Defence - Washington Institute For Defence & Security

09 Aug 21

Ukraine’s navy is being rebuilt in order to combat Russian aggression

Russia took land and people when it annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014. However, Russia captured 75 percent of Ukraine’s naval fleet, the majority of its helicopters, and the majority of the country’s ship repair capabilities in the process, with little attention. The Ukrainian Navy had to start from scratch after the Sevastopol Naval Base […]

06 Aug 21

Baykar building a shipborne fleet of combat drones in Turkey.

Baykar, a Turkish drone manufacturer, has revealed fresh information about its newest drone, which is meant to take off from ships loaded with unmanned aircraft. The Bayraktar TB-3, which is still under development, will be a larger and more competent model in the same family as the TB-2, according to Selcuk Bayraktar, the company’s chief […]

08 Mar 21

The U.S. Army’s Massive 155mm Cannons Can Now Kill from Long-Range

by Kris Osborn – National Interest – For decades, mobile and Self-Propelled Army 155mm artillery cannons maxed out ranges at about 30-to-40km, until now. In recent years the Army has massively extended the range at which its GPS-guided precision rounds can attack, by architecting a first-of-its-kind Extended Range Cannon Artillery program Due to its continued role providing […]

08 Mar 21

Putin’s Secret Weapon: Russia’s Tsirkon Hypersonic Missile Is Nasty

By Peter Suciu – In December of last year, the Russian Northern Fleet’s Project 22350 frigate Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet Gorshkov successfully conducted a test-launch of a Tsirkon hypersonic missile. It was fired from the Russian warship in the White Sea against a target 450 km away in the Barents Sea. It was the third test in as many […]

08 Mar 21

Russia’s Military Mission Creep Advances to a New Front: Africa

By Eric Schmitt, NY Times March 31, 2019 – OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — Russia has been steadily expanding its military influence across Africa, alarming Western officials with increasing arms sales, security agreements and training programs for unstable countries or autocratic leaders. In the Central African Republic, where a Russian has been installed as the president’s national security […]