6+ hour, 9+ min ago   (434+ words) A Russian drone struck the locomotive of a Kyiv-to-Warsaw passenger train roughly 1.2 miles from the Polish border on Sunday, hitting the engine minutes after Ukrainian rail dispatchers detected the threat and ordered an evacuation that kept all 206 passengers unharmed. Ukraine’s…...

6+ hour, 30+ min ago   (465+ words) Ukraine has quietly expanded its fight against Russia into Africa, sending drone specialists to help local forces battle the Africa Corps, Moscow’s successor to the Wagner Group, according to a CNN report. About 15 Ukrainian drone specialists were deployed to northern…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (459+ words) A joint force from Britain, Norway, and the United States tracked and confronted Russian submersibles rehearsing a covert attack on undersea cables near Norway’s Svalbard archipelago this spring, forcing the vessels to abandon the exercise and leave the area. This…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (319+ words) Fiber-optic control now accounts for 70% of the drones Ukraine’s National Guard flies, up from about 20%, Commander Oleksandr Pivnenko said in an interview on September 8. The drones swap a radio link for a hair-thin glass cable that unspools in flight, giving…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (528+ words) Two Russian Su-35S multirole fighter jets collided in the air over the Kursk region on September 7, killing one pilot and destroying both aircraft, according to Russian military channels tracking the loss. The collision was first reported by Fighterbomber, a Telegram…...

1+ week, 6+ hour ago   (416+ words) Finnish defense firm Patria completed assembly of the country’s first F135 fighter engine on September 3, giving NATO a domestic propulsion source on the alliance’s northern flank weeks before Finland’s first F-35A jets arrive at an air base near the Russian frontier....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (362+ words) A Russian military Mi-8 helicopter carrying an election official and four television journalists made an emergency landing on a highway on Sakhalin Island on September 2, then slid off the road and rolled into a ditch after both engines shut down from…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (399+ words) The Air Force declared its MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter operational for nuclear security on August 10, clearing the Boeing aircraft to guard intercontinental ballistic missile fields across the Great Plains. Air Force Global Strike Command announced the milestone on August 31. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (319+ words) Russia is secretly helping Iran develop a new class of supersonic cruise missiles capable of threatening U.S. aircraft carriers and warships in the Middle East, according to a Financial Times investigation. The missile program, codenamed C430L, began taking shape in 2023 and involved…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (293+ words) Germany formally accused Russia on September 1 of the attempted explosive-drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport last month and raised the national threat assessment from “general” to “high,” the first such elevation tied to the country’s escalating confrontation with Moscow. — Bundesministerium…...