The War in the Ukraine

cqxt11 said:

why has missile and drone interception been a thing in the ukraine for so long despite the economics being lopsided as anywhere else and russia being able to overload them as with that one time with a few hundred gerans in kyiv? just more arcane political calculations on the russian side?

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Bigger variety of interception methods from the Russian side that run the gamut of costs. They never stopped investing in things like mobile, self-contained SHORADS like the Pantsir or Tor nor they never got fully rid of tubed AA.

The west became so reliant on air power that SHORAD fell to the wayside until recently, relying mostly on the nth Stinger variant(or other MANPAD derivatives) which isn't particularly good anymore or expensive repurposed AA missiles that makes mass fielding of them financially difficult and hard to replace once spent.

Three Ukrainian army strongholds were struck by FAB-3000 bombs. Footage of strikes by Russian FAB-3000 aerial bombs near the villages of Kostiantynivka and Krasnyi Liman. The attack was carried out by a Russian Su-34 frontline fighter-bomber. Ukrainian units from the 60th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade and the 100th Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade held the buildings in these villages. A FAB-3000 aerial bomb strike on a Ukrainian stronghold near the village of Ivanivka in the Dnipropetrovsk region is also shown. Judging by the widespread use of FAB-3000 bombs, the Russian army already has a surplus of them.

Russian soldiers in Crimea depend on Hurys RPA U radar produced in Nanjing to detect and counter small drones.

Footage of strikes by the new Russian heavy-duty FPV drone "Upyr-18" on temporary Ukrainian army deployment sites. The exact location of the footage is not disclosed. The Upyr-18 FPV drones, with an increased payload capacity of up to 10 kg, are built on an 18-inch frame. The drones are manufactured by Uraldrone Plant

Tornado-S strikes against Ukrainian reserves in Zaporozhye.


LMUR missile strike from a Mi-28 against Ukrainian FPV drone operators in Kolodezne in the Kharkhiv region.

How a Ukrainian drone operators command post gets detected. It's done by following a Mavic or Baba Yaga drone back to it's home base. A careless operator would pick it up and walk back towards the post. This seems to be followed by a strike of Moliniya FPV drones against the site. Survivors quickly move to the next location unaware they are still being monitored, then followed by a second strike. This sort of activity is performed against each other and every day in a perpetual state of hybrid asymmetrical warfare. This particular strike takes place in Sumy as the Russians expand the buffer zone.

Footage of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber using an RBK-500 cluster munition bomb equipped with a UMPK module. The video was filmed near the village of Sergeyevka in the Donbas. The RBK-500 bomb struck positions of the 152nd Separate Jaeger Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Footage of a Ukrainian armored vehicle carrying paratroopers attempting to break through in the Zaporizhzhia sector. The armored vehicle continued to advance under attack for quite some time, but was eventually destroyed, presumably by drones. This video was captured by Russian reconnaissance personnel from the "East" group of forces in Buryatia. The entire paratrooper force is reportedly killed, as shown at the end. The video has been shortened.

MSTA-S of the Group Center of forces takes out a Ukrainian command post post using a Krasnopol-M2 towards the Dobropilia sector. Russian paratroopers in the Krasnoarmeysk sector using a Hyacinth-B howitzer firing at a Ukrainian concentration.

Russian FPV drone strikes against Ukrainian Armed Forces equipment. VT-40 FPV drones, "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" drones, and other models, including those controlled via fiber optic cable, are used in the battles; technical information about them is available on the channel. The exact filming location is not disclosed. The March video shows drone strikes against various Ukrainian military equipment and structures. The video also shows drone strikes against a Ukrainian Panzerhaubitze 2000 self-propelled howitzer, a Zuzana-2 self-propelled howitzer, a Marder 1A3 infantry fighting vehicle, a T-72 tank, a T-64 tank, an M1083 truck, an M777 howitzer, and other vehicles.