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Warplanes: Ka-52M Gunship in Ukraine - StrategyPage
August 8, 2023: One of the most frequently used Russian helicopters used in Ukraine is the Ka-52 and the upgraded Ka-52M. What makes these helicopters so effective is their Lemur laser-guided anti-tank missile. With a range of 15 kilometers, the Lemur can be fired while beyond the range of Ukrainian anti-aircraft weapons.
Austin Bay's On Point2024 - StrategyPage
On Point: 2024. Six Strategic Challenges For 2024. Yemen's Houthis Were Always Terrorists. Theater Of Panic Repeat: Putin's Russia Threatens World War III and Alaska. The Navy Needs Small but Highly Capable Warships. Time To Punish Iran's Ayatollah Regime For Its War On The World. The Not So Secret Preludes to Russia's 2022 Invasion of Ukraine.
Special Operations: Ukraine Releases The Kraken - StrategyPage
Dec 9, 2022 · Kraken is the latest special operations force created to deal with the changing situation in Ukraine. This is a pattern that first appeared back in 2014 when the Russians sized Crimea in early 2014 and later went after two eastern provinces (Donetsk and Luhansk) collectively known as Donbas (Donets Basin). Donetsk had about two million people ...
Special Operations: A Decade of CIA Operations in Ukraine
Mar 9, 2024 · Special Operations: A Decade of CIA Operations in Ukraine. March 9, 2024: Even before Russia first seized Ukrainian territory in 2014 by taking possession of Crimea and sought to annex two provinces in eastern Ukraine, the American CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) was quietly and unofficially working with Ukraine to monitor an increasingly ...
Armor: New American M10 Tank - StrategyPage
Mar 28, 2024 · The US Army is receiving 504 M10 light tanks to provide front line firepower for infantry units The M10 Booker tank is a 38-ton armored vehicle that looks like a tank but is designated an assault gun It has a low recoil 105mm gun with fifty 105mm she
Armor: Ukraine Receives Another Hundred Leopard 2s
As of early 2024, Ukraine has received 70 Leopard 2 tanks and expects to receive at least a hundred more from many NATO nations. These came from Germany, Poland, Norway, Canada, Spain and Sweden. Leopard 2 tanks cost a lot more than American M1s. Used 62-t0n Leopard 2A6 tanks cost six million dollars. New Leopard A7+tanks cost $14 million while ...
Book Review: War in the Western Theater: Favorite Stories and …
New Looks at the Civil War in the West. In this new book from Savas Beatie’s “Emerging Civil War” series, Sarah Kay Bierle and Chris Mackowski have collected forty-seven short papers by thirty excellent scholars, some originally published in blogs or presented as talks at ECW symposia, plus some written just for this volume, supported by maps by the outstanding cartographers Hal ...
Artillery: 155mm Hyper Velocity Projectile Scores A Hit
September 28, 2020: The U.S. Air Force recently tested the 155mm version of its HVP (Hyper Velocity Projectile) fired from an army M-109 self-propelled 155mm howitzer. The HVP hit an incoming target drone standing in for a Russian cruise missile. The target was destroyed. In 2018 the U.S. Navy fired twenty of the smaller (127mm) HPV projectiles ...
On Point: The Navy Needs Small but Highly Capable Warships
by Austin Bay. February 1, 2024. In 2004, ignorant media crucified then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for stating a historical truth about warfare. Here's Rumsfeld's very pertinent quote: "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time." In 2024, immediate crises demonstrate Rumsfeld's ...