20 countries want KARGU – the UAV hunting a man without an order
Ozgur Guleruz, general manager of the Turkish company STM said that the STM is currently being asked by 20 countries to buy KARGU Rotary Wing Strike…
Lithuanian citizens raise €5M to buy Bayraktar TB2 for Ukraine
Lithuanians collect donations for the purchase of Bayraktar TB2 MALE unmanned combat aerial vehicle for Ukraine. The goal is to raise 5M euros in…
Poland sends LoR to buy 500 M142 HIMARS firing MGM-140 ATACMS
Poland wants to purchase approximately 500 M142 HIMARS Missile Launchers from the United States. Poland continues to buy weapons at full speed, media…
Polish Rosomak 8×8 multi-role APC will get ZSSW-30 unmanned turret
Poland will equip its Rosomak 8×8 multi-role APCs with brand new ZSSW-30 unmanned turrets, learned BulgarianMilitary.com, citing polish online portal…
Iconic Belgian 5.56 × 45mm FN F2000 rifles in Ukrainian troops
Twitter photo of a Ukrainian soldiers shows that someone delivered the Belgian FN F2000 rifle to the Ukrainian troops.
Russia sends urban TSFVs to Ukraine: 4 ATGMs, 2x30mm guns, 7.62mm MG
Russia decided to send to Ukraine one of its latest weapons developments - tank support fighting vehicle, better known among designers as the BMPT…
CONFLCITS
Watch: An American and a British fire RGW-90 at a Russian BTR-80 APC
A body camera of one of the foreign volunteers in the war in Ukraine, as well as a reconnaissance drone, filmed the operation to disable the Russian…
Captured US-made Switchblade drones: ‘We’ll use them against Ukraine’
A batch of loitering Switchblades munition donated by the United States to Ukraine has been captured by Russian troops the Ruskaya Vesna reported in…
Watch: Large-scale rocket strike with vacuum bombs in Ukraine
Ukrainian MoD posted a video on Twitter, claiming that Russian artillery forces have inflicted a powerful thermobaric strike in the Novomykhailivka…
Watch: Self-contained ground launch of Switchblade 300 in Ukraine
For the first time, we have a video that recorded the self-contained ground launch of US-supplied Switchblade 300 loitering ammunition by the…
Su-34 left engine caught fire in flight after being hit by a SAM
On May 18, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bomber/strike aircraft in the sky over Kupyansk in the Kharkiv region,…
Watch: 122mm Tornado-G MLRS and falling rockets in Kharkiv region
Video recorded by thermal cameras of the Russian armed forces shows a large-scale artillery rocket attack in the area of Izyum, Kharkiv region,…
COMMENTS
UAR-15, the Zbroyar clone of AR-15 replaces Soviet Kalashnikov
The license for the production of weapons based on the worldwide AR-15 and AR-10 systems was obtained for Zbroyar from the American company Daniel…
Bayraktar TB2 MALE unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV)
The Bayraktar TB2 MALE unmanned combat aerial vehicle reconnaissance drone, created by the Turkish Company Baykar Makina, is in service with the…
US-made APKWS II laser-guided rocket on Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2
The Pentagon officially confirmed that these would be Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System II or APKWS II missiles worth a total of $ 22.6 million -…
MISTRAL infrared homing man-portable air-defense system
The development of the French short-range universal missile Mistral began in the late 70s by Matra. Several basic versions of the rocket have been…
Donbas 2: Russia is preparing an attack on Moldova by May 9
Moldova has 3,250 soldiers. Ukrainian intelligence recorded some activity at the airport in Tiraspol, the de facto capital of unrecognized…
Ukraine loses Bayraktar TB2 UAVs – both over Ukraine and Russia
Very often on social networks, Russian profiles publish downed Ukrainian drones Bayraktar, which gained heroic fame in Syria, Libya, and…
BUDGETS / PROCUREMENT / DONATIONS / DELIVERIES
155mm M777A2 from Poland into Ukraine: GPS, software update, EPIAFS
Video posted on social network Telegram recorded the entry of M777A2 with communication and GPS equipment, updated Block1 and added Enhanced EPIAFS…
US purchases subsonic Tomahawk V: 1666 + km range, turbofan engine
US Army, Marine Corps, and US Navy have ordered a total of 154 Block V Tactical Tomahawk All Up Round Vertical Launch System missiles for which just…
Canada donates 20,000 155mm artillery projectiles to Ukraine
Canada has decided to increase military aid to Ukraine by about CAD 98 million by donating 20,000 NATO-standard artillery projectiles to Ukraine's…
American ‘Yes’: Denmark sends Harpoon AShMs and launchers to Ukraine
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that Denmark would hand over anti-ship missiles and Harpoon launchers to Ukraine, learned…
Germany allows: 105mm Leopard 1A5 tanks + APFSDS ammo go to Ukraine
Most likely, Germany will send dozens of Leopard 1A5 tanks to help Ukraine's armed forces waging war with Russia on its territory, learned…
AN-124 cargo aircraft loaded M113s and wheeled 4×4 MPVs for Ukraine
Camberra makes another delivery, sending 20 Bushmaster wheeled 4x4 multi-role protected vehicles on cargo aircraft, learned BulgarianMilitary.com,…
COMPARISON / DOGFIGHT
Comparison between Altug and BTR-4MV1 armored personnel carriers
Defense Express had opportunity to see Altuğ in detail and compare it in absentia with the latest serial armored vehicle - BTR-4 and its more powerful…
Asian KF-21 Boramae vs. Su-75 Checkmate – what are the differences
The KF-21 Boramae, developed by South Korea, has become an analog of the domestic military aircraft, but with a couple of interesting differences
Su-57 is well-armed, but F-35 has a nuclear gravity bomb
Mark Episkopos, claims that the Russian Su-57 is very well armed and maintains a huge range of air-to-air missiles as well as anti-ship missiles, the…
Which Indian fighter jet is better – Dassault Rafale or Su-30MKI?
India has two main multi-role fighters - the French Dassault Rafale and the Russian but manufactured under Indian license Su-30MKI. So, which one is…
F-35 vs. F-22 – a dogfight between the best stealth fighters
F-35 vs. F-22 It is easy to compare on paper two fighters from different countries. It is much more challenging to pit against products of the same…
Russian Kinzhal missile vs. USS Arleigh Burke – the ship will not withstand
In November 2019, in the Arctic, successful tests were carried out of the newest hypersonic aviation missile system, "Kinzhal," from the MiG-31K…
