The War in the Ukraine

FABs arrive on Novopol before the truce.


During the truce, Ukrainian soldiers were spotted recovering their dead in the Rabotino area in the open unhindered.


Footage before the truce. Gerans dive and attacked a parking lot with Ukrainian logistics trucks in the Sumy region. Highly likely the Gerans are the type with optical guidance, and the footage is captured from one of the Gerans.


Also before the truce, the Russians take the village of Novomikhailovka in the Donetsk. This by Group West.


Ukrainian tank and APC taken out by FPV drones on the 19th near Kucherivka.


Ukrainians tried to intercept a Forpost-R UAV with an FPV drone but narrowly missed the tail.


Ukrainians violated truce by sending an infantry assault unit into the Belgorod border. The unit was intercepted first by gun artillery then MLRS from the Akhmat SPN.


Another truce violation where the Ukrainians sent Baba Yagas towards the positions of the 98th VDV in Chasiv Yar. The Baba Yagas were successfully intercepted with FPV drones.


Archival footage not seen before. T-64BV gets taken out by a Lancet in Novoselka.


April 19. M142 HIMARS MLRS struck and destroyed by Lancet in the village of Starovarvarovka, Druzhkovskoe direction


Russian missile strike, possibly Tornado-S, takes out Ukrainian MLRS in Vavarivka. April 18-19.


April 18th, Abrams taken out by fiberoptic drone after being abandoned in the Kharkhiv region.


Also pre-truce. A Krab gets taken out by a Lancet in the Kharkhiv region.


Footage of compilation of engagements by Group Center towards Pokrovsk before the truce. Final segment of the compilation is interesting as it shows an ATGM leaving the barrel on of a tank with the footage captured from the tank's viewfinder. A drone confirms the hit on a Ukrainian vehicle.


Ukrainian UAV control point using a civilian house gets shelled and a direct hit.


BTR-4E Bucephalus intercepted and taken out by Russian FPV drones.


Tornado-G spotted in the front.


Towed version Bogdana-BG howitzer in Ukrainian test site.

The first footage of the use in Ukraine of the Russian UAV "Gerbera", equipped with a warhead. The UAV "Gerbera" is considered a junior version of the Russian drones "Geran-2". The video shows the strike of the Russian UAV "Gerbera" on the Ukrainian modified SAM "Buk-M1", also called FrankenSAM. The FrankenSAM project is an American program designed to adapt Western missiles for air defense systems of Soviet manufacture. It is supposed to equip Ukrainian air defense systems with AIM-9, AIM-7 and RIM-7 missiles. The location of the shooting is not reported, judging by the video, as a result of the drone strike, the radar of the Ukrainian air defense "Buk-M1" was damaged.

Surely this is an exaggeration…

“The radar in these F-16s is the older AN/APG-66 installed in the original ‘A/B’ models. It is less capable than the versions of the MiG-29’s

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that the Ukraine industry has upgraded. On top of this, all of the aircraft sent to Ukraine thus far have had their

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. This makes the effective ranges at which we are able to engage Russian aircraft about one-third of the range at which their fighter aircraft can fire on us.”

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The first footage of North Korean M1991 Juche-100 MLRS in service with the Russian army. . The video shows the installation of Mangal-type protection on the M1991 MLRS, the location of the shooting is not reported. The 240-mm M1991 MLRS is equipped with 22 rockets and can hit targets at a distance of up to 60 km. In 2024, a firing range of 80 km was achieved, using a new rocket. The M1991 MLRS was adopted by North Korea in the late 1980s.

The ukrainians had the N-019U2 version developed for their MiG-29MU upgrade. I haven't come yet across some range figures but i wouldn't be surprised if it matches or surpasses in some respects the APG-66(V2) on the F-16 MLU. I'm not sure if it's the same interview cited above, but i saw a video where some ukrainian individual was complaining that their F-16 can only see russian fighters from 100-120km and fire AIM-120s from 100km, while the russian fighters could see them from 300km and fire from roughly the same 300km distance (probably referring to Su-35 and R-37).

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The MLU were supposed to have AN/APG-68 and this compatible with AMRAAM as seen here.



I dont see Link-16 as Force Multiplier either tbh as Ukraine lacks anything that can use Link-16, except maybe at Western Ukraine or Black Sea where NATO AEW are present. Black Sea tho basically risky as NATO platform also operates there within Russian air defense range and there is no way Russians can identify whether it's a NATO F-16 e.g Turkey.

Giving Link 16 is perhaps seen as liability as Russian could actually capture the device and crack the encryption key.

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mack8 said:

The ukrainians had the N-019U2 version developed for their MiG-29MU upgrade. I haven't come yet across some range figures but i wouldn't be surprised if it matches or surpasses in some respects the APG-66(V2) on the F-16 MLU.

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Problem is that Ukraine lacks Active Radar Homing AAM's or anything actually to match the improved performance of N019, and let alone matching Russian missiles. F-16 have clear advantage here with Active radar homer, thus can engage multiple targets simultaneously.

I haven't ever came across anything suggesting that the F-16A MLU has anything other than the APG-66(V)2 radar.

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I haven't ever came across anything suggesting that the F-16A MLU has anything other than the APG-66(V)2 radar.

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Well Ours (Indonesian Airforce) did. We have F-16 A/B Block 15 OCU, now it's upgraded similar as Netherland's F-16 AM/BM or Falcon Star. It now have APG-68.

Euro F-16A's(outside of Polish F-16's) never received anything beyond the APG-66(v)2 in part due to costs and to keep complexity down. In theory it has a close enough performance to the base APG-68 but it isn't bleeding edge stuff.

Being able to carry AIM-120 was deemed good enough at the time

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Well Ours (Indonesian Airforce) did. We have F-16 A/B Block 15 OCU, now it's upgraded similar as Netherland's F-16 AM/BM or Falcon Star. It now have APG-68.

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That's something i didn't knew. Presumably this was done to keep commonality with your C/Ds (and also you had the cash).