The War in the Ukraine
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It seems this hit Twitter.
Some of these comments on Twitter are pretty ridiculous. Some in the comments claim the original Texas Instruments chip design of the DSP is from 1983. But that is the intro date of the initial NMOS TMS32010 chip in the family. This Russian chip is a clone of the much later CMOS TMS320C25 chip. A much more powerful chip which came out in 1987 and was improved in 1990. It is as if I bought an Intel 80386 and someone said that is a 1978 chip since that is when the initial 8086 came out. Ridiculous comments of people who know little about what they are talking about.
For reference this Russian L1867VM2 DSP is a 40 MHz chip with 10 MIPS compute power. Some in Twitter joke that it is a 16-bit processor, but that means little since this is a DSP. An Intel 80386 at 33 MHz has 11.4 MIPS compute power and came out in 1989.
Others say this is 1970s chip technology. Well, it isn't, it is more like early 1990s chip technology. And I guess some people think Western weapon systems are much more modern. Well a lot of them aren't. Even the Western military typically uses old proven chip technology that is a decade old by the time the weapon hits production. You can't design a system without having the chips to make the design. And then you have to validate the weapon system. Which would make this something you could see in an early 2000s Western design. Guess when the Iskander and Kalibr came out. 2006 and 1994. So, no, it isn't obsolete by those standards.
The claim this is a chip made in the USSR is also bogus since the clone only came out much later during the Russian Federation. A chip like this would have been slightly beyond what the USSR could fabricate at the time of its demise. East Germany was only able to mass produce their 80286 clone in 1989. The USSR similarly was only able to produce 80286 clones when they collapsed and only few were produced.
Like I said, the Russians used chips that they knew had Russian made substitutes available in the design. When the existing stock of original cheaper imported chips ran out they started using clones of their own production.
This is much cheaper than designing and validating a whole new control computer. Which if production continues to increase they might end up doing eventually. Russia now has much smaller and cheaper embedded ARM processors in production which were not available when these weapons were designed.
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Russian artillery takes out French CAESAR self propelled howitzer and Bukovel-AD EW system.
Su-25 at the office working on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk.
Artillery takes out a Ukrainian pickup with an 82mm mortar.
Another destroyed Finnish APC is noted among destroyed AFU vehicles in Klescheevka.
Self inflicted. Ukrainian SAM misses and crashes on a residential building.
The Bergepanzer 3 that vainly tried to recover an abandoned T-64BV is confirmed a victim of a BM-21 Grad attack. The number of these recovery vehicles donated are limited.
The bridge in Kostiantynivka gets destroyed, which I guess is a Kh-38ML strike. The missile is launched from an Su-34 but an Orlan-10 or -30 run by an artillery crew provides the illumination guidance.
Camouflaged artillery of the AFU gets hit by artillery.
Ukrainian strongholds in Novomikhailovka gets hit by a TOS-1A thermobaric weapon.
Fuel tanker of the AFU in the Artemovsk front gets destroyed by Lancet.
Ukrainian barge at Dnipro gets destroyed.
Call sign "Tungus", specialty assembly and use of FPV drones. Deployed in Vuhledar. Shown knocks out a Ukrainian tank.
Step by step guidance of the 1453rd MR Regiment operating in Avdiivka. Spot the targets via drone. Hose with artillery and finish off the armored vehicles by dumping grenades in open hatches via quadcopter.
Lancet takes out a Ukrainian tank.
Zala drone operator finds something in the forest line and directs artillery at it, resulting in the destruction of a field ammo depot.
Village of Stepove, Mykolaiv region. Allegedly the focus of a Geran swarm attack on ammunition depots which reportedly detonated.
M777 spotted on thermals gets knocked out, presumably by arty.
2S1 Gvozdika gets knocked out by a Krasnopol hit.
Orthodox Ka-52 strikes again, taking out an AFU vehicle.
Upyr drone strikes at a Ukrainian supply truck.
Orlan UAV target and illuminate for this ammo depot strike, could be Krasnopol or Kh-38ML delivering the blow.
Upyr strikes another Ukrainian commando boat. The drones carry heavy fragmentation devices so they only need a near miss to result in a very fatal encounter.
Su-25 at the office working on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk.
Artillery takes out a Ukrainian pickup with an 82mm mortar.
Another destroyed Finnish APC is noted among destroyed AFU vehicles in Klescheevka.
Self inflicted. Ukrainian SAM misses and crashes on a residential building.
The Bergepanzer 3 that vainly tried to recover an abandoned T-64BV is confirmed a victim of a BM-21 Grad attack. The number of these recovery vehicles donated are limited.
The bridge in Kostiantynivka gets destroyed, which I guess is a Kh-38ML strike. The missile is launched from an Su-34 but an Orlan-10 or -30 run by an artillery crew provides the illumination guidance.
Camouflaged artillery of the AFU gets hit by artillery.
Ukrainian strongholds in Novomikhailovka gets hit by a TOS-1A thermobaric weapon.
Fuel tanker of the AFU in the Artemovsk front gets destroyed by Lancet.
Ukrainian barge at Dnipro gets destroyed.
Call sign "Tungus", specialty assembly and use of FPV drones. Deployed in Vuhledar. Shown knocks out a Ukrainian tank.
Step by step guidance of the 1453rd MR Regiment operating in Avdiivka. Spot the targets via drone. Hose with artillery and finish off the armored vehicles by dumping grenades in open hatches via quadcopter.
Lancet takes out a Ukrainian tank.
Zala drone operator finds something in the forest line and directs artillery at it, resulting in the destruction of a field ammo depot.
Village of Stepove, Mykolaiv region. Allegedly the focus of a Geran swarm attack on ammunition depots which reportedly detonated.
M777 spotted on thermals gets knocked out, presumably by arty.
2S1 Gvozdika gets knocked out by a Krasnopol hit.
Orthodox Ka-52 strikes again, taking out an AFU vehicle.
Upyr drone strikes at a Ukrainian supply truck.
Orlan UAV target and illuminate for this ammo depot strike, could be Krasnopol or Kh-38ML delivering the blow.
Upyr strikes another Ukrainian commando boat. The drones carry heavy fragmentation devices so they only need a near miss to result in a very fatal encounter.
Could be but I still see Soviet equipment. See my previous post, there's still 2S1 Gvozdika aplenty. I gather Ukraine inherited more of this 122mm SPG from the Soviet Union than the Russians did, and this was manufactured by the Kharkhiv tank plant.
Now we have some satellite imagery available:
Looks like 5 destroyed (burned down) and 4 damaged airframes in Berdyansk. Luhansk is still unknown but it's enough to say this was the worst day for VKS in this war.
Indeed, by surprise VKS tried to support the ground forces in the area during recent Vuhledar reconstruction - there were reports about that. But it ended quickly. We don't know how much they've lost there but for sure there was damage as those support operations from air ceased in the area together with ineffective ground operation.
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Although I don't know from what time this footage is but it seems like they're still trying. Here's pretty scary footage how in a couple of minutes the Russian attack is annihilated.
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I can't edit my post but the video I posted above was from October 11th.
Here's new footage of Russian assault from DeepState (translated into English):
And some fresh (not all!) losses from recent attacks:
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as a bonus an Ukrainian mine laying drone filmed by Russian recon
Here's new footage of Russian assault from DeepState (translated into English):
And some fresh (not all!) losses from recent attacks:
EDIT:
as a bonus an Ukrainian mine laying drone filmed by Russian recon
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