Russia Ukraine War 2022

[mist_consecutive]

Hurr durr Ukraine so shmart they learnt HIMARS, HARM, NASAMs, all complex western systems within 2-3 months.

I pointed out earlier that NATO SF is directly helping Ukraine at the ground level and planning ops.

 

[Blademaster]

Hurr durr Ukraine so shmart they learnt HIMARS, HARM, NASAMs, all complex western systems within 2-3 months.

I pointed out earlier that NATO SF is directly helping Ukraine at the ground level and planning ops.

This means that Russia is well within all its rights to take out NATO intelligence gathering platforms in the Black Sea.

 

[mist_consecutive]

This means that Russia is well within all its rights to take out NATO intelligence gathering platforms in the Black Sea.

NATO is waiting for an opportunity to invoke Article 5. The only thing NATO fears is Russian nukes, but threatening with nukes has far-reaching consequences for Russia.

 

[mokoman]

Hurr durr Ukraine so shmart they learnt HIMARS, HARM, NASAMs, all complex western systems within 2-3 months.

I pointed out earlier that NATO SF is directly helping Ukraine at the ground level and planning ops.

i think almost everyone already knew this .

west supplying real time intel to Ukraine . question is how NATO troops inside Ukraine and in what capacity.

i think UK hinted at some direct sas involvement ,

 

[mist_consecutive]

i think almost everyone already knew this .

west supplying real time intel to Ukraine . question is how NATO troops inside Ukraine and in what capacity.

i think UK hinted at some direct sas involvement ,

In direct as well as indirect capacity. Directly fighting at the frontline as "mercenaries", and indirectly operating crucial high-end equipment like radar, C&C, SAM, etc.

Its basically NATO calling the shots and Ukrainian infantrymen eating bullets in the frontline.

 

[vampyrbladez]

 

[vampyrbladez]

 

[vampyrbladez]

 

[Master Chief]

Hi Romania

 

[Anirbann Datta]

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It was actually pretimuch game over for ukrn in first some months if Mask mamu had not leap-ed in and tried to be the ' masayaha' of eyes and ears!!!! but he got a hard kick in balls by ukrnians last years... for just a single comment in twittttttter ( i follow his daily feeds, he was like 'whatttt da' when ukrnians started cursing him for his negotiation favors )
and he dumped his shts back on ground again!!

 

[ww2historian]

Hi Romania

Ukraine's media? LMAO,
Romania says a Russian missile didn’t enter its airspace, countering a Ukrainian claim.

Romania says a Russian missile didn’t enter its airspace, countering a Ukrainian claim. (Published 2023)

Ukrainian officials said that two Russian missiles crossed into the airspace of Moldova and Romania before entering Ukraine.

www.nytimes.com

 

[temujin]

Ukraine's media? LMAO,
Romania says a Russian missile didn’t enter its airspace, countering a Ukrainian claim.

Romania says a Russian missile didn’t enter its airspace, countering a Ukrainian claim. (Published 2023)

Ukrainian officials said that two Russian missiles crossed into the airspace of Moldova and Romania before entering Ukraine.

www.nytimes.com

Clowns- I recall how Ukrops were celebrating the downing of MH17 back in 2014 and again following the recent incident in Poland as they believed NATO would start launching missiles at Russia in response. Seems to be part of the Ukropian playbook to drag NATO into the conflict. Also makes you wonder who actually shot down MH17 as Ukrops were the only party that benefited from it (the West did slap sanctions on Russia following the crash)

 

[blackjack]

The only purpose of Wagner is that they are expandable but used to dwindle down the numbers of the AFU. The reason the Russians still have a shitload of troops outside Ukraine's border is to possibly launch an offensive later in Belarus with the right number of troops, while saving the rest if NATO decides to become heroes.

 

[Blademaster]

The only purpose of Wagner is that they are expandable but used to dwindle down the numbers of the AFU. The reason the Russians still have a shitload of troops outside Ukraine's border is to possibly launch an offensive later in Belarus with the right number of troops, while saving the rest if NATO decides to become heroes.

