August 7, 2026
In January 2023, a GPS-guided 155mm round supplied to Ukraine was recording confirmed successful strikes about 55% of the time. By August, that figure had fallen to 6%. The weapon had not changed. The battlefield had. A Ukrainian assessment of nearly 3,000 rounds, reported by the New York Times and the Washington Post, traced the collapse to Russian electronic warfare as jamming refined faster than the munition could respond. The same reporting describes a satellite-guided glide bomb losing acc