Putin’s Mach-10 wonder weapon misses by 30 meters. Russia stopped building it in April.
Putin unveiled it as unstoppable in 2018. Ukrainian intelligence says the line stopped in April, and the fuel now goes to Iskanders.
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Russia has thousands of tanks it can’t risk. One drone shield decides whether they roll
Russia has finally fielded a tank defense that can shoot down Ukrainian FPV drones. The problem is that Ukrainian crews can send more drones than the Arena-M can stop—and the first tanks carrying it have burned anyway.
Ukraine’s new Tu-95 killer is a $48,000 copy of a drone China refused to sell
Ukraine went to China to buy the drone. China refused. Two years later, the MICH 2000 costs $2,000 less than the original—and just took out a Russian bomber.
Russia has figured out how to stop Ukraine’s most powerful missile
The Flamingo cruise missile is Ukraine's hardest-hitting deep strike munition. But what good is it if Russia usually shoots it down?
How Russia built a jam-proof drone force—and the Chinese supply chain that could still break it
First fiber optics, then mesh modems. Both came from China, and the modems are a catalogue item.
Ukraine’s new drone is a cousin to America’s stealth bombers. It reaches Ufa in three hours.
Ukraine's newest strike drone has a unique shape. And that helps it range deep inside Russia, faster, and with a heavier payload.
Ukraine’s new ballistic missiles would make Russia choose: bomb Kyiv or defend Moscow
Russia uses its S-400 air defense missiles in a surface strike mode. Once Ukrainian ballistic missiles start raining down, this may no longer be an option.
Russia’s weirdest armored vehicle was built to fight infantry. The infantry stopped coming
The Russians are building and restoring thousands of replacement tanks and fighting vehicles. But the unique BMP-T is fading away.
Ukraine’s AI drones hammer Russian supply lines. Russia’s $10,000 drone just got the same kit
Russia built the Gerbera to be shot down instead of a Shahed. For $10,000, it now carries the Shahed's targeting kit.
Ukraine’s newest mine-clearing vehicle is a 1960s-design APC with nobody inside
Allies have shipped Ukraine more than 1,700 M113s. Khartia's engineers just showed what one looks like with nobody inside.
A Cold War submarine hunter is Ukraine’s newest Shahed killer
Ukraine's tiny interceptor drones need a little help getting into the air. An old naval helicopter is just the thing.
Russia just copied Ukraine’s cleverest drone hunter
A $500,000 missile is a costly way of taking down a $50,000 attack drone. So the Russians are arming old planes with cheap interceptor drones.
Some Ukrainian bomber drones aren’t carrying bombs anymore. They’re carrying robots.
Roads can be treacherous for Ukraine's explosive unmanned ground vehicles. So heavy bomber drones are now airlifting them into action.
Ukraine is trying to wreck Russia’s oil fleet without spilling its oil—the Black Sea can’t take another slick
Ukraine's countershipping campaign risks polluting the fragile Black Sea. Drone operators are trying to spill less oil.
A $50 computer just flew Russia’s newest jet drone into a Ukrainian grain ship—and jamming couldn’t stop it
Russia's fast, highly autonomous Geran-4 one-way attack drone is the weapon of choice for strikes on Ukrainian grain ships.
Ukraine’s $500 Vyriy FPV drone just flew 110 km to hit Russian logistics. That used to cost $5,000.
With a denser battery, a lighter warhead and a wing, a cheap first-person-view drone can now range 110 km.
A $50k Ukrainian drone just hit a refinery 2,500 km inside Russia. The expensive missiles couldn’t
With bigger wings and more fuel, Ukrainian drones can range deeper inside Russia to hit once unreachable targets.
Russia is running out of its best eyes in the sky
Russia's giant radar early warning planes can spot incoming Ukrainian missiles. What happens when there aren't enough planes?
Ukraine’s ballistic missile may have reached Moscow. The damage wasn’t the point.
Ukrainian developers rush new weapons into combat to gather data, not to inflict damage—the way Fire Point spent a year missing before the Flamingo started landing. The first ballistic shot was doing that job.
For two years, Ukraine’s strikes barely scratched Russia’s war factories. Something just changed.
The warheads finally got heavy enough to leave damage that lasts—and Ukraine's drones cleared the air defenses that used to stop the missiles short.