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From: farmplinker2
4/6/23
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)
4/6/23
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)
4/6/23
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
5/6/23
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
5/6/23
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
5/6/23
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
From: Mr. T (MrT4)
6/6/23
Multicam and derivatives is fast becoming the world pattern and for good reason, it is probably one of the best in many environments. question is now does everyone need to start using armbands for IFF
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- Edited 06 June 2023 7:29 by Mr. T (MrT4)
From: stancrist
6/6/23
"Russia asserts that it has the world's second most powerful military, and a number of people believe them. But now people are saying that Russia is the second most powerful military in Ukraine."
While in Helsinki, Secretary of State Blinken got some chuckles from the crowd (and me) when he said, "The Kremlin often claimed it had the second strongest ...
From: Mr. T (MrT4)
6/6/23
Gap between the first and next militaries is huge given that US outspends 15+ next countries combined year after year , combining all domains Russia it still easily the world's second military, Ukraine is not even a contender, what we see in Ukraine is Ukrainian men running on money, supply and ISR of the whole of NATO combined and barely scraping together arms and ammunition from all corners of the globe to keep Ukraine in the fright while Ukrainians pay in hundreds of thousands of lives for amusement of these idiots. And it could be into millions of lives at any time without being able to do anything about it. So its not even a theoretical question, but you could similarly claim US was the second power in Afghanistan after the Taliban and laugh it up and have some Zeihan chuckle over it in August 21 extra hard after they kill an aid worker and a bunch of kids out of sheer incompetence as an last acto fo Afghan war.
You do understand that making fun of the Russians and boasting of Ukrainian supersoldier is more or less SOP in part of information war aka propaganda .
Zeihan is an absolute tool, bought and paid for talking head a literal defense contractor, that is who gets to speak on these kinds of conferences and think tanks.
Defense contractors basically own airtime over Ukraine and their task is to sell weapons so fan the flames of this war as much as they can.
https://quincyinst.org/report/defense-contractor-funded-think-tanks-dominate-ukraine-debate/
- Edited 06 June 2023 19:06 by Mr. T (MrT4)