Month: September 2023

Beginning years before the escalation of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict into a full scale war in early 2022, the post-2014 Western-aligned leadership in Kiev has received very considerable support from across the NATO alliance to bolster its position military and economically. This ranged from laying the ground work for joint operations […]

The head of the Ukrainian Army’s Main Intelligence Directorate Kirill Budanov has warned that M1A1 Abrams tanks set to be delivered by the United States next week may not last long in combat unless reserved for use in very specific kinds of operations. If the American tanks are deployed “on […]

New footage from the frontlines in Ukraine has shown Russian  Lancet drone strikes to neutralise two German made Leopard tanks in Ukraine’s Kupyansk region. The Russian Defence Ministry on September 22 reported that strikes by the country’s western military group neutralised the tanks and three other vehicles, with the commander […]

The Norwegian Air Force has become the first service in the world to operate F-35As from highways, which is a potential game changer for the survivability of the aircraft in the event of a major conflict when airbases are likely to be targeted. Chief of the Royal Norwegian Air Force […]

In the early stages of the North Korean ballistic missile program the country relied heavily on relatively relatively simple liquid fuelled designed based heavily on Soviet technologies. These included the short range Hwasong-5, 6 and 9 based on the Scud B and C, the solid fuelled KN-02 Toksa based on […]