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Tactical radars for small drones: the “Valdai” claim and Western alternatives
Small unmanned aerial systems have turned low-altitude air defence into a detection problem as much as an interception problem. Quadcopters and lightweight fixed-wing drones can fly slowly, hover, and exploit clutter from terrain, buildings and vegetation. Their radar cross-section is…
Drone attack reported in Russia’s Tuapse: fire at port berth and refinery site
Russian authorities said drones struck infrastructure in the Black Sea port of Tuapse overnight, causing fires at a port berth and at the Tuapse oil refinery, an export-oriented facility owned by state oil company Rosneft. The operational headquarters of Russia’s…
Spanish probe raises questions over sunken Russian vessel and alleged North Korea-bound naval nuclear cargo
A year after the Russian general cargo ship Ursa Major sank in the western Mediterranean, a Spanish newspaper investigation has put fresh focus on Russia–North Korea military cooperation and the methods used to move sensitive matériel under sanctions. The vessel…
China’s Wang Yi condemns record US Taiwan arms package as PLA drills intensify around the island
China has broadened its latest round of military activity around Taiwan as Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticised what Beijing describes as a record United States arms package for the island, linking the sale to what he called “provocations” by Taiwan’s…
Satellite images suggest new Russian nuclear-capable missile site near Krichev in Belarus
Russia is likely preparing to station its new nuclear-capable Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile system at a disused airbase in eastern Belarus, according to two US researchers who analysed recent commercial satellite imagery. Jeffrey Lewis, of the Middlebury Institute of International…
China’s Sanctions on America Are Loud, Symbolic – and Strategically Empty
Beijing insists that Taiwan is the immovable core of its national interest, the issue on which there can be no compromise and no retreat. Yet when confronted with the largest American arms package ever approved for the island, China’s response…
Let Ukraine Strike Back — Deeper Into Russia If Necessary
In a conflict now stretching into its fourth year, Ukraine has steadily refined not only its will to resist but its strategic acumen on the battlefield. The most recent milestone — a successful strike on Russia’s Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery using…
How China Is Systematically Undermining Western Security
For years, Washington preferred euphemism to clarity when discussing China’s military rise. It spoke of “modernisation”, of “regional ambitions”, of a power merely seeking its place in the world. That indulgence has now evaporated. In unusually blunt language, the Pentagon…
Beijing’s Nuclear Leap: China’s Missile Deployment Signals Strategic Sea Change
A draft Pentagon report concluded this week that Beijing has likely deployed more than 100 intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) across a series of newly constructed silo fields — a development with profound implications for the strategic balance between East and…
Fire at Russian military aerodrome near Lipetsk ‘put two fighters out of action’, Ukraine says
Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Directorate (HUR) has said a covert operation inside Russia damaged two Russian fighter aircraft, a Su-30 and a Su-27, at a military airfield near the city of Lipetsk. In a statement dated 22 December, HUR said a…