Swarms of Iranian-made Russian Shahed unmanned drones target Ukraine almost every night – it is up to these men and their ...

50 calibre heavy machine guns, mounted on farm trailers towed by pickup trucks, to shoot down Russian drones (Sam Kiley/The Independent) He is part of a team that, like soldiers across the country ...

A Russian BTR-50 in 2025. A year ago ... It usually packs a heavy machine gun. The BTR-50 entered service in 1954 and, for the next 12 years, was the Soviet army’s main fighting vehicle.

One of the biggest challenges for Ukrainian forces in Kursk Oblast is facing North Korean soldiers. Unlike Russian troops, ...

But the geopolitical earthquake will be vast – more seismic even than that set off by Russia’s invasion ... Armed with machine guns, the vehicles race towards the building.

Russia-Ukraine ... century Maxim M1910 machine guns, now repurposed to shoot down drones flying at speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour, often filled with up to 50 kg (110 lb) of explosives ...

Fighting has intensified in the Russian region of Kursk ... rate with which they have been killing their enemies, Ukrainian machine gunners are being replaced regularly, according to reports.

It is possible that part of the OV-10's role was replaced by the Russian Mil Mi-17 helicopter (which ... These were retrofitted with .50-in Browning heavy machine guns and were used in its invasion of ...

The United States military has employed the venerable M2 .50-caliber machine gun for nearly ninety years. That weapon is essentially a supersized version of the M1919 .30-caliber Browning machine ...

Oleg Synegubov, governor of the wider Kharkiv region bordering Russia, said 50 people had been wounded in the Russian strike, including a 15-year-old girl. Images distributed by rescue workers ...