Plesetsk Cosmodrome is 926 kilometers north of Moscow and 180 kilometers from the city of Arkhangelsk which is on the White Sea in northwest Russia. Arkhangelsk is opposite Murmansk, which is adjacent ...

December 16, 2024: Chinese companies have been taking on the management of more foreign ports. This is the port management business and is an important capability for many nations that lack the cash ...

Iran's current arsenal of sea mines is estimated to number around 2,000 and includes the domestically produced Sadaf-01/02 moored contact mines as well as more sophisticated bottom mines that depend ...

In Poland civilian military police and intelligence services have been hunting down Russian operatives based in Belarus responsible for trying to organize a sabotage campaign in NATO nations in ...

December 12, 2024: If you go to war, your chances of success are enhanced if you have better weapons than your opponents and your troops are better trained to use what they have. There are ways to ...

December 10, 2024: In September 2024 Ukraine officially established the Unmanned Systems Force or USF. Ukraine has built at least two million drones this year and has established manufacturing ...

December 9, 2024: The Russian navy has not been mentioned much during the last year. The reason is that there is not much of a navy left. Case in point is the nuclear-powered Nakhimov, a 28,000-ton ...

December 7, 2024: To keep their economy going in spite of the economic sanctions, Russia is depending on China and India. These are its most loyal trading partners. These two nations assist Russia in ...

The factions spill across current borders, which date from the Ottomans' post-WWI collapse (with a few later 20th-century rearrangements). For example, Turkey sees Syrian Kurds as allies of the ...

For example, some American soldiers returning from Iraq with undiagnosed health problems blamed it on depleted uranium metal, which is used in the 30mm cannon carried by the A-10 aircraft, 25mm shells ...

The Russian space program has been in decline since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 and the decline accelerated after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. This has not discouraged Russia from trying to ...