David Axe

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David Axe is a writer and filmmaker in South Carolina in the United States.

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Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months

The 3rd Army Corps attacked on 22 May and nobody outside the army reported it until late August. Whether it changes the war is the one thing the analysts do not agree on.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine is working down the short list of ships that shell its cities with cruise missiles. A Neptune reached one of them tied up at its own pier

Drones went in with the missile, and the general staff counts three more vessels and the port's fuel-oil storage hit the same night.

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Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk

Sloviansk and Kramatorsk are the last two big cities in the Donbas that Russia does not hold. The 46th Airmobile Brigade left the southeast in early July and reached them before anyone outside the army knew.

ukraine receive swedish asc 890 early warning aircraft after f-16 modifications airborne control (aew&c) saab 340 news ukrainian reports

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Military tech

Ukraine’s Swedish radar planes have flown inside Russian missile range for six months. None has been shot down.

Kyiv said nothing until this week. The planes can see 450 km, and Russia's best missile flies nearly as far.

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Military tech

Ukraine is running short of its best missiles for hunting Russia’s jet drones. Now MiG-29s are firing 1970s weapons

The R-73 was the missile for the job. Ukraine has burned through enough of them to bring back a weapon that was obsolete in 2022.

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Military tech

Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turrets

Thirty-one get a Belgian turret the crew doesn't sit in. Others become radar-guided drone killers, built in Rome and paid for with frozen Russian money.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce

A Russian pincer is slowly closing around the last two big free cities in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region. Winter will be a brief reprieve.

A Patriot air defense missile launcher. Photo: South Korean defense ministry.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine has five ways to stop Russia’s Iskanders. Only one arrives before the strikes on the grid begin

It means finding a launcher in a forest during the twenty minutes it spends above ground.

A T-64BM Bulat in the 57th Motorized Brigade. Photo by the brigade

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Military tech

A rare Ukrainian Bulat tank turned up in a brigade that never had them

Ukraine wanted 400 of the up-armored T-64s and built about 80. Nobody can say how the 57th Motorized Brigade got one.

Glide bombs drop away from a Russian jet.

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Military tech

Glide bomb then infiltrate. This is Russia’s new way of war.

Russia's old tactics involved artillery and tanks. After four years of fighting, it's all about glide bombs and infiltrators.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought

The Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has cut across a dangerous Russian salient in the east. All without telling anyone.

A Ukrainian soldier carries an FPV drone.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk

Under strict operational security, the Ukrainian 3rd Army Corps has been counterattacking north of Lyman. For months now.

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Military tech

Russia’s thermobaric launchers used to just drive up and fire. Now they move one at a time, in steel boxes built to stop Ukrainian drones

Ukraine has knocked out at least 36 of them. Twenty-seven burned outright.

Possible damage to two frigates in Novorossiysk.

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Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine finally hit three Russian Kalibr ships on 12 August. On the 19th, an untouched one hit Kyiv

Prior to 12 August, the Russian Black Sea Fleet had eight warships capable of firing Kalibr cruise missiles. It still has at least four.

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David Axe

Ukraine retook 240 square km north of Lyman and nobody reported it for three months

Ukraine is working down the short list of ships that shell its cities with cruise missiles. A Neptune reached one of them tied up at its own pier

Ukraine is sending its winning brigades to where the fighting is worst. The 46th just turned up outside Kramatorsk

Ukraine’s Swedish radar planes have flown inside Russian missile range for six months. None has been shot down.

Ukraine is running short of its best missiles for hunting Russia’s jet drones. Now MiG-29s are firing 1970s weapons

Ukraine is taking 1980s Leopards from across Europe and giving them radar-guided anti-drone guns and gunner-less turrets

Desperate to save Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, Ukrainian forces counterattack and reinforce

Ukraine has five ways to stop Russia’s Iskanders. Only one arrives before the strikes on the grid begin

A rare Ukrainian Bulat tank turned up in a brigade that never had them

Glide bomb then infiltrate. This is Russia’s new way of war.

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive is more successful than we thought

Ukraine’s secret counteroffensive takes the pressure off Sloviansk

Russia’s thermobaric launchers used to just drive up and fire. Now they move one at a time, in steel boxes built to stop Ukrainian drones

Ukraine finally hit three Russian Kalibr ships on 12 August. On the 19th, an untouched one hit Kyiv

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