Some modification could have been applied to the communication system/frequencies between missile and TELAR. Knowledge of these could help ECM. But the TELAR itself would bring way more informations.
The War in the Ukraine
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Russian aviation is quite actively using Ka-52 helicopters in Ukraine, armed with Vikhr guided missiles. Due to the long range of destruction of targets with Whirlwind missiles, which reaches 10 kilometers, it is quite difficult to obtain high-quality video where a destroyed target is visible. However, from time to time, videos showing the target being hit appear. One of them, footage of a Russian Ka-52 helicopter, guided by a Vikhr missile, hitting a rare Ukrainian modification of the MT-LB military transporter. The video was filmed in the Novomikhailovka area.
Check my last post, they hit an oil facility in the Odessa region. They're attack in bursts, calm for several days then one day, they're all over the place.
Leopard 1A5 spotted heading to the front.
@lost_armour stats on Russian FPV drone footage on open source.
"The number of published episodes of the use of FPV drones in the zone of the SVO has reached 2000 pieces!
According to colleagues with LostArmour , On the morning of November 20, 2023, at least 2,000 episodes of the use of FPV drones in the zone of the SVO were published. Nearly 3/4 of all episodes of FPV drone use have been published in the last three months.
Of the 2000 targets, 311 were guaranteed to be destroyed, another 331 targets were guaranteed to be damaged. Successful hits were recorded on 794 videos, but it is not possible to evaluate the damage caused. ( as a rule, there are no personnel of objective control ). The results of another 287 episodes of the use of FPV drones are not known for certain. Unfortunately, in 139 cases, misses were recorded.
Most often, the goals of the FPV drones are: enemy positions ( 722 episode ), infantry outside shelters ( 273 episode ), motor transport ( 270 episodes ), light armored vehicles ( 214 episodes ) and various buildings ( 205 episodes ).
Given the number of sources of publication, some frames may have been lost and not taken into account in general statistics. In addition, many even successful episodes do not get on the net. The real combat account of FPV drones is much higher."
TOS package delivered to Ukrainian bridgehead in Krynki in Kherson.
Captured from another Ukrainian vehicle, a Ukrainian APC gets hit from an ATGM.
Russians showing the strength of the effects of the shock wave from an explosion of an air bomb about 3km from this captured Ukrainian dug out.
View of Avdiivka from the ground. This reminds me so much of Bakhmut.
Landed and captured Baba Yagas by the 5th Brigade.
Illustrations from manual how to install cope cages on vehicles.
Artillery of the 36th Brigade at Ukrainian positions in Nikolsky.
Ukrainian assault to Rabotino in November 20. Here the column falls under ATGM attack.
RBK-500 cluster bomb used against Ukrainian positions in Staromayorsky.
That article makes lots of dumb assumptions.
Do they honestly think that Russia needs to import ball bearings from the West to make the Soviet designed T-72 and its derivatives, including the T-90, seriously? Was the Soviet Union also importing ball bearings from the West then? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't. The ball bearings for the tanks were, and are still, made in Russia and Kazakhstan.
The Western imported ball bearings are used in other products. These are typically civilian in nature including civilian cars. One of the imports from the West with strategic implications was bearings for the high speed rail cars for example. And, yes, their shortage will have strategic implications, since it means without them the cargo trains won't be able to operate at 160 kph as intended, but like half that speed. This will make movement of cargo from the Far East slower. Russia already manufactures their own train wheels, with their own metal alloy, but they will need to replace the bearings.
Another issue that you don't see discussed often, is that some of the diesel engines used in Russian trains were made with imported parts from Germany. The engines were designed at the time of the late Soviet Union and they added German parts to improve their performance like electronic fuel injection systems. They have also been replacing those recently and massively expanding their production capacity.
The PRC truck exports are replacing former Western produced truck sales in Russia including Mercedes-Benz and Volvo. KAMAZ has managed to keep up its vehicle sales by ramping up production of their older truck models like the K4 which didn't use Western components, and switching to Russian and Chinese components for their new truck series, the K5, which restarted serial production without Western components just this year. Of course these are civilian trucks. The military trucks don't use imported components.
