The War in the Ukraine

Alleged expected production rate for one of Russia's ammunition factory in 2024, totalling around 1.250.000 rounds between 203mm, 152mm, 125mm and 122mm rounds


Doing a bit of googling, I found a list of ammunition-production related factories in Russia. That's a ton of potential


Bakhirevka is not even the largest one, apparently.

AFU T-72M tank gets hit by Lancet and burns. This in Yuzno-Donetsk


Lancets take out M777s one after another. The first video is from obtf Kaskad.


Ukrainians using this high rise as an advantage point, but their post gets hit by a LMUR. This in Avdiivka area.


APC, transport or IFV of the AFU gets hit by ATGM from Russian special forces near Artemovosk.


Russians entered Bogdanovka. Artillery and FPV drone strikes.


Ukraine cracks down on draft dodging as it struggles to find troops. --- The Washington Post.


Building used by Ukrainian Marines as a shooting point, gets struck by a LMUR.


Lancet strikes on Ukrainian radars and communication posts.


Lancet hits a Ukrainian Grad MLRS

Large massive hits if you can see it from this distance. Explosions sound off in the Dnipropetrovsk region. I think it may be X-555 or X-101 attacks.


Looks like TOS strike near Marinka at Ukrainian positions. This by the 5th Brigade of the 1st Donetsk Army.


Lancet with thermal imager takes out a Ukrainian tank with mining trawl.


Russian artillery adjusting it's bombardment via drone when two FAB-500 beat them to the target.


Compilation of Lancet strikes from the 200th Arctic Brigade of the North Sea Fleet, against a Ukrainian vehicle and an FH-70 howitzer. The FH-70 strike took place late summer.


136th Brigade now reinforcing Russian units in Rabotino Verbove sector. Here a Ukrainian convoy is ambushed with artillery and ATGMs.


FABs continue to rain on Ukrainian positions in Krynki.


Krasnopol and FPV drone strikes against Ukrainian positions in Belgorovka by the 7th Brigade. Expect an offensive soon around Siversk.


203mm Malka of the 14th Artillery Brigade 'Kalmius' being exercised on Ukrainian positions in the Avdiivka coke plant.


Shoot and scoot. HIMARS fired three rockets as seen by Russian UAV, and quickly fled. Russians fired at where the HIMARS is supposed to be.


Czech DANA SPG gets taken out by Lancet.

Russian intelligence got a hold of a meeting of many Ukrainian military officers, indicated by a sudden surge and concentration of military vehicles in the area and around building. The Russians crashed the meeting with a big air strike.


Remnants of a X-55 Raduga cruise missile that attacked Kiev and was intercepted. However the usage of these old missiles might be to bait and troll Ukrainian air defenses for the more serious attack.


Test flight of an FPV drone from the sea and subsequent attack on a surface target. Courtesy of the Sudoplatov Battalion.


Ukrainian drone observes the rain of Russian artillery fire on Ukrainian positions in Krynki.


A new factory was launched for the making of caterpillar tracks for T-80 tanks, MSTA-S SPGs and S-300V systems.


Krasnopols get busy on Ukrainian targets in the Yuzhno-Donetsk direction.


Quadcopter drops one into a Ukrainian field ammo depot in South Donetsk, courtesy of the 14th SPN Brigade.


Damaged Russian machines, now repaired and restored to be sent back to the front.


Commander of the 40th Guards Marine Brigade of the Pacific Fleet gets the Golden Star medal from Putin in a ceremony that gave awards to distinguished soldiers. This one in particular caught my attention.


Russian special forces showering Ukrainian troops with an AGS-17 grenade launcher. This at Kleeshevka.


Ukrainian tank firing at Russian troops inside buildings. This footage is geolocated to the northeast of Avdiivka, indicating that Russians have advanced over another suburban area.

