Tag: bombs

Iran supplying Russia with latest drone-launched glide bombs

Iran has supplied Russia with drone-launched glide bombs for use in Ukraine, according to open source research into Tehran’s deepening military support for Moscow. A German military analyst spotted the latest Qaem-5 guided aerial bomb attached to the wreckage of a Mohajer-6 drone in the Russian region of Kursk. Moscow’s forces have extensively used the […]

Russia’s glide bombs devastating Ukraine’s cities on the cheap

Russia is increasingly using “glide bombs” – cheap but highly destructive ordnance – to advance its offensive in Ukraine. More than 200 of them are thought to have been used in just a week to pound Ukraine’s northern town of Vovchansk during Russia’s current cross-border advance near Kharkiv. Warning: You may find some of the […]

Russian glide bombs shatter ‘peace and quiet’ in northern Ukraine

After two years on the front line of Ukraine’s war, residents of the Russian border town of Vovchansk have a generous definition of what counts as peace and quiet. Cross-border skirmishes have been part of life here ever since the invasion started – so much so that most townsfolk barely flinch at the sound of […]

Iranian lawmaker declares Tehran obtained nuclear bombs

After the head of the United Nation’s atomic watchdog agency warned that Iran has enough uranium to produce “several” nuclear bombs, a firebrand Iranian lawmaker declared on Friday that the Islamic Republic of Iran possesses atomic weapons. “In my opinion, we have achieved nuclear weapons, but we do not announce it. It means our policy is […]

Lindsey Graham rails against U.S. pausing shipments of bombs to Israel.

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Wednesday questioned senior defense leadership about the United States pausing the shipment of thousands of bombs to Israel — and he appeared to make a comparison to World War II while doing so. “Would you have supported dropping the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki … to end World War II? […]