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,...
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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...
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...