“Never mind the quality … feel the depth.”
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Takeaways for those that don’t want a 1hr slideshow on Russian missiles.
Russia started with about 7000 cruise missiles, 3500 modern and 3500 soviet era. Roughly.
The modern Russian cruise missiles cost between $1-4 million dollars each. Some are more expensive than western Tomahawk missiles.
Russia has launched roughly half of their stocks at Ukraine. They are still launching a decent number each week, 25 a week isn’t outlandish.
They can produce maybe 4-5 missiles per week, even after ramping up production.
They are firing more and more Soviet era missiles. These have up to 500m accuracy, being launched at targets within cities. This explains mass missile strikes, because statistically large numbers are needed to have a chance at impacting a target.
Russia cannot maintain an influential missile strike capability due to a shortage of missile stocks and a lack of accuracy.
Critical of all, Russian intelligence gathering is woeful, with buildings being hit days after targets relocated and battle damage assessments calling in secondary strikes days after a miss. Ukraine is able to use western assistance and local partisans to feed quality targeting info.
Ukraine’s GMLRS rockets lack the punch to take out reinforced structures like bridges. They need the larger missiles to do this job properly.
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Oh man, that is just begging to be re-edited with the same voice-over. @Herbatron?
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Done
But I would hate to be the defence lawyer trying to convince a Russian court that the original voice over and video were not a conspiracy to ridicule the state. There is something sarcastic about the tone.
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Ok, I’m calling that video as a (brilliantly successful) piece of information warfare trolling against the Ruscists.
This link provides several direct tip offs winking at the audience in the film but argues that it was genuine because it was first published in a pro-Ruscist anonymous Telegram channel (later picked up by Russian Embassy in Spain).
That of course proves precisely nothing.
Anyway, it IS brilliant.
PS If I am proved wrong within the next few hours I can only confess that I have repeatedly expressed the same feeling about undoubtedly genuine examples of Ruscist propaganda.
Its quite hard to tell.
ZNPP reconnected to the UA grid following repairs… Disconnection was not a deliberate action, but caused by fires elsewhere, both sides blaming each other.
IAEA close to agreement on inspection, IAEA DG intends to visit with inspection team
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The Black Sea Grain Corridor agreement serves to limit the movement of military vessels, aircraft and UAVs, with the objective of guaranteeing safe movement of merchant ships in the Black Sea ( including ships carrying Russian cargoes).
None of them are permitted in the 10 nautical miles buffer zone, which moves with the merchant cargo ships involved in transporting UA grain and fertilisers.
There are also some constraints on movements in the High Seas transit corridor, 111 nautical miles long, 3 nautical miles wide.
This explains the pattern of shipping in the Black Sea, which may result in longer shipping routes.
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Soviet gov. made them from pure Bronze and so say all specifications, yet in reality they are mostly beton (Concrete) plated with some bronze. Stealing from people is the true Russian way of life.
UkraineWarVideoReport (reddit.com)
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Don’t watch the video of this if anyone sees a link. Extreme gore. Photos below just show vehicles.
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Russia Moves Into Kherson, Amidst the Shelling of Crimea [Mapped]
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Very interesting. I haven’t checked but I assume none of those listed either as bought or considered are included in the 200 “Tactical” with endurance 24 hours and altitude 5 km.
So bulk of others are DJI Mavic 3 as expected, but with significant numbers intermediate between the two categories that have longer endurance and larger payloads than Mavic 3 though still not “Tactical”.
I think these will be particularly important for handoff of targets found by “Tactical” at ranges beyond the reach of Mavic 3 and eventually cameras from Mavic 3 could be moved to longer endurance drones while the airframes get used as decoys in Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD).
I think the tiny Black Hawk supplied by Norway and UK with 25’ endurance would go well attached directly to combat units at front lines while most of the larger UAVs should be assigned to separate force as “Drone Army”. Could do most of the ISR work done by Mavic 3 with 46’ endurance. Other tasks would be done better by drones with larger endurance and payloads than either of them.
Only the Polish (2013) “FlyEye” is listed as “NATO compliant” (presumably STANAG 4586 interoperability). Has ceiling of 4km and 3 hours endurance so still not “Tactical”. Curiously this ejects its sensor payload to protect it from damage during landing. Presumably parachuted and/or caught in net?
My guess is they will initially do software upgrades of all others to switch from unencrypted civilian wifi to reduce attrition rates but that won’t be enough to prevent high attrition from EW.
Could also add NATO interoperability standard as software upgrade. But that does NOT result in actual communications interoperability without a common data link profile so I would leave it until actual interoperability can be provided using Orin rather than having multiple implementations to maintain.
Jetson Orin is the logical thing to add to all of them that have enough payload and endurance.
Will check details for others but I expect this would include everything above Mavic 3 but might not include Mavic 3.
My assumption is it would be possible to initially add Orin for survivable communications while also providing NATO “interoperability” and storage and preparing to include image processing and PNT survivability. Later regain a small amount of the weight and space used up by removing the original electronics and plugging everything directly into the Orin carrier board or via adapters so there is also a gain in sustainment.
But not much actual benefit from doing so until ALSO rolled out uplinks and downlinks that have the same ability to provide upgradeable SDR to surviable waveforms compatible with those available using Orin (though not constrained to Jetson low SWaP on the ground so could use other GPGUs).
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We have not seen a war like this before, that is for sure.
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Check it out VERY carefully.
There is official government fund raising at .gov.ua sites. eg:
Anybody can setup an “NGO” and claim anything about themselves and lots do.
I also don’t like the way this one is aimed squarely at extracting funds from “keyboard warriors” who get a kick out of clicking on a link to vicariously participate in a “cause”.
I see no reason to assume this one is not a scam.
It looks legit.
Looks like it is squarely aimed at keyboard warriors, who among other things, want to drop signed grenades on Russian soldiers…
The strange morality of sponsoring weapons
Westerners are sponsoring slogans written on bombs aimed at Russians in Ukraine war - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/08/17/ukraine-russia-bombs-slogans-fundraising/