Daily Archives: Dec 16, 2025

“Gripens are the best in the world,” said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Linköping this week, underlining what may prove to be a shift in the balance of airpower over Eastern Europe. The pronouncement came as Ukraine and Sweden signed a landmark letter of intent to supply up to...

What happens when a superpower's war machine runs on borrowed time and borrowed parts? Russia's long war in Ukraine is laying bare the limitations of its military-industrial base and the economic scaffolding holding it together. Behind confident rhetoric from the Kremlin, there is a brittle structure-one increasingly strained by...

In November 2025, Russia for the first time fired an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile, a type that has never been used in combat, against Ukraine's Dnipro region. That was a jolting reminder that this is as much a war of technological contests in the skies as it is one...