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SULYHIVKA, UKRAINE - MARCH 26: Emergency demining team carries out demining and destruction of explosives in Sulyhivka, Ukraine on March 26, 2024. A demining team works to destroy mines and other explosives in a remote area of the Kharkiv region. According to experts, it may take two or three years to completely clear this small area of explosives.
Russia

Anti-Personnel Landmines Included In U.S. Aid Package To Ukraine For First Time

The controversial landmines are being provided to Ukraine to help contain so-called Russian "meat wave" assaults.

A RS-24 Yars intercontinental ballistic missile vehicle during the rehearsals for the Victory Day Military Parade at the polygon, on April 18, 2022 in Alabino, outside of Moscow, Russia. About 12,000 soldiers and officers are expected to take pat at the Red Square Victory Day Military Parade, planned on May 9.
MRBMs/IRBMs

The Story Of Russia’s Secretive RS-26 Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile

The Oreshnik missile that Russia used today in Ukraine has roots in the supposedly defunct RS-26 Rubezh ballistic missile program.

Submarine launches tomahawk cruise missile.
Nuclear Attack Submarines (SSNs)

Pros And Cons Of The Navy’s Controversial Submarine-Launched Nuclear Cruise Missile

Will Trump returning to the White House put wind in the sails of the nuclear-tipped cruise missile program he started?

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country's forces fired a previously unknown medium-range hypersonic missile called Oreshnik at Ukraine earlier today.
Land-Based Ballistic Missile Defense

Russia’s Experimental Ballistic Missile Used To Strike Ukraine Is Based On The RS-26 Rubezh

Details are emerging about Russia's new 'Oreshnik' ballistic missile and its genesis.

Ukraine claims Russia fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) at the city of Dmipro.
Russia

Russia’s Unprecedented Ballistic Missile Attack On Ukraine: What We Know

Russia has used a more capable ballistic missile than ever before to strike Ukraine with what appear to be multiple warheads.

Ukraine's domestically developed Dovbush T10 drone has taken on a new role acting as a mothership for first-person view (FPV) kamikaze quadcopters.
Loitering Munitions

Watch A Ukrainian Uncrewed Aerial Mothership Launch Kamikaze Drones

Using uncrewed aerial platforms to launch and provide connectivity for first-person view drones help overcome many of the latter's deficiencies.

Pictured is an RAF Chinook (27(R) Squadron) flying in formation with a Puma (230 Squadron) over RAF Cosford. After a 3-year Covid-enforced break, the RAF Cosford Air Show will take place on 12 June 2022. The last RAF-organised air show, it attracts 50,000 people to the airfield and incorporates a flying display, static aircraft displays, STEM displays and vintage villages. The highlights of the flying will be the RAF Red Arrows, BBMF, Typhoon display team, Belgian F16 and French Rafale. The RAF F35B displayed at the air show for the first time.
United Kingdom

British Defense Cuts Hit All Three Services Hard

Amphibious assault ships, drones, and an entire fleet of helicopters are all being axed in a cost-saving effort.

The U.S. military has not seen demonstrable evidence of North Korea successfully testing a re-entry vehicle capable of bringing a nuclear warhead back down to Earth through the atmosphere, according to America's top officer in the Pacific region.
ICBMs

ICBM Reentry Vehicle Capability Still Unproven By North Korea, U.S. Military Says

North Korea is actively working on reentry vehicle technology that is especially critical for fielding functional ICBMs.

The Chinese ship, the bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 (R) is anchored and being monitored by a Danish naval patrol vessels in the sea of Kattegat, near the City og Granaa in Jutland, Denmark, on November 20, 2024. Denmark's navy said on November 20, 2024 it was shadowing a Chinese cargo vessel in the Baltic Sea, a day after Finland and Sweden opened investigations into suspected sabotage of two severed undersea telecoms cables. "The Danish Defence can confirm that we are present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3," the military wrote in an email to AFP, adding that it would make no further comment for the time-being.
China

Danish Navy Shadows Chinese Cargo Ship After Baltic Sea Cable Damage

The Chinese ship, the Yi Peng 3, is now anchored, with a Royal Danish Navy patrol boat alongside it.

