He was, but it is indeed a modern ejection seat problem.
F-111 in this case was quite a step forward, a shame that solution never caught on.
The War in the Ukraine
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F-111 in this case was quite a step forward, a shame that solution never caught on.
2S7M Malka 203mm self propelled howitzer takes out a PZH2000 in a counterbattery fight. This isn't the first time that Malkas and Pions were taking out 155mms.
FAB-3000 arrives on a Ukrainian PVD. The shelters at that point looks completely destroyed.
Ukrainian convoy took the wrong route and gets seriously hammered by Russian artillery and MLRS. Several armored vehicles and a tank were considered unrepairable.
Russian flag raised in Rozovka.
Kuban artillerymen of the 238th takes out two Ukrainian field ammunition depots using MSTA-B howitzers.
Ukrainians surrendering, three to one Chechen.
Destroyed Maxxpro.
Fire in a Ukrainian airfield in the Nikolaev region, after a Russian missile strike. Fuel tanks may have been destroyed.
The results of the recent Iskander strike on the railway station in the Kharkhiv region. One of the wrecks looks like a truck with a Zu-23-2 machine gun mounted on it for anti UAV work.
Accurate artillery strike on a Ukrainian hideout in the Kharkhiv region.
Another Ukrainian bridge gets taken out with an X-38ML, guided by an Orlan-30. Another bridge taken out over Krivoy Torets River also by X-38ML.
Destroyed Polish Rosomak APC.
Destroyed Romanian APR-40 MLRS.
Russian artillery takes out Ukrainian UAV control center in Chasiv Yar.
LMUR strike on a Ukrainian shelter in Makarivka.
Krasnopol strikes on Ukrainian positions in the Kharkhiv front.
Russian air strikes takes out EW complex and mobile power stations in Berestok.
New T-90Ms headed to the front.
We have recent Iskander strikes on the command centers and PVDs of the AFU 4th Brigade, the 41st and the 92nd recently. Here the UAV command post of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU takes an Iskander hit in Krasny Liman. Allegedly 300 FPV drones were destroyed in the strike.
Russian/Soviet flag is raised on Novoselka Persha by the 114th Brigade of the RuAF and the DPR.
Missile strikes on the port of Izmail. There are a number of targets including a fuel depot and ship repair plant but one was a terminal where Western munitions were being off loaded, and 200 mercenaries and members of the AFU were located in a building nearby as the terminal blew up.
Quadcopter laid a mine in a route this M113 took and blew itself up.
This ugly turtle MTF from the 40th Marine Brigade used to be a tank, a T-80BVM.
The 238th with the collaboration of the Rooks SPN unit, lays supporting fire on Krasnogorovka in support of the 5th Brigade. MSTA-B are used.
Another Note EW system taken out by Lancet.
Kornet ATGM takes out Bradley.
The Center Group's Manticore unit's FPV drones wasting Bradleys.
FAB-3000 arrives on a Ukrainian PVD. The shelters at that point looks completely destroyed.
Ukrainian convoy took the wrong route and gets seriously hammered by Russian artillery and MLRS. Several armored vehicles and a tank were considered unrepairable.
Russian flag raised in Rozovka.
Kuban artillerymen of the 238th takes out two Ukrainian field ammunition depots using MSTA-B howitzers.
Ukrainians surrendering, three to one Chechen.
Destroyed Maxxpro.
Fire in a Ukrainian airfield in the Nikolaev region, after a Russian missile strike. Fuel tanks may have been destroyed.
The results of the recent Iskander strike on the railway station in the Kharkhiv region. One of the wrecks looks like a truck with a Zu-23-2 machine gun mounted on it for anti UAV work.
Accurate artillery strike on a Ukrainian hideout in the Kharkhiv region.
Another Ukrainian bridge gets taken out with an X-38ML, guided by an Orlan-30. Another bridge taken out over Krivoy Torets River also by X-38ML.
Destroyed Polish Rosomak APC.
Destroyed Romanian APR-40 MLRS.
Russian artillery takes out Ukrainian UAV control center in Chasiv Yar.
LMUR strike on a Ukrainian shelter in Makarivka.
