Recent live-fire maneuvers have pitted the American-supplied anti-tank missiles against the kind of cage armor now appearing on some Russian tanks.
The meeting is the second of its kind along Ukraine’s border with Belarus with the stakes only increasing as Russia takes more territory.
A Russian rocket artillery barrage hit the city of Kharkiv, killing dozens of its residents, while the negotiations were ongoing.
Turkey is in the market for a new advanced fighter after getting locked out of the F-35 program over its purchase of the S-400 air defense system.
The multi-national exercise had a strategic subtext of countering China’s growing naval might in the region.
The tactics are among those a recent US Army manual described in detail as an emerging and worrisome threat.
It’s an obscure Cold War-era technological relic that’s still in use—and becoming increasingly relevant.
As strikes by the U.S., France, and the UK on the Syrian government loom, Russia says the gas attack was fabricated at the behest of the UK.
A series of incidents in 2017 are another indication that the Kremlin is expanding the ways its willing to challenge the NATO alliance and its allies.
“Missed it by THAT much!”
