Tag: Ukraine
U.S. Locks In Massive Patriot Production Expansion
The U.S. government has awarded Lockheed Martin a seven-year contract modification worth up to $53.86 billion for Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptors, bringing the total multiyear program to $58.62 billion after an initial $4.7 billion award in April.The money buys time, not missiles. Lockheed delivered 620 PAC-3 MSE interceptors in 2025…
Ukraine Strikes Wildberries Warehouses Across Russia
Ukrainian forces used long-range FP-1 drones, built by Ukrainian manufacturer Fire Point and capable of reaching targets more than 350 kilometers inside Russia, to strike Wildberries logistics hubs in Russia's Ryazan, Penza, and Udmurtia regions overnight, part of a wider wave of strikes that also hit an oil refinery in…
Private Industry Storms the Missile Age
The missile is again becoming an organizing weapon of conventional war. Ukraine and the Middle East have shown that states with modest air forces can impose military and economic costs at long range. Precision strike has turned into an industrial competition built around mixed salvos, production speed and the ability…
Russia Launched Massive Overnight Attack on Ukraine
Russia launched 74 missiles and 284 drones at Ukraine in the early hours of July 30, killing and wounding civilians in the capital, Kyiv, as well as the western city of Lviv, the southern city of Kryvyi Rih, and the eastern Poltava region, Ukraine's Air Force said. Ukrainian air defenses…
Ukraine Hits Wildberries Hub in Massive Ryazan Drone Attack
A massive Ukrainian drone attack struck Russia's Ryazan region early Wednesday, setting a Wildberries logistics center ablaze and reportedly hitting the Rosneft-operated Ryazan Oil Refinery.Governor Pavel Malkov confirmed a large attack and fires at industrial sites, saying six people were hospitalized. He attributed the fires to falling drone debris without…
Zelenskyy Presses for Patriots as Pentagon Aid Stalls
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday to push for Patriot interceptors and diplomacy, even as the administration, according to Kyiv Post, has told Congress it will not finish spending $400 million in already-approved Ukraine aid until fiscal year 2029. Zelenskyy called the sit-down…
Putin Orders Third Armed Forces Ceiling Hike of 2026
Russia has again expanded the authorized size of its armed forces, reinforcing a military structure built for prolonged war rather than postwar demobilization.The decree, signed by President Vladimir Putin on July 27, raises the ceiling to 2,426,130 personnel, including 1,535,000 servicemembers — the third such increase in 2026, according to…
Four Countries Protest Russia Over War’s Fallout
Over the past ten days, Russia has drawn formal diplomatic protests from three countries with little in common except geography, India, Azerbaijan, and Botswana, plus a fourth incident involving Romania that Bucharest has linked to Moscow's war. Read together, the four episodes trace back to three distinct features of how…
U.S. Missile Shortages Raise Risks From Ukraine to Taiwan
U.S. officials fear Russia and China may factor depleted American missile-interceptor stocks into decisions on Ukraine, Europe and Taiwan, after the Iran war consumed a share of critical air-defense munitions, The New York Times reported Sunday. That is an assessment of strategic risk, not evidence either leader has decided on…
Drone War Is Pushing Beyond Electronic Jamming
For much of the drone war in Ukraine, electronic warfare offered one of the cheapest answers to one of the battlefield's cheapest threats. Jam the radio link between an FPV drone and its pilot, disrupt satellite navigation or flood the relevant frequencies, and a weapon costing hundreds or thousands of…
