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From: Mr. T (MrT4)
3-Jun
Explosive reactive armor at work
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From: gatnerd
4-Jun
Mr. T (MrT4) said:Explosive reactive armor at work
Great video. The tank does take two solid hits.
From this clip, it looks like it take a close range (50-100m) hit from some sort of direct fire rocket.
https://twitter.com/Bodbe6/status/1664717888979181568
2nd hit is weird. Looked like an artillery strike hits, then a half second later a smaller explosion hit the side of the turret. Not sure what munition this would be.
From: gatnerd
4-Jun
Drone dogfights in ukraine:
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/drone-dogfights-ukraine/
FPV drone narrowly doges a incoming missile:
https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1665022035188146176
Some new UA drones, possibly a 'dive bomber' style.
https://twitter.com/Seveerity/status/1665100573429968898
From: farmplinker2
4-Jun
Anybody going to be selling those on the civilian market? That would be a fun marksmanship competition to have if you're bored with current formal disciplines!
From: Mr. T (MrT4)
4-Jun
The near miss of the drone shows perfectly the issue of fusing the missile , target is found and engaged and anything larger would be shot down , but missile detonating milisecond too late will make the shrapnell miss the quadcopter DIJ mavic being very small .
Talon Pro drone , its a bit small to drop anything larger than handgrenade , 0.5kg payload. Could probably carry 1kg but it would be overloaded. Given its plasti diped ,sugests its plasti diped for more robustness but that considerably cuts into payload capacity due to weight of the plastic coating.
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- Edited 04 June 2023 4:17 by Mr. T (MrT4)
From: Mr. T (MrT4)
4-Jun
Not to rosy picture painted here
https://warontherocks.com/2023/06/what-the-ukrainian-armed-forces-need-to-do-to-win/
Oberst Markus Reisner continues to by leaps and bounds the best source of analysis of this war , no one else comes even close
- Edited 04 June 2023 12:49 by Mr. T (MrT4)
From: gatnerd
5-Jun
Nice little video clip of NASAMs in action, discussion interview with its operators, and brief clip of it shooting down a cruise missile.
https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1665468907136720899
Cruise missile hit
NASAMS likely to backbone of UA air defense as it will have a good amount of launchers + NATO/US has a lot more missiles for it (as they are also used by fighter jets) and there are decent yearly production numbers of them.
Overview of NASAMS, pretty ingenious, and developed by Norway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASAMS
"The AMRAAM is one of the most widely used air-to-air missiles in the world, and stockpiles of it are higher than any other comparable system. As NASAMS uses existing air-to-air missiles such as the AIM-9 Sidewinder, AMRAAM, and AMRAAM-ER, there may be thousands of older missiles in NATO's arsenal that can be fired from a NASAMS battery without change.[citation needed] The AIM-9X variant includes an internal cooling system, eliminating the need for launch-rail nitrogen supply required by older variants of the missile.
A report has described NASAMS as "extremely well suited to Ukraine because of the massive numbers of missiles that NATO and allies can supply, specifically for the air defence system."[42][43] In particular, older AMRAAM A and B models have been replaced, making available many older missiles which could be sent to Ukraine.[44] For example the UK government has offered to donate "[h]undreds of additional air defence missiles" including the AMRAAMs."
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Video of Russian EW warfare in action
In this Special report I embed with the Russian DPR OBTF "Cascade" Special Forces Drone Recon & Electronic Warfare Team on a Mission to the Russia - Ukraine ...
From: gatnerd
5-Jun
A rare look inside a GMLRS Alternate Warhead that failed to explode. Shows how it uses a mix of different Tungsten BB sizes suspended in polymer, presumably for a mix of frag density and lethal radius.
There are multiple pics inside, but this is the best one
Point blank trench clearing, looks to be a HK416 (or AR with 416 stock) which I have not seen before, 2nd soldier is using a pistol
From: gatnerd
5-Jun
Heres a fairly unique one. Czech DSS PZD 556 LMG. There is little info (at least in english) about this gun, but its in Ukraine:
https://dss-cz.com/our-products/pzd-556-mkii/
And another:
https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1634444241018470401
https://twitter.com/war_noir/status/1633879550248484871
