TAIPEI — Phone in hand, the middle-aged woman gestured to the Taipei intersection, where an infantry platoon unloaded sandbags on the pedestrian crossings. “My Uber is waiting for me just there,” she said in Mandarin, pointing behind them. The bespectacled military policeman blocking her path with a T112 assault rifle apologized: She’d have to find
TAIPEI — About a four-minute walk from the metro station, Taiwanese troops slipped into the Tamsui River on an American-made M3 amphibious bridging vehicle, dropping pontoons and clusters of barrels rigged to explode. On the shore, six retirees in gym slacks and tennis shoes were winding down their early morning Taichi, unaware that a group
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
Ukraine’s soldiers are wearing what they call “tactical Crocs” when they’re off the front lines. Dmytro Zhluktenko, a Ukrainian soldier who recently transitioned from his role as a drone operator to a drone lessons analyst with Ukraine’s 413th Unmanned Systems Regiment “RAID,” described the gear he wore and carried in a YouTube video. His pack
American citizens across the Middle East are attempting to follow official advice and evacuate as conflict escalates in the region following US and Israeli attacks on Iran on Saturday. But multiple US embassies have said they are unable to help citizens trying to leave. “The U.S. Embassy is not in a position at this time to evacuate
