New capabilities for Russian GERAN-2 drones 20/02/2025 | Tommaso Massa Over the last year, the Russian GERAN-2 drones have been modified to add new capabilities. Along with the opening of the Yelabuga factory in Tatarstan… [read more]

Project CABOT: a Royal Navy ASW barrier for the North Atlantic 17/02/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The UK MoD has invited interested companies to an Industry Day scheduled for 5 March at Portsmouth for Project CABOT, an ambitious initiative aimed at… [read more]

NATO enhances maritime awareness capabilities through TASK FORCE X 13/02/2025 | Michele Cosentino As anticipated in FW MAG 1-2025's insights, NATO’s Allied Command Transformation (ACT) has announced the creation of TASK FORCE X, a multinational initiative aimed at… [read more]

How many ATACMS and STORM SHADOW missiles remain in Ukraine? 10/02/2025 | Igor Markic Ukraine's remaining stocks of long-range missiles like ATACMS and STORM SHADOW/SCALP-EG are critically low, with operational constraints and geopolitical factors shaping their usage.  The US… [read more]

Rio de Janeiro: out of the frying pan into the fire 30/01/2025 | Michael Mason The balance of power in Rio de Janeiro is shifting in favour of the para-military militias and the Comando Vermelho (CV), one of Brazil's two… [read more]

MQ-9 operations from dirt airstrips for the AFSOC 16/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli In a significant first for an aircraft that has been in service and hard at work for 20 years, the MQ-9A REAPER has operated from… [read more]

Is the number of Russian UMPK bombs dropped on Ukraine declining? 14/01/2025 | Igor Markic For the past two years or so, the Russian Air Force has been using glider bombs developed from ordinary drop bombs in Ukraine and deployed… [read more]

Ukraine: the Russian advance in Donbas continues, while Kiev's counter-attack in Kursk gets stuck 14/01/2025 | CAROLINA PAIZS Since the second half of November, there has been a significant escalation of the conflict in Ukraine. This increase in war intensity is not accidental,… [read more]

EU funded and equipped Ukrainian brigade in trouble 09/01/2025 | Igor Markic France is one of the countries that has spent the most on military assistance to Ukraine through the delivery of CAESAR self-propelled artillery, VAB and… [read more]

2024 closes with significant milestones for the LUSV project of the US Navy 03/01/2025 | Gabriele Molinelli The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project NOMARS (No Manning Required Ship) has completed an historic evolution at sea when the USV MARINER deployed… [read more]

US Navy strengthens aircraft carrier deployment in the Pacific 12/12/2024 | Michele Cosentino The US Navy is strengthening its naval presence in the Western Pacific region, increasing the number of CSGs (Carrie Strike Groups) deployed/deployable there to three.… [read more]

The Syrian Army and the crisis of the Assad regime 06/12/2024 | Pietro Batacchi The rebel offensive in Syria – led by the "moderate" Qaeda/Salafist HTS and the Muslim Brotherhood's Syrian National Army, and supported by Turkey – has… [read more]

The USMC deploys first operational NMESIS to the Pacific 05/12/2024 | Fabio Di Felice After some delays to the original schedule, USMC 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment (3rd MLR), 3rd Marine Division, has received the first Navy-Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction… [read more]

Syria, a new phase in the civil war begins 03/12/2024 | Pietro Batacchi and Tommaso Massa For years, Syria had not been in the mainstream news. The civil war had essentially been frozen and the regime had consolidated control over Damascus,… [read more]

Nigeria employs its T-129 ATAK helicopters in COIN operations 02/12/2024 | Fabio Di Felice During his last visit to the new Nigerian Air Force (NAF) base at Umar Musa Yaradua Airport in Katsina, the Minister of Defence, Mohammed Badaru… [read more]

Ukraine: Russia attacks with missiles and drones and the advance in Donbas continue 29/11/2024 | Tommaso Massa Over the past week, Russian forces have launched an impressive number of GERAN 2 drones: since last Friday, there have been more than 700, with… [read more]

German Navy concludes evaluation of BLUEWHALE underwater drone 28/11/2024 | Michele Cosentino In recent days, the German Navy announced the completion of an intensive two-week campaign to evaluate the capabilities of the BLUEWHALE autonomous underwater drone (AUV)… [read more]

Assessing the effectiveness of the Iranian attack against Israel 03/10/2024 | Andrea Mottola Approximately 24 hours after Tehran's attack on Israel, an initial assessment can be made of how the raid was carried out and what impact it… [read more]

How Israel protected its territory last night 02/10/2024 | Marco Giulio Barone The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) reported that Israel and its allies intercepted the ‘majority’ of the Iranian ballistic missiles (75-80%, according to rumours). The Israeli… [read more]

First details on Israeli ground operations in Lebanon 01/10/2024 | Pietro Batacchi and Tommaso Massa Tonight, as officially confirmed by the IDF in a communiqué, the first Israeli ground operations into Lebanon began. In action were elements of the 98th… [read more]