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A series on Ukraine's emerging missile strategy: why manufacturability, production speed, replacement rate, and accessible engineering choices may matter more than building the world's most advanced ballistic missile.
A viral claim says Ukraine is connecting FPV drones to remote operators around the world. The claim is not confirmed, but the larger trend is real: drone warfare is becoming gamified, remote, validated by video, and increasingly dependent on communications links.
A newest-first catalog of Ukraine's recent strikes on Russian refineries, oil depots, terminals, fuel logistics, and export infrastructure, updated with the July 6 Omsk, Yaroslavl, Vysotsk, Kaluga, Crimea, and Sea of Azov attacks.
Ukraine says it struck a Russian semiconductor plant in Voronezh that makes components for missile systems. Reports differ on whether the weapon was an AGM-188 Rusty Dagger, Storm Shadow, or another air-launched cruise missile.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Belarus must remove Russian drone repeater equipment from towers near Ukraine. Here is what repeaters are, why they matter, and how they affect the war.
A current look at Myanmar's drone war, including the drones used by the military junta and resistance forces, who supplies them, and why the balance is shifting.
It is estimated that 2000 guns per day are flowing illegally across the border into Mexico, a large percentage of those weapons being semi-automatic rifles similar the one used in today's shooting in Aurora. These guns are being used to kills cops, so much so that the cops cover their faces so they or their families will not be hunted down and killed. There...
A skeptical look at the jobs argument for weapons sales, including the opportunity cost of military spending and the wider costs of gun trafficking.
The U.S. Department of Defense is one of the world's largest employers, but Walmart, China's PLA, CNPC, the NHS, and Indian Railways also employ workforces at extraordinary scale.
They have minerals like Gold, Copper and Iron
Located in Jamestown, PA, the defence contractor supplied teargas to Egyptian police who then used it on protesters.
All of these contractors faced very real threats, the same as the soldiers. Most civilian casualties were suffered by the Theater Transportation Mission division.
Water is the biggest concern in Iraq. The country is a vast desert wasteland, and water is scarce if you are not along the Tigris or Euphrates River. All water needed to sustain life on the bases in Iraq is pulled from these two rivers. Other basic needs are handled by contractors as well. Base maintenance, such as power generation, carpenters, electricians,...
The Iraqi government has issued a statement saying that Blackwater USA, which has been doing security operations in support of the United States in Iraq, must end operations and leave Iraq, citing use of excessive force in a recent incident.