ukrainian crisis

To kick things off, a good overview video based upon current Ukraine findings: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-N3GGzuO0w

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/07/france-unveils-its-defense-strategy-for-the-arctic/

Having come across several pieces of footage recently of Russian forces capturing several western made vehicles in Ukraine, especially IFVs, tanks and MRAPs in particular, I was left wondering what actually happens with these vehicles, given their number. Captured Leopard 2 being moved away...

Watching this, and hearing how digitized the jaguar is, I was thinking about Ukraine, and how fast things get chewed through. Particularly munitions. In the modern era should militaries have lower tech fall back designs that can be built quicker and much cheaper than things like the jaguar...

Much has been said about the intensive use of drones in the war in Ukraine marking a sea change in how militaries operate. And now we have a new war flaring up between Israel and Iran that's being conducted in much the same way. Does this mean we've entered a new age where soldiers merely sit at...

https://www.twz.com/air/new-small-russian-cruise-missile-captured-by-ukraine-intelligence Regards,

Seems that a Saab 340 AWACS was operational yesterday above Lviv. https://theaviationist.com/2024/05/29/ukraine-to-get-swedish-awacs/ https://news-pravda.com/world/2025/04/22/1256181.html https://t.me/CyberspecNews/79435

https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2025/04/02/france-calls-for-new-eu-ammo-plan-speeding-up-satellite-constellation/

https://www.iiss.org/research-paper/2025/03/a-european-reassurance-force-for-ukraine--options-and-challenges/

As it becomes clear that Europe and Canada will need to take on the running of NATO's main command on the continent, it will be necessary to find a significant figure who can deal effectively with the military and political challenges ahead as SACEUR. As the principal military power in Europe...

https://eurospace.org/7026-2/

Via Stuart Galbraith over on TankNet: View...

I recently read that France is considering deploying some nuclear capable Rafales to Germany, to strengthen deterrence further east. I thought this was interesting enough and it might be useful if the British did it as well, but of course they retired their aircraft nukes in 1998 and now only...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-germany-trinity-house-agreement-on-defence https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-germany-trinity-house-agreement-on-defence-joint-communique

Some interesting news regarding systems similar to JLENS (and other options) https://breakingdefense.com/2024/07/army-taking-wide-open-approach-to-high-altitude-platforms-smdc-chief/ https://www.twz.com/air/polands-plan-to-deploy-early-warning-radar-blimps-moves-forward 7 years after the...

Commercial drones can be easily weaponized. A Russian company makes portable drone detectors called Bulat. These units apparently scan the known frequencies in UHF and analyze the waveforms used by commercial drones, including the FPV ones, and warn the user about their transmissions in...

In the August 2024 battle in the Kursk region, Ukrainian forces apparently started to universally use anti-drone electronic warfare (EW) to counter Russian radio controlled (RC) kamikaze drones. A photo below from sm shows a Ukrainian BMP-1 with three EW antennas rendering such drones useless...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-ukraine-russia-bloomberg-b2589071.html

Planting or removing? https://www.spacewar.com/reports/N_Korea_plants_tens_of_thousands_of_mines_on_border_Seoul_999.html