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AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon To Equip Ukraine’s F-16s: Report

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 21, 2024

A huge explosion has rocked the Tver region, in the west of Russia, with initial reports indicating that Ukrainian long-range attack drones targeted an ammunition depot there. Videos and pictures on social media from the scene show an initial explosion, with a very large fireball, followed by a significant visible shockwave, then several minutes’ worth of secondary explosions illuminating the night sky.
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Massive Russian Weapons Depot Still Burning After Ukrainian Drone Attack

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 18, 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.
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38,000 Russian Troops Committed To Kursk Counteroffensive: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 16, 2024

Russia's Kursk counteroffensive is fully underway.
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Russia’s Kursk Counteroffensive Fully Underway

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 14, 2024

Russia putting tires on top of bombers and other aircraft was about confusing seekers with image-matching capability on incoming munitions, a senior U.S. military technologist has confirmed.
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Russia Covering Aircraft With Tires Is About Confusing Image-Matching Missile Seekers U.S. Military Confirms

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Sep 13, 2024

What appears to be one of the first looks at members of the German armed forces with new 5.56x45mm Heckler & Koch HK416 A8 rifles, also known as G95A1s, has come from an unexpected source: the U.S. Army. With help from the U.S. Army, the Germans have been stress-testing the guns in very hot and humid conditions at a facility in Panama and in the Arizona desert.
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Germany’s New HK416 Service Rifles Appear At Panama Test Site

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 13, 2024

Russia is now using thermite-spewing dragon drones in Ukraine.
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Russia Now Using Thermite-Spewing ‘Dragon Drones’ To Torch Ukrainian Positions

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 12, 2024

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has published a video showing the purported destruction of a Russian Su-30SM Flanker multirole fighter, which it claims was brought down by a shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile over the Black Sea.
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Russian Su-30SM Flanker Crashes In Black Sea, Ukraine Says They Shot It Down With MANPADS

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 12, 2024

Storm Shadow
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Increasing Indications Storm Shadow Missiles Will Be Cleared For Use Inside Russia

By Howard Altman

Updated on Sep 12, 2024

A Russian military correspondent narrowlly avoided being killed by a drone hunting him down in a house.
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This Ukrainian Drone Hunting A Russian Inside A Building Has Big Horror Movie Vibes

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 11, 2024

The head of the House Foreign Affairs Committe says he was told by Secretary of State Antony Blinken that the U.S. will give Ukraine the green light to use ATACMS in Russia.
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Ukraine Using ATACMS Missiles To Strike Inside Russia Now On The Table

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 10, 2024

Ukraine has unleashed the heaviest drone attack so far against Moscow. The overnight raid on the Russian capital killed at least one person and caused widespread damage and disruption. The long-range strikes come as Ukrainian officials are increasingly frustrated by Western restrictions on using weapons that they have supplied to hit targets deep within Russia.
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Moscow Hit By Unprecedented Ukrainian Drone Barrage

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 10, 2024

JAS39C Gripen Ukraine
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Sweden’s JAS-39 Gripen Fighters Still On The Table For Ukraine

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 9, 2024

Iranian-made Shahed-136 'Kamikaze' drone flies over the sky of Kermanshah, Iran on March 7, 2024. Iran fired over 100 drones and ballistic missiles on Saturday, April 13, 2024, in retaliation to an attack on a building attached to the country's consular annex in Damascus that killed the guards, and two generals of the Quds Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on April 01, 2024. Iran has blamed Israel for the attack on April 5, 2024 in Tehran.
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Russian Shahed Kamikaze Drone Crashes In Latvia

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 9, 2024

Iranian ground-to-ground Sajil missile launches at an undisclosed location in Iran on November 12, 2008.
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Iranian Ballistic Missiles Have Arrived In Russia: Reports

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 7, 2024

A video has emerged showing a Ukrainian Su-24M Fencer swing-wing combat jet carrying what is said to be new air-launched guided munition.
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Mystery Munition Appears Under Ukrainian Su-24 Fencer Attack Jet’s Wing

