Daily Archives: Dec 16, 2025

Ukrainian drones are not only burning refinery rooftops they are reconfiguring the supply chain of Russia's oil industry in ways that engineering constraint and sea-based enforcement are now making achingly apparent. What started out as a military effort to impede fuel production has snowballed into a system-wide pressure, from...

President Trump's last-minute about-face on sending weapons to Ukraine may have been political theater, but to Kyiv's strategists and engineers, it underscored a harsh truth: Ukraine's air defense system hangs by a thin thread of technology, production capacity, and battlefield ingenuity. As one missile defense analyst, Tom Karako, recently...

The two Russian soldiers crept down a dirt road very slowly, without realizing that above them was a Ukrainian drone tracking their progress. Within seconds, a small projectile dropped between them in a flash of bright orange. They stumbled away, injured but intact. Far behind, in a 10-mile command...