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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 Gilholy2 days ago

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 Silver4 days ago

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

President Donald J. Trump signs executive orders alongside Utah Governor Spencer Cox and members of the Utah congressional delegation in the Oval Office, Monday, July 13, 2026. (Official White House Photo by Molly Riley)

The Treaty

Well This Is Strange: The US Military Ran Out Targets to Hit in the Iran War (And Low on Missile Defenses)

Trump postponed an offensive that the Journal says could have run up to two weeks, with advisers citing exhausted target sets and shrinking air-defense...

Harry J. KazianisJuly 26, 2026

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Ukraine Is Getting Pounded Night After Night By Putin’s Drones and Missiles — and There’s Only 1 Way to Stop It

Lockheed Martin has unveiled a cheaper Patriot round at Farnborough, nicknamed the baby Patriot, meant to cost less than half as much as the...

Reuben JohnsonJuly 24, 2026

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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

The Treaty

Well This Is Strange: The US Military Ran Out Targets to Hit in the Iran War (And Low on Missile Defenses)

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Ukraine Is Getting Pounded Night After Night By Putin’s Drones and Missiles — and There’s Only 1 Way to Stop It

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