Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) reported that its Alpha special operations unit destroyed roughly half of Russia’s Pantsir surface-to-air missile and gun systems in 2025 through long-range strikes. In a statement on 14 February, the SBU […]
Russian troops criticized domestic satellite terminals operating via Yamal-601 and Yamal-602, saying they cannot replace SpaceX’s Starlink in frontline use. Servicemembers cited setup complexity, unstable connections, high tariffs, large antenna size, and lower-than-advertised data speeds. […]
Russia often mixes up how it attacks Ukraine with ballistic and cruise missiles — from firing decoys to tweaking trajectories midflight — and Kyiv says it’s funneling that battlefield intel to US Patriot interceptor makers […]
Ukraine’s defense industry displayed the latest version of its 2S22 Bohdana 155 mm self-propelled howitzer at the World Defense Show 2026 in Saudi Arabia. The debut signals Ukraine’s push to position a combat-proven artillery system […]
Ukraine has locked in commitments for 250 Western fighter jets through separate agreements with Sweden and France, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy disclosed while visiting the Kyiv Aviation Institute. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced on 8 February […]
Swedish aerospace manufacturer Saab has proposed that a hypothetical Gripen production line in Canada would be large enough to also serve export customers besides making planes for the Canadian Air Force. The statement is the […]
Ukraine’s Defense Forces confirmed that they carried out a series of long-range strikes in January 2026 against infrastructure linked to Russia’s Oreshnik missile complex at the Kapustin Yar test range in Russia’s Astrakhan region, according […]
During a February 3 Senate hearing on North African terrorism, State Department official Robert Palladino called media reports of Algeria’s Su-57E and Su-34 deals ‘concerning’ and warned they could trigger CAATSA sanctions against major Russian […]
Myanmar and Russia have signed a five-year security pact, Moscow said Tuesday, sealing an alliance analysts say has been crucial to the junta’s grip on power. Myanmar agreed on North Korean-style soldiers’ deployment in the […]
There were many problems with the new Russian regional airliner program right from the beginning. One of them – at least according to some – was the fact that the aircraft itself was not really […]
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