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Sep 6, 2024

Dutch Decide To Bring Back Main Battle Tanks
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Dutch Decide To Bring Back Main Battle Tanks

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 5, 2024

The use of thermite-dispersing drones by Ukraine has proliferated.
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Thermite-Spewing ‘Dragon’ Drones Are Ukraine’s Newest Battlefield Innovation

By Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Sep 4, 2024

Kursk incursion a bargainin chip says Zelensky
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Kursk Invasion A Bargaining Chip Zelensky Says

By Howard Altman

Posted on Sep 4, 2024

Above All Else JASSM Would Give Ukraine A Steady Supply Of Cruise Missiles
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Above All Else JASSM Would Give Ukraine A Steady Supply Of Cruise Missiles

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Sep 3, 2024

Ukraine has developed a balloon-carried electronic warfare system designed to detect enemy drone operators, which can then be targeted, offering a more comprehensive solution than tackling individual drones. While the status of the system, known as Aero Azimuth, is unclear, its unveiling points to a resurgence in interest in elevated sensors, especially mounted of aerostats.
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Balloon-Based Sensor That Pinpoints Location Of Drone Operators Emerges In Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Sep 3, 2024

Ukraine is advancing slowly eastward to a key town in Russia's Kursk Oblast
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Ukraine Pushing Slowly West In Russia Towards Key Kursk City

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 31, 2024

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky fired his Air Force commander days after a fatal F-16 crash.
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Zelensky Fires Air Force Commander As Claims Swirl Around Fatal F-16 Loss

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 30, 2024

Russian troops are now eight miles from the key Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk.
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Fall Of Key Ukrainian City To Russia Could Be An “Operational Catastrophe”

By Howard Altman

Updated on Aug 30, 2024

Reports from the United States suggest that Ukraine has lost its first F-16 fighter, and one of its pilots, in a crash during a combat mission earlier this week. If true, and there are some questions about the accuracy of the reports, it would be a significant blow for the Ukrainian Air Force, which has so far only received a small number of the jets and has only a handful of combat-qualified pilots.
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Ukrainian Pilot Killed In First F-16 Loss

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 29, 2024

The U.S. Coast Guard's heavy icebreaker USCGC Polar Star has returned to its home port of Seattle, Washington, after a major service life-extending overhaul – and not a moment too soon.
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U.S. Coast Guard Has A Working Heavy Icebreaker Again

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 29, 2024

Ukraine is targeting the Key E38 highway with drones to slow down Russian logistics.
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Ukraine Bracketing Key Kursk Highway With Drones To Slow Russian Logistics

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 29, 2024

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

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 28, 2024

Poland’s first F-35A stealth fighter — locally named Husarz, or hussar — was officially rolled out today in a glitzy ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s Fort Worth, Texas plant.
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Poland’s First F-35A “Hussar” Stealth Fighter Rolled Out

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 28, 2024

Ukraine's invasion of Kursk Oblast has entered its third week
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Pace of Ukraine Advance Slowing As Kursk Invasion Hits Three-Week Mark

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 27, 2024

Not for the first time, the commitment of the United Kingdom to the F-35B Lightning stealth fighter is under scrutiny, amid reports that the new government could make cuts to it as it grapples with financial woes. With the British government seemingly committed to the next-generation Tempest fighter, the ability to pay for two separate advanced combat aircraft programs is being questioned, while continued problems integrating new weapons on the F-35B also pose a threat to its long-term security.
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United Kingdom’s F-35B Fleet Plans Under Threat As Defense Cuts Loom

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 27, 2024

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says that his country has conducted the first successful test of a new domestically-developed ballistic missile.
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Ukraine Says It Has Tested A New Domestically-Designed Ballistic Missile

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 27, 2024

Ukraine suffered the largest Russian aerial bombardment of the war.
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Largest Russian Aerial Attack Of The War Wreaks Havoc On Ukraine’s Beleaguered Power Grid

