1+ week, 4+ day ago   (148+ words) Trench Art | David Axe Inside America’s Naval Missile Splurge Billions of dollars in new missiles The U.S. Navy is buying missiles as fast as the U.S. defense industry can build them. The sailing branch requested $23 billion for missiles and other…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (180+ words) Both units had a single T-64BM battalion with around 31 tanks. In 54 months of hard fighting, the 12th Independent Tank Battalion and 1st Tank Brigade—the latter now reorganized into the less tank-heavy 1st Heavy Mechanized Brigade—has lost around a quarter of their T…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (198+ words) When one thinks of the U.S. Army, one generally doesn’t think of squadrons of jets flying around the battlefield. But at the height of the Cold War, the ground combat branch had its sights set on buying a fleet of jump…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (180+ words) At first glance, you might think the Henschel Hs 129 was the perfect ground-attack airplane. Twin engines. A heavily-armored cockpit that protected the pilot from small-arms fire. The aircraft even eventually had the heaviest and most powerful forward-firing cannon ever fitted…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (465+ words) Russia is now building its TOS-1A thermobaric rocket launchers with factory armor wrapped around the rocket tubes. The tracked TOS-1A and its flame-producing 220-mm rockets are a powerful and terrifying weapon. But the launcher is also extremely vulnerable to Ukraine’s…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (457+ words) This story was commissioned by The Strategist. Since Substack pays only around a fifth of my bills, I have no choice but to take on a lot of freelance work. I still want my Substack audience to know where to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (287+ words) Russia’s Kinzhal air-launched ballistic missile, a version of the ground-launched Iskander, travels as far as 2,000 km at 10 times the speed of sound while packing a 500-kg warhead. It was one of a clutch of purported super-weapons that Russian Pres. Vladimir…...