Daily Archives: Dec 13, 2025
NATO Faces Escalating Baltic Threats from Russian Air and Sea Tactics
The September incursion of three Russian MiG-31 class fighter jets into Estonian airspace over the island of Vindaloo during the span of a dozen or so minutes had long-term strategic implications. The incursion was termed "unprecedentedly brazen" by Estonian officials in reference to invoking the NATO Article 4 consultations...
MiG-31 Crash and Energy Grid Assault Mark Escalation in Ukraine War
The sudden crash of a Russian MiG-31 interceptor fighter near the area of Lipetsk, hours before a massive overnight Ukrainian barrage of drones and missiles, brought to the fore growing technological and logistical strains on both sides of the conflict. The accident, occurring some 300 kilometers from Ukraine's eastern...
Can Russia’s Aging Tank Fleet Survive the War’s Attrition?
As long argued by Heinz Guderian, the father of the Germany WWII Panzer army, "the engine of the tank is as much a weapon as is the gun." In the war over Ukraine that is being waged yet again by Russia, that truism has taken on a grim corollary...
