4067 Results From "Russia"

A Russian-connected oil tanker suspected of severing the Estlink 2 power cable running under the Baltic Sea between Finland and Estonia was reportedly found to be packed with spy equipment.
Sea

Russian-Linked Oil Tanker Suspected Of Sabotage Was Brimming With Spy Equipment: Report

By Howard Altman

Updated on Dec 27, 2024

DOW making naughty or nice list of defense contractors.
South America

Pentagon Is Making A Naughty Or Nice List Of Defense Contractors

By Howard Altman

Posted on Feb 11, 2026

Ukraine said it captured 1.000 kilometers of Russian territory.
Russia

Ukraine Expands Area Of Fighting But Finding Advances Increasingly Blocked

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 12, 2024

While it has turned out that the RS-26-based Oreshnik that Russia fired at Ukraine was not a conventionally-armed ICBM, it still highlights the very real interest in, if not more active development and even potential fielding of, a weapon of that kind globally.
Tactical Ballistic Missiles

Conventionally Armed ICBM Concept Highlighted By Unprecedented Russian Missile Attack On Ukraine

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Nov 22, 2024

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.
Russia

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

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Oct 29, 2024

Ukraine is eyeing expanding its Kursk invasion despite Russian reinforcements.
Russia

Ukraine Eyeing Expansion Of Kursk Invasion Despite Russian Reinforcements

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 13, 2024

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

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Nov 19, 2024

Russia’s Only Prototype T-80UM2 Tank Was Destroyed In Ukraine
Russia

Russia’s Only Prototype T-80UM2 Tank Was Destroyed In Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Mar 21, 2022

One of Ukraine’s Cold War-era Leopard 1 main battle tanks survived as many as a dozen hits from Russian first-person view (FPV) attack drones, according to Ukrainian sources. The incident underscores the proliferation of this particular threat on the battlefield but also points to the effectiveness of the ‘up-armored’ version of the venerable Leopard 1, examples of which have received a variety of different protective measures in Ukrainian service.
Leopard

Ukrainian Leopard 1 Tank Survived A Dozen Drone Strikes: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 24, 2025

Ukraine struck Russia's Kirov Oblast, 700 miles from the border, for the first time as part of its ongoing campaign against Moscow's fuel infrastructure.
Unmanned

Russian Region 700 Miles From The Border Struck For First Time By Ukrainian Drones

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 28, 2024

Military vehicles drive down a road past a sign indicating that the border to Russia is approaching north of Sumy on August 15th 2024, in Sumy Region, Ukraine. Ukraines's incursion into Russia's Kursk has continued into a second week.
Russia

38,000 Russian Troops Committed To Kursk Counteroffensive: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 16, 2024

German defense startup Helsing has unveiled a new uncrewed combat air vehicle (UCAV), the CA-1 Europa. The company is targeting a first flight in 2027 for the UCAV, which looks very similar to the MQ-28 Ghost Bat. Boeing’s Australian subsidiary developed Ghost Bat first as a ‘loyal wingman’ drone for the Royal Australian Air Force, under the Airpower Teaming System. The U.S. Air Force has also now acquired at least one example ostensibly to support research and development and test and evaluation efforts.
MQ-28

Helsing’s CA-1 Drone Is An MQ-28 Ghost Bat Lookalike

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 25, 2025

Trump no longer asking allies to help open the strait of hormuz.
Iran

Trump No Longer Wants Allies To Send Warships To Open The Strait Of Hormuz (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Updated on Mar 17, 2026

Ukraine's probing near a Kursk border town may protend a larger attack in that sector.
Russia

Ukraine Testing Advance In Kursk Toward Russian Troops Trapped By Blown Bridges

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 21, 2024

New satellite imagery shows the continued withdrawal of Russian forces from its Khmeimim Air Base in Syria. Russia is also massing units at its Tartus naval base in the country, which also points to plans for their impending departure.
Syria

Satellite Imagery Shows Ramp-Up In Russian Forces Massing At Bases In Syria For Withdrawal

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Dec 17, 2024

European nations are debating whether to send peacekeeping troops to Ukraine as part of any deal to end the war.
Russia

Europe Debates Sending Troops To Ukraine

By Howard Altman

Updated on Feb 17, 2025

It could cost nearly $1.2 trillion to develop, field, and operate a new missile defense shield like the one the Trump administration proposes to establish under its Golden Dome initiative, according to a new estimate.
Anti-Satellite Capabilities

7,800 Interceptors In Space At Core Of $1.2 Trillion Golden Dome Cost Estimate

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on May 13, 2026

GMARS
M142 HIMARS

Wheeled Launcher With Double The Weapons Of HIMARS Completes First Successful Test Firing

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 4, 2025

A former Pentagon official offers unique insights into the creation of the LUCAS drone.
Drones

How America’s Shahed-136 Kamikaze Drone Clone Suddenly Became An “Indispensable” Weapon Of War

By Howard Altman

Updated on Apr 9, 2026

The U.S. Navy has halted plans to acquire an air-launched, air-breathing hypersonic anti-ship cruise missile, citing cost and industrial base factors.
Air-launched hypersonic cruise missiles

Navy Axes Its Hypersonic Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Plans

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Apr 11, 2025