Krasnopol strikes on Ukrainian positions in the Kharkhiv front.
Russian air strikes takes out EW complex and mobile power stations in Berestok.
New T-90Ms headed to the front.
We have recent Iskander strikes on the command centers and PVDs of the AFU 4th Brigade, the 41st and the 92nd recently. Here the UAV command post of the 63rd Mechanized Brigade of the AFU takes an Iskander hit in Krasny Liman. Allegedly 300 FPV drones were destroyed in the strike.
Russian/Soviet flag is raised on Novoselka Persha by the 114th Brigade of the RuAF and the DPR.
Missile strikes on the port of Izmail. There are a number of targets including a fuel depot and ship repair plant but one was a terminal where Western munitions were being off loaded, and 200 mercenaries and members of the AFU were located in a building nearby as the terminal blew up.
Quadcopter laid a mine in a route this M113 took and blew itself up.
This ugly turtle MTF from the 40th Marine Brigade used to be a tank, a T-80BVM.
The 238th with the collaboration of the Rooks SPN unit, lays supporting fire on Krasnogorovka in support of the 5th Brigade. MSTA-B are used.
Another Note EW system taken out by Lancet.
Kornet ATGM takes out Bradley.
The Center Group's Manticore unit's FPV drones wasting Bradleys.
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Some last minute additions that didn't make it.
The first scene is the Iskander hit on the PVD of the AFU 92nd Brigade which also has foreign mercs. The second scene is the Iskander hit on the UAV command center of the AFU 63rd Brigade.
The same footage attack on the 63rd from another uploader. At least 10 UAVs and 300 FPV drones were among the destroyed along with the officers, command equipment and communication arrays. At least the area of two football fields were affected by the blast.
My hypotheses is that the Russians intercepted the control signals of the Ukrainian UAVs by ESM/EW and geolocated them to this location. Russian UAVs confirmed the base by the appearance of communication arrays and towers, related to UAV control, including Starlink antennas. More confirmation can be made by observing and tracking the movements of vehicles moving in and out of the area. The Russians also appear to be effectively intercepting Ukrainian communications.
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Ukrainian ammunition and equipment warehouse in the Poltava region is detonating after being taken out by an X-59 missile.
Ukrainian Strela-10 AD system taken out by Lancet in the Kharkhiv front.
Ukrainian Gvozdika SPG gets taken out by a Krasnopol with Orlan-30 lasing.
The first scene is the Iskander hit on the PVD of the AFU 92nd Brigade which also has foreign mercs. The second scene is the Iskander hit on the UAV command center of the AFU 63rd Brigade.
The same footage attack on the 63rd from another uploader. At least 10 UAVs and 300 FPV drones were among the destroyed along with the officers, command equipment and communication arrays. At least the area of two football fields were affected by the blast.
My hypotheses is that the Russians intercepted the control signals of the Ukrainian UAVs by ESM/EW and geolocated them to this location. Russian UAVs confirmed the base by the appearance of communication arrays and towers, related to UAV control, including Starlink antennas. More confirmation can be made by observing and tracking the movements of vehicles moving in and out of the area. The Russians also appear to be effectively intercepting Ukrainian communications.
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Ukrainian ammunition and equipment warehouse in the Poltava region is detonating after being taken out by an X-59 missile.
Ukrainian Strela-10 AD system taken out by Lancet in the Kharkhiv front.
Ukrainian Gvozdika SPG gets taken out by a Krasnopol with Orlan-30 lasing.
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Russia wont "run out" of tanks. They are predicted to face shortages of armour and other equipment by the end of next year judging by the depletion rate of various storage depots being monitored via satellite
However all that will happen is a reduced rate of armoured offensive actions dictated by the pace of new unit construction which is somewhat slower than restoring old hulls.
If anything, they will be pulled back while new mechanisms of dealing with FPV drones are developed, not for the lack of tanks. Those predictions have been heard before, for almost every weapons system Russia has.
These people estimate Russian yearly production of the T-90M by looking at the largest historic yearly T-90 deliveries the factory made to the Russian Army. At a time the factory was also producing tanks to sell to other countries. While working a normal 9 to 5 schedule.
