Ukrainian attack drones flying hundreds of miles into Russian territory have been attacking oil refineries, military sites and now the country’s largest e-commerce warehouses. At least 10 facilities run by Russia’s largest online retail company, Wildberries, have been attacked by long-range drones in the past two weeks. Fixed-wing drones have been attacking the retail giant’s
Russia canceled its historic Navy Day parade for the second year in a row and instead held a silent event featuring only large banners of warships. Two lines of about 30 sailors greeted the country’s leader, Vladimir Putin, as he arrived Sunday at the Russian Navy’s headquarters in St. Petersburg, where the Kremlin said he
Anxious about the surprising dismissal of Ukraine’s reformist defense minister, The country’s front-line troops say they have found some solace in a new appointment to another key role in the war: that of commander in chief. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appointed the 43-year-old Brigadier General. General Mykhailo Drapatyi will be named the country’s new top
Ukrainian defense company SkyFall said Wednesday that it has developed an interceptor drone capable of shooting down Russian Shaheds, a class of much faster attack drone that Moscow uses more regularly. The P1-SUN JetKiller is designed with a maximum flight speed of 370 kmph or 230 mph, at maximum altitudes of 9,000 meters or approximately
Lockheed Martin on Monday announced a new PAC-3 interceptor that it said costs less than half the price of a regular Patriot missile. The PAC-3 Adaptive Capability Effector, or ACE, is “built to defeat a broad range of air and missile threats for less than half the cost of a PAC-3 MSE per unit,” the
The average life expectancy of a Russian soldier going into battle in Ukraine is 20 to 30 minutes, Central Intelligence Agency Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday. Ratcliffe spoke at the Pennsylvania Defense and Innovation Summit, where he blamed the deadly conditions on Ukraine’s combat drones equipped with artificial intelligence. “What I would say is that
