The War in the Ukraine

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supersnoop

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Atomicfrog said:
Availability and cost are probably some of the main reasons. No need to design and manufacture when you can just buy it without hurdle.
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Is it any more available than any other drone maker though?
Are there design features that make it more adaptable to kamikaze use?
Did Mugin happen to have a successful RU/UKR sales rep and so they are using what they are familiar with?

Like we see so many videos of DJI Mavic being used by both sides, but obviously DJI is number one and Mavic is their best seller, so it's not really surprising. As an aside, DJI manufacturing is crazy impressive. You see the Russians and Ukrainian forces with actual pallets full of drones, and still DJI can manage regular retail sales (Mavic mini on sale at Costco!)
 
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Politico has a feel-good story on
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RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany — When U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin brings together the defense chiefs of more than 40 nations here in southwest Germany each month, the hours-long gathering typically ends the same way: Celeste Wallander, the Pentagon’s head of international security affairs, calls on each participant to read out what weapons their nation is ready to donate to Ukraine.

It’s a question — perhaps the question — that will help determine Ukraine’s future more than a year following Russia’s invasion.

And it’s made the monthly closed-door grouping of leaders — known by the anodyne bureaucratic title of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group — an under-the-radar yet central force in equipping the Ukrainian military with everything from precision rockets to main battle tanks. It’s also helped the nation create an ad hoc yet astonishingly modern military that would be capable of outgunning some long-standing NATO members.
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What is going on in Bakhmut? All of a sudden Russians gained a large portion of the city as Ukraine begin to retreat, but now the Russian push seems to have stopped.
 
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TK3600 said:
What is going on in Bakhmut? All of a sudden Russians gained a large portion of the city as Ukraine begin to retreat, but now the Russian push seems to have stopped.
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all there is left in bakhmut for russia to take is the fortress. of course russia can also just cut it off and starve its defenders until they surrender
 
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TK3600 said:
What is going on in Bakhmut? All of a sudden Russians gained a large portion of the city as Ukraine begin to retreat, but now the Russian push seems to have stopped.
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The chunk left is high rises, assault operations are more difficult there + AFU seems to have launch a counter attack.
Channels speak of heavy artillery use by both sides tonight
 
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We'll see if there is real Satellite photo soon. particularly to assess the damage.

For me tho they really hit the Pavlograd chemical plant, where the old boosters were stored (turn out US actually backed away from the disarmament deal in 2004) Thus some missiles were not properly decommissioned.

The thing is that of course whether only missiles remain there or did Ukraine do Store "additional" stuff there like weapon cache etc.
Regarding possibility of re-purposing the propellant, i think it's small probability as the propellant are like 20-30 years old by now and the chemical compositions and stability may not be as good as they were before. Solid propellant do Rot.

Also re-purposing propellant may require re-melting and then re-casting the propellant to fit into the new missile. I dont think that would easily be done.
 
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