T-90M production seems to be ramping up just fine. They had just delivered 10 units the year before the invasion started. More than tangential evidence seems to point to them currently producing a couple of hundred T-90M a year (around 200 units). And you can bet it will continue to ramp up further to double or triple that.
The production rate of T-90M tanks has been ramping up extremely quickly. So much for that talk about how Russia could not manufacture their latest tanks anymore because of Western component export bans.
They could like double new tank production if they added automated hull welding back to the tank production line. They probably have not done this yet because they still have a lot of existing T-90 and T-72 hulls they can refurbish into upgraded models.
Then there is also the T-80 plant which has been ramping up from an initially low rate of upgrading tanks to also making new ones. If that Omsk factory is fully operational it might produce as many tanks as the one at Niznhy Tagil.
Abrams tanks nailed by Krasnopol in the Pokrovsk direction. First one tank gets taken out, followed by another nearby.
The tanks belong to the 47th Magura Brigade of the AFU, which appears to be heavily decimated and could no longer maintain its positions in the Pokrovsk front.
Iskander-M hits the industrial zone of Kharkhiv, targeting barracks or deployment center. Allegedly 100 soldiers were in the target point, 60 belonging to the 151st Mechanized Brigade of the AFU and 40 foreign mercenaries.
Kharkhiv tank plant gets Iskandered. First Iskander strikes parking lot with many tanks due for repair and maintenance. This was followed by a second Iskander, this time with cluster munitions, just as emergency and evacuation teams are on the scene.
Tor-M1 crew displays trophies of shut down Ukrainian UAVs.
Ukrainian transport carrying and unloading ammunition and supplies made the fatal mistake assuming they were safe, taking a direct hit from Russian artillery.
Ukrainian military station takes a direct hit, possibly a Krasnopol.
FAB-500s dropped from an Su-34 arrive at their targets.
Ukrainian observation point in a building gets hit by a Vikhr missile from a Ka-52M.
The remaining Ukrainian forces in Krasnogorovka has been effectively encircled.
With the positions of the 47th Brigade of the AFU deteriorating, they are unable to prevent two battalions of the AFU 31st Brigade from being encircled.
Ukrainian tank threw it's turret up into the air after being hit by an FPV drone.
The Russians have completed the capture of the beachhead around Ochertino. --- BILD Julian Ropcke aka Jihadi.
Gerans hit the port infrastructure in Izmail.
M113 knocked out in the Kupyansk direction.
German Dingo armored car found destroyed.
Oil depot in Zhytomyr region burns after being hit by Gerans. A parking lot of Bradleys and a base of unmanned sea drones were also hit.
FAB-1500 hits Ukrainian PVD in the Kharkhiv region.
Krasnopol strikes taking out Ukrainian equipment. Not FAB. Kremenaya Forest.
Russian artillery working on Ukrainian positions in Nevske.
TOS strikes on Ukrainian positions In the Kharkhiv region.
FABs land on Ukrainian positions in Volchansk.
The tanks belong to the 47th Magura Brigade of the AFU, which appears to be heavily decimated and could no longer maintain its positions in the Pokrovsk front.
Iskander-M hits the industrial zone of Kharkhiv, targeting barracks or deployment center. Allegedly 100 soldiers were in the target point, 60 belonging to the 151st Mechanized Brigade of the AFU and 40 foreign mercenaries.
Kharkhiv tank plant gets Iskandered. First Iskander strikes parking lot with many tanks due for repair and maintenance. This was followed by a second Iskander, this time with cluster munitions, just as emergency and evacuation teams are on the scene.
Tor-M1 crew displays trophies of shut down Ukrainian UAVs.
Ukrainian transport carrying and unloading ammunition and supplies made the fatal mistake assuming they were safe, taking a direct hit from Russian artillery.
Ukrainian military station takes a direct hit, possibly a Krasnopol.
FAB-500s dropped from an Su-34 arrive at their targets.
Ukrainian observation point in a building gets hit by a Vikhr missile from a Ka-52M.
The remaining Ukrainian forces in Krasnogorovka has been effectively encircled.
