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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 Army

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

Russia's BTR-82 series of armored personnel carriers have suffered extremely heavy losses in Ukraine.

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO - MAY 10: A vehicle drives into the tunnel at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station on May 10, 2018 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. NORAD is celebrating its 60th Anniversary at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post via Getty Images)
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In the coming weeks, drone boats will be plying the waters of the Baltic Sea helping to detect and deter undersea cable sabotage as part of Baltic Sentry.
Baltic Sea

Drone Boats Being Rushed To Help Prevent Baltic Seafloor Cable Sabotage

At least 20 drone boats will take part in NATO's new Baltic Sentry effort spurred by suspected sabotage of undersea cables.

After spending years charting a way forward to a family of unmanned surface vessels in a specific array of sizes and configurations, the Navy is eyeing a major course alteration that would see it pursuing a simpler and more interchangeable design.
Unmanned

Navy To Simplify Drone Ship Plans, Focus On Containerized Payloads That Look Alike

The Navy could abandon its separate large and medium drone boat efforts in favor a single smaller, more modular design.

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.
Baltic Sea

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

The incident occurred the same week that NATO began patrols of these waters to prevent sabotage to critical undersea infrastructure.

Littoral Combat Ship Can Now Rapidly Shoot Down Aerial Drones With Hellfire Missiles
U.S. Navy

Littoral Combat Ship Can Now Rapidly Shoot Down Aerial Drones With Hellfire Missiles

Houthi attacks in the Red Sea prompted the Navy to rush the counter-drone Hellfire capability to the Freedom class LCS.

An F-15E on a flight line in San Antonio, Texas. The aircraft was recently upgraded with Eagle Passive/Active Warning and Survivability System, advanced electronic warfare system.
F-15

F-15E Strike Eagle With New EPAWSS Electronic Warfare Suite Heads To Frontline Unit

The 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath in England is the first recipient of the sophisticated Eagle Passive/Active Warning Survivability System.

The ex-USS John F. Kennedy left Philadelphia today for a journey to a Texas scrapyard
U.S. Navy

The Famed Ex-USS John F. Kennedy Casts Off On Its Final Voyage (Updated)

The Kitty Hawk class carrier was sold for one cent to scrappers after attempts at making it a museum ship failed.

PACIFIC OCEAN (Jan. 23, 2024) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) fires an SM-2 missile during a live-fire exercise. Spruance, assigned to the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, is currently underway in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations conducting advanced tactical training that increases warfighting capability and tactical proficiency across all domains. (U.S. Navy photo by Ensign John Rosenberg)
Red Sea

Navy Warships Have To Leave Red Sea Fight For Weeks To Reload Their Missiles

Such a reality, and its implications for a war with China, are driving the development of the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method used to reload missiles underway.

A Russian decoy drone was engaged by Ukrainian air defenses over Kyiv today, close to where President Volodymyr Zelensky was meeting British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, leader of one of Ukraine’s staunchest military allies. The drone’s presence further underscores the threat posed by long-range Russian uncrewed aerial vehicles, and the incident coincided with Starmer announcing that the United Kingdom would provide Ukraine with additional mobile air defense systems.
Unmanned

This Is The Type Of Russian Decoy Drone Shot Down Over Kyiv As Britain’s Prime Minister Met Zelensky

Russia is increasingly using decoy drones, at least one of which was reportedly shot down over Kyiv as Ukrainian and British leaders signed a multi-billion-dollar military aid package.

The Ukrainian Air Force is investigating whether key personnel were sent to the front lines, a move that could drastically affect its combat capability.
MiG-29

Investigation Launched Into Transfer Of Ukrainian MiG-29 Maintainers, Air Defenders To Front Lines

The Ukrainian Air Force acknowledged that sending these troops to the front could drastically affect its combat capabilities.

Newly released pictures offer the first real look at the four new large launch tubes for firing Intermediate-Range Conventional Prompt Strike (IRCPS) hypersonic missiles now installed on the U.S. Navy's stealth destroyer USS Zumwalt.
U.S. Navy

First Look At Stealth Destroyer’s Hypersonic Missile Launchers

USS Zumwalt will pack a dozen long-range hypersonic missiles, but one of its Advanced Gun Systems still remains after the refit.

Navy MH-60 drone kill in the Red Sea.
MH-60/AH-60

Navy MH-60 Seahawk Helicopter Has Shot Down Its First Drone

A Navy MH-60 Romeo Seahawk helicopter deployed to the Red Sea has shot down a Houthi drone, the vice chief of Naval Operations revealed Tuesday.

Iran has developed a reputation for launching some unconventional naval vessels, some of them downright bizarre — at least when compared with their equivalents elsewhere in the world. Its latest offering, the Zagros, is very much in keeping with this trend: a surveillance ship based on a corvette hull, an unorthodox approach for a type of vessel that’s normally converted from a commercial hull.
Iranian Navy

Iran Unveils New Spy Ship Based On Corvette Hull

While most intelligence-gathering ships are based on commercial designs or specifications, Iran’s new spy ship uses a Mowj class corvette hull.

General Atomics has offered a look at a new air-to-surface missile it is developing.
Air-To-Ground

New Air-Launched Cruise Missile Teased By General Atomics

General Atomics entering the air-to-surface missile market space makes sense, especially given a surge of interest in lower-cost designs.

A conceptual design of the U.S. Navy's future DDG(X) warship.
U.S. Homeland

DDG(X) Next-Generation Destroyer’s Capabilities And Costs Are Solidifying

The Navy’s head of surface warfare says DDG(X) is a "clean-sheet imperative" that will prioritize electricity production, endurance and advanced weapons.

Rendering of a Medium Landing Ship.
China

Navy Now Seeking Commercial Ship Design To Propel Its Long-Delayed Medium Landing Ship Program Forward

The Navy halted the Medium Landing Ship effort last month after high cost estimates and is now seeking commercial vessel designs to move Marines in a Pacific fight.

Members of Hamas's armed wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, arrive in a vehicle at a street in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 15, 2025, amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. Thousands of Gazans celebrated on January 15 as news spread that a ceasefire and hostage release deal had been reached between Israel and Hamas, aimed at ending more than 15 months of war in the Palestinian territory.
Israel

Gaza Ceasefire Agreed To, Final Israeli Approval Pending (Updated)

After more than 15 months of fighting, a Gaza ceasefire deal that includes the release of Israeli hostages is expected to be implemented within days.

Norwegian F-35s are in Poznań, Poland, as part of Norway's contribution to NATO's integrated air and missile defense.
F-35A

Norwegian F-35s Scrambled In Poland During Russian Missile Strikes On Ukraine

Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion, multiple missiles and drones have entered Polish airspace, which is now also defended by Norwegian assets.

Analysis of china's new stealth tailless fighter aircraft
J-36

What China’s Next Generation Stealth Jet Reveal Really Means

Deep analysis on China's new advanced tailless 'fighter' aircraft, what we know and what we don't, and their broader implications.