses Will Be The Most Dangerous In The World
Russian army Tunguska vehicles in training. Russian defense ministry photo In early May 2014, separatist rebels and their Russian backers in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region shot down three Ukrainian M...
Russia’s Armored Mine-Clearers Can Blast Entire Streets. They’ve Done It Before.
a UR-77 launches its mine-clearing line charge. Konstantin Lazarev photo via Wikimedia Commons If Russian President Vladimir Putin pulls the proverbial trigger and the Russian army currently massed al...
The Russian Army’s Huge Engineering Vehicles Could Carve Paths Across Ukraine
A BAT-2 in Donbas in 2019. Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, the likeliest battleground in the event Russia widens its eight-year war on Ukraine, is...