There are just seven missile-armed warships left in Russia’s once-powerful Black Sea Fleet Ukrainian drone forces are escalating their attacks on these surviving vessels at their port in southern Russia The most recent raid, on 6 April, may have damaged a missile frigate After years of relentless Ukrainian strikes fromContinue Reading
Ukrainian drones hit a Russian drone base in Crimea for the second time in six months The 2 April strike on Kirovske air base inflicted more damage than the October raid, thanks to the heavier FP-2 drone Responding to criticism, Ukrainian drone forces are escalating their attacks on Russian targetsContinue Reading
Russian forces are notorious for costly assaults through Ukrainian drone kill zones But some Ukrainian units are guilty of the same thing A recent attack by the Ukrainian 425th Assault Regiment ended in heavy casualties among the attackers Did the 425th Assault Regiment adequately prepare for the assault? Counterattacking alongContinue Reading
Russia has two main goals in Ukraine this year In the east, the objectives are the twin free cities of Kramatorsk and Sloviansk In the south, Zaporizhzhia city on the Dnipro River’s left bank is the target But Ukrainian defenses, and a southeastern counteroffensive, complicate Russian plans As the weatherContinue Reading
Ukraine has spread its dozens of American-made M-1 tanks across at least three brigades and regiments Each unit is adding anti-drone protection to the tanks’ baseline armor The 1st Assault Regiment’s add-on protection might be the best It allows the tanks to fight as tanks, aiming and firing their powerfulContinue Reading
The hypersonic Zircon is one of Russia’s best long-range missiles Fast and low-flying, the Zircon is hard to intercept But its Bastion mobile launchers are vulnerable to drone attack Striking harder across Crimea, Ukrainian drones recently pinpointed and blasted a Bastion—and blew up its two Zircons Russia’s Zircon missile isContinue Reading
Russia went to war in February 2022 with potentially just seven Beriev A-50U radar planes The A-50Us use top-mounted radars to watch for Ukrainian warplanes and drones In a series of attacks going back three years, the Ukrainians may have knocked out more than half of the A-50Us A droneContinue Reading