Might have been useful in a nuclear war, but not a cheap drone….

Out of all the vehicles that have been pulled out of storage and used by Russia in this war, this is one that was really at the bottom of my list to even see in theatre, never mind be destroyed.

The video shows what appears to be a Ladoga protected command vehicle, I won’t talk too much about it here as I made a whole post on the vehicle, so check below for the full info on it, in short it was designed to move senior Kremlin staff around under safety in the event of a nuclear attack, it was trialled in 1986 at the Chernobyl NPP.


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France plans to adapt high-precision AASM bombs for F-16 aircraft, which will be sent to 🇺🇦Ukraine by Western allies - French Armed Forces Minister Sebastien Lecornu.


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Shades of Ruzzia infringing Turkish airspace a few years back and ignoring warnings about continued infringments. The Turks resolved that when they shot down the next Ruzzo aircraft to do so and the transfomation of relations with Putrid was instantaneous. Some hints there for all concerned.

You would think that NATO countries would collaborate to make these weapons universal across NATO aircraft?

More on the belarus border, good to see he has brought his ermmm pet sheep with him.

here's the same with english subtitles.
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I guess you have to have goals.
I wonder at the loyalty that his army will demonstrate in the case of invading Poland versus defending Belarus.
Hopefully that will remain an unknown.

Hopefully ones with a decent battery life and a charger pack….

Video.

"Ukrainians have put 8,000 cell phones with microphones to poles across the country to help track the direction of the Shahed drones," General James B. Hecker, commander of United States Air Forces in Europe.

Knock knock… Wonder who was home.

Kherson Oblast, the Ukrainian Air Force conducts a precision strike on a Russian-occupied building with a pair of standoff bombs.

Both arrive at nearly the same time, leveling the structure.

an updated version of this then

SoundMirrors on the Kent coast if you don't want to follow the link. I didn't know about these.

They have and they did. The AASM was tested on an F-16 as far back as 2014, with the international F-16 export market in mind. It already is compatible.

Easy enough to fix if they are on lamp posts. But should this really have been broadcast to the enemy?

https://kyivindependent.com/at-least...mmission-says/

UN: At least 32 Ukrainian POWs executed in Russian captivity during winter

At least 32 Ukrainian prisoners of war (POW), recently captured by Russia, have been executed between Dec. 1, 2023, and Feb. 29, a report by the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said on March 26.

Reports of Ukrainian POWs being tortured or killed while in Russian captivity have been surfacing since the start of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. As of late February, the Prosecutor General's Office said 19 criminal investigations were underway regarding the execution of 45 Ukrainian POWs.

OHCHR said it had recorded 12 cases of executions of at least 32 captured Ukrainian POWs during the winter, suggesting that some of them presumably were killed in groups.

"OHCHR has verified three of these incidents in which Russian servicemen executed seven Ukrainian servicemen hors de combat," reads the report, which is based on interviews with 60 Ukrainian soldiers released from captivity.

Their accounts confirmed the previously documented facts of widespread torture, inhuman or degrading treatment and punishment of Ukrainian POWs in Russian captivity, as well as detention conditions that do not comply with international law, OHCHR said.…

Operation Igloo White also comes to mind, although I bet the phone method is somewhat cheaper.

Perhaps the Russians will implement their own version of tinsel?

Murder is a more appropriate word.

​​​​​​​🇪🇺🇬🇷🇺🇦 New radars for Ukrainian F-16s?

Yesterday we learned that Greece is looking to sell their F-16C/D Block 30 fighter jets. Further to that, they are also looking to sell the APG-68(V9) radars from their F-16C/D Block 52, which are being upgraded to Viper standard.

Though the F-16A/B Block 15/20 MLUs which Ukraine is slated to receive were upgraded to Block 50/52 standard, the one thing that was not, is their radars. They still have the less powerful APG-66(V)2A.

Thanks to @Doha104p3, it is confirmed that the original A/B airframes can in fact accept the larger and heavier APG-68 radar.

So the remaining questions are:

1. If these radars are purchased for the Ukrainian F-16s, are there contractors and facilities available to do the replacement work ASAP.
2. Can funding be secured to finance this endeavor?

Acquiring these radars and purchasing these additional F-16s for Ukraine should be a top priority. It is a logical use of some of the money from the €5 billion Ukraine Assistance Fund in the European Peace Facility.

Money well spent, if that's where it goes.

How about spending some of the interest accrued from seized Ru assets in the EU / wider West on these F-16s?

If you want to wait a few years for the legal shenanigans to be completed to allow access to those funds, sure.
At the moment, spend the money that's available.