Vehicules receiving a grenade in the open hatch from a quad copter is so depressing. The small payload become insanely effective. Fancy 360 degree camera system on vehicule are fragile, subject to mud and shrapnels but stop ammunitions falling on your lap. With the profusion of UAV, climatisation and 360 view could become a necessary addon. Some sort of mini c-ram in small caliber with optical/infrared-guidance against the background, could be interesting against these and atgm.
The War in the Ukraine
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I think avoiding this kind of scenario is the point of "cope cages", not defeating top attack ATGMs
Also, the USAF is trolling Russia:
It's all fun and games until a Buk flies nearby, then you ask for escorts and whine about unprofessionalism.
Ukranian Navy current state.
Ukranian Navy current state.
Don't know how active their navy is, we have seen gun boat in Odessa on Geran-2 attack footage a couple of week ago. The Polnocny is quite big and possibly easy to find. They are static targets if they are not active, strange that they are not sunk.
The Polnocny was the ship that made a run for it as it was being shelled around June. Probably it is in Odessa or some other port.
Lancet's have an advantage in range over the Switchblades, though. Also, since older S300 systems the Ukrainians use have a shorter range over most of the versions the Russians use, this forces the Ukranians to put the batteries closer to the front and exposes them to the Lancets.
So it seems a combination of factors that makes it hard to replicate for the Ukranians with Switchblades.
Lancet's have an advantage in range over the Switchblades, though. Also, since older S300 systems the Ukrainians use have a shorter range over most of the versions the Russians use, this forces the Ukranians to put the batteries closer to the front and exposes them to the Lancets.
So it seems a combination of factors that makes it hard to replicate for the Ukranians with Switchblades.
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Interviews with Ukrainian soldiers from the elite 93rd Mechanized brigade:
"And how many guys were killed in Kharkiv, you can't even imagine"
"And how many guys were killed in Kharkiv, you can't even imagine"
Lethe
Captain
It's easy to hit your quota when it is set comically low in the first place. 300k troops is chicken feed for a nation of 140m people that purports to be facing an existential threat. If Russia's actions matched its rhetoric, they would've called up millions. Australia sent more than 300k troops to fight overseas in WW1, from a total population at the time of around four million people.
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it's pretty interesting that there has never been cases of destroyed Pzh2000 since being operated by UA
tho, cover up could still be a possibility however i pretty doubt it
tho, cover up could still be a possibility however i pretty doubt it
Hardly comparable considering that choice wasn't up to the Australians but up to George V to serve as cannon fodder for his feud with the Germans, though
It'd be like saying that 3 million of Bangladeshi chose to starve to death for England in WW2
It is curious. Maybe they are being used in areas where the chance of CAS or counterbattery is lower or only to hit HVT's/punitive strikes then pack up and leave, like the HIMARS.