Various models of the Tor short-range air defense system have been used by Russian Ground Troops, the service arm corresponding to the US Army in the Russian armed forces, for decades. The capability to fire on the move is what distinguishes the M2U modification of the Tor. The benefit is ...
Once the air force training budget increased, we strafed real ground targets and launched live missiles. I got a surprise when firing the cannon the first time. The recoil is really strong. The equivalent of seven tons, as it says in the technical manual. The rear-view windows in the cock...
At a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Putin backed Shoigu's proposal to develop new arms including ground-based complexes of hypersonic medium- and shorter-range ballistic missiles. "They announced that they (the United States) are engaged in r...
Chechen Missiles Bring Down Two Russian JetsCHECHEN FIGHTERS using ground-to-air missiles have shot down two Russian fighter-bombers in a serious blow to Russia's strategy of relying on air power in the renewed war in Chechnya.Cockburn, Patrick...
last november, the international space station had to dodge debris created by china's 2007 anti-satellite weapon (asat) test. less than a week later, russia shot a ballistic missile from the ground, blasting a soviet-era kosmos 1408 satellite into more than 1,500 pieces and proving that ...
ground. On February 21 a group of EU foreign ministers arrived in Kyiv to broker a deal between Yanukovych and parliamentary opposition leaders. The parties agreed to form a government of “national unity” within 10 days,implementconstitutional reforms to reduce the powers of the presidency—rein...
Background Conflict Armament Research (CAR) investigators have documented new evidence that cruise missiles deployed by Russian Federation forces in a recent attack in Kyiv were almost certainly manufactured at most two months prior to their use. CAR’s latest documentation shows that Russia is still...
They weren't going to do that anyway until their ground forces got a bit closer, and of course the ground forces are further away from the city than they were a couple of weeks ago. Without the ground forces moving in on Odesa an amphibious assault would have been very ...
Zelensky became the face of Ukrainian resistance, and his entertainment background and media savvy provided Ukraine with a weapon for which Putin had no counter. In the information war, the winner was unquestionably Zelensky. After Russianpropagandaorgans attempted to promote the false claim that Zele...