The US embassy in Kyiv warned on November 20, 2024, of a "potential significant air attack" and shuttered its doors, following Russia's vow to respond after Ukraine fired longer-range US missiles at its territory for the first time.
Russia

U.S. Embassy In Kyiv Temporarily Closed Due To Russian Airstrike Threat

The rare move to close the embassy was followed by Ukrainian officials claiming Russia is spreading false info to stoke fear.

The U.S. military risks going into a potential major fight with China with insufficient stocks of Patriot surface-to-air interceptors and other key munitions due to obligations in the Middle East and Ukraine, the top officer in the Pacific has warned.
Air-To-Air

Conflicts ‘Eating Into’ Critical Munitions Stockpiles Needed For China Fight, Top U.S. Officer In Pacific Warns

The admiral's remarks are the latest admission that stocks of critical munitions are a growing concern due to fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East.

Picatinny Arsenal drone sighting
Unmanned

Army Arsenal Seeking Info On Mysterious Drone Flights Over Installation

This marks the latest incident of multiple reports of drones of unknown origin being spotted over U.S. military facilities.

29 November 2023, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Sassnitz: A fiber optic cable is pulled ashore from the cable-laying ship "Pleijel" at the entrance to the port of Sassnitz. After several weather-related delays, an 800-kilometre-long undersea cable from Scandinavia landed in Sassnitz on the island of Rügen on Wednesday. the yellow cable, which is about the thickness of a broomstick, will soon be connected to the GlobalConnect fiber optic network. Including land and sea routes, the cable for the digital high-speed highway is a total of 2600 kilometers long, as GlobalConnect announced. Work began in fall 2021.
Baltic Sea

Sabotage Claims Swirl Around Severed Baltic Sea Cable Incidents

Damage to the two fiber-optic cables are the latest incidents to have affected critical infrastructure in the Baltic Sea.

A Bayraktar TB3 uncrewed aircraft has successfully landed on and taken off from the Turkish Navy’s ‘drone carrier’ TCG Anadolu.
Unmanned

TB3 Operates From Turkey’s ‘Drone Carrier’ Amphibious Assault Ship For The First Time

TB3 testing aboard TCG Anadolu puts Turkey one step closer to fielding a first-of-its-kind operational fixed-wing naval drone capability.

Ukraine has used the U.S.-made Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) for the first time against a target inside Russia. The announcement comes soon after Moscow warned that the use of Western-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine against Russia could trigger a nuclear response, after Russian nuclear war plans were updated.
MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS)

U.S.-Supplied ATACMS Missile Strike Inside Russia Have Begun

Ukraine has struck a weapons depot in Russia with ATACMS short-range ballistic missiles.

A unit charged with exploring how the U.S. Air Force will utilize its future Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) is now set to get actual examples of the first tranche of those drones to experiment with.
Loyal Wingman

Extra Collaborative Combat Aircraft Purchases To Give USAF Test Unit A Boost

The USAF is still very much figuring out what its future CCA fleets will look like and how it will operate, maintain, and sustain them.

Key Trump nominee blasts BIden decision to allow Ukraine to use ATACMS in Russia.
Russia

Biden ATACMS Decision Spurs Russian Threats, Hope and Derision Elsewhere

Ukraine Situation Report: Trump's team is clearly mad about Biden's move, but Kursk remains a key bargaining chip for Ukraine.

A Turkish Air Force F-4E Phantom II, adorned with a striking Turkish flag livery, soars in a low-altitude maneuver over Eskisehir to commemorate 50 years of service in the Turkish Air Force in Eskisehir, Turkiye on November 16, 2024.
F-4

F-4 Phantoms Tear Through Turkey To Mark 50 Years Of Service

With Ankara still waiting on new fighter equipment, the classic Cold War design remains in frontline service with the Turkish Air Force.

SPEAR 3 air-to-surface mini cruise missile.
F-35B

UK’s New SPEAR 3 Mini Cruise Missile Succeeds In First End-To-End Test

The SPEAR 3 is set to provide the British F-35B stealth fighter with a much-needed standoff air-to-ground attack capability.

Flight testing of the U.S. Air Force's Stand-In Attack Weapon (SiAW) missile is now set to begin following the delivery of an initial test article.
F-35

First Stand-In Attack Missile Delivered To USAF

The Air Force hopes to field the Stand-In Attack Weapon, designed to offer a new way to strike key time-sensitive targets, starting in 2026.