The War in the Ukraine

Australian-made Ukrainian armored car Bushmaster was ambushed in Ukraine. There were seven mercenaries from Poland in the car, all of them died. Judging by the damage, the ambush was organized professionally, the fire was fired from all sides.


Footage of the attack on the positions of the Ukrainian army near Maryinka by a pair of Russian Su-25 attack aircraft.


An attempt by Ukrainian soldiers to cross the Dnieper River in light boats. The units of the Russian army discovered the landing and a battle ensued. The Ukrainian landing force reportedly retreated with losses.


A Ukrainian T-64 tank was hit by a Russian Lancet kamikaze drone. In the video, you can see that the tank crew even noticed a drone flying up to them, but did not close the hatches. Reportedly, the attack on the Ukrainian convoy took place on the banks of the Dnieper.


The Ukrainian army actively uses the English armored trucks Wolfhound. The Wolfhound armored vehicle was the development of the Mastiff armored car, which was developed on the basis of the American Cougar vehicle. Wolfhound armored vehicles are now all decommissioned and are actively sold by England. In Ukraine, cars are used as armored personnel carriers, for this the space between the loading platform and the lattice screens of the car was filled with sandbags, and bags are also used directly in the body instead of seats. The vehicle's armor can withstand 12.7 mm bullets from all angles. Mine protection is designed to detonate 14 kg of explosives under the wheel or 7 kg under the bottom. The American 12.7-mm machine gun Browning M2HB is used as a weapon. The Wolfhound armored vehicle weighs 25 tons and has an engine power of 330 hp. The maximum speed on the highway is 90 km / h. Crew 2 people.

The Ukrainian army began to use the GAIA Amir multifunctional armored vehicles manufactured by the Israeli company Gaia Automotive Industries. Officially, Israel does not supply weapons to Ukraine, and it is not known how the Amir armored cars ended up in the Kherson region, their manufacturer prohibits re-export. The armored car was first shown in 2018 and is used for patrolling, personnel transfer and evacuation of the wounded. The armored vehicle has protection against mines with a mass of charge up to 6 kg and protection against bullets with a caliber of 7.62 mm, protection can be improved with additional modules. The Amir armored vehicle is capable of carrying up to 12 soldiers and 3 tons of cargo. The car has a permanent four-wheel drive, the maximum speed of the armored car is 122 km / h.

According to RUSI, the Ka-52 and other Russian helicopter gunships suffer from very poor vibration dampening. Because of this, their gyro stabilized optics struggle to produce a clear picture at high magnification levels making acquisition, identification and precise laser or command guidance at long ranges very challenging. This in turn limits the range at which Russian helos can effectively deploy their ATGMs. Further compounding this is the Vikhr missile that uses a backward facing beam riding guidance system: the Ka-52 must not drift more than a few degrees per second in any direction or the laser beam from the helo will move out of the missile’s field of view and guidance will fail. This made the helicopter vulnerable to Stugna and Javelin anti-tank missiles, with several reported in flight shoot downs by ATGMs.

In their opinion, the defense suites on the modernized Su-25Ms performed very well against MANPADS and when they were hit it was usually due to the aircraft flying into a very high concentration of MANPADS launchers which overwhelmed or exhausted its defenses.

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The fact the sensor in the missile is backwards facing also means the Vikhr is less susceptible to jamming with DIRCM. It is a matter of tradeoffs. The Ka-52 can also fire the Ataka ATGM in case you are worried about that.

As for sensor imaging quality I would not be surprised that if the main issue was lack of resolution and sensitivity in the thermal sensor. I kind of doubt the issue is vibration dampening since the sensor is mounted on a gyro stabilized ball below the nose. The Ka-52M is supposed to upgrade it to the GOES-451M sensor. IIRC Russian thermal sensor matrices used to be 320x256 pixels but they should be able to manufacture higher resolution sensors now.

The new spans are being put into place on the Kerch bridge.


Russian tank with infantry support goes to recover a wounded soldier and then backs up while also using smoke grenades

Ukraine Deputy Prime Minister declares preparations have begun for the complete civilian evacuation of Kherson.

gelgoog said:

The fact the sensor in the missile is backwards facing also means the Vikhr is less susceptible to jamming with DIRCM. It is a matter of tradeoffs. The Ka-52 can also fire the Ataka ATGM in case you are worried about that.

As for sensor imaging quality I would not be surprised that if the main issue was lack of resolution and sensitivity in the thermal sensor. I kind of doubt the issue is vibration dampening since the sensor is mounted on a gyro stabilized ball below the nose. The Ka-52M is supposed to upgrade it to the GOES-451M sensor. IIRC Russian thermal sensor matrices used to be 320x256 pixels but they should be able to manufacture higher resolution sensors now.

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Per the paper, the author based that statement on his first-hand practice with Russian gunship ATGM targeting system in flight.

Ukranian energy company DTEK recomends that people leave the country. Assuming people will actually be allowed to leave, this will suppose an impact on the economy and manpower side of the equation as well.

Zichan said:

Because of this, their gyro stabilized optics struggle to produce a clear picture at high magnification levels making acquisition, identification and precise laser or command guidance at long ranges very challenging.

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There are plenty of videos of the Ka-52 hitting targets at +8km(the numbers at the bottom of the videos when visible is the distance to target) with little vibration visible in them since Syria, so it looks a whole load of nothing, like The Copium Zone making a suposition of the entire Ka-52 fleet having issues over a video of a single vibrating frame.

Mobilized and T-14 "Armata" at the tank training ground in Kazan.