Warfare Russia/Ukraine War

[Soldier35]

Footage of the combat operation of the Orlan-10 UAV was shown by the Russian Defense Ministry. The Orlan-10 UAV began to be delivered to the troops in 2010 and by now is the most massive UAV of the Russian army used in Ukraine. The Orlan-10 has a mass of 14 kg and is capable of carrying up to 4 high-explosive shells. In various configurations, UAVs can conduct surveillance in the optical and infrared range. Orlan‑10 is capable of automatically detecting the positions of switched-on GSM phones, VHF communication stations, operating radars.

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The Russian army in the Zaporozhye direction stopped an attempt to counterattack the Ukrainian armed forces. An attempt to attack Russian units by the forces of two Ukrainian mechanized battalions on tanks and infantry fighting vehicles was made near the village of Vishnevoye, Zaporozhye region. The enemy was spotted in time, UAVs and Russian artillery strikes were inflicted on parts of the Ukrainian army. After that, Russian tanks, BPM and infantry units, supported by artillery, destroyed the retreating equipment of Ukraine. According to the results of the battle, 26 Ukrainian tanks, 12 infantry fighting vehicles and about 100 soldiers were destroyed.

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The work of Russian 120 mm mortar crews in Ukraine

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[tea-drinker]

Allegedly S-300 near Lviv attempting to engage last night.

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[TheKiwi]

I do wonder if Ukraine has gone through all their "certified" stocks of S300 missiles and are now using the older past use-by-date stocks.

 

[tea-drinker]

Allegedly these are the first launches in some time, guessing these might be the Slovak deliveries, don't know what the state of those are/were.
Their reputed previous destruction was denied:

FAKE: russia destroyed the S-300 air defense system sent to Ukraine by Slovakia

Russia did not destroy the S-300 air defense system provided by Slovakia

voxukraine.org

 

[muck]

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I'm afraid it'd be overly optimistic to hope for a coup d'etat.

If the rumours are true that Vladimir Putin is mortally ill, why would any potential successor risk the public's wrath by ousting him? He'd just have to bide his time and wait for the old man to die. And even if he's not mortally ill, it's clear that Putin – who in many of his recent public appearances looked more frail than Joe Biden – won't be around for much longer regardless. They'll wait for him to die. It's much safer that way.

 

[muck]

By the way… 230 years ago on this day, Empress Catherine the Great of Russia ordered the invasion of neighbouring Poland-Lithuania, citing as a casus belli the alleged persecution of that country's Russian speaking subjects. History doesn't repeat itself, except … it kinda does.

Problem is, if we pursue this logic, then there is no time to push for a negotiated end to the conflit, ever : if it's too dangerous to do it when Russia is "losing" (and so far I don't see Russia losing, but rather failing), then when? I doubt a winning Russia would be interested.

France, we already addressed that. Italy's new to me. Germany's Chancellor recently made the first call in like six weeks. According to the public cable they didn't talk about anything relevant, and Scholz wouldn't have had anything relevant to offer after publicly committing in a speech to the nation to never support any other resolution to the war than the one suggested by Ukraine to Russia. Personally, I saw – mind the past tense – a potential benefit to maintaining communications with Putin so as to not give the likes of RIA Novosti the opportunity to claim that Western leaders undermine Russian efforts to restore peace. That ship has sailed the moment Russian propagandists began making fun of Macron.

Edit : sorry for the double post. Drunk posting like a boss there, I'm afraid.

There's a delete button. ?

 

[JimHPTN]

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One of the soldiers was wearing a Union Jack. Am I correct in assuming that he is a foreign volunteer?

 

[muck]

Smalls news in the greater context, but it still makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside … The German government moves to have former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder – a friend of Vladimir Putin's and still on Gazprom's payroll – stripped of all perks, grants and titles award to him: offices, employees, an offical car, the awards and medals he received while in office. Schroeder will also lose his personal protection detail unless a (legally required) review finds him to be under threat. They even try to take away his pension, though this could be successfully contested in court.

 

[TheKiwi]

Combined with a repudiation of his lifes work and we're starting to talk a suitable punishment. Would be nice to see something similar for Angela next but I suspect that is too much to hope for.

