18+ hour, 39+ min ago   (263+ words) May is a month of holidays in Russia. With the official start of spring plus Labor Day, Victory Day and Orthodox Easter all taking place within days of each other, Russians spend the month celebrating. And if Russian president Vladimir…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (165+ words) Trench Art | David Axe With Missiles And Drones, Ukraine Is Finally Scoring Hits On Russia’s Black Sea Frigates A cruise missile may have holed ‘Admiral Essen’ After months of trying, Ukrainian forces have finally begun landing blows on the Russian…...

4+ day, 15+ hour ago   (247+ words) Trench Art | David Axe Out Of Patriots, Ukraine Has Few Options For Defending Its Cities Every workable air defense solution needs time Ukrainian leaders surely watches with extreme worry as, in months of on-again, off-again fighting with Iran, U.S. and allied…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (259+ words) In early 1942, Disney produced an instructional film for the Canadian army. Its subject—how to properly deploy the Boys Anti-Tank Rifle. This was perhaps unsettling, but hardly unusual. Throughout World War II, Disney created instructional and propaganda films for the…...

1+ week, 9+ hour ago   (95+ words) Trench Art | David Axe Ukraine’s New Radar Planes Are Big Slow Targets Expect the Russians to hunt the two ASC 890s This story was commissioned by Euromaidan Press. Since Substack pays only around a fifth of my bills, I have no…...

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…...

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…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (286+ words) For four years, Russia launched far more long-range missiles and drones than Ukraine launched back. In the summer of 2026, the balance flipped. That’s when Ukraine began hitting Russia harder than Russia hit Ukraine. The change didn’t happen fast or easily....

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…...