Ukraine has used naval drones and missiles to wage war against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. A campaign of highly effective strikes has pushed Moscow to relocate many of its vulnerable assets. Satellite imagery captures the exodus of Russian naval assets from Crimea to other ports. Armed with exploding naval drones and long-range missiles, Ukraine has […]
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Satellite images capture Russia’s Black Sea Fleet running from its base in Crimea as Ukraine hit it with missiles and exploding drones
Ukraine has used naval drones and missiles to wage war against Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. A campaign of highly effective strikes has pushed Moscow to relocate many of its vulnerable assets. Satellite imagery captures the exodus of Russian naval assets from Crimea to other ports. Armed with exploding naval drones and long-range missiles, Ukraine has […]
Ukraine shows even the toughest tanks can’t go to war anymore without cage armor to shield them from exploding drones
Recent photos appeared online showing a US-provided Abrams tank with cages to protect against drones. Both sides of the war in Ukraine have been welding cages onto their battle tanks. With drones reshaping modern warfare, tanks will need to adapt to survive on future battlefields. The heavily armored M1 Abrams tank is widely regarded as […]
Ukraine shows even the toughest tanks can’t go to war anymore without cage armor to shield them from exploding drones
Recent photos appeared online showing a US-provided Abrams tank with cages to protect against drones. Both sides of the war in Ukraine have been welding cages onto their battle tanks. With drones reshaping modern warfare, tanks will need to adapt to survive on future battlefields. The heavily armored M1 Abrams tank is widely regarded as […]
Ukraine’s exploding naval drones are hunting down Russian vessels like tugboats after the big Black Sea Fleet warships fell back
Ukrainian special forces on Thursday used naval drones to hunt down a Russian tugboat near Crimea. Kyiv in recent weeks has been forced to go after smaller Russian vessels in the Black Sea. Moscow has pulled back its larger warships to reduce their vulnerability to attacks. Ukraine is using its arsenal of exploding naval drones […]
SpaceX’s mega rocket completes its fourth test flight from Texas without exploding
SpaceX’s mega Starship rocket completed its first full test flight Thursday, returning to Earth without exploding after blasting off from Texas. The previous three test flights ended in explosions of the rocket and the spacecraft. This time, both managed to splash down in a controlled fashion. The world’s largest and most powerful rocket — almost […]
Here’s what’s really bothering me about the exploding Nasdaq
This is The Takeaway from today’s Morning Brief, which you can sign up to receive in your inbox every morning along with: The Nasdaq Composite crossed the 17,000 mark for the first time earlier this week. I’m not exactly one to get excited about record highs on major exchanges or on certain stocks, but I […]
Nissan warns owners of older vehicles not to drive them due to risk of exploding air bag inflators
DETROIT (AP) — Nissan is urging the owners of about 84,000 older vehicles to stop driving them because their Takata air bag inflators have an increased risk of exploding in a crash and hurling dangerous metal fragments. Wednesday’s urgent request comes after one person in a Nissan was killed by an exploding front-passenger inflator, and […]
Ukraine, Russia race to shield battle tanks from exploding drones
MILAN — Ukrainian and Russian forces are scrambling to field countermeasures for protecting tanks against one-way attack drones, which experts say are a growing challenge even for vehicles traveling at speed. In the large category of unmanned aerial vehicles, the class of first-person-view drones, essentially steerable miniature warheads, have emerged as a ubiquitous threat. “One-way […]
Watch an exploding Ukrainian drone boat dodge fire from the air to kill one of the small, high-speed Russian ships still fighting in the Black Sea
Ukraine used an exploding naval drone to destroy a Russian military speedboat in Crimea on Monday. Footage shows the drone navigating through heavy aerial fire to strike the Russian boat. It’s the latest attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which has largely been dispersed. Ukraine’s exploding drone boats appear to be hunting down smaller, high-speed […]
Watch an exploding Ukrainian drone boat dodge fire from the air to kill one of the small, high-speed Russian ships still fighting in the Black Sea
Ukraine used an exploding naval drone to destroy a Russian military speedboat in Crimea on Monday. Footage shows the drone navigating through heavy aerial fire to strike the Russian boat. It’s the latest attack on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, which has largely been dispersed. Ukraine’s exploding drone boats appear to be hunting down smaller, high-speed […]
Owner of exploding Michigan building arrested at airport while trying to leave US, authorities say
CLINTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — The owner of a suburban Detroit business that caught fire and exploded, killing a man, was arrested at a New York airport as he was preparing to depart for Hong Kong on a one-way ticket, authorities said Friday. U.S. Customs and New York Port Authority personnel arrested Noor Noel Kestou, […]