 

[muck]

If you were thinking about her cabinet's foreign policies, that's not going to happen. Current ministers would have to censure themselves if they did that, but there are even some arguments in Merkel's defence (and they don't want to go there). All her foreign ministers responsible for Russia but one (who, incidentally, was much more critical of Putin) were Social Democrats – like Schroeder or the current Chancellor. And government ministers in Germany enjoy a great degree of autonomy. So she didn't as much pursue a friendly policy towards Russia as tolerated it.

 

[Gordus]

Greta will be pleased:

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Yup. In use for some time now.

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[muck]

What's their operational range and how long do they take to recharge?

 

[Gordus]

Someone actualy reversed it. But forgot to remove the Ukrainian sitting on the tank. Just ...

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[Junglejim]

Is it just me or the lack of Chinese gear is damning?

 

[Redav]

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[Musashi]

That’s übercool:

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[Musashi]

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[Gordus]

What's their operational range and how long do they take to charge?

100-150km before recharge.
5 hours charging time for Eleek bikes.

Електробайк ELEEK Atom Military

ELEEK Atom Military — це легендарна модифікація моделі Атом, створена на основі багаторічного досвіду та реальних потреб користувачів. Електробайк здобув велику популярність серед військових і цивільних завдяки своїй простоті, надійності, безшумній роботі та винятковій мобільності. Він ідеально...

eleek.com.ua

Here's how they are deployed:

The ELEEK Atom Military, a special designation for the bikes commissioned by Ukrainian forces, feature a top speed of 90 km/h (55 mph) and can travel up to 150 km (93 miles) on a single charge. They are designed to carry heavy gear, offering a payload capacity of up to 150 kg (330 lb.), yet weigh just 70 kg (154 lb.) each.

The bikes are lighter than traditional gas-powered dirt bikes, make less noise, and reveal a reduced heat signature on Russian drones scanning with thermal imaging.

Mamuka Mamulashvili, commander of the Georgian Legion, a unit in the Ukrainian Army formed of mostly ethnically Georgian soldiers, told The War Zone that he requested the electric motorbikes for his sniper teams.

Mamulashvili explained that his teams required the electric bikes to quietly insert into a target area, engage the enemy from a distance, and then quickly exfiltrate before the Russians answer with artillery strikes on the location.

The bike itself can be seen in the walkaround video below.

Most likely due to some bitter lessons for the GNL in the Kyiv theatre, when ambushing Russian convoys.

This quiet electric motorcycle is helping Ukrainian snipers fight back against the Russians

Electric bikes and motorcycles have been seeing increased military use for several years. So it should come as no surprise...

electrek.co

 

[Sinex]

just the bits left over, probably robbed other tanks to complete what they could. Given they cant build cars with ABS, airbags, emission control etc. (I doubt they can build any car - you cant just remove emmision control from your car - legally it will not start......) they wont be able to build tanks or anything else....

Depends, I think they could well build some 70s era T72, but all the equipment for modern electronic warfare they can't. Setting up an entirely domestic production even of T72s is probably gonna take longer than this war lasts and producing rolling coffins probably isn't very helpful for that matter either

 

[Sinex]

Smalls news in the greater context, but it still makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside … The German government moves to have former Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder – a friend of Vladimir Putin's and still on Gazprom's payroll – stripped of all perks, grants and titles award to him: offices, employees, an offical car, the awards and medals he received while in office. Schroeder will also lose his personal protection detail unless a (legally required) review finds him to be under threat. They even try to take away his pension, though this could be successfully contested in court.

Good. Except for the pension part. He worked as a chancellor and should get the money earned for this. All other benefits should be withdrawn, since they're basically meant to support Germany, not the individual Schröder.

As for Merkel, I dislike her with a passion. However, even then I can't say she did something to hurt Germany on purpose or violate common standards. That a lot of her policy was wrong in hindsight is another story, but you'd punish the voters voting her in all over for this. Basically, this is democracy ... I don't like her, but I have to accept what she did, since it obviously was German majority will back then.