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The Ukrainian Defense Forces are armed with the Romanian CA-95 native-made amphibious self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon. Photos of this SAM system operated by the Ukrainian military are circulating on social networks. At the same time, the CA-95 SAM system itself operated in Ukraine has the original Romanian paint scheme. The Romanian CA-95 self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon, is a copy of the Soviet 9K31 Strela-1 system and is currently still in service with the Romanian ground forces. The vehicle can carry four infrared-guided surface to air missiles, and can destroy targets at altitudes from 50 to 3,500 meters and at ranges from 800…

France allocates a new package of defense assistance to Ukraine in the amount of 195 million euros (about $211.25 million), which will be paid for from the profits of frozen assets of the Russian Federation, the package will include, in particular, artillery ammunition and aerial bombs. The allocation of another package of defense assistance to Ukraine was announced by the French head of the Defense Ministry, Sebastien Lecornu, to the publication La Tribune Dimanche. He noted that we are talking, in particular, about the transfer of an unspecified number of 155-mm shells, as well as AASM-type aerial bombs, other details…

The United Arab Emirates military is currently focused on developing the robotic component of its Navy, primarily in order to “plug manpower shortages and capability gaps,” Defense News reports. The outlet notes that the naval branch of UAE forces comprises “roughly 3,000” personnel, while a 2024 estimate by The Military Balance study counts 2,500 people in active service, a comparatively modest number. That is why today, the UAE has become a promising market for many manufacturers of marine robotic platforms worldwide. This became particularly evident from the defense exhibitions IDEX and NAVDEX held in Abu Dhabi in February 2025, where…

In 2023, during the IDEF 2023 defense exhibition in Turkey, Meteksan Defense, together with the shipbuilding company ARES Shipyard, unveiled the ULAQ KAMA kamikaze drone boat and announced that they could produce up to 100 units of these drones per year. Additionally, the Turkish Navy is set to receive new ULAQ 12 ASuW unmanned boats, equipped with an advanced set of weaponry and systems. This information was reported by the Turkish news outlet Anadolu Ajansi. Presentation of the maritime ULAQ KAMA kamikaze drone during IDEF 2023, July 2023 / Foto credit: Naval News The ULAQ KAMA was developed based on…

In the public domain, you can find a story about how the USSR in the 1960s worked on the OTRK project based on the V-611 naval anti-aircraft missile. Although this project was not implemented, here we are talking about the de facto predecessor of the Tochka-U complex, and the contractor of the work was the Fakel Design Bureau, which is now the main developer of anti-aircraft missiles in the Russian Federation. Among other things, this story can show us how long ago a technical solution was born that allowed the ruscists to use S-300 and S-400 air defense systems in…

Another product of ad hoc combining naval and land weapons was noticed near the russian-occupied Sevastopol, this time in an attempt to make additional air defense equipment. They mounted an AK-630 anti-aircraft gun on a KamAZ truck, as shown in a photograph shared by the Crimean Wind community on Telegram. Previously, russian engineers also had created other chimeras like 2M-3 or 2-UK-T shipborne guns, or А-22 Ogon naval MLRS installed on MT-LB armored vehicles, although the last recorded sighting dates back to 2023. Among more recent are russian experiments with RBU-6000 anti-submarine bomb launchers on various platforms.* The AK-630 anti-aircraft…

An examination of guided rockets from russia’s Tornado-S multiple launch rocket system, used in its war against Ukraine, has uncovered the simultaneous use of two fiber-optic gyroscopes for improved targeting accuracy. One of these is the TIUS500 unit, manufactured by russian Optolink company, while the other is an unmarked foreign device with indicator seals in Chinese, resembling products from China’s BWSENSING. Both gyroscopes utilize three Sagnac ring interferometers arranged along orthogonal axes, paired with electronic control boards. However, their electronics differ: russian module is built around the American Altera Cyclone’s FPGA, while foreign one uses Swiss STMicroelectronics’ microcontroller. Swiss DC/DC…

Turkish defense company Aselsan has announced a successful live-fire test of its Gözde guidance kit for free-falling bombs. The trial, concluded on February 27, 2025, showcased the system’s capability to track and neutralize a moving target using a combination of inertial, satellite guidance, and terminal semi-active homing head. Target designation was done by an F-16 multirole fighter. A joint development by Aselsan and Tübi̇tak SAGE research institute, the Gözde guidance kit applies to a standard Mk 82 bomb, effectively turning it into a smart weapon. In that respect, Gözde is conceptually similar to the American Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)…

Kremlin propagandists from the TASS agency, citing “two sources in the military-industrial complex,” wrote that the Russian Federation is allegedly developing a medium-range ballistic missile designed to strike aircraft carrier groups of the US Navy under the code name “Borshchevyk”. And that the racist “Borshchevyk” will seem to be similar to the corresponding Chinese ballistic missiles under the DF-21 and DF-26 indexes, writes Naval News. If such news had been heard in pre-war times, such data could be taken into account, assuming that the Kremlin wants to get a “high-tech” replacement for anti-ship cruise missiles of the Kh-22 and Kh-32…

Adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko said that in Kyiv “for the first time the fact of using the latest weapons – shells that descend on parachutes was recorded.” He also added that this is the most brutal weapon. At the same time, there was no explanation for why – from the adviser and News Hub decided to close this gap. To put it very simply, parachutes are used in only two of the most common types of ammunition – lighting and cluster munitions. There is also an unlikely option that these are “mountain” rockets. Lighting, in…