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Updated on Mar 19, 2025

9K37M Buk (SA-11 Gadfly)

Our Best Look At Ukraine’s ‘FrankenBuk’ Air Defense System

Posted on Mar 18, 2025

BlueHalo’s FE-1 Low-Cost Surface-To-Air Missile Fired For First Time

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

Radars Deployed To Mexico Border To Detect Cartel Drones (Updated)

Posted on Mar 17, 2025

Improved versions of the Ground-Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB) are reportedly among the weapons that will be sent to Ukraine after the United States after Washington decided to resume military aid and intelligence sharing with Kyiv. The GLSDB had made its combat debut in Ukraine, but had reportedly performed poorly there, especially due to the effects of Russian electronic warfare, and was last used “months ago.”

Ukrainian Army

Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb Headed To Ukraine For Its Second Try At Combat: Report

Posted on Mar 14, 2025

The U.S. Army is looking at acquiring a new machine gun chambered to fire the .338 Norma Magnum cartridge, but that can also be converted to use the same 6.8x51mm ammunition as its next-generation M7 rifles and M250 light machine guns.

Assault Rifles

Machine Gun With Longer Reach Sought By U.S. Army

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

Green Berets

Green Berets Looking For FPV Drones To Help Them Clear Hostile Cave Complexes

Posted on Mar 12, 2025

A view of destroyed buildings and area after a massive drone attack at the Leninsky urban district (Vidnoye) and Domodedovo (Yam village) at 4 am in Moscow, Russia on March 11, 2025. At least 2 people were killed and 20 others injured in a "massive" drone attack on Russia.

Drones Rained Down On Moscow Ahead Of Ukraine Peace Talks

Posted on Mar 11, 2025

Details have emerged of an extraordinary mission launched by Russian soldiers in the Kursk region, during which they penetrated deep into Ukrainian-held territory via a gas pipeline. The

Russian Raiders Crawled For Miles Through Gas Pipeline To Attack Ukrainians In Kursk

Posted on Mar 10, 2025

U.S. Army AH-64 Apaches Armed With Israeli Spike Missiles Now Flying in Iraq

Posted on Mar 7, 2025

The U.S. does not know how many weapons the Houthis posses, but praise their innovative abilities.

Tactical Ballistic Missiles

Houthi Weapons Arsenal Remains A Mystery To The U.S.

Posted on Mar 6, 2025

U.S. Air Force officials remain focused on the ability to disperse forces to far-flung operating locations as the primary means of reducing vulnerability to enemy attacks.

Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

USAF Generals Downplay Calls For More Hardened Aircraft Shelters In Pacific Theater

Posted on Mar 5, 2025

The Army tested a new unit, called a Multi Purpose Company, to find and engage with the enemy.

FIM-92 Stinger

New Scout Unit That Heavily Leverages Drones, Electronic Warfare Tested By U.S. Army

Posted on Feb 27, 2025

Boeing expects to shutter its production of the Little Bird light helicopter after fulfilling a current contract with the Thai armed forces.

Boeing’s Little Bird Helicopter Production Set To End

Posted on Feb 26, 2025

Iron Dome

Trump’s Missile Defense Initiative’s Name Changed From Iron Dome To Golden Dome

Posted on Feb 25, 2025

The Army is testing its new M10 Booker under harsh Arctic conditions at Fort Greely in Alaska.

M10 Booker Undergoing Cold Weather Trials In Alaska

Posted on Feb 20, 2025

The U.S. Army is pursuing a Stinger missile replacement for short-range air defense that can go faster, survive jamming and more easily hit tougher targets like drones.

FIM-92 Stinger

Army’s Stinger Surface-To-Air Missile Replacement Makes Progress

Posted on Feb 18, 2025

A Ukrainian reconnaissance brigade has released footage purportedly showing the destruction of Russia’s S-350 Vityaz air defense system in the Donetsk region.

S-300

Ukraine Appears To Have Destroyed Its First Russian S-350 Air Defense System

Posted on Feb 17, 2025

U.S. Air Force Gen. Gregory Guillot, the top American military officer overseeing operations in and around North America, has said he would welcome Canadian participation in expanding continental missile defense efforts, including in space.

Iron Dome

Canada Joining Iron Dome Missile Defense Plan Would Be Welcome: NORAD Boss

Posted on Feb 14, 2025

We now have our first look at the containerized Gravehawk surface-to-air missile system, which uses repurposed heat-seeking R-73 air-to-air missiles as interceptors, that the United Kingdom and Denmark have developed for Ukraine.

