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Ukraine’s drone campaign against Moscow has been yielding tangible results as fuel in Russia becomes a more scarce commodity. Throughout the country, long lines have formed at local gas stations, and the government has implemented strict limits on the amount of fuel each motorist may purchase. Consequently, the mood throughout Russia has soured as Ukraine begins to take the war to Moscow.

Many regular civilians are beginning to express frustration with the Kremlin’s handling of the war, as Putin’s stability has been steadily eroding after four years of warfare.

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed a strategic reality that military planners are only beginning to confront: In a data-centric age, digital infrastructure has become part of the battlespace. Data centers and cloud regions are now the digital backbone of military power and economic prosperity. As such, they present attractive targets for rapidly proliferating long-range strike systems, drones, and cyber capabilities.

To sustain future maritime operations, the U.S military will need to run supplies through an environment that spans thousands of miles of open ocean, denied ports, contested straits, and archipelagic chokepoints against adversaries that have spent decades studying how to target American logistics. That problem does not require one identical vessel for every mission. It does require a more common family of watercraft for the manned ships that carry cargo and vehicles inside a theater, built for scale, interoperability, and wartime replacement.

Ukrainian forces have reportedly destroyed two launchers belonging to Russia’s S-400 long range air defence systemin a coordinated strike targeting the country’s air defence infrastructure. Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces struck one S-400 launcher in Russia’s Bryansk region and another concealed launcher on the disputed Crimean Peninsula, while also reportedly damaging part of a Nebo-U early warning radar system. The destruction of two S-400 launchers represents a significant tactical achievement, as the system is among Russia’s most advanced and valuable air defence assets.

Footage released from the Republic of China Army’s Wuhan Camp in Taoyuan has shown U.S. special forces personnel operating at the facility, following reports that these personnel have been well integrated into camp life rather than visiting on short rotations. The facility houses the Republic of China Army’s Special Warfare Command headquarters, and oversees the service’s elite special operations units, which makes it a natural choice for the deployment of U.S. special forces.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ground Force has for the first time equipped a unit operating under the Eastern Theatre Command with Type 99 main battle tanks, providing a significantly superior combat potential to the much lighter Type 96 and Type 96A tanks which units operating under the command have relied on for decades.

Fifty years after its service entry in the Soviet Army in July 1976, the T-80 remains the most complex main battle tank ever serially produced in Russia, and was developed under one of the most ambitious armoured vehicle programs of the Cold War. Unlike the more numerous and economical T-72 main battle tank, which was designed as a relatively simple, low maintenance, and low cost effective backbone for the Soviet Army and for export clients, the T-80 was developed as a high-end platform for elite Soviet armoured formations.

The Defense Innovation Unit is undergoing a major reorganization effort that will overhaul and collapse its operational portfolios from seven to three technology priorities “where speed, scale, and lethality intersect,” two sources told DefenseScoop on Monday.
One senior defense official and one defense official familliar with this realignment said the Pentagon would likely reveal DIU’s near-term plans and new internal structure publicly this week. 
The officials requested anonymity to speak freely ahead of the Defense Department’s official, forthcoming announcement.

Why Ukraine and Russia Can’t Agree On This Donetsk City: Russia claimed on Friday, July 3, that its forces had captured the strategically important city of Kostiantynivka, located in eastern Ukraine. President Vladimir Putin described the industrial city as a “key transport and large industrial center of Donbas” – but within hours of the Russian leader making the claim, Kyiv was mocking it.

Ukraine Needs Patriot Missiles – But The U.S. Can’t Supply Them All: Russia’s latest missile strike on Ukraine has exposed what Kyiv has been saying is one of its most critical vulnerabilities for weeks now: a shortage of Patriot interceptor missiles capable of stopping Russian ballistic missiles.

When Russia launched one of the largest aerial attacks of the year overnight into Monday, July 6, a total of 68 missiles and 351 drones were fired across the country, primarily targeting Kyiv and the surrounding region.