Didn't you say we need to believe the Ukraine MND when they said they shot down 6 Sukhois over 2 days?
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And I didn't say anything about you people "needing to believe" anything. What you folks believe is irrelevant to me.
The Ukrainians seemingly destroyed a Russian "Yastreb-AV" counter battery radar of the latest generation.
This is a positive win for them. But they also claim that it costs $250 million USD. Which is just plain bullshit. A whole S-400 battery costs $500 million USD and that includes multiple radars, launchers, missiles, command vehicles, etc. Heck a Project 22350 frigate costs $250 million USD. There is just no way a truck mounted radar costs the same as a frigate.
This is a positive win for them. But they also claim that it costs $250 million USD. Which is just plain bullshit. A whole S-400 battery costs $500 million USD and that includes multiple radars, launchers, missiles, command vehicles, etc. Heck a Project 22350 frigate costs $250 million USD. There is just no way a truck mounted radar costs the same as a frigate.
1 B USD based on the last offer to us (yeah at some point Indonesia does indeed looked at S-300/400 family as heavy air defense)
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But yeah it's ridiculous that they love to inflate the price of an equipment to infinity... neglecting the fact that Ruskies arent in any shortage nor import at least most of the required parts.
Ukrainian tank and an MT-12 Rapira gets Lanceted. The Lancet has become the signature weapon of the Russian forces.
Ukrainian landing boat with passengers gets hit by a Lancet in the Dniepr.
M777 demilitarizes itself with a barrel rupture.
Another M777 in the right side of the Dniepr gets knocked out by a Lancet.
A rarity. A working Soviet era 203mm Pion with the Ukrainian armed forces gets knocked out by Russian counterbattery by the 810th Marines Brigade from Sevastopol. Obviously this is located in the Kherson region as the Ukrainians throw more and more support to their bridgeheas at Krynki, but which in turn is being picked off by Russian counterbattery and Lancets.
Finnish XA-180 APC gets bombed by Russian quadcopter.
Details on the M-Tak factory strike. The factory provides tactical clothing for the Ukrainian army and leadership.
Ukrainians shun TV news as the war drags on --- The New York Times. It seems they had it with Zelensky and state propaganda.
A big improvement to the Lancet would be a neural net that will distribute the strikes to the targets.
Kharkhiv struck again by Russian rockets, allegedly S-300s.
Fighters of the 108th VDV Regiment break into Ukrainian held trenches while a BMD-4 rakes out fire support with its 30mm. On the Rabotino Verbove front.
Russia and Ukraine today held a prisoner exchange and Azov complains not a single prisoner returned is from Azov.
Zelensky regime threatens Ukrainian residents with 12 years of imprisonment for publishing videos of the strikes especially in particular the Kinzhal hits on its targets. The official Ukraine position is that they shot down 10 Kinzhal out of 10 launched.
Ukrainian landing boat with passengers gets hit by a Lancet in the Dniepr.
M777 demilitarizes itself with a barrel rupture.
Another M777 in the right side of the Dniepr gets knocked out by a Lancet.
A rarity. A working Soviet era 203mm Pion with the Ukrainian armed forces gets knocked out by Russian counterbattery by the 810th Marines Brigade from Sevastopol. Obviously this is located in the Kherson region as the Ukrainians throw more and more support to their bridgeheas at Krynki, but which in turn is being picked off by Russian counterbattery and Lancets.
Finnish XA-180 APC gets bombed by Russian quadcopter.
Details on the M-Tak factory strike. The factory provides tactical clothing for the Ukrainian army and leadership.
Ukrainians shun TV news as the war drags on --- The New York Times. It seems they had it with Zelensky and state propaganda.
A big improvement to the Lancet would be a neural net that will distribute the strikes to the targets.
Kharkhiv struck again by Russian rockets, allegedly S-300s.
Fighters of the 108th VDV Regiment break into Ukrainian held trenches while a BMD-4 rakes out fire support with its 30mm. On the Rabotino Verbove front.