Surface-To-Air Missile Systems

Containerized SAM System That Fires Soviet Air-To-Air Missiles For Ukraine Breaks Cover

Posted on Feb 12, 2025

S-300

Rare Look At S-300V1 Surface-To-Air Missile Systems In Action In Ukraine

Updated on Feb 10, 2025

The Russians say they thwarted a plot to blow up FPV drone operators with explosive-laden goggles.

Soldier Systems

Explosive-Laden Goggles Sent To Russian FPV Drone Operators

Posted on Feb 7, 2025

A video showing testing of the Chinese GL-6 hard-kill active protection system underscores how systems like this to provide a valuable additional layer of defense against uncrewed aerial threats, including highly maneuverable first-person view (FPV) kamikaze drones, something TWZ has previously explored in an in-depth feature.

People's Liberation Army (China)

Chinese Tank’s Active Protection System Seen Intercepting Drone-Fired Rocket Propelled Grenade

Posted on Feb 7, 2025

Leopard

Germany Kicks Off Work On Leopard 3 Main Battle Tank

Posted on Feb 7, 2025

The U.S. Department of Defense has disclosed that it’s still unclear about the lethal effects of the hypersonic missile that’s at the center of the Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) Dark Eagle and which will arm the Navy’s Zumwalt class stealth destroyers and future Block V Virginia class submarines. The surprising knowledge gap comes after the Army achieved the long-delayed first test-firing of a Dark Eagle missile from its trailer-based launcher, something you can read more about here.

Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW)

Pentagon Still Unsure About Lethality Of Dark Eagle Hypersonic Missile

Posted on Feb 4, 2025

Infrared Seeker For APKWS Guided Rockets Is In The Works

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2025

UH-60 Black Hawk Begins Ground Tests With Far More Powerful T901 Engines

Posted on Jan 29, 2025

MIM-104 Patriot

Dozens Of Israeli Patriot Missiles Sent To Ukraine

Posted on Jan 29, 2025

Iron Dome

Weaponizing Space Key To Trump’s Iron Dome Missile Defense Shield Vision

Posted on Jan 28, 2025

DUKW (or ‘Duck’) amphibious truck, outfitted with an extension ladder to scale cliffs in northern France and then rain down suppressive fire on the German defenders.

Army Rangers Used Gun-Toting Fire Engine Ladders To Assault Cliffs On D-Day

Updated on Jan 24, 2025

Leopard

Ukrainian Leopard 1 Tank Survived A Dozen Drone Strikes: Report

Posted on Jan 24, 2025

North Korea rocket launcher truck MLRS in Russia

Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS)

Artillery Rocket Launcher Disguised As Civilian Truck May Have Just Appeared In Russia

Updated on Jan 24, 2025

Cannons

More North Korean Artillery Troops Heading To Russia: Ukraine Intel Chief

Posted on Jan 22, 2025

The kit used by Air Force EOD techs was on displace in a recent photo staged during a controlled detonation.

Explosives/EOD

This Shot Of USAF Explosive Ordnance Disposal Techs In The Middle East Goes Hard

Posted on Jan 22, 2025

An intense video has emerged in Russia, showing a portion of a Ukrainian drone strike, including the interception of one of the drones by what seems to be a Pantsir short-range air defense system. Footage showing the successful interception of Ukraine’s long-range one-way attack drones by Russian ground-based air defenses is not generally common and this one reinforces the challenge posed by these relentless Ukrainian attacks against Russian infrastructure and military facilities.

Surface-To-Air Missile Systems

Extremely Low Altitude Shootdown Of Ukrainian Drone By Russian SAM Caught On Video

Posted on Jan 21, 2025

The U.S. Army is moving to establish a second production source for barrels for 155mm M777 towed howitzers in response to what it calls "unprecedented demand" from Ukraine.

M777 155mm Howitzter

Ukraine Is Burning Through 155mm M777 Howitzer Barrels So Fast The U.S. Army Can’t Keep Up

Posted on Jan 21, 2025

A dramatic video has appeared showing a Russian BTR-82 8x8 armored personnel carrier firing its main gun wildly, apparently due to a malfunction after the vehicle was struck by a drone. While huge numbers of this particular model of BTR have been lost in Russian hands since the start of the full-scale invasion, this is certainly one of the most bizarre sequences we’ve seen of the vehicle in combat.

