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Ground Drones: The Robotic Soldiers of Modern Warfare

Ground Drones: The Robotic Soldiers of Modern Warfare

Ground drones in Ukraine are rapidly becoming a core component of combat innovation. These robotic platforms play a vital role in transforming warfare, especially under conditions where artillery dominance and positional standoffs define the b...

Ruslana Velychko

Ruslana Velychko

High-Stakes Diplomacy: The Risks of Rushed Negotiations

High-Stakes Diplomacy: The Risks of Rushed Negotiations

We always act, think, and feel within the framework of our values—whether in a professional or personal role. This applies not only to ourselves but also to those making decisions at a global level. Observing the actions of the U.S. President, ...

Veronika Hryshchenko

Veronika Hryshchenko

26 February, 2025

The army needs to be changed

The army needs to be changed

"Generals have a proverbial weakness for fighting the last war" Chicago Tribune 1943, May 7 Is it possible to carry out reforms in times of war? The answer is unequivocal - it is necessary! Timely changes in the army are a matter of survival. ...

#Armed Forces of Ukraine

#Ukraine

Andriy Sokolov

16 February, 2025

Assad has lost the south. Russia evacuates bases from western Syria and the embassy from Damascus.

Assad has lost the south. Russia evacuates bases from western Syria and the embassy from Damascus.

The Assad regime continues to lose territory at a breakneck pace amid the collapse of the entire army system. Thus, the Syrian opposition is still advancing in the northern part of the province of Homs in the countryside and has reached the outski...

#Iraq

#Israel

#Middle East

#Russia

#Syria

#Turkey

#World

#Іран

Urich

7 December, 2024

Know Your Enemy: Ammunition for UAVs

Know Your Enemy: Ammunition for UAVs

Today, in terms of studying our enemy, we will go over the main types of Russian ammunition for UAVs. They are developed by several organizations. Let's start with the work of the Central Research Institute of Chemistry and Mechanics (CRICM), beca...

Andrii Kharuk

7 December, 2024

FN F2000 Operating Experience by Ukrainian Soldier

FN F2000 Operating Experience by Ukrainian Soldier

Disclaimer: I am not a weapons expert and am describing only my own subjective experience. You can take this as a “foxhole rumor” from a fellow soldier in the neighboring dugout. The enemy already had captured such a weapon, so nothing I mention h...

#Infantry armament

#Ukraine

Concussed Drone

Concussed Drone

26 November, 2024

RS-26 “Rubezh”

According to the Ukrainian Air Force Command, today's missile attack was the first time that the Russians used an “intercontinental ballistic missile” and fired it at Dnipro. This is in line with last week's announcement about the test of the R...

#Ballistic missiles

#Ukraine

#War with Russia

Andrii Kharuk

21 November, 2024

Without the Right to Resist: Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine Pressures Ukraine to Surrender

Without the Right to Resist: Russia’s New Nuclear Doctrine Pressures Ukraine to Surrender

Oleksandr Demchenko, consultant at the CBA Initiatives Center On November 19, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving a document titled “The Fundamentals of the State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Field of Nucle...

CBA Initiatives Center

20 November, 2024

The long arm of Kim Il Sung

The long arm of Kim Il Sung

The development of self-propelled artillery in the Korean People's Army (KPA) has a long history. During the Korean War, the KPA used approximately three hundred SU-76 self-propelled guns (by July 1953, only 127 of these SPGs remained in service)....

#ACS

#Artillery

#North Korea (DPRK)

#Ukraine

Andrii Kharuk

17 November, 2024

For the first time in a long time, Russians have used AN-94 Abakan assault rifles

For the first time in a long time, Russians have used AN-94 Abakan assault rifles

Have you ever seen a fairy tale character in real life? Well, this photo shows just such a fairy-tale character, the AN-94 assault rifle. It was a product that made a lot of advertising noise in the dashing 90s, but it later quietly disappeared fr...

#Infantry armament

#Russia

Andrii Kharuk

12 November, 2024

BRICS Summit in Kazan: Why Did the Participants Travel to Russia?

BRICS Summit in Kazan: Why Did the Participants Travel to Russia?

Oleksandr Demchenko, consultant at the CBA Initiatives Center The BRICS summit began in Kazan on October 22, 2024, under Russia's chairmanship, with official events starting on October 23. Nearly all heads of BRICS member states attended in perso...

