The War in the Ukraine

Ukrainian soldier and Tiktoker talks about the cost of his $170,000 Kraz truck, getting blown up by a $35,000 Krasnopol round. The Krasnopol hit right at the back of his truck leaving a hole in the bed, so dead accurate. Shells lying around tells you he was delivering ammunition to the Kursk region.


Russian tank firing at Ukrainian BMPs, taking out one although the BMP has managed to disembark it's passengers first.


Airborne vs. Airborne. Ukrainian airborne troops spotted unloading supplies from a transport to a storage facility. The storage point gets a direct hit later from the 98th VDV. This in Chasiv Yar.


Two FPV struck a Leopard 2A6 tank, taking it out. Kursk region.


Satellite images from Maxar of the 107th GRAU arsenal in Toropets. It appears a significant part survived due to underground facilities.


AN/TPQ-50 radar taken out by Lancet from the 22nd SPN.


Stuff captured by the 810rd Marine Brigade in the Kursk region.


One M577 command vehicle and two Roschel Senators found destroyed on a road inside the Kursk salient.


Tor-M2 commander relates shooting down a Storm Shadow missile.


Ukrainian drone shot down with small arms fire.


Incendiary ammunition strike on Ukrainian trenches. Kupyansk direction.


Ukrainian ground drone with machine gun and mortar fire support attack Russian positions in the Kursk region. The ground drone was destroyed with an RPG.


FABs fall on Ukrainian positions in Malaya Loknya.


FAB bomb attacks along the front.


Ukrainian Gvozdika SPG taken out by Lancet from elements of the 1st Tank Army.


FAB-3000, unknown location but somewhere in the Kupyansk sector.


Ukrainian PVD destroyed. 25th Army.


FAB strike. 20th Army.


90 percent of Grodovka now under Russian control.

Temstar said:

Woah, I didn't expect her to get purged:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1836713286957506925

Isn't she a NATO voice in Kiev?

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She has been quite critical of the leadership and AFU command for a while now.

sheogorath said:

She has been quite critical of the leadership and AFU command for a while now.

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I don't think she ever criticized Zelensky, some of her criticisms towards AFU like are even pretty valid:



IIRC she was also the one who first said the F-16 was shot by Patriot.

Temstar said:

I don't think she ever criticized Zelensky, some of her criticisms towards AFU like are even pretty valid:

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Thats the thing, you are not supposed to criticize the AFU, valid or not.

My question: as the Russians are using the 30mm caliber on different vehicles and for various applications is there a proximity fuzed ammunition for this caliber? (for more effective use against drones /uav). Or for any of the old dedicated AA guns (37mm 57mm)?

pendragon said:

My question: as the Russians are using the 30mm caliber on different vehicles and for various applications is there a proximity fuzed ammunition for this caliber? (for more effective use against drones /uav). Or for any of the old dedicated AA guns (37mm 57mm)?

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The 30mm caliber is extensively used in the offense by BMP, BMD and BTR in the offense and against Ukrainian fortifications during assault and storming operations. The Ukrainians also have the 30mm with the BMP-2 for the same purpose and they have their own parallel program of modernizing the BMP-1 with the 30mm like the Russians.

I don't recall or see it (2A42, 2A72) used against drones. The ones used as AA are the twin barreled 2A38 and 2A38M on the Tunguska and Pantsyr. We have seen the Tunguska in combat on both sides.

As for proximity fusing I don't know, I would assume it's used on the Tunguska and Pantsyr but not on ones used on the BMP, BMD, BTR and the Typhoon MRAP. I assume the most used shell would be HEI.

The 57mm S-60 is often used by both sides as a fire support, often field mounted on MT-LB or the back of a truck. Despite being an AA gun in origin, it's used predominantly in a ground to ground operation. I think it might be used by the Ukrainians against Gerans however. The 37mm I recall the Russians were using it on ground to ground in isolated cases.

Most common AA application is the field conversation of MT-LB with a ZU-23-2 dual AA 23mm gun. These appear with both sides but especially on the Ukrainian side. Sometimes the ZU-23-2 are mounted on the back of a truck.

Ukrainian media reported on the use of the Admiral-Avianosets UAV, a carrier of FPV drones, by the Russian army, this was confirmed by Russian sources. The Admiral UAV delivers an FPV drone to the combat zone, the UAV also functions as a communications repeater. The use of UAV carriers allows increasing the range of FPV drones from 15 to 40 km, in addition, the patrol time of the territory increases and the effectiveness of electronic warfare decreases.