AFU is doing the same thing. AFU is keeping its best troops while using the older generation that would have been a drain on Ukrainian coffers as cannon fodder against Wagner and Russian troops.

I suspect that AFU is keeping its professionally trained and best equipped troops behind the massive levies that it raised among its population to tie the Russian troops down and maneuver its best troops around and knock out the Russians. It is imperative that Russia counter this by going after critical vital weak points such as oil depots & ammo depots and C&C nodes and force the AFU to mass up so Russia can attack with carpet bombing and inflict massive casualties among AFU troops as to decimate its ranks and make it run out of steam. Once that happens, the population will turn itself against Zelensky and force Ukraine to sue for peace.

 

[Chimpoo]

So, if both those updates are correct, the two remaining main roads supplying Bakhmut have been physically cut off by Russian forces.


From a few days ago:

 

[Blademaster]

Russian pace is very frustratingly slow.

 

[maximus777]

Russian pace is very frustratingly slow.

Time is their biggest enemy. Instead of pussyfooting, if they had gone all guns blazing in Feb'22, this would have been long over.

 

[Blademaster]

Time is their biggest enemy. Instead of pussyfooting, if they had gone all guns blazing in Feb'22, this would have been long over.

At the very least, they could have captured Kiev, Kharkiv, Sumy and Cherkiv and marched all the way to Dniper River & prevented the rest of Ukraine from coalescing into stiff resistance. At that point the rest of Ukraine would be too stunned or scared.

Now Russia will have to pay a bigger price, i.e., more blood and casualties. The entire Russian military will have a reckoning for sure.

 

[blackjack]

These jammers against IED´s are broadly used on armored vehicles, even on trucks.

Portable Anti-Drone systems such as this one are apperaring

Планы строительства завода по производству иранских БЛА в Елабуге
Американская газета The Wall Street Journal в материале Dion Nissenbaum и Warren P. Strobe Moscow, Tehran Advance Plans for Iranian-Designed Drone Facility in Russia. The two countries are deepening a military partnership that has alarmed the West (Москва и Тегеран…

The American newspaper "The Wall Street Journal" in the material Dion Nissenbaum and Warren P. Strobe "Moscow, Tehran Advance Plans for Iranian-Designed Drone Facility in Russia. The two countries are deepening a military partnership that has alarmed the West" ("Moscow and Tehran is moving ahead with plans to set up a plant to produce Iranian-designed unmanned aerial vehicles in Russia. The two countries are deepening a military partnership that is increasingly worrying to the West") reports on a joint Russian-Iranian project to build a plant for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles in Yelabuga, Tatarstan and loitering ammunition of Iranian development.

Moscow and Tehran are advancing on plans to build a new factory in Russia that could manufacture at least 6,000 Iranian-designed drones for the war in Ukraine, officials from the U.S.-linked country said, signaling deepening cooperation between the two countries. .
As part of the emerging military alliance, a high-ranking Iranian delegation flew to Russia in early January to visit a planned site for the plant and
work out the details of launching the project. Both countries are aiming to develop a faster drone that could create new challenges for Ukraine's air defenses, officials said.

Tehran has already provided hundreds of drones to Moscow, with which it has used to strike military and civilian targets in Ukraine, US officials said. And the Biden administration has warned that Russia and Iran are developing a "full-fledged defense partnership."

The White House said Moscow has been training Iranian pilots to fly Russian jet fighters, which it intends to deliver to Tehran by the end of the year.

In December, the White House warned that Moscow and Tehran were considering setting up a joint production line to produce drones in Russia.

Now, from a country allied with the United States, talks have turned into concrete plans, officials say, with a January 5 visit [by an Iranian delegation] to the Russian city of Yelabuga, about 600 miles east of Moscow. The Iranians visited a vacant site where the leaders of the two countries are planning to build a new plant that will be able to produce at least 6,000 drones in the coming years.

Officials said the Iranian delegation was led by Brigadier General Abdollah Mehrabi, head of the Jihad Research and Self-Sustainment Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force, and Ghasem Damavandyan, executive director of Iran's Qods Aviation Industries, a key defense manufacturer that the US believes plays a central role in role in the development and production of drones in Iran.