CBA Initiatives Center

25 October, 2024

Exoatmospheric interception in the sky over Israel

Exoatmospheric interception in the sky over Israel

After a large-scale Iranian missile strike on Israel using dozens of ballistic missiles, several new videos of exoatmospheric interceptions have been posted online. Here's a look at these explosions and their features. First, the most obvious t...

#Air Defense

#Israel

The Alpha Centauri

The Alpha Centauri

13 October, 2024

BTR-82A vs M113: Why the ‘Russian’ Isn’t a Competitor to the ‘American’

BTR-82A vs M113: Why the ‘Russian’ Isn’t a Competitor to the ‘American’

The Russian TV show "Voyennaya priyemka" (Russian propaganda TV show, ed.) aired another bold report on equipment captured in Ukraine. This time, the Russian military fired at an M113A3 armored personnel carrier (converted back to an APC Sidam-...

#APC

#Armored vehicles

Andrii Tarasenko

Andrii Tarasenko

Putin Jugend 2.0: How Russia Recruits Ukrainian Children and Prepares Them for War

Putin Jugend 2.0: How Russia Recruits Ukrainian Children and Prepares Them for War

Since the beginning of this year, the occupiers have initiated a new form of "military-patriotic" work with children in the southeastern regions of Ukraine, violating the Geneva Convention, which explicitly prohibits such actions with the populati...

#Russia

#Russian aggression

#Ukraine

Yurii Yuzych

“Radioactive Ash” or How Russia Once Again Brandishes Its Nuclear Stick

“Radioactive Ash” or How Russia Once Again Brandishes Its Nuclear Stick

Russia regularly threatens with nuclear weapons. Officials and propagandists claim the possibility of using this weapon in response to new Western steps in support of Ukraine. In May 2024, Russia conducted exercises using tactical nuclear weapons....

#Nuclear weapons

#Russia

#the Republic of Belarus

Viktor Sholudko

Viktor Sholudko

The Last Samurai: Japan is decommissioning all Type 74 tanks, but what will it do with them?

The Last Samurai: Japan is decommissioning all Type 74 tanks, but what will it do with them?

For Japan, March is a time when the country holds various holidays, festivals, ceremonies for launching and commissionштп ships into the fleet, etc. But this year, March in Japan was the month of decommissioning of a tank of the era, namely the...

#Armored vehicles

#Japan

Roman Pryhodko

Werewolf experts: how anti-vaxxers lie about mobilization in Ukraine

Werewolf experts: how anti-vaxxers lie about mobilization in Ukraine

The events of February 6 in the village of Kosmach in the Ivano-Frankivsk region demonstrate the impact of Russian propaganda and "useful idiots" who spread anti-mobilization hysteria. The latter are former anti-vaxxers who, following the onset of...

#Information war

Viktor Sholudko

Viktor Sholudko

26 February, 2024

End of ‘Saint Petersburg’

End of ‘Saint Petersburg’

Today, the Russian public pages have confirmed the information that has been circulating for a year, if not more: the Project 677 St. Petersburg diesel-electric submarine has been decommissioned and will be utilized. The story of this vessel is in...

#Fleet

#Russia

#Russian Navy

#shipbuilding

#Submarines

Andrii Kharuk

11 February, 2024

“Military Experts Are Ecstatic”: How Russia Uses Pseudo-experts to Spread Military Fakes

“Military Experts Are Ecstatic”: How Russia Uses Pseudo-experts to Spread Military Fakes

Russian propaganda lacks originality: narratives about the inevitability of Ukraine's defeat, the "outdated NATO equipment," and the advantages of Russian weapons that "have no analogs," have been spread both before and during the full-scale invas...

#Information war

#Russia

#War with Russia

#World

Viktor Sholudko

Viktor Sholudko

29 January, 2024

Ukraine Develops BMP Weapon Station and Unusual Armor for It

Ukraine Develops BMP Weapon Station and Unusual Armor for It

At the end of November 2023, a video of the Ukrainian military’s BMP-1 engagement with a new unknown weapon station was published on the web. It was developed by a Ukrainian company and entered service after the start of a full-scale Russian invas...