Russian BTR-82 Had A Spectacular Misfire On The Battlefield In Ukraine

Posted on Jan 20, 2025

A French Navy Atlantique 2 maritime patrol aircraft was illuminated by the fire-control radar of a Russian long-range air defense system, while flying over the Baltic Sea earlier this week, according to France’s Minister of the Armed Forces Sébastien Lecornu.

S-400

France Decries Russian S-400 Radar Locking Onto Its Maritime Patrol Aircraft Over Baltic Sea

Posted on Jan 17, 2025

Saxony-Anhalt, Altengrabow: A new RCH 155 wheeled howitzer from tank manufacturer KNDS is on display at the Altengrabow military training area. Here, KNDS is using the platform of the Boxer wheeled tank as a weapon carrier for an automated and remote-controlled artillery gun. With the fully automated wheeled howitzer, which fires on the move, the tank manufacturer KNDS promises the Bundeswehr and the armed forces of partner countries an advantage on the battlefield. In addition, two soldiers are said to be sufficient as a crew, whereas previously five men were needed as driver and operator in the tracked Panzerhaubitze 2000.

Cannons

Ukraine Gets First RCH 155 Wheeled Howitzer, Boxer Fighting Vehicles May Follow

Posted on Jan 14, 2025

Anti-Aircraft Artillery (AAA)

Air Force Predicts Enemy Anti-Air Missiles With 1,000-Mile Range By 2050

By Thomas Newdick, Tyler Rogoway, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 14, 2025

A North Korean-made mobile surface-to-air missile system has appeared for the first time in the Ukraine conflict. The air defense system, the name of which remains unknown, is the latest example of Pyongyang’s military assistance for Moscow’s war. Ironically, however, its presence in the fighting was disclosed by a video shared by Russian military bloggers, showing it being attacked by a Russian drone, in an apparent ‘blue on blue’ incident.

North Korean Air Defense System Revealed In Ukraine By Russian Friendly Fire Strike

Posted on Jan 13, 2025

Soldiers driving Revised Weapons Mount Installation Kit (RWMIK) from Support Company, 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, on their way to defensive positions during Exercise Haraka Storm, Kenya, on the 19th of July 2023. The British Army’s global response force has tested its ability to deploy and fight at short notice in some of Africa’s most challenging environments. The soldiers of 3 PARA Battlegroup honed both their fighting and fieldcraft skills on the Kenyan savannah as part of the six-week long Exercise Haraka Storm. Dealing with the rough terrain, searing heat and potentially deadly animals - ranging from lions and elephants to scorpions and snakes – troops followed a progression of training, building from polishing their individual skills and specialities to a final mission which sees the whole force operating together to assault a heavily-defended objective. The 1,000-strong battlegroup is built around the airborne infantry of Colchester-based 3rd Battalion The Parachute Regiment, bolstered by artillery, engineers, signallers, medics, and logisticians from across 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team. Specially trained and equipped to deploy by parachute, helicopter or airlanding, the 3 PARA Battlegroup is currently held at very high readiness to respond to global crises. In April, it deployed to Sudan to provide security and logistic support to the evacuation of British civilians.

Light Vehicles

Land Rover Replacement Program Kickstarted By U.K. Military After 76 Years Of Service

Posted on Jan 10, 2025

Leopard

Sweden Buys More Leopard 2 Tanks As Part Of Major Defense Build-Up

Posted on Jan 9, 2025

Army Wants To Test Air-Launched Drones From A Global Express Business Jet

Posted on Jan 9, 2025

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has reportedly acquired a version of the 6.8x51mm M250 light machine gun that Sig Sauer developed for the U.S. Army, but chambered to fire the NATO-standard 7.62x51mm round.

Machine Guns

Israel Buys 7.62x51mm Version Of U.S. Army’s New Sig Sauer M250 Light Machine Gun: Report

Posted on Jan 3, 2025

IDF raid on Iran underground missile base in Syria

Special Operations

Inside Israel’s Commando Raid On Iran’s Underground Missile Factory In Syria

Posted on Jan 3, 2025

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)

U.S. Army’s First Combat Use Of THAAD Missile Defense System Just Occurred In Israel (Updated)

By Howard Altman, Geoff Ziezulewicz

Posted on Dec 27, 2024

Russian forces have begun using improvised counter-drone buggies each armed with a weapon made up of 24 barrels that fire shotgun-like ammunition, as well as six AK-series infantry rifles on a single mount.

