Ukraine has acquired new Korkut air defense guns from Türkiye The Korkut is a pair of fast-firing guns on a tracked or wheeled chassis Ground-based guns are effective defenses against drones But the Russians are launching faster drones, and more of them are getting through Ukraine has reportedly purchased KorkutContinue Reading
Ukraine has lost another Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter as well as its pilot The Ukrainian MiG fleet is slowly dwindling owing to combat losses and wear and tear The Ukrainian air force is acquiring new Western types to replace the MiGs and other ex-Soviet jets Ukraine has lost another Mikoyan MiG-29Continue Reading
Ukraine has lost another Mikoyan MiG-29 fighter as well as its pilot The Ukrainian MiG fleet is slowly dwindling owing to combat losses and wear and tear The Ukrainian air force is acquiring new Western types to replace the MiGs and other ex-Soviet jets Ukraine has lost another Mikoyan MiG-29Continue Reading
A Russian Tu-95 bomber crashed on takeoff in Russia’s Far East on Tuesday, the type’s first crash in 11 years It’s potentially the 11th Tu-95 the Russians have lost in the current wider war, and they can’t build more But Russia still has enough bombers to keep up its missileContinue Reading
Many tanks on both sides now fire indirectly, from kilometers back, instead of closing with the enemy At that distance, a 1960s tank is not much less effective than a modern one And Ukraine, short of newer tanks, still has use for the T-62Ms it captured from Russia 1960s-vintage, Soviet-madeContinue Reading
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps has retaken 150–240 sq km north of Lyman since May It erased 18 months of Russian groundwork for a northern march on Sloviansk Almost nobody reported it for three months—not even Russian war correspondents The fighting continues north of Lyman, but on Ukraine’s terms On 22Continue Reading
Ukraine’s 3rd Army Corps has retaken 150–240 sq km north of Lyman since May It erased 18 months of Russian groundwork for a northern march on Sloviansk Almost nobody reported it for three months—not even Russian war correspondents The fighting continues north of Lyman, but on Ukraine’s terms On 22Continue Reading
The Ukrainian navy says one of its Neptune anti-ship missiles hit the Russian frigate Admiral Essen at Novorossiysk overnight on 8–9 September Ukraine’s general staff confirms hits on three ships in the raid; open-source analysts read the satellite imagery as showing a second Kalibr carrier, a Buyan-M corvette, knocked outContinue Reading