Russian and Iranian officials did not respond to requests for comment.

So far, Iran has supplied Russia mainly with so-called Shahed-136 kamikaze [loitering munitions] drones containing a small explosive charge that detonates when the drone hits a target, according to US and Ukrainian officials.

Russia has used these drones to strike Ukraine's power grid in an attempt to disable the country's power and electricity supply during the cold winter and sap morale. After some time, Ukraine's air defense managed to largely neutralize the threat of drones. The Shahed-136 is a slow and noisy drone with a propeller engine, making it relatively easy to spot and shoot down. Ukraine has shot down more than 540 drones since they began appearing in the country's skies last fall, according to the Ukrainian Air Force.

Now, officials say, Iran is working with Russia to develop an upgrade to the Shahed-136 that is expected to include a new engine so it can fly faster and farther. The new plant [in Yelabuga] will produce this upgraded drone. This could create new problems for Ukraine and other countries that could become targets for these drones.

Earthworks at the plant have not yet begun, so this production line is not expected to have an immediate impact on the balance of power in Ukraine, where there are signs of Russian intentions to launch a new offensive in the coming weeks.

The drone factory is part of a $1 billion deal between Russia and Iran, officials said. Moscow has provided Iran with weapons captured from the battlefield in Ukraine, which they are trying to replicate, officials said.

The US warned that Iran had also agreed to supply ballistic missiles to Moscow. So far, however, according to US officials and their allies, there is no indication that Tehran has sent such missiles to Russia.

Russia and Iran continue to develop closer ties in various areas. The two countries recently connected their interbank payment messaging systems, paving the way for all Iranian banks to transact with Russian lenders. Both countries face strict international sanctions against their banking industries.

Coincidentally, on January 6, the day after Iranian officials flew to Russia to negotiate a drone factory, the US imposed economic sanctions on Damavandyan.
This head of the Iranian aviation industry is accused by America of overseeing Iran's supply of drones to Russia and training Russian forces in the handling of these weapons. The US imposed economic sanctions on Brigadier General Mehrabi in 2021 when America accused the Iranian military leader of directing the production and procurement of special engines for Iran's fleet of drones.

A colleague of imp_navigator in the material "6000 drones" about this publication says:

The Wall Street Journal writes that in early January, an Iranian delegation visited Russian Yelabuga at the site where they will build a new joint venture for the production of UAVs with an indicated production volume of 6,000 drones (but it is not clear how long). including they write that allegedly they will be producing a new, faster version of kamikaze drones, which is now being developed by Iran and Russia.

The composition of the Iranian delegation is interesting, which, again, according to information from The Wall Street Journal, visited Yelabuga in January on the site for the construction of a Russian plant. Firstly, if the head of the Organization for Jihad Research and Self-Sufficiency of the Aerospace Forces of the IRGC really came, then this once again indicates a very high level of trust between the parties, since this person directly oversees many key developments not only in the field of UAVs, but also Iranian ballistic and cruise missiles. Secondly, if there was an executive director of Qods Aviation Industries, then it is probably not only about kamikaze drones .. Qods Aviation Industries is the developer and manufacturer of Mohajer drones.


Источник заявил о росте выпуска снарядов "Краснополь" против танков НАТО
В прошлом году предприятия российского оборонного комплекса в несколько раз увеличили производство управляемых артиллерийских снарядов "Краснополь", которые... РИА Новости, 07.02.2023

MOSCOW, February 7 - RIA Novosti. Last year, enterprises of the Russian defense complex increased the production of Krasnopol guided artillery shells by several times, which should become one of the means of effectively destroying Western tanks, a source told RIA Novosti.

"The high accuracy of the Krasnopol shells makes it possible to hit single small-sized enemy targets, including mobile ones, such as tanks, which has been repeatedly proven in combat conditions in practice. In particular, these shells can be successfully used to destroy NATO Abrams and Leopard tanks, which should be delivered to Ukraine," the source said.

