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The Kremlin-appointed Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has vowed to avenge a Ukrainian drone attack that struck a military training facility in Chechnya. The raid, which appears to be the first of its kind to hit the southern Russian republic, is one of the longest-range drone strikes that Ukraine has attempted. The target was special forces training center, but the attack also has significant symbolic value, due to Kadyrov’s vocal support for the Russian war in Ukraine.

Ukraine Strikes Chechnya With Long-Range Drones For The First Time

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Oct 29, 2024
Search For Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Replacement Halted By SOCOM

Search For Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Replacement Halted By SOCOM

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Oct 11, 2024
U.S. Army Green Berets covertly hijacking a WiFi network to disable a building's security systems so their companions can sneak inside, grab intel, and leave after using electronic warfare gear to conceal they were ever there sounds like the opening scene to a Mission Impossible movie or Call of Duty video game. Very real Army Special Forces soldiers executed this exact scenario during a training exercise in Sweden earlier this year.

Green Berets Hijacked WiFi To Control Home Security System Then Vanish In Mock Raid

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Aug 29, 2024
The U.S. Army is looking at paragliders as a way to give conventional forces, especially airborne units, new options for getting around the battlefield and surveilling enemy forces.

U.S. Army Has A Plan For Paragliding Paratroopers

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Aug 20, 2024
US Special Operations Command has been tasked to lead the so-called "left-of-launch" fight against drones before they can get airborne or maybe are even produced in the first place.

Destroying Drones Before Launch Is Becoming A Major Mission For U.S. Special Operators

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Jul 25, 2024
Green berets on Shemya

American Special Operations Forces Are At A Crossroads

By Howard Altman
Posted on May 12, 2024
The replacement for Barrett .50 caliber riles, a well as Mk 15s in the same caliber, in U.S. special operations forces inventories may be chambered in a new smaller cartridge.

Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Replacement For SOCOM May Fire A Smaller Round

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on May 10, 2024
US Special Operations Command has laid out requirements for a new Extreme Long Range Sniper Rifle that could replace its Barrett M82/M107 and Mk 15 .50 caliber rifles.

Barrett .50 Caliber Sniper Rifle Replacement Sought By SOCOM

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Jan 6, 2024
A Su-34 Fullback fighter-bomber apparently destroyed last night by a Ukrainian special forces team, as it sat on its airbase.

Su-34 Fullback Torched During Raid Deep In Russia

By Thomas Newdick
Posted on Jan 4, 2024
IDF hostage Rescue

Hostage Rescue Experts On The Daunting Challenges Israel Faces

By Howard Altman
Updated on Oct 16, 2023
There are more claims that Ukrainian special operators are attacking Wagner forces in Sudan.

Ukraine Situation Report: Are Kyiv’s Special Operators Fighting Wagner In Africa?

By Howard Altman
Posted on Oct 7, 2023
Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Directorate says it raided Crimea Thursday.

Ukraine Special Operations Forces Raid Crimea

By Howard Altman
Posted on Aug 24, 2023
A recent US guerrilla warfare exercise shows signs of influences from the conflict in Ukraine.

Guerrilla Warfare Exercise In West Virginia Looks Heavily Influenced By Ukraine War

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Jun 29, 2023
Green Beret conducts high-altitude freefall jump with an SADM

Special Forces Parachuted With Nukes Strapped To Them During The Cold War

By Oliver Parken
Posted on Jun 9, 2023
SOF WEEK Tampa Ukraine arms

Ukrainian Arms Dealer’s Experience Shopping At Special Ops Trade Show In The U.S.

By Howard Altman
Posted on May 15, 2023
MH-47 Night Stalker Sudan

Special Operations Forces Evacuate U.S. Embassy Personnel From Sudan

By Howard Altman
Updated on Apr 23, 2023