Ukraine shows a home-built missile designed to hit ballistic targets for the first time, the Koral, at Poland’s MSPO
Its guidance combines inertial navigation, radio correction, and an active radar homing head.
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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.
Russia struck Kyiv and Boryspil, its main airport hub, twice in 24 hours with ballistics Ukraine can’t stop without US Patriots, days before Independence Day
Russia has struck Kyiv and its suburbs with ballistic missiles for a second consecutive day, killing civilians. Meanwhile,…
Kyiv is asking Musk to let it strike inside Russia. Its best line to Musk is gone
Running low on Patriot interceptors, Kyiv wants to hunt the launchers up to 200 km inside Russia—but only Musk can switch the drones on.
Poland would rather the next Russian missile be downed over Ukraine than over its soil. It may send Kyiv more Patriots
A Russian missile that fell inside Poland in July has shifted Warsaw's thinking.
5% of US Patriot stocks gets Ukraine through winter, 10% ends the ballistic threat — and Zelenskyy has just 1%, he tells CNN
Ukraine holds just 1% of the Patriot interceptors it needs to stop Russia's ballistic missiles, Zelenskyy told CNN. 5% gets it through winter.
With Ukraine short of Patriot interceptors, Russia sees no reason to enter real negotiations, ISW says
Kyiv's dwindling air defenses now face freshly built weapons fired straight off the assembly line, not pulled from stored reserves, military intelligence warns.
Zelenskyy says US will send Patriot interceptors monthly – but not enough to protect from Russian attacks
Speaking in Belgrade, the president also said Kyiv is looking for extra missiles from Germany, Poland, Norway, the Netherlands and Israel.
US has burned through 80% of THAAD interceptors, sources tell CNN
Patriot stockpiles, which arm Ukraine's air defense, are down by half
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.
Zelenskyy names one of the worst consequences of Russia’s war. This threat is about to grow everywhere in the world
Ukraine needs 100 systems under its FREYJA anti-ballistic project to close its skies, President Zelenskyy says, pitching it as a future shared shield for Europe.
The most in any month this year: Russia fired 126 ballistic missiles at Ukraine in July
The count of Iskander-M, North Korean, and repurposed air-defense missiles topped every month since January, a monitoring channel tracking the launches found.
Russia increases ballistic missile strikes: Zelenskyy meets second Patriot interceptor maker within week in Washington to push back
On a Washington visit for Lindsey Graham's funeral, Zelenskyy met Lockheed Martin on joint weapons production and Trump at the White House, as the Senate moved a Russia sanctions bill renamed for Graham.
NATO’s former deputy commander: Ankara papered over the cracks between Europe and America
Sir Richard Shirreff held NATO's second-highest military post. He now advises Ukraine's commander-in-chief—and says the summit that pledged Kyiv €140 billion produced no strategy.
Ukraine can build Patriots or keep hitting Russia’s refineries—not both, defense scholar says
Marc DeVore asked two expert groups he chairs, both advising the UK defense ministry, whether Ukraine could build Patriots within a year. Both said no.
Japan builds the missiles Ukraine needs most—its own rules forbid the handoff
The day after Trump promised a production license, Zelenskyy named the production partner he wants. The problem: Japan still doesn't sell weapons to countries at war.
Three F-16s and a Patriot battery teamed up to kill Russia’s best fighter
The two systems each have a weakness against Russian jets. Working together—one seeing, the other shooting—they cancelled both out.
Defense expert: Ukraine’s interceptor shortage has no quick fix
Only a handful of countries can build ballistic-missile interceptors, and all are short. Defense expert Marc DeVore explains why money can't fix Ukraine's interceptor shortage fast — and where the real leverage lies.
Russia more than doubles production of converted SAMs to make ballistic missile strikes even harder to defend
Missiles add few qualitative improvements but do add mass to Russia's terror attacks
Russia’s monthly ballistic-missile production now exceeds Lockheed Martin’s PAC-3 production. And it takes 2-3 interceptors to stop one Iskander, says expert
Russia builds 70 ballistic missiles a month. Lockheed Martin builds 56 PAC-3 interceptors.