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WEB5. TODAY IN MILITARY HISTORY. 61. BC. First day of Pompey's Third Triumph: For the defeat of Mithridates. 0. Feast of St. Wenceslaus I, Duke and Patron of Bohemia. 235. Deposition of Pope St. Pontian (July 21, 230-Sep. 28, 235), exiled to Sardinia by the Emperor Maximinus Thrax, d.
Artillery: Ukraine Develops a Deadlier Neptune Missile
WEBDecember 25, 2023: Ukraine is developing a longer-range version of its ground-launched Neptune cruise missile. The current Neptune has been frequently used to attack targets deep inside Russian occupied territory, or ships at sea and in harbor in the Black Sea. The new version is called Long Neptune and is literally a longer version of the ...
Special Operations: A Decade of CIA Operations in Ukraine
WEBMar 9, 2024 · Both the FSB and SVR regularly bump into CIA operations inside and outside Russia. CIA operations inside Ukraine and Russia increased after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. This was particularly the case with joint Ukrainian-CIA operations which became more extensive and intense. The CIA had helped Ukraine prepare for this in several ways.
Artillery: SADARM Success In Ukraine - StrategyPage
WEBNovember 5, 2022: SADARM (Search And Destroy Armor Munitions)-equipped 155mm artillery shells proved so successful in Ukraine against armored vehicles that over 20,000 of these shells were provided to the Ukrainian forces in the last five months. Unlike the United States, Germany produced these shells mainly for use against local threats, like ...
Air Defense: NASAMS Goes to War - StrategyPage
WEBFeb 18, 2024 · The Ukraine War proved to be a major boost in sales of the European air defense systems like the Norwegian NASAMS and Germany’s IRIS-T SAM (Surface to Air Missile) system Until 2022, IRIS-T found it difficult to compete against the similar and ear
Submarines: Lada Class Submarine Abandoned
WEBApril 4, 2024: Russia recently abandoned its effort to continue building Lada class submarines. Ladas were originally seen as a successor to the Kilo class but were not as capable as expected. The original order for twelve Ladas was reduced to the three already built, and two under construction. One or both of those may be abandoned because of ...
Warplanes: More F-35s Mean More F-16s For Ukraine - StrategyPage
WEBLockMart initially expected to get orders for at least 700 newly built F-16V or less expensive upgrades. An upgrade brings in as little as $10 million per aircraft while five or ten of these upgrades equals the price of one new F-16V. But when you have orders for hundreds of F-16V upgrades you have a lot of F-16 work.
Murphy's Law: Twilight of the BTG - StrategyPage
WEBOctober 27, 2023: The Russian army is abandoning the BTG (Battalion Task Group) concept. In February 2022 one of the surprising developments was the failure of the BTG system. Russia had expanded the use of BTGs since the 1980s because BTGs had consistently proved successful in many small wars, including the rather large operation in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
Forces: Ukrainian Female Soldiers - StrategyPage
WEBMarch 31, 2024: After Russia invaded Ukraine, one of the responses was that more than 60,000 Ukrainian women volunteered to join the military. Most of the women served in non-combat jobs but at least 5,000 served in the combat zone, many of them as snipers. As of early 2024, 600 of the female soldiers have been wounded, about a hundred of them ...