Steve Balestrieri

The Pentagon announced two seven-year agreements on July 27 meant to nearly triple production of Patriot PAC-3 propulsion and quadruple output of THAAD components, with L3Harris building the two-pulse solid rocket motor, attitude control motors and the Lethality Enhancer at Camden, Arkansas. The detail that matters sits underneath the numbers: neither agreement is a binding contract. They are framework arrangements designed to send suppliers a long-term demand signal, which is a different thing from ordering interceptors. The distinction determines whether a supply chain drawn down by Middle East operations and Ukrainian air defense actually refills.

Two American Bradleys could not penetrate a T-90M, but the rounds set off its reactive armour and the turret spun out of control.

A Russian military blogger says Ukraine's bomber drones are standardised and Russia's are fragmented, calling them the biggest problem.

He told Zelensky "we're going to give a license to you to make Patriots." Now Trump tells the Financial Times he's not so sure — while Kyiv is stopping one ballistic missile out of every nine.

From Lenin's shooting to the Kursk disaster to the 1991 coup, August keeps wrecking Russia — and this year the "cursed" month arrives with Putin's economy cracking and his grip under strain.

Russia Matters says the recruitment and loss estimates overlap so much that neither conclusion can be drawn either way.

Ukraine has attacked the single land corridor feeding Russia's southern forces until traffic on it collapsed, and power is failing too.

Ukraine reported on July 31 that its Security Service and Defense Forces struck an aircraft repair plant in the illegally occupied Crimea, infrastructure

Patriots training camp news: Drake Maye and A.J. Brown's chemistry builds, while Kayshon Boutte shines amid trade rumors.

Iran will talk to Oman about a temporary Hormuz corridor but rejected splitting control — and its own army says the pauses let it rearm.