Russia and Ukraine today held a prisoner exchange and Azov complains not a single prisoner returned is from Azov.
Zelensky regime threatens Ukrainian residents with 12 years of imprisonment for publishing videos of the strikes especially in particular the Kinzhal hits on its targets. The official Ukraine position is that they shot down 10 Kinzhal out of 10 launched.
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Su-34s in the air.
Su-34s dump FABs on Novomikhailovka.
FPV drone from Beaver takes out a BMP of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Another AFU BMP comes to the rescue and gets taken out too.
Like a new sun at dawn. Thermobaric rockets explode at Ukrainian positions at Avdiivka.
Putin signs decree that allows foreign nationals and their families that signed a contract of service with the Russian armed forces to acquire Russian citizenship.
This Su-34 is not launching a glide FAB but a Kh-31P instead.
Russia is ahead of Ukraine in the drone race --- Der Spiegel.
Ukraine needs to up armor it's American made M1 tanks --- Forbes
The tanks as they are, are vulnerable to drone attacks especially with their thin armor at the top.
Ivanovo paratroopers of the 98th VDV Division fighting their way from the northern flank of Artemovosk towards Chasiv Yar. The video shows a knocked out Ukrainian tank.
AFU near Avdiivka experiencing an acute shortage of ammunition --- El Pais
More than 5,900 foreign mercenaries have been eliminated in Ukraine --- Russian Ministry of Defense
Another Ukrainian SPG gets destroyed by Lancet on the right side of the Dniepr.
Another Ukrainian landing boat on transit gets hit by a Lancet.
Ukrainian recruiters successfully capture another 'volunteer' and whisks him off in a van.
Su-34s dump FABs on Novomikhailovka.
FPV drone from Beaver takes out a BMP of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Another AFU BMP comes to the rescue and gets taken out too.
Like a new sun at dawn. Thermobaric rockets explode at Ukrainian positions at Avdiivka.
Putin signs decree that allows foreign nationals and their families that signed a contract of service with the Russian armed forces to acquire Russian citizenship.
This Su-34 is not launching a glide FAB but a Kh-31P instead.
Russia is ahead of Ukraine in the drone race --- Der Spiegel.
Ukraine needs to up armor it's American made M1 tanks --- Forbes
The tanks as they are, are vulnerable to drone attacks especially with their thin armor at the top.
Ivanovo paratroopers of the 98th VDV Division fighting their way from the northern flank of Artemovosk towards Chasiv Yar. The video shows a knocked out Ukrainian tank.
AFU near Avdiivka experiencing an acute shortage of ammunition --- El Pais
More than 5,900 foreign mercenaries have been eliminated in Ukraine --- Russian Ministry of Defense
Another Ukrainian SPG gets destroyed by Lancet on the right side of the Dniepr.
Another Ukrainian landing boat on transit gets hit by a Lancet.
Ukrainian recruiters successfully capture another 'volunteer' and whisks him off in a van.
Important to note where this took place.
A lot of high-profile equipment losses in the last few weeks took place in Kherson/Zaporozhia AO. Presumably, the Dnieper grouping is to blame here. Teplisnky took over sometime in October/November. He's now had 2-3 months to unfuck this mess, but it honestly keeps getting worse for the Russians.
Sure, Teplisnky has done a relatively good job of destroying Ukrainian troops in Krynki and hitting the supporting elements of that operation. On the other hand, Ukraine has had a lot of success flying their FPV drones all over that frontline, HIMARS keeps hitting high value targets like the Yastreb AV radar, and the Russians clearly lost at least 1 Su-34 in the air. There was a notable pause in FAB usage after that happened.
I understand it's a challenging AO. NATO recon assets have a pretty unhindered access to locate, target, and provide all this data to their Ukrainian counterparts. Still, this was always the job and the Russian command in this area has done a poor job defending the aerospace.