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 27, 2024

Before the Ukrainian Air Force received its first batch of F-16 Viper fighters, the U.S. Air Force helped optimize electronic warfare (EW) systems on those jets against Russian threats.
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Electronic Warfare Systems On Ukraine’s F-16s Getting Specially Tuned To Russian Threats By USAF

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 27, 2024

The security alert at Geilenkirchen Air Base in Germany last week, which you can read more about here, was due to fears of a possible Russian drone attack, according to multiple German media reports. The latest development comes amid growing fears of Russian-inspired aggression against Germany, including drones, but also various other ‘hybrid warfare’ tactics. As the main operating base for NATO’s fleet of E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), the base plays a critical role for the alliance — including around Ukraine.
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Fears Of Russian-Inspired Drone Attack Led To German Air Base Alert: Reports

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 26, 2024

Sabotage at norwegian airbase
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Sabotage Confirmed At Norwegian Air Base

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Aug 23, 2024

The destruction of a ship carrying fuel tank cars will affect supplies to troops and the Crimean peninsula.
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Fuel Supplies To Russian Troops, Crimea Strangled By Destruction Of Ship

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 23, 2024

Images taken after a Ukrainian drone strike on an airbase deep inside Russia Russia shows several combat aircraft were damaged.
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Russian Jets Damaged In Ukrainian Long-Range Drone Attack On Air Base

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 23, 2024

A Czech company has unveiled an inflatable decoy of the F-16 fighter, notably wearing Ukrainian Air Force markings. The inflatable fighter, from a firm that is already known to be providing Kyiv with decoys of other items of military equipment, appears only a matter of weeks after it was confirmed that the first real F-16s had arrived in Ukraine.
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Inflatable Ukrainian F-16 Decoy Emerges At Defense Show

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 22, 2024

A Ukrainian missile struck and sunk a vessel full of fuel train cars.
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Ship Full Of Fuel Train Cars Detonates In Russian Port, Ukrainian Neptune Missile Suspected (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 22, 2024

Ukraine's probing near a Kursk border town may protend a larger attack in that sector.
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Ukraine Testing Advance In Kursk Toward Russian Troops Trapped By Blown Bridges

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 21, 2024

Ostafyevo air base
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Signals Intelligence Center Targeted In Drone Attack On Moscow: Ukraine’s Intel Chief

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 21, 2024

Thousands of Russian troops are likely trapped in a pocket of Kursk Oblast after Ukraine destroyed three bridges over the Seim River.
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Thousands Of Russian Troops In Kursk Likely Trapped By Blown Bridges

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 20, 2024

Ukrainian troops are pushing westward in Russia's Kursk Oblast as part of an effort to crea
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Ukraine Pushing Westward In Kursk To Create A “Buffer Zone”

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 19, 2024

A major fire, which may still be ongoing, has reportedly broken out on the former Soviet Kiev class aircraft carrier Minsk, which has been rotting away in a man-made lagoon just off a stretch of the Yangtze River in China for years now.
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Soviet Aircraft Carrier Turned Failed Chinese Tourist Attraction Is On Fire (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Aug 17, 2024

Ukraine blew up a key bridge threatening Russia logistics in Kursk.
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Ukraine Drops Key Russian Bridge In Kursk

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 16, 2024

A 'conundrum' being moved into position in anticipation of Operation PLUTO
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The Underwater Pipelines That Supplied Fuel For The Allied Invasion Of Normandy

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Aug 15, 2024

The Kursk logistics hub of Lgov came under fire for the first time during this 10-day-old invasion.
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Claims Swirl Around Strike On Key Russian Logistics Hub In Kursk (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 15, 2024

An F-16 Fighting Falcon piloted by Lt. Col. Mike May from the 85th Test and Evaluation squadron sits on the ramp at Eglin Air Force Base on October 2, 2019 with a JASSM-ER. The 85th TES released the extended range missile as part of an operational test sortie.
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JASSM Stealth Cruise Missiles Now On The Table For Ukraine: Report

