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Footage of the work of the KP-125 field kitchen of the Russian Army. The KP-125 field kitchen was developed in the 60s and is still used by the Russian army, since the design of the kitchen turned out to be successful and it is used not only in the army. Chefs say that the KP-125 kitchen is more convenient to use than the earlier KP-42 and KP-2-48 kitchens and the newer KP-130 kitchens. The boilers could be quickly removed and washed, and the cabinets held heat better.
The kitchen is designed for preparing food or boiling water and transporting it in the field, which can even be done using a car, since the total weight of the kitchen is 1500 kg. The field kitchen is equipped with three boilers, technical information is on the screen. Capacity of the boilers in liters: for the 1st dish and boiling water 100/110 liters, for the 2nd dish 50/55 liters and the volume of the boiler for boiling water is 100 liters. The boiling time of water in boilers, taking into account the ignition of the nozzles, for liquid fuel is 60 minutes, for solid fuel 90 minutes.
To heat boilers, kerosene, diesel fuel, firewood and coal are used. Liquid fuel consumption is 7-10 liters per hour, solid fuel - about 30 kg/hour, fuel tank capacity is 48 liters. The kitchen is designed to prepare food for 125 people. Details in the video.

 
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Footage of the installation of Tsar-barbecue protection on Russian T-80BVM tanks. These homemade designs are criticized, but tankers are not interested in the beauty of the tank, their goal, to complete a combat mission and remain alive. The T-72, T-80, T-90 tanks, including Western tanks, have a weak spot in the upper part of the engine compartment. Until simple factory protection of tanks from drones is invented, structures called king-barbecues will be increasingly installed on tanks.

 
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Footage of the installation of Tsar-barbecue protection on Russian T-80BVM tanks. These homemade designs are criticized, but tankers are not interested in the beauty of the tank, their goal, to complete a combat mission and remain alive. The T-72, T-80, T-90 tanks, including Western tanks, have a weak spot in the upper part of the engine compartment. Until simple factory protection of tanks from drones is invented, structures called king-barbecues will be increasingly installed on tanks.

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It reminds me of one of those reinforced aircraft hangers... but you can drive it around and it has a 120mm gun.
 
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CSIS Report on Russia's Defence Industry
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What a waste of time it was reading this. It is basically a collage of clippings from somewhere else. What little own research it has is really poor. Their inferences from these datasets are also half-baked at best.

Here are a few things these people do not seem to understand:

- Russia can design and produce its own semiconductors and chips.
- Most Russian semiconductor imports are used for consumer products (consumer electronics, automobiles, etc). Not military products.
- Russia has not been able to import Western or Ukrainian military components since 2014 due to sanctions. So they designed out those military components a long time ago. Good examples of this are the Project 20380/5 and Project 22350 naval ships.
- If China really wanted to export military items to Russia they could just not enter those exports in the public trade databases these people are relying upon for their half-baked analysis. China and Russia have a land border so it is not like there will be a third party inspecting the transfers.
- For much the same reason the idea that they are transferring ammunition from North Korea to Russia by ship rather than rail is kind of suspect. North Korea and Russia have a land border with a railway. It is way more likely the ships are being used to transfer oil from Russia to North Korea or other such bulk products than weapons on the other direction.
- Russia is one of the most self-reliant economies in the world. They have a minimal need for imports and the Russian government has a plan to further cut imports by almost half over the next two decades.
- Russia did not just adjust well to the 2022 Western sanctions on Russia because of the central bank or the finance ministry. Most of the Russian civilian economy today is run by private companies and they have been adjusting to the new economic environment quite quickly.
- The overload of the Russian railways has little to do with the shipment of finished or intermediate products but instead with trying to move bulk products which used to be exported to Europe (like timber, coal, or other minerals) to China instead.
 
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What a waste of time it was reading this. It is basically a collage of clippings from somewhere else. What little own research it has is really poor. Their inferences from these datasets are also half-baked at best.

