Daily Archives: Mar 15, 2026

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...

As front lines of the war dissolve into its industrial interior, Ukraine's July 11 drone attack on the Lukhovitsy Aviation Plant highlighted a crucial realignment the focus of the fight for air dominance and unmanned systems is increasingly about factories as well as in disputed skies. The plant, situated...