22+ hour, 37+ min ago   (280+ words) Developed for Spetsnaz units and the KGB in the mid-1960s, the Soviet PB—also known as the 6P9—took the proven Makarov PM design and incorporated a two-stage, integral suppressor. During World War II, the Soviet NKVD had used suppressed weapons, including M1895 Nagant…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (239+ words) Kramatorsk and Sloviansk are the last two big cities in the Donbas that Russia does not hold, and taking them has been the main Russian objective in eastern Ukraine since 2022. Ukraine is now moving forces north from the southeast to…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (336+ words) Trench Art | David Axe Ukraine’s MiGs Need R-73 Missiles. They’re Running Out. The R-73 is made in Russia. This story was commissioned by Euromaidan Press. Since Substack pays only around a fifth of my bills, I have no choice but…...

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…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1795+ words) In April 1951 the African-American soldiers of the U.S. Army’s 999th Armored Field Artillery charged their ungainly self-propelled howitzers past a hundred Chinese infantry waiting in ambush. Thanks to the interviews of Army historian Edward Williamson, we can share their story. Dating back…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (231+ words) The 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid is best remembered in America for the “Miracle on Ice” hockey victory over the Soviet Union. Less known is how scared the U.S. military was of terrorist attacks. Today, it’s normal for major…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (198+ words) Russian forces are fighting against time to close a pincer around the last free cities in eastern Ukraine. The deadline: the coming winter, which will strip the leaves from the trees and leave any attacking force exposed to overhead surveillance…...

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, 2+ day ago   (202+ words) The route is short but hard. And for three years, it has been blocked at its first obstacle by the ruins of a prison. The first obstacle for the Russians is the village of Mala Tokmachka. In particular, the thickly…...