The War in the Ukraine

It's less than 12 hours already and here's another report from Southfront!
Those folks must be working pretty fast!
This time they talked regarding the current situation on the front and Ukrainian Artillery attack

One of the pro-Russian telegram channels has claimed the navy has used the still in-development Kalibr-M against targets in Ukraine. The claim includes a range of 4500km and a 1000kg warhead, which would put it at twice the range of that of the Tomahawk, and would be kind of impressive if the missile still fits in the existing UKSK VLS.


If the range is true in all conditions, then a ship in the Caspian Sea could hit any target within europe, let alone Ukraine. It'll take forever, though

Confirmed.

Topazchen said:

Confirmed.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1536972651457134593

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Will they listen to them ? For foreign soldier is a death sentence if they didn't get a deal from the Russian side.

Atomicfrog said:

Will they listen to them ? For foreign soldier is a death sentence if they didn't get a deal from the Russian side.

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They have an option of fighting to death. It's up to them.
Ukranians on the other hand who are the majority will chose life over standing in solidarity with the mercenaries

Russia has only little short term incentive to spare the mercenaries to enable quicker resolution to some immediate tactical problems. It has considerably more long term incentive discourage would be mercenaries from taking up arms against russia in the first place by treating them with the utmost harshness.

So, the HIMARS haven't been sent to the frontlines yet and they are already being conditioned to use them "effectively" or they won't get more of them

I noticed that Switchblade and anti-drone weapon came up in this thread earlier. On that topic:

Swithblade 600 now available for sale on dark web for $7,000 each.
>2 in stock

More on anti-drone, those anti-drone EW weapons seem to be working, this was brought down by Russians:

Good watch, pretty much corroborates what everyone has been saying here.

solarz said:

Good watch, pretty much corroborates what everyone has been saying here.

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No wonder. He's just as much expert as "everyone" here.

The main problem here, as he likes to say all the time, it's a war against Ukraine. Not NATO. An exemplary "lesson" for NATO from this war should be like "Russian A2/AD bubbles aren't as scary as they were portrayed - analysis of capabilities", "Importance of air superiority over battlefield and striking long range distance targets" or "At what point when Russians fail they start relying on the old Soviet tactics" for example.

There's a lot of things like that, not "tanks are obsolete" - so obsolete that every country with serious military force is investing heavily in those capabilities.