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Ukraine weapons thread General Military Discussion

Started 24/2/22 by gatnerd; 213591 views.

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From: gatnerd

22-Nov

Article on how Russias jamming early in the war had the downside of also jamming a lot of Russian coms:

https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-ew-campaign-in-ukraine-undermined-by-electronic-fratricide-2022-11

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22-Nov

Very fine article dissecting Iranian drones, with lots of pics. Done by the folks at Conflict Armaments Research.

https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7a394153c87947d8a602c3927609f572

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Laser guidance would mean you had to paint the targets 140km behind the front lines, and you are not going to be seeing TB2 fly near front lines let alone 140km behind them. So best case use would be SF behind the front lines.

Edited 22 November 2022 19:13 by Mr. T (MrT4)

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From: gatnerd

22-Nov

Reportedly its multi mode. So GPS+INS+Laser.

I agree anything short of SF will render the laser guidance pretty mute. But its a neat additional option should there be some rare HVT where they can pull that off.

Without the laser, its still potentially a GMLRS with 2x the range. It will be interesting to see if these do have a 150km range, as recently reported, or whether they are the older 70km variants.

This map shows the theoretical areas it could hit if it does have a 150km range - quite a bit more area then the previous 70-80km of GMLRS from the HIMARS.