#Tech

Facing mounting battlefield losses from Ukrainian drones, Russian forces are resorting to increasingly desperate—and primitive—measures to keep their aging armored vehicles and artillery systems intact.

Russia’s newest naval vessel may look like a corvette, but it has no weapons and only one real purpose: to serve as a floating training pad for naval helicopters.

Faced with battlefield realities that have rendered traditional tanks increasingly vulnerable, Russian engineers are proposing a radical sci-fi makeover for Cold War–era armor—one that swaps brute force for lasers, drones, and flamethrowers.