are you sure?. what is that Su-25 that get hit at low altitude and still reach airbase.
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I don't think it's far fetched that a 90s Bradley is better at protecting the crew than Ukraine's older BMP-2. The M2A2 variant is more heavily armored and has a kevlar spall liner for the crew and passengers.
The only BMP-2 variant that has a spall liner is either the BMP-2D or the BMP-2M variant, neither of which is in Ukraine's inventory I think. I don't recall BMP-2s being resistant to .50 caliber fire from the side.
So the Bradley should be significantly more protective for the crew/passengers on the battlefield.
Someone needs to ask Poland if it's still a good idea to order 1000 K-2 tanks, 250 abrams and all the other armoured vehicles out there
1. A shopping center with an area of about 50,000 square meters was purchased for the production of "Lancets". Not a penny of funds from the Russian budget has been spent on the deployment of this production.
2. A series of combat tests on the fully automatic use of the Lancet UAV has already been conducted.
3. The next generation of "Lancet" will be integrated into swarm, which uses automatic identification and distribution of targets within swarm.
4. The production of "Lancets" has increased by more than 50 times since the beginning of the SVO.
5. Currently, several "Lancets" are already ready for each unit of armored vehicles that Western countries promise to deliver to Ukraine in the future.
6. Currently, there are more than 400 confirmed cases of hitting targets using Lancet UAVs in open sources alone. One of the combat crews claims that they have more than 90 pieces of destroyed equipment on their account - from pickups to radar stations and tanks.
7. Currently, there is interest in export orders of "Lancets" from customers from several continents. Negotiations are underway, but in any case, the main priority is supplies for the Russian army.
The newest technology is Lancet with Convolutional Neural Networking. This is not quite AI, but allows the drone to go into a closed loop mode, where the drones on board computer has an image preloaded on a database, and as the optical sensors capture images, they are run against the database through a system of algorithms to return a positive or negative identification. If the drone registers say a Leopard silhouette, Bradley or a Pzh-2000, the drone will home in on the target once the neural network returns a positive ID. It's essentially a form of image recognition and homing method. You cannot jam such a drone as it is closed loop and not utilizing classical radio control, or any kind of command guidance, nor radar. You can only shoot the drone down.
Created by ZALA AERO, a Kalashnikov Concern subsidiary based in Izhevsk and specializing in the production of drones and drone jammer systems for both military and civilian applications, Lancets have a flight range of between 40 and 70 kilometers, an endurance time of about one hour, and a weapons payload of between three and five kilograms.
In the Russian Federation, tests of the Hermes multifunctional missile system, designed to destroy armored vehicles, structures and aircraft, continue. This was told in the press service of KBP (holding "High-precision complexes" of the state corporation "Rostec").
Work on the modernization of the Hermes complex, as noted, continues taking into account changes in the situation and tasks.
The Hermes complex is designed to defeat at a distance of up to 100 km. The basic version of the rocket reaches speeds of up to 1,3 thousand meters per second, it has a high-explosive fragmentation warhead of 28 kg.
1. A shopping center with an area of about 50,000 square meters was purchased for the production of "Lancets". Not a penny of funds from the Russian budget has been spent on the deployment of this production.
2. A series of combat tests on the fully automatic use of the Lancet UAV has already been conducted.
3. The next generation of "Lancet" will be integrated into swarm, which uses automatic identification and distribution of targets within swarm.
4. The production of "Lancets" has increased by more than 50 times since the beginning of the SVO.
5. Currently, several "Lancets" are already ready for each unit of armored vehicles that Western countries promise to deliver to Ukraine in the future.
6. Currently, there are more than 400 confirmed cases of hitting targets using Lancet UAVs in open sources alone. One of the combat crews claims that they have more than 90 pieces of destroyed equipment on their account - from pickups to radar stations and tanks.
7. Currently, there is interest in export orders of "Lancets" from customers from several continents. Negotiations are underway, but in any case, the main priority is supplies for the Russian army.
