By then North Korea was providing newly manufactured shells for Russian guns that could not get close enough to the front to be useful. North Korea also provided ballistic missiles and troops, so the ...

May 12, 2025: In 2024 Ukraine used HIMARS missiles equipped with cluster munitions. Each 300 kg missile contains 644 submunitions. When a submunition explodes, it will wound or kill anyone within ...

In 2024 APKWS was adapted for use by aircraft. Seven APKWS are carried in LAU-131A rocket pod. Warplanes can carry two, four or more pods per mission and deal with the drone swarms the Russians often ...

Russia has had problems with its oil exports via tankers two years ago. These problems were related to the fact that Russia has few shipping routes that it can use. Tankers are used in the Baltic and ...

Ukrainian drone developers, operating under wartime pressure, have been very innovative. In the last year new drone designs entering service have been impressive. This increased innovation began with ...

Since 2022 Russia has already been hit with sanctions on Russian IT or Information Technology companies. This effort has had little impact because the Russian computer manufacturers continue to obtain ...

But 85 percent of the two million Russian rail cars and engines had coil bearings when the Ukraine war began in 2022. Western sanctions then cut off deliveries of new coil bearings. The 300,000 rail ...

May 11, 2025: Increasingly, Ukrainian drone operators are witnessing Russian soldiers executing Ukrainian prisoners of war. This is not unusual in any war, but in Ukraine the constant presence of ...

May 8, 2025: The Ukraine war disrupted Russian manufacturing activity as production shifted to military needs. The large number of Russian men mobilized for the war caused labor shortages. Then there ...

The Americans did not discover until after the war how well informed the Japanese commanders of these islands were. Details of American attacks on Saipan and in the Philippines were known to the ...

May 3, 2025: In the Ukrainian air war, Ukraine is winning because of superior jamming capabilities and guided bombs that cannot be disabled by Russian electronic warfare equipment. This shift occurred ...