The War in the Ukraine

[plawolf]

Drone hunting is probably part of training now. Clay shooting and a couple of small drone toy could be used to train soldier with Saiga/Vepr-12 or other small arms. I cannot see training without that presently.

During day time, its probably easier to shot these overweighted drones than a duck with a simple hunting shotgun. Deafening from explosion is certainly not helping to hear them tho.

World clay shooting champion doesn’t think shooting drones is particularly easy, even with Gucci guns, specialist ammo, and most importantly, being fresh as a daisy and knowing when and where the drones are going to be coming from.

Having your line troopers practicing to shooting FPVs is literally training for failure, as at that point the situation has deteriorated so much and the odds are so stacked against you, you basically already lost the fight if you were facing a similar sized opfor force. It’s effectively the equivalent of expecting your troopers to fend off enemy tac air with MANPADs. Can it happen? Sure, just don’t count on it.

Combat psychology has proven that soldiers can endure incredible hardship against terrible odds and cling on with great tenacity if they can at least fight back. But if you put them in a situation where all they can do is endure incoming attack with no real way to retaliate, then moral will crumble shockingly fast.

Just as with MANPADs, modern combat shotguns will be issued to troopers, but that’s very much a just-in-case, and better-than-nothing deployment aimed more at providing troops with physical comfort than actually expecting those weapons to be particularly effective in combat.

The true defence against FPVs will be with dedicated new systems rather than expecting individual troopers to pop them.

 

[Soldier30]

An episode of combat work in Ukraine, Russian heavy flamethrower systems TOS-1A. The video shows the strikes of Russian TOS-1A Solntsepek missiles, presumably in the Pokrovsky direction in the Donbas. After the impact of the thermobaric munition, the temperature rises to three thousand degrees in the epicenter of the explosion. TOS-1A Solntsepek is a 2001 modification of the TOS-1 Pinocchio system developed in 1980.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of the use of a 152mm high-precision Russian ZOF95 Krasnopol-M2 projectile in the Donbas. Filmed near Dimitrov, the Krasnopol-M2 projectile struck a temporary deployment point for Ukrainian military personnel located in a building. A second strike targeted a Ukrainian army stronghold in the Kupyansk sector. Krasnopol-M2 projectiles are used by a Russian 2S19 Msta-S self-propelled howitzer. Objective control and laser target illumination are provided by an Orlan-10 UAV.

 

[Soldier30]

The Russian army has attacked energy and transport facilities used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Russian kamikaze drones "Geran-2", drones "Lancet" and FPV were allegedly used. The media also reported on the use of tactical aircraft, missiles and artillery. The video shows attacks on Ukrainian gas distribution stations and transformer substations. Technical information about drones is available on the channel.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of Russian FPV drone strikes on Ukrainian armored vehicles in the Pokrovsk area. The video was filmed on the roads leading to Pokrovsk, near the villages of Grishino and Rodinskoye. The video shows numerous abandoned and destroyed Ukrainian military vehicles.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of a Russian Lancet-51 kamikaze drone striking a rare Ukrainian Tunguska air defense missile and gun system. The video was filmed near the town of Shostka in the Sumy region. The Tunguska air defense missile and gun system was inactive at the time of the strike and was moving for cover. The 2S6 Tunguska anti-aircraft gun and missile system was developed in the USSR in 1982 and is now rarely used in the Ukrainian and Russian armies. The Lancet drone strike caused a fire in the Tunguska air defense system.

 

[pipaster]

Loss of a Ukrainian Su 27 and its pilot, incident occurred on 08 December.

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[Atomicfrog]

Loss of a Ukrainian Su 27 and its pilot, incident occurred on 08 December.

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Impressive that they have some still flying. Dont know where they are hiding them, they are quite big and tall to fit in a barn. Some reinforced hangars still functional on some airbases ? They are nailing most airbases with strikes... they need to be clever to hide them for sure.

 

[FriedButter]

Impressive that they have some still flying. Dont know where they are hiding them, they are quite big and tall to fit in a barn. Some reinforced hangars still functional on some airbases ? They are nailing most airbases with strikes... they need to be clever to hide them for sure.

How likely is the chances they are parking aircraft in airbases located outside Ukraine

 

[Tam]

An attack by a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber with a FAB-1500 bomb equipped with a UMPK module. The video was filmed in Myrnohrad. The ground floors and basement of the building housed the command and observation post of the 38th Separate Marine Brigade of the Ukrainian Army. The building also housed a UAV control center and monitored the villages of Balagan and Moskovske, as well as the southern part of Myrnohrad.

You forgot to post this.

I get the feeling that as the noose tightens, the AFU forces trapped in the Myrnohrad pocket are getting herded tighter and tighter into the fewer and fewer surviving buildings and is getting systemically obliterated by FABs and Tornado-S. It is as if the window for surrendering has passed and the orders are now is to destroy.