Ukrainian War Developments

Terrowyn said:

Azov captured more than 100 sailors in the port

This became known to the @wargonzo project from sources in the Mariupol seaport. At least 7 dry cargo crews were shot dead at the time of the fighting. In fact, the neo-Nazis took them hostage and the sailors were held captive for more than a month. These are citizens of Russia and other countries.

Very soon, the @wargonzo project will publish irrefutable evidence of exactly how
and with what weapons the militants blocked civilian ships in the port of Mariupol.

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If this is true, is not a war crime either, obviously.

gelgoog said:

No. Russia should not be making threats they wouldn't be willing to pursue like the US keeps doing. There are plenty of ways to target Slovakia economically if the Russians want to. One more of these systems will be of no help when Ukraine had better systems up to Soviet Army standards and still keeps losing them.

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In any case, is one less system operating in Nato sphere. We will see if they have the chance to use them before they go boom.

Zichan said:

As far as I know, Slovakia does not have the S-300 PMU. It has an older system, one of S-300PT, S-300PS, S-300V.

According to Reuters, the max range of the Slovakian system is 75km which is another indicator that it is not a PMU variant:

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PMU variants have NATO SA-20 designation, instead of SA-10.

According to Missile Defense Advocacy, Greece operates the S-300PMU-1 system which is the most advanced variant operated by NATO countries.

Another reference to the Slovakian system as SA-10:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1512401320266846209

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Czechoslovakian systems; which was later inherited by Slovakia operates Slovak SPU 5P85С, which is part of the S-CNUMXPMU complex which utilizes the same components as the S300PMU.

SA-10 designation is mistakenly used to identify all branching S300 derivatives; however the one in question in possession by Slovakia; now pressed into service by Ukraine; is of the SPU 5P85С PMU variant.

However Slovakia only operated one S300PMU brigade and from what I’ve seen.

You can tell visually in part that the S-CNUMXPMU complex S300PMU systems were the ones delivered to Ukraine by the upgraded 30N6 tracking and engagement radar with the command post integrated within the transported erector launcher.

Here’s a good reference on inherited Soviet legacy systems within the Slovakian Armed Forces which further details past prospects for the future of their S300PMU systems; before turning them over to Ukraine.

Intrepid said:

Developed nations are preparing to supply Ukraine with newly produced state-of-the-art smart weapons for many years to come.

The age of heavy weapons and frontline wars should be over.

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I differ. I would agree if you put that thesis in a very narrowly defined context. "smart weapons" has become a western propaganda. But to most of countries, it has some truth to it. To China, it is just that, propaganda. To me, as a professional who understands fundamental communication and automation, it is as routine as millions of Chinese engineers what they are doing in their routine jobs. "state-of-the-art " is even more of propaganda and amounts to nothing, practically.

The two fundamental factors that Russian operations appear to be woefully slow or sluggish are:
(1) Russia is still reluctant to inflict civilian casualties and to destroy infrastructure.
(2) Russian communication is way behind, including counter-measures.

To China, nothing from the west nowadays amounts as "state-of-the-art", except probably EUV. You may count EDA, but that is more like accumulation of experience than hard know-how. Or you may pick some precision chemical products. Anything else?

More soldiers surrender in Mariupol. According to Russian sources its 200+, a whole battalion (or what remains of it)

Intrepid said:

Developed nations are preparing to supply Ukraine with newly produced state-of-the-art smart weapons for many years to come.

The age of heavy weapons and frontline wars should be over.

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is developed nations giving up heavy weapons designed for frontline combat?

Overbom said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1512470180848353282

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This better be a bus to Russian territory or a POW camp.

I don't advocate violence towards POWs. But they do need to be 100% disarmed and not allowed to continue fighting. They should not be released and allowed to get armed again. Even feeding them for free is better than releasing them.