Ukraine War Thread Part 2
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The Chinese maker of this equipment, Shenzhen Ai-Thinker Technology Co. Ltd, has requested an FCC approval : https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/2ATPO-RA08 .
Is it because an FCC approval is required for targeting American military equipment? ;-)
Is it because an FCC approval is required for targeting American military equipment? ;-)
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A walking tractor used as a supply vehicle in the front line.... Everything is going according to the plan.
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Got to love all the free intel. Even if salvaged rather than published by the Russians themselves, you’d think they’d scrape off the labels before use.
Russian FPVs are appearing with control frequencies below the typical 700-1200 MHz range.
This will require additional jamming frequencies for EW devices, though the majority of Russian FPVs will continue to use the traditional frequencies due to cost.
Video remains at 4.9 GHz.
Russian FPVs are appearing with control frequencies below the typical 700-1200 MHz range.
This will require additional jamming frequencies for EW devices, though the majority of Russian FPVs will continue to use the traditional frequencies due to cost.
Video remains at 4.9 GHz.
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Reminds me of the Central Region back in the 1980s. Joke was that, if the war started, we just had to empty all the supermarket and warehouses of booze and stack it up alongside the main Russian lines of advance, because they’d get so drunk the attack would just grind to a halt….
A Russian “military correspondent” under the name Ossetin complains that Russian military personnel in his Kherson sector have gone crazy from alcohol. Everyone drinks, as he says. And then this leads to unnecessary deaths, and if even one is drunk, his entire squad may die too easily.
A Russian “military correspondent” under the name Ossetin complains that Russian military personnel in his Kherson sector have gone crazy from alcohol. Everyone drinks, as he says. And then this leads to unnecessary deaths, and if even one is drunk, his entire squad may die too easily.
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Some of the Russian soldiers encircled in the aggregate plant Vovchansk have started surrendering. This video shows that at least 24 Russian soldiers have been taken POW. Around 400 soldiers were holed upd in the complex consisting of 20+ buildings.
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Footage of the new guidance on the Russian SPG allowing fast accurate fire control.
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ChrisJ800,
Seems a pretty cheap and off the shelf component and a good way to get around current jammers - and I don’t think they plan to use them indoors. Also deconflicts frequencies if being relayed through a larger drone.. e.g.
that 4.9ghz is a spoof. U want lower frequencies to penetrate trees buildings etc. The 410 to 525mhz on the real video TX pic is likely the real frequency range.
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I can’t believe he survived, warning people getting blown up and bodies.
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Massed waves of drones dropping vodka by parachute might turn out to be a useful ploy. Bigger drones could delver it by the barrel...
For a start the orcs would refrain from shootiing them down and you'd get to reuse them. The orcs are dispersed enough for Officers and NCOs to be unable to control the resulting debauchery, and many of them would just join in.
Then one night, after a week or so of 'conditioning' you'd follow up the first drop with a second massed wave of bottles full of something that goes bang when opened.
Sounds like a cheap strategy to me.
For a start the orcs would refrain from shootiing them down and you'd get to reuse them. The orcs are dispersed enough for Officers and NCOs to be unable to control the resulting debauchery, and many of them would just join in.
Then one night, after a week or so of 'conditioning' you'd follow up the first drop with a second massed wave of bottles full of something that goes bang when opened.
Sounds like a cheap strategy to me.
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Russian soldier says army suffering heavy losses in Kharkiv offensive
Anton Andreev, a Russian soldier from the fifth company of the 1009th regiment, painted a bleak picture of Russia’s offensive in the Ukrainian northern region of Kharkiv.
His unit had been decimated, he said, with only 12 out of 100 soldiers still alive as they came under constant Ukrainian fire and drones in Vovchansk, a prime target of Russia’s advances.
“They just chop us up. We are sent under machine guns, under drones in daylight, like meat. And commanders just shout ‘forward and forward’,” Andreev said in a video message....
Russian state media and senior officials continue to say its troops are on the advance in the direction of Kharkiv. Putin has claimed that Russian losses were “of course several times less than on the Ukrainian side” and the Kremlin has also gone to great lengths to ensure that accounts such as Andreev’s are kept from the public....
The cohort of influential military bloggers now largely toe the government line, painting an upbeat picture of Moscow’s advances while predicting Ukraine’s immediate collapse.
But on social media, dozens of posts have sprung up with Russians searching for their missing relatives in the Kharkiv offensive, hinting at the staggeringly high number of losses Moscow continues to suffer.
Some relatives have criticised the minimal training troops reportedly received before the offensive.
“I haven’t heard from my brother since the 12 May when they were sent to Volchanks,” wrote Yevgeni, in one post on the social media platform VK. “I am concerned that the training was only a week. Is that even legal?” Yevgeni added....
Despite the mass casualties, overall support for the war in Russia remains high, driven partly by non-stop state propaganda and a lack of alternative viewpoints.
A survey published by the independent Levada pollster showed that 79% of Russians supported the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine. However, half supported initiating peace talks, while almost 40% said they would prefer to return to the period before Moscow invaded Ukraine.
