The Rocket Force has 120,000 personnel and operates nuclear and conventionally armed strategic missiles. China is believed to have between 300 and 500 nuclear warheads. The Rocket Force maintains ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is where the Nakhimov and two or three of its sister ships are based. The shipyards are currently preparing the Nakhimov for a return to service by 2026. That may be optimistic because repairs ...

Despite their realities, in 2019 the Russian parliament passed a Sovereign Internet law that created an Internet infrastructure that restricted Internet use within Russia by confining most Internet ...

While Russia had some long-range bombers at the start of the war, Ukraine soon developed longer range drones. Russia is running out its elderly bombers, because of sanctions is unable to make any more ...

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December 6, 2024: Since early 2023 Russia has been moving ancient T-54 and T-55 tanks out of storage for use in Ukraine. The 36-ton T-54 was the first post-World War II tank. It used a 100mm gun and a ...

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 ...

Mozambique is corrupt. The Transparency International Corruption index puts Mozambique near the bottom of the list at 145 out of 180 nations rated. Then there is the UN Human Development Index that ...

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 ...