Here are a few things these people do not seem to understand:

- Russia can design and produce its own semiconductors and chips.
- Most Russian semiconductor imports are used for consumer products (consumer electronics, automobiles, etc). Not military products.
- Russia has not been able to import Western or Ukrainian military components since 2014 due to sanctions. So they designed out those military components a long time ago. Good examples of this are the Project 20380/5 and Project 22350 naval ships.
- If China really wanted to export military items to Russia they could just not enter those exports in the public trade databases these people are relying upon for their half-baked analysis. China and Russia have a land border so it is not like there will be a third party inspecting the transfers.
- For much the same reason the idea that they are transferring ammunition from North Korea to Russia by ship rather than rail is kind of suspect. North Korea and Russia have a land border with a railway. It is way more likely the ships are being used to transfer oil from Russia to North Korea or other such bulk products than weapons on the other direction.
- Russia is one of the most self-reliant economies in the world. They have a minimal need for imports and the Russian government has a plan to further cut imports by almost half over the next two decades.
- Russia did not just adjust well to the 2022 Western sanctions on Russia because of the central bank or the finance ministry. Most of the Russian civilian economy today is run by private companies and they have been adjusting to the new economic environment quite quickly.
- The overload of the Russian railways has little to do with the shipment of finished or intermediate products but instead with trying to move bulk products which used to be exported to Europe (like timber, coal, or other minerals) to China instead.
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I stopped reading at "Russia's full scale invasion"
 
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The first Russian BMP-3 with the 4S24 dynamic protection kit entered service with the troops. The 4S24 dynamic protection kit was first shown in August 2023. The video shows tests of the Russian 4S24 “Karkas” dynamic protection from the Research Institute of Steel. As a result of the tests, it was possible to confirm the level of protection of the container based on 4C24, which was at least 500 millimeters. The 4S24 dynamic protection set is capable of withstanding hits from a monoblock anti-tank grenade launcher, as well as armor-piercing and armor-piercing incendiary ammunition from the KPVT, ZU-23-2 and 30-mm 2A42 cannon. The area of protection covering the side of the hull of the BMP-3 armored vehicle is 62%, the forehead of the hull is 36%, and the turret of the vehicle is 70%. The new protection managed to increase the guaranteed shelf life by one and a half times. The 4S20 protection unit needed to be replaced once every 10 years, the new 4S24 protection unit can be replaced after 15 years.

 
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Russian mechanics inspected the Ukrainian American-made M88A1 repair and recovery vehicle. The car was hit by an FPV drone, which pierced the battery compartment. The M88 repair and recovery vehicle was created in 1959, the design turned out to be successful and the M88 was upgraded in 1975 to the M88A1 version. It is worth noting that the M88A1 is designed to service M60 tanks and cannot evacuate M1 Abrams tanks. To evacuate M1 Abrams tanks, the M88A2 Hercules version was created in 1997, and in 2018 the M88A3 version was shown, as the weight of Abrams tanks continues to increase. The M88A1 military tow truck is designed for the evacuation of damaged equipment weighing up to 45 tons, with a crane lifting capacity of up to 25 tons. The M88A1's hull is armored and protects its three-man crew from small arms fire, artillery fragments and anti-personnel mines. The M88A1 is armed with a 12.7 mm Browning machine gun or a 40 mm Mark 19 mod.3 grenade launcher. The vehicle is equipped with 66 mm L8A1 smoke grenades. The M88A1 ARV is equipped with a 1350 hp engine and allows a speed of up to 42 km/h, and the vehicle has a cruising range of 480 km. The M88A1 ARV is very popular in the world and is in service with many countries.

 
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Launching of the first Russian vessel for training helicopter pilots. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, at the shipyard of the Ship Repair and Shipbuilding Corporation, the launching ceremony of the first and only Russian special marine vessel of Project 14400 "Nikolai Kamov" took place. This is a unique vessel for the Russian fleet; special devices are mounted on the ship that rock the ship to simulate various situations when training helicopter pilots to land on deck. The ship will be used to practice landing and takeoff of Ka-27, Ka-29, Ka-31 and Ka-52 helicopters, as well as test new types of ship-based helicopters. “Nikolai Kamov” will be based in Yeysk on the Sea of Azov. There have never been ships of this class in either the Soviet or Russian fleet. The displacement of the ship "Nikolai Kamov" is about 900 tons, the full speed is 12 knots, the cruising range is 500 miles with an autonomy of two days.

 
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