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Marines with Bravo Company, 4th Tanks Battalion, fire the M1A1 Abrams tank during a live-fire exercise as part of Exercise Arrow 18 in Pohjankangas Training Area near Kankaanpaa, Finland, May 15, 2018. Exercise Arrow is an annual Finnish multi-national exercise with the purpose of training with mechanized infantry, artillery, and mortar field training skills in a live-fire exercise. This is the first year the Marine Corps is participating in this exercise and the first time the M1A1 Abrams tanks have been in Finland. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Marcin Platek/Released)

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

NATO Just Got Handed a Warning From Germany’s Top General: Russia Is Testing the Alliance to Prepare for a Wider War

A top German General says Russia is preparing to launch a wider war as it fights a full-scale conflict in Ukraine. The Kremlin, he...

Reuben Johnson6 days ago

The PAC-3 MSE is a highly sought-after air defense munition due to its advanced capabilities and versatility. As a next-generation interceptor, it offers improved range, speed, and maneuverability, making it an effective counter to a wide range of threats, including tactical ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and aircraft. (Official U.S. Army photo)

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Something in the Nose of the Patriot Missile Is Holding Up Trump’s Promise to Ukraine — a Seeker So Prized Nobody Gets to Build It

Trump's Ankara promise to license PAC-3 production to Ukraine has stalled over the missile's Ka-band seeker — technology so sensitive it has never been...

Reuben Johnson6 days ago

Iskander Missile Attack Creative Commons Image

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces say their drones destroyed the S-400 battery screening Putin's palace near Gelendzhik, leaving it 'ablaze and sputtering' for three hours....

Reuben Johnson7 days ago

The Norwegian Army fires a National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS) from the Andøya Space Range in Andøya, Norway against a simulated threat in support of exercise Formidable Shield 2023, May 10, 2023. Formidable Shield is a biennial integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise involving a series of live-fire events against subsonic, supersonic, and ballistic targets, incorporating multiple Allied ships, aircraft, and ground forces working across battlespaces to deliver effects. (Courtesy photo by Royal Norwegian Navy)

Ukraine War

Something Is Slowing Ukraine’s Drone War on Crimea, and It Is Not Production: The Money Moves Slower Than the Plan

Kyiv's campaign to cut off Crimea is only phase one, the commander known as Magyar told the AP — and the constraint isn't drone...

Isaac Seitz7 days ago

Zelensky Speaking in UK Ukraine Government Photo

Ukraine War

Trump Told Zelensky He Did Not Have the Cards — Eighteen Months Later Ukraine’s Drones Are Reaching Into Siberia

Kyiv's answer arrived in smuggled drones and burning refineries. Weapons production expanded thirty-five-fold, long-range strikes tripled between January and July, and Moscow trimmed its...

Georgia Gilholy7 days ago

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

Jack Buckby reports Ukraine struck the Orsknefteorgsintez refinery in Orenburg, more than nine hundred miles from its border, as its drone force claimed forty-three...

Jack Buckby7 days ago

U.S. Soldiers assigned to 2-11 Long Range Fires Battalion, 25th Infantry Division Artillery, fire a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System during a counter-landing live-fire exercise as part of Exercise Balikatan 2026 at La Paz Sand Dunes, Laoag City, Philippines, May 4, 2026. Balikatan is a longstanding annual exercise between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and U.S. military that represents the strength of our alliance, improves our capable combined force, and demonstrates our commitment to regional peace and prosperity. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Duke Edwards)

North Korea Talk

Something Is Missing From Russia’s Missile Barrages: Kyiv Says the Hypersonic Kinzhal Was Quietly Pulled From Production

Ukraine's defense intelligence says Russian missile factories exceeded July's production targets across the board, even as Moscow leans on ballistic missiles from Pyongyang and,...

Isaac Seitz7 days ago

Putin In a Meeting Creative Commons Photo

Ukraine War

Civilian Deaths Inside Russia Have More Than Doubled This Year — Monitors Now Call It the Highest Rate of the War

Both sides now hit what the other relies on. Ukraine burns the warehouses of Russia's biggest online retailer; Russia burns the warehouses of Ukraine's...

Stephen Silver7 days ago

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit a Refinery Built Under Stalin in 1935 — It Sits More Than 900 Miles Away, Near the Kazakh Border

Ukraine says it struck the Orsk refinery in Orenburg, more than 900 miles from the front and close to the Kazakh border — a...

Georgia Gilholy7 days ago

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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

NATO Just Got Handed a Warning From Germany’s Top General: Russia Is Testing the Alliance to Prepare for a Wider War

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Something in the Nose of the Patriot Missile Is Holding Up Trump’s Promise to Ukraine — a Seeker So Prized Nobody Gets to Build It

Ukraine War

Putin Is Said to Have a ‘Pathological Fear’ of Drone Strikes — and Kyiv Just Burned the S-400 Guarding His Favorite Palace

Ukraine War

Something Is Slowing Ukraine’s Drone War on Crimea, and It Is Not Production: The Money Moves Slower Than the Plan

Ukraine War

Trump Told Zelensky He Did Not Have the Cards — Eighteen Months Later Ukraine’s Drones Are Reaching Into Siberia

Ukraine War

Vladimir Putin Just Got Handed a Map-Sized Problem: Every Refinery and Weapons Factory in Russia Sits Within Kyiv’s Reach

North Korea Talk

Something Is Missing From Russia’s Missile Barrages: Kyiv Says the Hypersonic Kinzhal Was Quietly Pulled From Production

Ukraine War

Civilian Deaths Inside Russia Have More Than Doubled This Year — Monitors Now Call It the Highest Rate of the War

Ukraine War

Ukraine Just Hit a Refinery Built Under Stalin in 1935 — It Sits More Than 900 Miles Away, Near the Kazakh Border

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