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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 JohnsonAugust 11, 2026

KEKAHA, Hawaii — U.S. Army 3rd Multi-Domain Task Force fires the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), which can fire traditional rocket artillery rounds or long-range missiles with various payloads, on Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2024, July 11. Twenty-nine nations, 40 surface ships, three submarines, 14 national land forces, more than 150 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC in and around the Hawaiian Islands, June 27 to Aug. 1. The world' s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world' s oceans. RIMPAC 2024 is the 29th exercise in the series that began in 1971. (Japanese Ground Self Defense Force Courtesy Photo)

Ukraine War

The Missile Was Never Meant to Touch the Ground: How Kyiv Turned a Cold War Anti-Aircraft Round Into a Ballistic Strike Weapon

Reuben F. Johnson traces how Ukraine converted its surplus Soviet S-200 anti-aircraft missiles into improvised land-attack ballistic weapons, first discussed off the record early...

Reuben JohnsonAugust 4, 2026

Ukraine War

Ukraine Has Quietly Destroyed Most of Russia’s Best Long-Range Air Defenses on the Occupied Crimean Peninsula

Ukraine's intelligence service says it destroyed an S-400 launcher and radar in occupied Crimea, part of a two-year campaign that has wiped out most...

Reuben JohnsonJuly 28, 2026

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Russia Just Stripped Its Arctic Bases of Air Defenses — and Where the Missiles Are Turning Up Reveals What the Kremlin Fears Most

Satellite imagery analyzed by RFE/RL shows Russia has stripped air defense batteries from Arctic installations — including the region that builds its nuclear submarines...

Reuben JohnsonJuly 16, 2026

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Russia Is Stripping Air Defenses From Its Remote Arctic Bases — to Guard the Refineries Ukraine Keeps Hitting

Satellite imagery shows Russia stripping air defenses from remote Arctic bases and its nuclear-submarine shipyard to cover refineries under Ukrainian drone attack — a...

Isaac SeitzJuly 15, 2026

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Ukraine War

Satellite Images Just Revealed Where Putin Put His Scarce Air Defenses — Around the Office of His Own Daughter

Putin conceded Ukraine's strikes are "creating problems" and ordered a crash program to build more air defense missiles — Russia's S-300 interceptors are running...

Caleb LarsonJuly 2, 2026

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Ukraine’s Drones Have Moscow Rattled Enough That Putin Is Rushing New Air Defenses Around the Capital — and It May Already Be Too Late

The nightly drone and missile barrages have reached Moscow often enough that Putin is now reinforcing the air defenses around the capital with new...

Brent M. EastwoodJune 30, 2026

Ukraine War

Ukraine Is Hitting Russia So Often That Moscow Is Burning Through Its Air-Defense Missiles

Ukraine's strikes may be draining more than Russia's economy. Ukrainian intelligence, via CBS News, says Russia is running low on the S-300 interceptors that...

Jack BuckbyJune 18, 2026

An F-35A Lightning II assigned to the 419th Fighter Wing, Hill Air Force Base, Utah takes off from the Air Dominance Center during Sentry Savannah on May 11, 2022. Sentry Savannah is the Air National Guard’s largest air-to-air, joint aerial combat exercise for fourth- and fifth- generation fighters, which tests the capabilities of our warfighters in a simulated environment and trains the next generation of fighter pilots for tomorrow’s fight. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Erica Webster)

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F-22 and F-35 Stealth Fighter Smasher: Russia’s S-400 Air Defenses System Has 1 Mission

Israeli F-35I Adir stealth fighters suppressed Russian-made S-400 air defenses inside Iran without losing a single aircraft during the recent operation. The S-400 Triumf...

Brent M. EastwoodMay 22, 2026

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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

The Missile Was Never Meant to Touch the Ground: How Kyiv Turned a Cold War Anti-Aircraft Round Into a Ballistic Strike Weapon

Ukraine War

Ukraine Has Quietly Destroyed Most of Russia’s Best Long-Range Air Defenses on the Occupied Crimean Peninsula

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Russia Just Stripped Its Arctic Bases of Air Defenses — and Where the Missiles Are Turning Up Reveals What the Kremlin Fears Most

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Russia Is Stripping Air Defenses From Its Remote Arctic Bases — to Guard the Refineries Ukraine Keeps Hitting

Ukraine War

Satellite Images Just Revealed Where Putin Put His Scarce Air Defenses — Around the Office of His Own Daughter

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

Ukraine’s Drones Have Moscow Rattled Enough That Putin Is Rushing New Air Defenses Around the Capital — and It May Already Be Too Late

Ukraine War

Ukraine Is Hitting Russia So Often That Moscow Is Burning Through Its Air-Defense Missiles

Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More

F-22 and F-35 Stealth Fighter Smasher: Russia’s S-400 Air Defenses System Has 1 Mission

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