Counter-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (C-UAS)

Anti-Drone Weapon With 24 Barrels Firing Buckshot-Like Rounds Emerges On Russian Buggies

Posted on Dec 26, 2024

Railgun Ammo-Firing 155mm Air Defense Cannon Set To Be Awarded To BAE Systems

Posted on Dec 24, 2024

The commander of a Ukrainian Abrams tank talked about surviving Russian FPV drone strikes.

M1 Abrams

Ukrainian M1 Abrams Commander Talks Tank’s Major Vulnerabilities, Advantages In Combat

Posted on Dec 20, 2024

The Russian Khmeimim Air Base in Jabla in Latakia, Syria on December 15, 2024. With the Baath regime's collapse, Russia continued to transfer its troops from Damascus, Homs and other cities across Syria to the base.

Future Of Russia’s Bases In Syria Remains In Flux, Libya Possible Alternative

Posted on Dec 16, 2024

Taiwan has received its first batch of M1A2T Abrams main battle tanks as it continues its drive to modernize its armed forces, which face an expanding military threat from Beijing. While the upgrade for the Republic of China Army (ROCA) — which was still operating 1950s-era M41A3 Walker Bulldog light tanks until the last couple of years — is obvious, there are still questions over how suitable the big and heavy Abrams is for the island’s defensive requirements.

M1 Abrams

M1A2 Abrams Tanks Arrive In Taiwan

Posted on Dec 16, 2024

S-400

Russian Forces Appear To Be Pulling Out Of Prized Syrian Air Base

Posted on Dec 13, 2024

The U.S. Army has finally test-fired its Dark Eagle hypersonic missile from its trailer-based launcher after attempting to do so for some two years.

Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW)

Army’s Dark Eagle Hypersonic Missile Finally Blasts Out Of Its Launcher

Posted on Dec 13, 2024

We have gotten our best look at a Ukrainian 9K33 Osa (SA-8 Gecko) mobile short-range air defense system (SHORADS) armed with the Soviet-era R-73 (AA-11 Archer) infrared-guided air-to-air missile. While other such systems have typically integrated Western missile armament on existing Ukrainian ground-based air defense systems — known as ‘FrankenSAMs’ — this one is notable for combining a Soviet-era SHORADS vehicle with Soviet-era missiles.

Ukrainian Army

Ukraine’s SA-8 Gecko ‘FrankenSAM’ Adapted To Fire Air-To-Air Missiles Seen In New Detail

Posted on Dec 12, 2024

MIM-104 Patriot

Tilting Mark 41 Launcher Emerges During Guam’s First Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Test

By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 10, 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised the possibility of forward deploying new conventionally-armed Oreshnik missiles capable of carrying multiple warheads in neighboring Belarus in the latter half of next year.

MRBMs/IRBMs

Experimental Ballistic Missile Russia Used On Ukraine Could Be Headed To Belarus

Posted on Dec 6, 2024

The Pentagon has released a summary of a new classified strategy to guide efforts to protect American forces abroad and across the U.S. homeland from growing drone threats.

Counter-Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (C-UAS)

This Is The New ‘Counter-Drone Strategy’ Just Unveiled By Pentagon

By Joseph Trevithick, Howard Altman

Posted on Dec 5, 2024

An advanced Russian air defense radar system is among the equipment captured by anti-regime forces in Syria as they continue their rapid push south, with the potential for serious repercussions in the wider region. The Podlet-K1 radar system, also known by the designation 48Ya6-K1, is one of the more modern pieces of equipment in its class and would be a significant intelligence windfall if it finds its way into Western hands.

S-300

Russia’s Advanced Podlet-1K Radar Captured By Anti-Assad Forces In Syria

Posted on Dec 4, 2024

The German arm of the European missile house described its RCM² remote carrier (RC) as a multidomain platform that is able to perform both kinetic strike and electronic warfare (EW) jamming and decoy roles in highly contested and denied airspace.

Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS)

This Is MBDA’s Latest Vision For Its Cruise Missile-Like RCM² ‘Remote Carrier’

Posted on Nov 27, 2024

SUMY, UKRAINE - NOVEMBER 26: A destroyed car stands in a parking lot after a Russian missile attack on November 26, 2024 in Sumy, Ukraine. According to the acting mayor of Sumy, Artem Kobzar, the Russian army attacked the city with a missile. As a result of the strike, a residential multi-storey building was damaged and a parking lot was destroyed.

MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS)

Russia Launched The Largest Drone Attack On Ukraine Of The War