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 15, 2024

The Ukrainian Air Force has released a video offering the best look to date of one of the country's MiG-29 Fulcrum fighters employing French-made AASM-250 Hammer precision-guided bombs.
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Best Look Yet At Ukrainian MiG-29 Releasing Hammer Rocket-Assisted Bombs

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 15, 2024

As Ukrainian forces push north in Kursk Oblast, Russia is building trenches to blunt their offensive.
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Russia Building Trenches In Kursk To Defend Against Ukrainian Advances

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 14, 2024

Half a century ago today, the first prototype of the Panavia Tornado prototype, aircraft P-01, was recorded at Manching in West Germany, with test pilots Paul Millet from British Aerospace and Nils Meister of Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) at the controls.
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Panavia Tornado Swing-Wing Combat Jet’s Ten Most Unusual Variants

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 14, 2024

An explosion near the Savasleyka airfield in Russia after a drone strike.
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Ukrainian Drone Seen Slamming Into Russian Air Base In Large-Scale Strikes On Multiple Installations

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 14, 2024

Lessons learned from Ukraine's failed counteroffensive last year informed its invasion of Kursk says a retired high-ranking Ukrainian officer.
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Kursk Invasion Plan Developed By Lessons Learned From Failed Counteroffensive: Retired Ukrainian Officer

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 14, 2024

A new Russian design for a ‘loyal wingman’-type supersonic drone has been unveiled, marking the country’s latest foray into unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs). Interestingly, the Kronshtadt company that designed the Grom (meaning Thunder) previously displayed another UCAV under the same name. The new version of the Grom is very different, however, stressing performance and simplicity over low-observable features and other advanced technologies.
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Russia’s Aspirational Grom Combat Drone’s Design Totally Changes, Ditches Stealth For Speed

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 14, 2024

Ukraine is eyeing expanding its Kursk invasion despite Russian reinforcements.
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Ukraine Eyeing Expansion Of Kursk Invasion Despite Russian Reinforcements

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 13, 2024

Russia has unveiled a new gunless version of its Pantsir air defense system it says is ideally suited to protecting critical infrastructure from drones using small short-range interceptors.
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Pantsir Packed With Drone-Intercepting Mini Missiles Unveiled By Russia

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 13, 2024

Ukraine said it captured 1.000 kilometers of Russian territory.
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Ukraine Expands Area Of Fighting But Finding Advances Increasingly Blocked

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 12, 2024

The Ukrainian invasion of Kursk continues despite increasing Russian reinforcements.
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Russia Racing Troops To Kursk In Hopes Of Booting Ukraine’s Invasion Forces

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 9, 2024

Ukraine's F-16s arrived with self protection pods
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F-16s Delivered To Ukraine With Advanced Countermeasure Pods For Self-Protection

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Aug 8, 2024

Ukraine now has at least 2,000 troops inside Russia and continues to pour more in.
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Ukrainian Forces Make Major Gains Inside Russia On Day Three Of Kursk Invasion (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 8, 2024

France will have sent Ukraine 600 Hammer bombs by the end of the year.
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Ukrainian MiG-29’s Special Pylon For Hammer Rocket-Boosted Bombs Emerges

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Aug 8, 2024

Ukrainian drone operators are increasingly taking the fight to the Russian helicopters operating over and around the battlefield, by launching direct attacks with first-person view (FPV) drones. While there has been one previous report of a Russian rotorcraft successfully being attacked by a drone and several videos showing near-misses, the increasing quantity of such incidents indicates that this is now becoming a more established practice.
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Russian Mi-28 Havoc Attack Helicopter Engaged In Mid-Air By Ukrainian Drone

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Aug 7, 2024

Ukraine's incursion into Kursk, Russia.
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Ukrainian Forces Fight Inside Russia For Second Day (Updated)

By Howard Altman

Posted on Aug 7, 2024