China is currently the largest global military power stocked fully with advanced missile capabilities. The US, NATO, Russia, and their allies have been burning though their advanced and semi-advanced missiles over Ukraine and in the Middle East, using up their Cold War stocks and their more modern reserves. Drones, while a low cost and simple […]
After incursions into NATO airspace by Russia’s Air and Drone forces over the last few weeks, the united NATO allies have had discussions on creating a mutli-layered air defence shield over Central Europe. This shield, made up of many different coordinated air defense systems, would be a permanent fixture in order to protect and repel […]
Recent videos on air defence over Ukraine detailed the use of one of the original NATO versions of a surface-to-air missile system, the HAWK. It was the case during the Cold War that the Soviet military’s mentality focused around air defence of the realm in response to being invaded by the Germans from the West […]
An analysis of Ukraine’s air defence successes and limitation was published detailing the effectiveness of Ukraine and its allies’ air defense capabilities against many generations and types of Russian and former Soviet missile systems. Despite the unexpected limited success rate of Ukraine’s supported air defense and considering the idea that intercepting high speed ballistic missiles […]
Much like the difficulty Russia had in defeating Ukraine’s defensive positions in 2022, Ukraine is now having to deal with similar problems being on offense. Like Ukraine, Russia is a military that spent much of the Soviet era practicing defensive positions after the German invasion during the Second World War. It should have been […]