FSB nabs suspect in Baikal-Amur Railway freight trains explosion​

According to the press service, the suspect "gave confessionary evidence" that he took away eight explosives from a cache, delivered them to Buryatia and planted them on freight trains’ oil tanks

MOSCOW, December 7. /TASS/. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) has apprehended an individual suspected of blowing up two freight trains at the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) in Buryatia and the suspect gave confessionary evidence, the FSB press office reported on Thursday.
"A terrorist act plotted by Ukrainian special services and directed at destroying critical transport and energy infrastructure has been exposed. During measures carried out in the Omsk Region, a citizen of the Republic of Belarus born in 1971 was apprehended. He blew up two trains carrying petroleum products along the Taishet-Tynda and Taishet-Neryungri routes at the Baikal Amur Railway section in the Republic of Buryatia on November 29 and 30, 2023," the press office said in a statement.
The suspect "gave confessionary evidence that on an assignment from a Belarusian citizen born in 1981, living in Lithuania and acting under the control of Ukrainian special services, he took away eight explosives from a cache, delivered them in his car to Buryatia and planted them on freight trains’ oil tanks," the press office specified.
As the freight trains passed through the Severomuysky tunnel and its encircling route, the explosives went off, setting fire to petroleum product tanks and suspending railway traffic, it said.

"Further measures are underway to check the detainee’s complicity in committing other terror acts on the territory of the Russian Federation on an assignment from Ukrainian special services," the FSB press office reported.

gelgoog said:

It is in the middle of European Russia. They used to build Kilo class submarines there. Last one was built there in 2005. They went to their places of deployment by traversing the canal system. For example B-177 Lipetsk and B-871 Alrosa were sent via the canal system from Krasnoye Sormovo to Sevastopol in the late Soviet Union/early Russian Federation.

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They used to build sierra-IIs there.

In this video of the presentations of the new Leopard 1A5 Dk in service with the Ukrainian Army we can clearly see that the 105 mm ammunition their are using are the former U.S Army Stryker MGS ammo.

redion said:

In this video of the presentations of the new Leopard 1A5 Dk in service with the Ukrainian Army we can clearly see that the 105 mm ammunition their are using are the former U.S Army Stryker MGS ammo.

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M68 and L7 use the same British-designed L7 gun tube. Ammo are compatible. At least it will not blow-up like we have seen in some ammo mixup between 155mm howitzer guns...

So it look that they full them up with HEAT antitank rounds. Not the perfect round against infantry in trenches, quite bad for indirect fire... still better than nothing. Better for them to not cross path with something better than T-62 and not upgraded old T-72...surprise is nonexistant on the front for ambushes with tanks.

Tank to tank on this warfare has been virtually quite rare really, those Leos would predominantly got destroyed due to the same factors as what lead to the destruction of Ukes T-64s really

Ka-52 knocks out a vehicle.


Another FAB strike on Ukrainian positions at Krynki.


In Krynki, a VT-40 FPV drone heads to the house where an AFU sniper is operating.


Knocked out Leopard 2A4 and M113 with Russian soldier in Rabotino.


Destroyed Stryker in Verbove.


T-64BV gets knocked out in the Donetsk front by the Russian 110th Brigade.


Aftermath of Lancet attacks. Destroyed M109 in the Tyaginka Kherson area.


A fuel tank is burning as the Ukrainians struck it with MLRS near Makeevka.


Drone attacks on Ukrainians positions in the outskirts of Marinka by the Russian 5th Brigade.


We have seen Nigerian volunteers, then Nepalese Gurkha volunteers and now Cuban volunteers in the Russian armed forces.


Fighting on the flanks of Artemovosk. 123rd Brigade bombs Ukrainian trench positions via quadcopters in Berestovaya.


The Northern Fleet, aka 200th Arctic Brigade, has stormed Bogdanovka.


Ukrainian vehicle gets bombed in the Kremenna forest with a quadcopter with thermal vision. The position here in the Russian salientremains stable despite Ukrainian counterattacks, which has diminished in number.


Ukrainian facilities in Krasnoliman gets bombed with two FABs.


Ukrainian artillery positions somewhere in Zaporozhye gets bombed with two FABs.


Drone drops on a Ukrainian marine commando boat near Krynki.


Avdiivka coke plant continues to be shelled


Ukrainian FPV drone hits a Russian fake and decoy of an SPG.


This Ukrainian FPV drone seems successful in hitting a Russian cargo ground drone.


FPV drone strike compilations from the Sudoplatov Battalion on various Ukrainian vehicles, including a BTR-4E, M113, BTR-80, T-64BV and four cars.