According to him, this year the rate of production of such shells will continue to grow.
Guided artillery shells "Krasnopol" caliber 152 mm have a semi-active laser homing head and are aimed at a laser beam reflected from the target. Correction of the trajectory when the projectile approaches the target is carried out by aerodynamic rudders.

"Krasnopol" allows you to achieve a direct hit on the object, the deviation from the aiming line does not exceed two meters. The maximum firing range is up to 25 kilometers.
During the special operation in Ukraine, Russian troops use a reconnaissance and fire circuit - a howitzer with a Krasnopol projectile and a drone with a laser rangefinder-target designator that flies in the target area. The variant with target illumination by a ground-based laser designator was also used more than once.

Ижевский завод "Купол" усовершенствовал ЗРК "Тор" для борьбы со снарядами HIMARS
"Тор" предназначен для прикрытия первых эшелонов сухопутных соединений
tass.ru

Izhevsk plant "Kupol" improved the "Tor" air defense system to combat HIMARS shells
"Tor" is designed to cover the first echelons of land formations

TASS, 8 February. The Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant Kupol (IEMZ Kupol, part of the Almaz-Antey concern) has finalized the Tor anti-aircraft missile system (SAM), which increased its effectiveness in combating shells fired from HIMARS multiple launch rocket systems This was announced by Ilya Rykov, Deputy Chief Designer for Repair and Modernization.

"Those goals for which we started working, which we had not met before, [for which] there was no possibility of working out - these are the well-known HIMARS. We have encountered them, we can fight them. <...> Certain improvements have been made, now work is proceeding more efficiently with these goals," he said on Wednesday on the air of the Zvezda TV channel.

"Tor" - a short-range air defense system designed to cover the first echelons of ground formations from attacks by anti-radar and cruise missiles, gliding bombs, aircraft, helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles, including those combined into a swarm. The air defense system is capable of controlling the designated airspace itself and independently shooting down all air targets that are not identified by the "friend or foe" system. It consists of 16 vertical-launch anti-aircraft missiles with a range of up to 12 km and an altitude range of up to 10 km. The upgraded radar of the complex is capable of detecting aircraft created using radar signature reduction technology.

One of the latest modifications of the complex - the Tor-M2U air defense system - can detect and track over 40 targets, as well as simultaneously fire up to four of them, firing four missiles in sequence. The latest version of the air defense system is Tor-M2KM. Also, the complex exists in the arctic version "Tor-M2DT" based on the two-link tracked transporter DT-30.

https://sputniknewsbrasil.com.br/20...para-tornar-soldados-invisiveis-27417774.html

Russia develops new 'chameleon' camouflage to make soldiers 'invisible', 02.06.2023.

A new camouflage set is being developed in Russia, promising to make its soldiers invisible even to thermal imaging sights.

In addition, camouflage will allow soldiers to get confused in the terrain unnoticed, Vladimir Kormushin, general director of the manufacturer Kirasa, told Sputnik.

"We strive to provide fighters with camouflage that can make them literally invisible to the enemy. Today, we have the task of protecting the military in various wavelength ranges, including in thermal imaging [...]", he explains.

In addition, the director stated that the production of camouflage is possible thanks to the emergence of new materials.

According to him, the new camouflage set will provide "invisibility" to a soldier thanks to special fabrics and paints.

"The goal is to create a uniform that will make the combatant invisible against an ever-changing external background [... The camouflage must change like a chameleon, " he explained.

 

[skunk works]

Worth a watch in my opinion, this is the same 'Lord Miles of Kabul' guy from 4chan who stayed behind for months in Kabul after the 'fall.'
He is traveling through Russia right now.
Key takeaways:
1. Zero effect of sanctions on day to day life.
2. All pre-sanctions businesses have been restored by Russian owners.
3. His personal opinion but the quality of the McDonald's was way better than in the UK.
4. All the western stores that closed are still paying rent and utilities on the storefronts, looks like they're planning to return as soon as possible.
5. Society reasonably open, he was walking on Lubyanka square with a camera.
6. People trolling Europeans by running livestreams of cameras pointed at gas stoves burning 24*7.
7. Some Ukrainian dissident politicians MPs also hosted by Russia.