In a rare protest, a group of Russian women made up of wives of some of the 300,000 Russian men conscripted in September 2022, gathered this month outside the defence ministry in Moscow to demand the return of their relatives....
The independent Russian news outlet, Verstka published a report that alleged Russia’s military abducted hundreds of mobilised soldiers unwilling to fight and sent them into the trenches at gunpoint.
Moscow has so far been able to replenish its troops without ordering a mass mobilisation by offering recruits generous wages and signing bonuses. It has been able to recruit about 30,000-40,000 soldiers every month, according to an estimate by the UK defence ministry.
Ukraine is facing a shortage of munitions, fighters, and air defences, and is also suffering mass casualties.
And while Russia’s offensive in Kharkiv appears to have stalled for now, the push has managed to achieve at least one of its goals: to draw Ukrainian critical reserves into the region, away from defensive positions in the east, as Russian forces have continued to advance on the eastern axes, signalling their commitment to pressing ahead and trying to take the entire Donetsk region.
His unit had been decimated, he said, with only 12 out of 100 soldiers still alive as they came under constant Ukrainian fire and drones in Vovchansk, a prime target of Russia’s advances.
“They just chop us up. We are sent under machine guns, under drones in daylight, like meat. And commanders just shout ‘forward and forward’,” Andreev said in a video message....
Russian state media and senior officials continue to say its troops are on the advance in the direction of Kharkiv. Putin has claimed that Russian losses were “of course several times less than on the Ukrainian side” and the Kremlin has also gone to great lengths to ensure that accounts such as Andreev’s are kept from the public....
The cohort of influential military bloggers now largely toe the government line, painting an upbeat picture of Moscow’s advances while predicting Ukraine’s immediate collapse.
But on social media, dozens of posts have sprung up with Russians searching for their missing relatives in the Kharkiv offensive, hinting at the staggeringly high number of losses Moscow continues to suffer.
Some relatives have criticised the minimal training troops reportedly received before the offensive.
“I haven’t heard from my brother since the 12 May when they were sent to Volchanks,” wrote Yevgeni, in one post on the social media platform VK. “I am concerned that the training was only a week. Is that even legal?” Yevgeni added....
Despite the mass casualties, overall support for the war in Russia remains high, driven partly by non-stop state propaganda and a lack of alternative viewpoints.
A survey published by the independent Levada pollster showed that 79% of Russians supported the Kremlin’s actions in Ukraine. However, half supported initiating peace talks, while almost 40% said they would prefer to return to the period before Moscow invaded Ukraine.
In a rare protest, a group of Russian women made up of wives of some of the 300,000 Russian men conscripted in September 2022, gathered this month outside the defence ministry in Moscow to demand the return of their relatives....
The independent Russian news outlet, Verstka published a report that alleged Russia’s military abducted hundreds of mobilised soldiers unwilling to fight and sent them into the trenches at gunpoint.
Moscow has so far been able to replenish its troops without ordering a mass mobilisation by offering recruits generous wages and signing bonuses. It has been able to recruit about 30,000-40,000 soldiers every month, according to an estimate by the UK defence ministry.
Ukraine is facing a shortage of munitions, fighters, and air defences, and is also suffering mass casualties.
And while Russia’s offensive in Kharkiv appears to have stalled for now, the push has managed to achieve at least one of its goals: to draw Ukrainian critical reserves into the region, away from defensive positions in the east, as Russian forces have continued to advance on the eastern axes, signalling their commitment to pressing ahead and trying to take the entire Donetsk region.
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Remember the Bradley taking on the T90, he says he used the knowledge he gained from playing War Thunder to know where to hit it. 😀
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Another Russian gas supply line is burning.
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Surrounded and getting destroyed, over 400 Russians.
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Remember the Bradley taking on the T90, he says he used the knowledge he gained from playing War Thunder to know where to hit it. 😀
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1802243095226192011
https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1802243095226192011
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There is a game called World of Tanks where players learnt to replace the tank graphics with graphics showing hit boxes. These boxes pointing to vulnerabilities.
I wonder if modern tanks can use this idea especially with AI?
You look through the viewfinder and the tanks AI points out all the vulnerabilities for you?
I wonder if modern tanks can use this idea especially with AI?
You look through the viewfinder and the tanks AI points out all the vulnerabilities for you?
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Meanwhile back in the war zone, Russian BRDM-2's have been destroyed. It's like going out there in a Ferret.
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Not sure if he is telling truth about not knowing Ukraine at all or about war, but this is very telling how Africans can be lured into Russia and how they become a meat for Russian army. As he says – with that income he would be a king in Somalia. Poor folks, naive and lost.
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Not sure if he is telling truth about not knowing Ukraine at all or about war, but this is very telling how Africans can be lured into Russia and how they become a meat for Russian army. As he says – with that income he would be a king in Somalia. Poor folks, naive and lost.
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...18176435278167
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/st...18176435278167
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Re Nutty’s 11193, detailing the ratings on War Thunder for tanks various, I note there is no mention of the Chally. I appreciate that they aren’t exactly awash with them, but I’d love to know how they’re performing - anybody seen/read anything?