David Axe

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• Russian War Crimes
• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

A Russian drone flew into Ukraine’s “hidden” Krab gun — and exposed a billion-dollar flaw in artillery design

A Russian drone slipped into a camouflaged dugout and destroyed a Krab howitzer. The real damage? A warning to every army still betting on heavy artillery.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia replaces Soviet howitzers with North Korean clones—Ukraine builds drone wall

Russia is rapidly losing 2S7 howitzers and replacing them with North Korean M1989s, as Ukrainian drones work to locate and destroy both.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia’s tanks hid behind smoke – Ukraine’s drones showed that trick is dead

Russia doesn’t use tanks often anymore — this disaster near Siversk shows why.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia’s new V2U AI drone hunts Ukraine’s best weapons—so far, it is unjammable

With redundant navigation and AI targeting, Russia's 1.2-m V2U attack drone can fly and attack without human help.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Surprisingly, Russian soldiers used scissors to down a Ukrainian fiber-optic drone — but Kyiv also knows a trick or two

The latest Russian defense against Ukraine’s best fiber-optic drones is a pair of scissors. It actually works! But there’s no way the Russians can deploy it very widely.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine learned how to jam Russian bombs. So Russia made them fly beyond the jammers

Extended-range glide bombs now fly twice as far, beyond Ukrainian electronic warfare systems.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia’s ghost riders are storming Sumy—and they’re not meant to come back

Small groups, motorcycles, reconnaissance by fire—Russia's textbook opening move.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia’s newest “drone protection” exposed as painted household cookware

One of the latest do-it-yourself armored vehicles in the arsenal of the Russian army in Ukraine may also…

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Kyiv, we have a problem: Russia just reverse-engineered Ukraine’s drone motherships

Now Moscow can strike deep behind the front, using Ukraine’s own tactics against them.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s jets adopt Western tactics, learn to hunt in packs

More Ukrainian air force pilots are flying and fighting in complex teams.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Ukraine’s F-16s launch desperate strikes to stop Russia in the north

Armed with American bombs and desperation, Ukraine's F-16s strike 50,000 Russian troops just 30 kilometers from Sumy.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Why is Russia bombing Ukraine with 1990s-era training drones?

The Dan-M target drone was designed to simulate U.S. cruise missiles. Now it’s been turned into one, kind of—and launched at Ukraine.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Russia just spent $ 3 mn to blow up planes that don’t even fly

Ukraine's 1970s drone shotguns were so vexing that Russia decided to blow them into bits with a $3mn Iskander missile. But an epic intel failure got in the way.

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• Russo-Ukrainian war 2022-2026

Apocalypse comes to Kostiantynivka: every tenth Russian soldier marches on strategic town

Next stop: Kramatorsk, Ukraine's last line of defense in Donetsk Oblast. A major fight is coming.