Ukrainian War Developments

enroger said:

Good thing those commercial drones don't have night vision capabilities either ..... in before someone correct me about latest DJI specs....

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Well, i suspect the only way to catch those at night is to install multiple AESAs, like recent American SHORADs do.
The problem is that you'll emit like crazy, and arty will find you even without a drone...and even small drone sensor will probably be able to outspot a big vehicle regardless.

Gloire_bb said:

Basically ancient 1960s SAM system can do that most modern IR SAMs and AAMs with advanced imaging seekers can't.

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1970's actually and the system had updates. The current missile they use though dates back to the 80's went in service in late 89.

yongpengsuen said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1508408150629793796

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These grad system turn undead when destroyed.. they continue to launch missiles, lol !

yongpengsuen said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1508401585491173383

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Juche Necromancy again. The Russian guy is General Mordvichev from 8th Army. Claimed killed by Ukrainian state propaganda on the 19th of March.

Darkon112 said:

1970's actually and the system had updates. The current missile they use though dates back to the 80's went in service in late 89.

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Yeah, but the basic and probably most unique feature - optical seeker instead of infrared - still remembers daddy Khrushchev.
(later Strelas are optical/IR, but contrast lock is still there)

Gloire_bb said:

Well, i suspect the only way to catch those at night is to install multiple AESAs, like recent American SHORADs do.
The problem is that you'll emit like crazy, and arty will find you even without a drone...and even small drone sensor will probably be able to outspot a big vehicle regardless.

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Well arty can't tag you that accurately just by passive listening, since they have no ranging data, but yeah air power can do it. Those little bugger really is a bitch to deal with, the prospect of human military is grim indeed in the future....

Maybe large area jamming can be a solution, some sort of attrition-able cheap distributed jammer

Abominable said:

Massive outrage on Russian social media about the videos the Ukrainians have released with them kneecapping Russian POWs. The video of the soldier mocking the family of the soldier he killed got played on Russian television too, but these are much worse.

For weeks now the west have ignored and censored questionable Ukrainian acts. All videos of Ukrainian civilians being tied up to lampposts and beaten are being removed from social media, and there's been no press coverage of it.

Now there's videos of outright war crimes circulating. Ukrainians have been uploading them to social media to incite Russians, and the Russians have been spreading it. If the western plan was to make Putin's war unpopular enough for him to back down, it is a massive failure.

I think the outrage is too much even for Putin to handle at this point. If this continues without condemnation, Putin is going to be forced to take it onto NATO directly.

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Exactly. The Ukrainian fascists are making it so much easier for the average Russians to rally behind their leaders to support this war. In the early stages of the war, some Russians could oppose the war. But day by day its getting much harder. Day by day its getting much clearer, the type of enemy they are facing.

The crimes of these fascists are everywhere. They are not even attempting to hide them. There is a video uploaded by Patrick Lancaster. Those who follow the Russian side of the war would know who he is. There was a video where he visited the No.25 in Mariupol after it was liberated. There is a corpse of a woman who was mutilated and had a swastika drawn on her abdomen with her own blood. It's too horrifying a footage to be shared here.

No matter how much one is opposed to Russia in this war. They should just stick to just opposing war in itself. Don't support the ruling powers of Ukraine who are in bed with their Nazis. Or cheerlead the Nazi combatants. That is crossing the moral line. The things the Ukrainian Nazis are doing is ISIS level of evil. I doubt that Zelensky and NATO would ever condemn them. Worse, these Nazis have become the poster boys for the Western media to cheerlead. When this war is over, there will be much much more ugly truths for Russia to reveal to the world.

yongpengsuen said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1508366253303468041

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Okay, I did some google mapping and found it, the base is here:

The specific building on the base they went into is:
This is 73A, note in the video you can see a similar but darker building further down the road once they're in front of the Azov building? That's 73,

You can tell they approached from the east along Peremohy Ave, note the extremely wide street with the green divider between the two directions, that's Peremohy Ave. The entered the base along Volhohrads'ka St.

Armed with this knowledge, we can then have a look at some of the other maps Russian sources are quoting around today:
The circle is spot on, looks like these Russian sources and maps are pretty trustworthy.

A retreat into an industrial district could enable the Russians to finally use their full power and TOS the fuck out of the Azov with no civilians shielding them anymore.