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 ...

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 ...

There are few methods to defeat drone attacks. The primary defensive measure is electronic jamming of the control signal between the drone operator and the drone. Jamming is of limited effectiveness ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These drones are awesome and debilitating weapons when used in large numbers. A major limitation to the expansion of drone operations is the need for trained drone operators. Ukraine found that many ...

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 ...

Since the Russian invasion in 2022 through the end of December 2024 there were 177 Ukrainian prisoners of war killed. In the first three months of 2025 at least 25 captured Ukrainian soldiers have ...

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 ...