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Russia has deployed a new Karakurt-class corvette, a Kalibr cruise missile carrier, from Tatarstan to the Black Sea, Defense Express reported Dec. 9, citing an infographic based on satellite imagery by OSINT analyst MT_Anderson, showing the current status of all four 22800 Karakurt-class missile corvettes.
The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense says there will be a new and improved Neptune anti-ship missile, but all details on modifications remain classified.
The Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Dec. 6 is a double holiday, which is marked in Ukraine both on the anniversary of the adoption of the law on the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) and in honor of the events of 1919, when the first independent Ukrainian state led an ultimately unsuccessful struggle against Bolshevik Russia.
The U.S. Defense Department, in collaboration with industry partners, has supplied Ukraine with technologies for the production of FrankenSAM hybrid air defense system components, the White House stated in a press release on Dec. 6.
A new warhead has been found in Russian Shahed-136 attack drones, but it’s not thermobaric, as had been suggested in reports over the weekend.