#Armored vehicles

#IFV

#Modernization

#Ukraine

Andrii Tarasenko

Andrii Tarasenko

26 January, 2024

Rare Soviet-Era Object 14 Resurfaces in Ukrainian Military Service

Rare Soviet-Era Object 14 Resurfaces in Ukrainian Military Service

The first public images of the Soviet prototype of the Object 14 amphibious tank, developed at the Kharkiv Tractor Plant since the 1980s, have surfaced on the web. According to the Telegram channel "Russia No Context," the prototype of the comb...

#Armored vehicles

#History

#Tank

#Ukraine

#War with Russia

Oleksandr Yan

13 December, 2023

Juche projectiles: North Korea tracks in Russo-Ukrainian war

Juche projectiles: North Korea tracks in Russo-Ukrainian war

On September 13, 2023, a North Korean delegation, led by Kim Jong Un, arrived in the Russian Federation. The program of negotiations was really intense, and at the end of the visit, the Supreme Leader of North Korea was taken to the city of Komsom...

#Ammunition

#North Korea (DPRK)

#Russia

#War with Russia

SPJ Vodohray

6 November, 2023

Ukrainian “Pat”

Ukrainian “Pat”

In 1998, at the Honcharivske training ground (Chernihiv region), one could see a very interesting sample of a towed artillery system with an unusually shaped muzzle brake installed on a PTS-2 amphibious full-track vehicle. It was the muzzle brake ...

#Artillery

#History

#Ukraine

Andrii Kharuk

4 November, 2023

Search for mines using drones with thermal imaging

Search for mines using drones with thermal imaging

In June this year, information about an unusual method of mine detection rapidly spread on social media. According to the reports, after sunset, for 30-60 minutes, a drone with a thermal imager can be used at an altitude of 60-70 meters to detect ...

#Mine clearance

NGO "Boryviter Military School"

NGO "Boryviter Military School"

20 October, 2023

How many Т-90М tanks did Russia produce?

How many Т-90М tanks did Russia produce?

On one of the videos of the production of Russian tanks from Uralvagonzavod, attentive viewers noticed the chalk numbers "379" on board the compartment of the Т-90М auxiliary power unit. This gave them reason to assume that four hundred or even mo...

#Russia

#Tank

Andrii Tarasenko

Andrii Tarasenko

6 October, 2023

Another Round of Escalation in the Northen Kosovo – Comment

Another Round of Escalation in the Northen Kosovo – Comment

The original article was published on the New Geopolitics Research Network. Any reprints of the article only with the author's and NGRN's permission. On September 24, an Albanian policeman who served in the Kosovo police was killed in...

Kateryna Shymkevych

Kateryna Shymkevych

5 October, 2023

Structure of Russian fortifications in Zaporizhzhia

Structure of Russian fortifications in Zaporizhzhia

In this video, dear friends, we are shown one of the most formidable Russian strongholds situated in the Robotine-Novoprokopivka area. This stronghold comprises a complex system of trenches, tunnels, and dugouts, serving as firing positions that t...

#War with Russia

#Zaporizhia

Oleksandr Solonko

Oleksandr Solonko

2 October, 2023

Further possible development of naval drones

Further possible development of naval drones

Attacks by naval drones on August 4 and 5 on approaches to the Kerch Strait and Novorossiysk showed Ukraine's ability to project military force to the eastern and central Black Sea (in fact - up to 400 miles/740 km). This deprives our enemy of hav...

#Fleet

#USV

#Україна

Andrii Ryzhenko

Andrii Ryzhenko

10 August, 2023

Heroes die. Remember this.

Heroes die. Remember this.

Heroes die. It's an integral part of history. And when they leave, their contribution to our lives, to our community, is forgotten. Personal grief and loss, a sea of all-encompassing love, and warm memories continue to linger in the hearts of thei...

#Armed Forces of Ukraine

#Ukraine

#War in Donbas

#War with Russia

Ruslana Velychko

Ruslana Velychko

Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

A text version of the First Division’s video exclusively for Militarnyi. Before reading, please subscribe to YouTube and Telegram channels. The Defence Intelligence is the intelligence agency of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, which must p...

Volodymyr B.

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Олексій Бобовніков

Олексій Бобовніков

Олег Слабоспицький

Олег Слабоспицький

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Taras Chmut

Director The Come Back Alive Foundation, co-founder of Militarnyi, UA marine

Viktor Plakhuta

Viktor Plakhuta