According to BBC, "Russia has lost some 460 tanks and over 2,000 armored vehicles", but Ukraine is claiming Russia has lost more than 680 tanks. "What Syria taught us about tanks", is that any tank is vulnerable to the proliferation and continued development of long-range ATGM’s. Ukraine’s remotely controlled homegrown anti-tank weapon, the Stugna-P ATGM (a.k.a. Skif), developed by Luch Design Bureau, is shredding Russian armored columns. The Stugna-P is a true force multiplier, says Brent M. Eastwood of 19fortyfive.com. He writes (abridged): Russian tanks are dying at the hands of another … [Read more...]
The U.S. Quietly Pushing Hypersonic Development on All Fronts
A team including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Air Force Research Lab (AFRL), Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Aerojet Rocketdyne (NYSE: AJRD) has successfully flight tested a new system known as the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC). The test, conducted off the coast of the U.S. using Lockheed Martin’s version of the HAWC, reached speeds in excess of Mach 5 and traveled 300 nautical miles at a flight ceiling greater than 65,000 feet. This is the second successful flight test in DARPA’s HAWC program. The first successful test was carried out by … [Read more...]
How Ukraine Is Using Cheap Tech to Fend Off a Superpower
Ukrainian soldiers are using inexpensive consumer drones from DJI to locate Russian tank and troop columns and then using those coordinates to guide mortars and set up ambushes. To counter this effective tactic, the Russians have used an extended version of DJI’s Aeroscope system, which is a public safety system normally used for locating the drones and their operators. With that information in hand, Russia is targeting the drones as they land near their operators. Kherson Oblast. Ukrainian forces batter Russian artillery about to get deployed pic.twitter.com/PlYAXWYRuJ — Illia … [Read more...]
The A-10 Deserves a Warrior’s Death
Warriors deserve a warrior’s death, not a retirement spent rusting away in the desert. The Bushido taught samurai, “death before dishonor.” The A-10, one of the USAF’s most iconic planes, deserves a warrior’s death. The plane was developed in the middle of the Cold War with a specific type of warfare in mind, to kill Soviet tanks on the front line. It has a chance to do that before being shuffled off into memory. Instead of sending America’s most iconic aircraft to the desert for zero dollars, Erik Prince says, “send them to Ukraine on a lend-lease policy.” Air Force Asks to Retire … [Read more...]
Ukraine War Is an “Intelligence Bonanza” for the West
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, a lot military intelligence has been gathered. Recently, reports of odd munitions on the ground in Ukraine had ballistic experts stumped. The rounds were thought to be some sort of bomblets or cluster bombs. Further investigation has shown that, in fact, they were released from Russian Iskander-M short-range missiles, reported The New York Times. The munitions were decoys to fool air-defense radars and heat-seeking defensive missiles. The munitions emit radio signals and heat reports to fool defenses, reports Julie Coleman of Business Insider. She … [Read more...]
WATCH: What You Need to Know About the FGM-148 Javelin Anti-Tank Missile
If you've been following the news, you've no doubt heard the term "javelin missile." Possibly thousands of the shoulder-fired missile systems have been sent to Ukraine to help its defenders even the odds against Russia's massive number of tanks and armored personnel carriers. If you've been wondering about what exactly a javelin missile system is, you're not alone. Here's a brief video on the system from US Military News. Action Line: The world seems riskier than ever, but you can prepare yourself and your family for the future. If you're serious about monitoring risk in the world, … [Read more...]
Top 10 Reasons to Own an AR-15
Originally posted December 13, 2018. You’ll benefit from spending some time reading “Top 10 Reasons You Should Own an AR-15,” by Mark Overstreet writing for the Federalist. One of the major misconceptions with the AR-15 is that it’s “automatic.” This is false. If you pull the trigger of an AR-15 and hold it in for five or ten seconds—one round will be fired. That’s it. No more. You control the pace of the next round fired—not the rifle. One more point, I own a Colt AR-15 and can tell you it shoots as smoothly as a hot knife through a stick of butter. You don’t have to reload it, … [Read more...]
New Extended Range Missile Takes Flight
Raytheon and Kongsberg have completed a live-fire test for its new ground-launched Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Extended Range missile (AMRAAM-ER) for the National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile System (NASAMS). The AMRAAM-ER could increase the engagement envelope for the NASAMS with a 50% increase in range and a 70% increase in altitude. There is some chatter that Raytheon is looking to offer the extended-range variant as an air-to-air missile and has performed digital tests for the possibility of fitting the AMRAAM-ER into the internal carriage of an F-35. The new missile variant gets … [Read more...]
LEAKED: Sensitive U.S. Troop Movement Details Exposed
U.S. Defense contractor Planet Risk, Inc. discovered sensitive U.S. mission data buried in app data that is sold to data brokers. The data was pulled from popular apps such as weather, games, dating services, and social media apps that collect a user’s location. The sensitive data showed U.S. troops traveling to Syria from abroad and gathering at Lafarge cement factory in northern Syria. The contractor was working on a software prototype when its employees came across the sensitive data. Byron Tau of The WSJ writes (abridged): WASHINGTON—In 2016, a U.S. defense contractor named PlanetRisk … [Read more...]
Meet the Henry Lever Action Axe .410
A client just secured a Henry Axe, a lever-action .410 with a five-round capacity and a short stock for easy storage. Here's how Henry describes the gun: Not all firearms need to fit neatly into categories like hunting, home protection, or good ol’ backyard plinking. We feel that simply being fun to pull out of the scabbard and shoot again and again should be a category all its own. For those that join us in considering this an important category, the Lever Action Axe .410 delivers in spades. It’s fun, for sure, but it also has more practicality than meets the eye. The Axe has the same … [Read more...]
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