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KOROR, Palau — A Patriot Advanced Capability 2 Interceptor missile is fired from an M903 Patriot Launching Station assigned to Battery D, 1st Battalion, 1st Air Defense Artillery Regiment during the patriot live fire portion of Exercise Tenacious Archer 25 on Aug. 21, 2025. Exercise Tenacious Archer 25 is a training event designed to build interoperability, capacity, and relationships that deter aggression and promote peace through strength. The exercise sharpens the brigade’s ability to operate across multiple domains, reinforcing U.S. Army Pacific’s commitment to regional security and stability.(U.S. Army photo by Capt. Frank Spatt)

Ukraine War

Shoot the Archer: Unable to Shoot Down the Missiles, Ukraine Now Wants to Destroy the Launchers Before They Ever Fire

It would place a private American company openly on Ukraine's side and potentially in Russia's sights. Zelensky has said Ukraine is not asking for...

Jack Buckby3 days ago

Exercise Artemis Strike is a German-led tactical live fire exercise with live Patriot and Stinger missiles at the NATO Missile Firing Installation in Chania, Greece from Oct. 31-Nov. 09. Over 200 U.S. soldiers and approximately 650 German airmen will be participating in the realistic training within a combined construct, exercise the rigors associated with force projection and educate operators on their air missile defense systems. The 10th Army Air Missile Defense Command will deploy, operate and fire live missiles within a tactical scenario, under Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe operational readiness evaluation criteria.

Ukraine War

‘You Know How to Breathe, but You Can’t Breathe’: A Ukrainian Engineer on Watching Russian Missiles Pass Overhead

The equipment is there. The interceptors are not. Ukraine's air force says Patriots are the only system it has that can stop Russian ballistic...

Jack Buckby6 days ago

The Romanian Army's 74th Patriot Regiment conducted the country's first PATRIOT missile system live-fire exercise at the Capu Midia test firing range in Romania Nov. 14-15, 2023. Romania received the first of seven PATRIOT systems in 2020 through a foreign military sales case executed by the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command. (Courtesy photo)

Ukraine War

Zelensky Says a Tenth of America’s Patriot Stockpile Would Let Ukraine Destroy Every Russian Ballistic Missile

Interceptor deliveries have fallen to a fraction of last year's while Russia fires roughly twice as many ballistic missiles a month. Poland's declassified ledger...

Georgia GilholyAugust 13, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Ukraine Just Got Handed July’s Interception Math: 195 Russian Ballistic Missiles Fired, and Only 29 of Them Stopped

Germany is weighing Kyiv's needs against the minimum it must hold to defend itself and meet NATO commitments. Poland, Spain and Greece have stocks....

Stephen SilverAugust 11, 2026

Iskander Missile Attack Creative Commons Image

Ukraine War

NATO Must Now Make a Choice It Cannot Make: Arm Kyiv or Keep Its Own Shelves Stocked, Because There Are Not Enough for Both

Isaac Seitz reports that open-source estimates put Kyiv's success rate against Iskander-M missiles at fewer than one in twenty, citing a shortage of PAC-3...

Isaac SeitzAugust 5, 2026

A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor is launched from the Pacific Spaceport Complex Alaska in Kodiak, Alaska, during Flight Experiment THAAD (FET)-01 on July 30, 2017 (EDT). During the test, the THAAD weapon system successfully intercepted an air-launched, medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) target.

Ukraine War

Russia Just Pulled Off a Strategic Master Stroke in the Ukraine War — Missiles Keep Hitting Kyiv and Zelensky Can’t Stop Them

Caleb Larson reports on an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Kyiv in which Ukraine's Air Force says it stopped none of the...

Caleb LarsonAugust 5, 2026

Ukraine War

A Disaster Is Coming for Ukraine’s Cities: The Only System That Can Stop Russian Missiles Has Almost Nothing Left to Fire

Trump told Zelensky in Ankara that Washington would license Ukraine to build its own air defense missiles. At a Cabinet meeting on Friday he...

Jack BuckbyAugust 1, 2026

HIMARS Like Used in Ukraine Image Credit Creative Commons

Ukraine War

Zelensky Says Ukraine Stopped Just One of the Twenty-Seven Ballistic Missiles Because the Magazines Were Simply Empty

Ukraine's air force says it brought down or suppressed a hundred and fifty-six of the two hundred and twenty weapons Russia fired overnight, but...

Harry J. KazianisAugust 1, 2026

The first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) transits the Atlantic Ocean, March 19, 2023. Ford is underway in the Atlantic Ocean executing its Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), an intense, multi-week exercise designed to fully integrate a carrier strike group as a cohesive, multi-mission fighting force and to test their ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. As the first-in-class ship of Ford-class aircraft carriers, CVN 78 represents a generational leap in the U.S. Navy’s capacity to project power on a global scale. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jackson Adkins)

The Treaty

The Real Reason America Paused Its Iran War: It’s Running Out of Missiles to Defend Itself

America's stockpile of Patriot interceptors has fallen to roughly a third of its prewar level, and the New York Times reports the shortage helped...

Stephen SilverJuly 28, 2026

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Ukraine War

Shoot the Archer: Unable to Shoot Down the Missiles, Ukraine Now Wants to Destroy the Launchers Before They Ever Fire

Ukraine War

‘You Know How to Breathe, but You Can’t Breathe’: A Ukrainian Engineer on Watching Russian Missiles Pass Overhead

Ukraine War

Zelensky Says a Tenth of America’s Patriot Stockpile Would Let Ukraine Destroy Every Russian Ballistic Missile

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Ukraine Just Got Handed July’s Interception Math: 195 Russian Ballistic Missiles Fired, and Only 29 of Them Stopped

Ukraine War

NATO Must Now Make a Choice It Cannot Make: Arm Kyiv or Keep Its Own Shelves Stocked, Because There Are Not Enough for Both

Ukraine War

Russia Just Pulled Off a Strategic Master Stroke in the Ukraine War — Missiles Keep Hitting Kyiv and Zelensky Can’t Stop Them

Ukraine War

A Disaster Is Coming for Ukraine’s Cities: The Only System That Can Stop Russian Missiles Has Almost Nothing Left to Fire

Ukraine War

Zelensky Says Ukraine Stopped Just One of the Twenty-Seven Ballistic Missiles Because the Magazines Were Simply Empty

The Treaty

The Real Reason America Paused Its Iran War: It’s Running Out of Missiles to Defend Itself

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