The concept that Russian military hardware uses Western components all over is kind of ludicrous since the Russian MIC has been under Western sanctions on sales of military hardware and components since 2014. If they use Western components, these would be hard to trace, commonly available, and in minimal quantities. It won't be specific designs that would be easy to intercept but something you can easily get on the gray market.
Do they honestly think that Russia needs to import ball bearings from the West to make the Soviet designed T-72 and its derivatives, including the T-90, seriously? Was the Soviet Union also importing ball bearings from the West then? I'll give you a hint, it wasn't. The ball bearings for the tanks were, and are still, made in Russia and Kazakhstan.
The Western imported ball bearings are used in other products. These are typically civilian in nature including civilian cars. One of the imports from the West with strategic implications was bearings for the high speed rail cars for example. And, yes, their shortage will have strategic implications, since it means without them the cargo trains won't be able to operate at 160 kph as intended, but like half that speed. This will make movement of cargo from the Far East slower. Russia already manufactures their own train wheels, with their own metal alloy, but they will need to replace the bearings.
Another issue that you don't see discussed often, is that some of the diesel engines used in Russian trains were made with imported parts from Germany. The engines were designed at the time of the late Soviet Union and they added German parts to improve their performance like electronic fuel injection systems. They have also been replacing those recently and massively expanding their production capacity.
The PRC truck exports are replacing former Western produced truck sales in Russia including Mercedes-Benz and Volvo. KAMAZ has managed to keep up its vehicle sales by ramping up production of their older truck models like the K4 which didn't use Western components, and switching to Russian and Chinese components for their new truck series, the K5, which restarted serial production without Western components just this year. Of course these are civilian trucks. The military trucks don't use imported components.
The concept that Russian military hardware uses Western components all over is kind of ludicrous since the Russian MIC has been under Western sanctions on sales of military hardware and components since 2014. If they use Western components, these would be hard to trace, commonly available, and in minimal quantities. It won't be specific designs that would be easy to intercept but something you can easily get on the gray market.
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Rather ironically, the Western sanctions will actually strengthen the truck companies which have connections to the Russian MIC. Since those are the ones which have kept the most independent truck production cycle, and can still produce trucks under the sanctions. For example BAZ, which produces heavy trucks for the military and is owned by Almaz-Antey, is already setting up production of civilian trucks at the former Toyota plant in St. Petersburg which they got for a pittance.
I don't mention Geran attacks frequently because I like to post pics and there's often not a lot to post about a Geran flying in the night sky. But attacks are not sporadic but rather frequent, if not growing with intensity over time. This appears as production of the drone has scaled up and defenses against them has strained. There's currently another raid on the Kiev region, and a target in the Volyn region said to be hit.
"Explosions near Kiev and in the west of Ukraine: swarm of drones attack enemy objects
▪ First, drones appeared in the Sumy, Chernihiv, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr and Kiev regions, and now I attack Western Ukraine. One of the goals was the air base of the Armed Forces in the Starokonstantinov Khmelnitsky region.
▪ "Shaheds" from Khmelnitchina and Zhytomyr region move in the direction of Rivne region! "– local resources report.
▪ Previously, explosions thundered in the area occupied by the enemy of Pokrovska ( Krasnoarmeysk ) in the DPR."
Here is a Shahed 238, which is a Shahed 136 with a jet engine. In addition to radio and GPS navigation, it can be equipped with optical guidance turning it into a large Lancet type drone. The drones are painted black which makes them harder to spot, a lesson taken from night raids over Ukraine.
Russian minefield in the eyes of a Ukrainian soldier. There's an antitank mine TM-62 there.
Kirpi stuck in the mud. Shows you how poor Western equipment is dealing with the mud in Ukraine whereas the Soviet equipment is designed for this in consideration.
Humvee stuck in the mud.
