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First Image of Storm Shadow/SCALP Missile Launch from a Ukrainian Su-24 Fighter Jet​

The Ukrainian Air Force has released its first official video showing the combat launch of /SCALP cruise missiles from a aircraft. This historic footage, unveiled on the 20th anniversary of the Ukrainian Air Force, marks a significant milestone in Ukraine's military history.

Ukrainian soldiers training & competing with FPV drones.

An FPV drone armed with an AK-47 assault rifle was shown in Ukraine. An experimental FPV drone was shown by the Ukrainian group "Wild Hornets" that assembles FPV drones. The model of the FPV drone and technical details are not reported. Despite the fact that the FPV drone cannot fully accurately aim the weapon, at close range, which often happens, it can keep a person under control. It is unknown. Whether this development will be further developed, but drones with an ATGM and a shotgun are already being tested

Footage of the testing of the Ukrainian jet drone "Palyanytsya". The drone "Palyanytsya" can be called a rocket drone, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky reported on its testing. According to him, the missile program of Ukraine includes a cluster called "Palyanytsya". Within its framework, three products are being developed, one of them is the drone "Palyanytsya". This rocket drone is much faster than Ukrainian long-range drones, it is already in use, he also noted. Technical data on the drone is not reported, the drone is equipped with a simple turbojet engine

An episode of testing of a new FPV drone armed with the Soviet RPG-18 Mukha grenade launcher has been published in Ukraine. Technical details and who is testing the drone are not reported. Judging by the characteristics of the RPG-18, the drone will be able to hit targets at a distance of up to 200 meters. Taking into account the weight of the grenade launcher, the flight time of such a drone will be about 10 minutes. For aimed shooting, the drone will have to fly close to the target. The RPG-18 can penetrate armor up to 300 mm thick.

Data on the supply of weapons and "related property" to Ukraine from the United States. US spending on military aid to Ukraine amounted to about $55 billion. Data is shown from February 2022 to September 2024. The list of military property is quite impressive, in the first part of the video the information is in Russian, in the second part in English. Judging by the data, US spending on the purchase of military property for Ukraine and in other countries is included. On March 2, 2022, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba stated that 19 countries supply weapons to Kyiv, 10 countries provide macro-financial assistance, 22 countries provide humanitarian aid.

The storm shadow missile provided by UK, Is that worst or about the same performance as JASSM-ER cruise missile?

bebops said:

The storm shadow missile provided by UK, Is that worst or about the same performance as JASSM-ER cruise missile?

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JASSM-ER has a far longer range than the Storm Shadow but warhead is about the same althought the Storm Shadow has the TERPROM guidance which I don't know if the JASSM-ER has something similar.

If the US supplies JASSM-ER they will be in violation of the MTCR.

You can easily interchange warhead with fuel in a cruise missile. 450kg warhead is already pushing it close to the limits, and 757 mi range is in violation. They already stepped on that line by providing such missiles to Finland and Poland, and this is likely to cause a future direct conflict with Russia as it is. Their claim, as usual, is that they can supply whatever they want to NATO countries. What will likely happen is Russia will withdraw from the MTCR and start supplying long range cruise missiles including related technologies for their licensed production to Iran, North Korea, Algeria, Venezuela, Cuba, and whomever. The Mediterranean, the Persian Gulf, and the northern Pacific will be closed down to US carrier battlegroups whenever those countries wish, and probably huge chunks of Africa as well.

So they should pick their poison properly. It seems the US haven't gotten the memo with the Houti blockade yet.

The US leadership is particularly stupid in that they seem to think they invented the cruise missile or have some sort of technological lead in that technology. The truth is both the US and the Soviets made copies of the German V-1 buzz bomb from WW2 and then kept upgrading them. Expect that the Soviets and Russia spent way more money on this for decades, because they have to fight US carrier battle groups.

The Ukrainian army has published footage of an agricultural drone of an unknown model delivering a BAD.2 robot dog. Earlier, the Ukrainian army received 30 BAD.2 robot dogs produced by the British company Brit Alliance. The BAD.2 robot dogs are used by the 28th Brigade for cargo delivery and reconnaissance. The BAD.2 military robots are equipped with heat-resistant camouflage from the German company Concamo, which makes them less noticeable to thermal imagers. BAD.2 robots reach speeds of up to 15 kilometers per hour, operate within a radius of 3.5 kilometers from the operator, and have a working time of up to five hours. The cost of BAD.2 robot dogs, depending on the modification, ranges from 4 to 8 thousand euros.