The newest technology is Lancet with Convolutional Neural Networking. This is not quite AI, but allows the drone to go into a closed loop mode, where the drones on board computer has an image preloaded on a database, and as the optical sensors capture images, they are run against the database through a system of algorithms to return a positive or negative identification. If the drone registers say a Leopard silhouette, Bradley or a Pzh-2000, the drone will home in on the target once the neural network returns a positive ID. It's essentially a form of image recognition and homing method. You cannot jam such a drone as it is closed loop and not utilizing classical radio control, or any kind of command guidance, nor radar. You can only shoot the drone down.
Created by ZALA AERO, a Kalashnikov Concern subsidiary based in Izhevsk and specializing in the production of drones and drone jammer systems for both military and civilian applications, Lancets have a flight range of between 40 and 70 kilometers, an endurance time of about one hour, and a weapons payload of between three and five kilograms.
In the Russian Federation, tests of the Hermes multifunctional missile system, designed to destroy armored vehicles, structures and aircraft, continue. This was told in the press service of KBP (holding "High-precision complexes" of the state corporation "Rostec").
Work on the modernization of the Hermes complex, as noted, continues taking into account changes in the situation and tasks.
The Hermes complex is designed to defeat at a distance of up to 100 km. The basic version of the rocket reaches speeds of up to 1,3 thousand meters per second, it has a high-explosive fragmentation warhead of 28 kg.
Ka-52M gets new upgrade
Still feel Russians need something in the class of Brimestone. Active Radar Homing missile for surface attack can allow the heli to be hidden and perhaps make most use of Ka-52's Arbalet radar.
Personally, other than SSNs, I don't think anything big even was ever needed in Russian Far East (which is still there).
Big [surface] Pac Fleet for modern Russia is as unachievable as it is pointless. Yet another force Z; nothing more, nothing less.
Counting 5th gen fighters as dreadnoughts is, at the very least, weird.
There are datalinked modern non-5th gens, there are literally hundreds of modern SAM units (thousands of vehicles, tens of thousands of interceptors). Almost the whole 1st line Russian AF was largely updated within the last decade, it's hardly a struggle; it's the expectation that it must update again and again - to new generations at that - every 10 years is dubious.
Yes, Russian posture in this conflict is obviously defensive - but it was always so.
An attempt at Desert Storm results will probably lead to a war going into the nuclear dimension. It isn't a big secret, so chance this equation is going to be relevant is nil. Risks are too high, esp. for countries which aren't even sure someone will take revenge for them.
Anything smaller(separate countries) is counterable.
Video of the operation of a rare Russian MLRS "Snezhinka", developed by Donetsk engineers of the "State Innovation Company". The MLRS was first presented in 2018 at an arms exhibition. MLRS "Snezhinka" is equipped with two 324 mm missiles with a launch range of 1500 to 9600 meters. The MLRS is placed on the chassis of the KrAZ-260 vehicle and is serviced by a crew of 3 people. MLRS is very simple, but according to experts it is quite effective. There is no data on missiles and in what quantities the Snezhinka MLRS is produced.
The first flight of the new strike UAV "Sirius" of Russia, review. The newest Russian strike UAV "Sirius" made its first flight, the company "Kronstadt" reported. The Sirius drone is a further development of the Orion drones. The UAV has two turboprop engines, which allow it to reach speeds of up to 180 km/h, climb to a height of up to 7,000 m, and cover a distance of up to 3,000 km. According to the developers, the payload mass of the Sirius UAV is about 450 kg - it can carry aerial bombs and air-to-ground missiles. The UAV uses KAB-100 air bombs, FAB-100 high-explosive air bombs, RBC-500U free-fall bombs and ODAB-500PMV volumetric detonating air bomb. Also, the UAV is equipped with an integrated system of communication, data exchange, navigation and identification. The drone is quite large, its length is 9 meters, the wingspan is 20 meters, the takeoff weight is 2.5 tons.