American cluster munition M864 misses the target entirely. Footage by the BARS-11 unit.
Nice clean new Iranian 122mm shells for Russian D-30 howitzer.
What appears to be a knocked out M113, seen from a Russian soldier.
Two camouflaged howitzers in Zaporozhye knocked out by Lancets.
FAB strikes on Ukrainian positions in the Krynok area in Kherson.
Lancet hit on a shelter used by Ukrainian troops in the Dniepr.
SPG gets knocked out by Lancet in the Dniepr.
Ukrainian mortar nest hit by artillery along the Dniepr.
M777 along the Dniepr knocked out by Lancet.
Krab along the Dniepr gets hit by Lancet and it's ammo cooked off.
Kornet ATGM hit at a Ukrainian observation post along the Dniepr. Kornets have proven to be very versatile in the war, and is used to hit just about everything.
Arrests made on AFU personnel by a special forces unit of the AFU. There appears to a corrupt ring within the AFU trying to sell captured trophy equipment from the Russians to criminal elements.
Baba Yagas are made from heavy agricultural drones, and with that the FPV drones can strike 10km to 20km range. No surprise they are a problem for the Russians.
Incendiary rain falling on Ukrainian positions as seen from a Ukrainian soldier.
Another Ukrainian attack on the Rabotino area. Burning Western vehicles hit by ATGMs from the 70th Regiment.
"Explosions near Kiev and in the west of Ukraine: swarm of drones attack enemy objects
▪ First, drones appeared in the Sumy, Chernihiv, Vinnitsa, Zhytomyr and Kiev regions, and now I attack Western Ukraine. One of the goals was the air base of the Armed Forces in the Starokonstantinov Khmelnitsky region.
▪ "Shaheds" from Khmelnitchina and Zhytomyr region move in the direction of Rivne region! "– local resources report.
▪ Previously, explosions thundered in the area occupied by the enemy of Pokrovska ( Krasnoarmeysk ) in the DPR."
Here is a Shahed 238, which is a Shahed 136 with a jet engine. In addition to radio and GPS navigation, it can be equipped with optical guidance turning it into a large Lancet type drone. The drones are painted black which makes them harder to spot, a lesson taken from night raids over Ukraine.
Russian minefield in the eyes of a Ukrainian soldier. There's an antitank mine TM-62 there.
Kirpi stuck in the mud. Shows you how poor Western equipment is dealing with the mud in Ukraine whereas the Soviet equipment is designed for this in consideration.
Humvee stuck in the mud.
American cluster munition M864 misses the target entirely. Footage by the BARS-11 unit.
Nice clean new Iranian 122mm shells for Russian D-30 howitzer.
What appears to be a knocked out M113, seen from a Russian soldier.
Two camouflaged howitzers in Zaporozhye knocked out by Lancets.
FAB strikes on Ukrainian positions in the Krynok area in Kherson.
Lancet hit on a shelter used by Ukrainian troops in the Dniepr.
SPG gets knocked out by Lancet in the Dniepr.
Ukrainian mortar nest hit by artillery along the Dniepr.
M777 along the Dniepr knocked out by Lancet.
Krab along the Dniepr gets hit by Lancet and it's ammo cooked off.
Kornet ATGM hit at a Ukrainian observation post along the Dniepr. Kornets have proven to be very versatile in the war, and is used to hit just about everything.
Arrests made on AFU personnel by a special forces unit of the AFU. There appears to a corrupt ring within the AFU trying to sell captured trophy equipment from the Russians to criminal elements.
Baba Yagas are made from heavy agricultural drones, and with that the FPV drones can strike 10km to 20km range. No surprise they are a problem for the Russians.
Incendiary rain falling on Ukrainian positions as seen from a Ukrainian soldier.
Another Ukrainian attack on the Rabotino area. Burning Western vehicles hit by ATGMs from the 70th Regiment.
What's going on with Ukraine capturing area on the east side of the Dnieper river. Is this a credible invasion. Why has Russia not dislodged them yet?