The War in the Ukraine
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RavenWing278
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Apologies if this has already been answered previously.
Whenever I see drone footage released by the Russians of "precision" strikes on AFU positions, it always shows the target being identified, the footage then cuts away and from another angle reveals the explosion and claims that the target was neutralised. This is not what you'd expect from modern day drone footage, where we see the precision munition being guided onto the target in one sequence.
I know the drone could just be the spotter for unguided artillery strikes, but even we PGMs are used, rarely do we see Russian release footage similar to those of the Bayraktar strikes. Any reason why?
Whenever I see drone footage released by the Russians of "precision" strikes on AFU positions, it always shows the target being identified, the footage then cuts away and from another angle reveals the explosion and claims that the target was neutralised. This is not what you'd expect from modern day drone footage, where we see the precision munition being guided onto the target in one sequence.
I know the drone could just be the spotter for unguided artillery strikes, but even we PGMs are used, rarely do we see Russian release footage similar to those of the Bayraktar strikes. Any reason why?
Black Shark
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Because there is a inside directive not to publish gore porn like the americans or wikileaks have released. Any combat needs to have a certain psychological affect on people. As long as people only hear about dead and horror stories of people becoming to minced meat war conditions will not have a demoralizing factor on civilian and military population. I am surprised at all that LPR and DNR are publishing videos that are counter to this directive. This directive not to publish unedited videos without gore or direct visually killing of people is evident by the mass of videos of Ka-52 engagements or Artillery hits on AFU gathering points inside buildings.
If China sends stuff it is inadvisable to send it piecemeal and let Russians operate it alone. That would hamper the effectiveness of the systems and potentially damage their reputation. Same reason NATO doesn't send Abrams or Leopard 2 tanks for the AFU to directly operate.
Sending equipment should only be a trump card reserved if Russia isn't able to succesfully wage war with its fully mobilized army. As long as the Russians themselves don't put in a serious effort, the first resort would be to make them commit harder first instead of giving them state of the art equipment that might end up being wasted anyways if they don't have the manpower to use it.
And China cares nothing about what US says, US has warned many times of "total sanctions" for helping Russia maintain their economy, which nowadays is very heavily intertwined inside China. US simply doesn't afford in terms of inflation any more sanctions than they already have out, and these sanctions mostly only hurt private individuals by making them unable to have stuff or vacation in USA, but said people tend to never need to travel to USA anyways, so it's pointless.
I doubt it. Y-20 can fit a Type 99 with not much space to spare width-wise. Those emergency bridges look much wider than Type 99.
Not sure if the core plant was itself hit but the building had a direct hit on it.
Looks like the Ukrainians bagged themselves their first T-90M. Wont make much difference on it's own, but the fact is that this abandoned tank was unlikely to have been operated by conscripts. No apparent attempt to destroy it either.
Ukrainians can't upload stuff because they get shot in the front of the head and tossed into mass Graves that are then blamed on Russian forces. Just ask Elen
So in other words, China is already exporting drones to Russia. Only they have Iranian markings, to be discreet...
Rumored to be Izd305 from behind cover