With the positions of the 47th Brigade of the AFU deteriorating, they are unable to prevent two battalions of the AFU 31st Brigade from being encircled.
Ukrainian tank threw it's turret up into the air after being hit by an FPV drone.
The Russians have completed the capture of the beachhead around Ochertino. --- BILD Julian Ropcke aka Jihadi.
Gerans hit the port infrastructure in Izmail.
M113 knocked out in the Kupyansk direction.
German Dingo armored car found destroyed.
Oil depot in Zhytomyr region burns after being hit by Gerans. A parking lot of Bradleys and a base of unmanned sea drones were also hit.
FAB-1500 hits Ukrainian PVD in the Kharkhiv region.
Krasnopol strikes taking out Ukrainian equipment. Not FAB. Kremenaya Forest.
Russian artillery working on Ukrainian positions in Nevske.
TOS strikes on Ukrainian positions In the Kharkhiv region.
FABs land on Ukrainian positions in Volchansk.
Additional material on the Kharkhiv tank plant Iskander strike.
This is from a second drone encircling the plant. Here the first strike is seen affecting the plant and the parking lot. The second strike is seen with cluster munitions right over emergency and evacuation vehicles have arrived at the scene. While this sounds ugly, do realize the main objective of these strikes is to kill a specific group of people, namely the engineers and the technicians that repair and rebuild the tanks, as well as their management and officials. This is why the strike occurs in the daytime, when it's expected that the target will be crawling with working people.
Russians specifically track and target the times and where the Ukrainian units rotate. Here a Grad MLRS launches an attack where Ukrainian units were rotating.
Ukrainian jet ski found in the coast of Turkey filled with explosives. It appears to be modified into a drone.
FAB-1500 hits a Ukrainian PVD at Malye Prohody.
Soldier with AK-12 shoots down a Baba Yaga.
Ukrainian Strela-10 taken out by Lancet in the Kharkhiv region.
Ukrainian unit arrived, then hid, the gets Krasnopoled.
The Russians closed the cauldron near Progress, Vochy and Novoselka Persha, trapping the Ukrainian units there.
The Russians have already entered the south of Konstantinovka (village) and the battle for it has officially begun.
The Russians have regained full control of Glubokoe, pushing out the Ukrainian counteroffer at the northern farms.
Lancet takes out an SPG in Oleksandro Shultyne.
FABs arrive in Mala Tokmachka in Zaporozhye.
Tyulpans of the 238th working on Ukrainian positions in Krasnogorovka.
Ukrainian armored vehicle gets taken out by ATGM in the Svatovo Kremenaya front by the 144th Division.
This is from a second drone encircling the plant. Here the first strike is seen affecting the plant and the parking lot. The second strike is seen with cluster munitions right over emergency and evacuation vehicles have arrived at the scene. While this sounds ugly, do realize the main objective of these strikes is to kill a specific group of people, namely the engineers and the technicians that repair and rebuild the tanks, as well as their management and officials. This is why the strike occurs in the daytime, when it's expected that the target will be crawling with working people.
Russians specifically track and target the times and where the Ukrainian units rotate. Here a Grad MLRS launches an attack where Ukrainian units were rotating.
Ukrainian jet ski found in the coast of Turkey filled with explosives. It appears to be modified into a drone.
FAB-1500 hits a Ukrainian PVD at Malye Prohody.
Soldier with AK-12 shoots down a Baba Yaga.
Ukrainian Strela-10 taken out by Lancet in the Kharkhiv region.
Ukrainian unit arrived, then hid, the gets Krasnopoled.
The Russians closed the cauldron near Progress, Vochy and Novoselka Persha, trapping the Ukrainian units there.
The Russians have already entered the south of Konstantinovka (village) and the battle for it has officially begun.
The Russians have regained full control of Glubokoe, pushing out the Ukrainian counteroffer at the northern farms.
Lancet takes out an SPG in Oleksandro Shultyne.
FABs arrive in Mala Tokmachka in Zaporozhye.
Tyulpans of the 238th working on Ukrainian positions in Krasnogorovka.
Ukrainian armored vehicle gets taken out by ATGM in the Svatovo Kremenaya front by the 144th Division.