The War in the Ukraine

Ukrainians tried to recover their equipment and the recovery equipment got picked off instead, resulting in additional material to the dead vehicle scene.



The vehicular graveyard is now under Russian ground control.


Tracks are blown away on this damaged or destroyed Leopard 2.


Russian air and missile strikes against Ukrainian ammunition, weapons and vehicular depots in South Donetsk.


Ukrainian ammunition dump in Zaporozhye hit.

Would Russia recover those abandoned Leopard 2 and send back home for reverse engineer?

SteelBird said:

Would Russia recover those abandoned Leopard 2 and send back home for reverse engineer?

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Ideally yes but. Dont expect that yet unless Russia starts their own counter-offensive. These leopards were destroyed bit far from Russian line and naturally the Ukrainians would use it as "glory trap" and engage any Russian salvage attempt.

SteelBird said:

Would Russia recover those abandoned Leopard 2 and send back home for reverse engineer?

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Why would they if Armata is superior?

lucretius said:

Why would they if Armata is superior?

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there is propaganda value. Further up theres already a video of some foot soldiers quite close to the vehicle graveyard... Though Russians would need a towing vehicle to drag the wrecks back.

lucretius said:

Why would they if Armata is superior?

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Well, you need to study your enemy's equipment to find out their weakness and adopt their superior stuff into your own design.

I'm seeing this claim:

That Russian EW have been very successful this time, causing communication disruptions and particularly interfering with Ukrainian UAV, particularly FPV kamikaze UAV. Recall this claim before the offensive:

Supposedly Ukraine invested a lot into a big fleet of FPV kamikaze drones intended for this offensive. If Russian EW was indeed successful in suppressing them it may have contributed to successful defence so far.

I don't know much about EW and my first guess is if EW is successful at stopping Ukrainian FPV drone they they would do the same to Russian, but it may not be the case. Today lots of successful hits by FPV kamikaze drones by Russians were released:

The egg beater shaped thing in front of each of these drones stand out. Are those custom antenna? If so could such antenna be the secret to how Russian EW is only affecting Ukrainian FPV drone? I also spotted one footage of a Russian drone without this antenna and sure enough it's clearly affected by EW:

FairAndUnbiased said:

this just means their counteroffensive is failing. if it was not, they wouldn't want to negotiate.

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Again, a totally unfounded claim based on limited to almost no information, you were missing the important part: “if Russia changes the previously declared goals of the special military operation.”

That means if Russia end the war and retreats back to the old border .

Deino said:

That means if Russia end the war and retreats back to the old border .

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The operation's goal was never to occupation anything except for the original two unrecognized republics. Additional occupations only happened later, when first stage brought no negotiated settlement.

The parts they're talking about are demilitarization and denazification. Which, while may sound abstract, de-facto means the neutralization of Ukraine and end to its recent nation-building effort...and related careers.

Temstar said:

The egg beater shaped thing in front of each of these drones stand out. Are those custom antenna? If so could such antenna be the secret to how Russian EW is only affecting Ukrainian FPV drone? I also spotted one footage of a Russian drone without this antenna and sure enough it's clearly affected by EW:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1667409350179057664

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The egg beater shaped thing in front is a janky but reliable detonator. It's quite simple, the two wires get crushed on impact and get in contact which causes whatever payload to detonate.