Impressive - is it a kamikaze setup or it fires something at the target.
Another layer to assist air defence.
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Designed to be launched to deal with waves of aircraft and take them out autonmosly.
But will retern to base if it doesnât find anything to take out.
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Yeah okay, so kamikaze unless unsuccessful, in which case it returns to base 
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Things are bad in the RU occupied areas. How Bad? You know things are bad when a soldier would be treated better as a POW for the other side, than as a front line soldier for your own side. I wouldnât be surprised if this sort of treatment led to mass desertions.
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Russian losses per 02/12/23 reported by the Ukrainian General Staff.
+1070 men
+7 tanks
+13 APVs
+10 artillery systems
+1 MLRS
+18 UAVs
+1 cruise missile
Overnight, Russia attacked Ukraine with 11 Shahed drones of which 10 were shot down. Additionally, a single launched Kh-59 missile was shot down in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
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A couple YouTube channels predicting a substantial push across the river could be happening in the coming days?
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âPutin orders Russian military to boost troop numbers by 170,000â
At over 1000 a day, keeps them going for six months more.
Appalling waste of human life.
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DIY Exploding Drones Are Changing The Game In Ukraine War
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Ukraine needs to secure dry ground that they can dig into before the ground freezes. If they donât secure that territory, they cannot hold the bridgehead over winter. If they push too far, they cannot use right bank artillery to protect their troops. Logistically the more they advance the more needs to be boated across. The more boats, the more are lost to drones. Itâs not an easy exercise. Dozens of boats have already been killed. Ukraine are currently using drones to deliver supplies, thatâs how stretched the boat fleet is.
Russia cannot supply the area of the bridgehead. The only access roads are along the river, which is under Ukrainian drone and artillery fire control. The Oleshky Sands sit behind the bridgehead, which blocks Russian supplies over the dunes. Militarily it is better for Russia to pull back, but politically that isnât viable.
I will make no predictions, but that is the picture whatâs being faced.
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And yet, and yet⌠they are holding on against UKR who have superior western technologies and â as we are informed â far greater morale locally and of course moral support across the world, including us.
Sometime we may need to consider weighing pro-Ukraine propaganda vs the stoicism of doomed and overwhelmed draftees from the minor ethnic groups forced by Russia into a hopeless situation
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Thanks for the explanation!
Still blows my mind that basically esch side knows each others general movements but yet they still have to try and complete their goals under attack the whole time. So hard to hide tactics on the modern battlefield.
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Russian losses per 03/12/23 reported by the Ukrainian general staff
+930 men
+4 tanks
+11 APVs
+8 artillery pieces
+1 UAV
+1 cruise missile
Last evening and night, Russia launched 12 Shahed drones of which 10 were shot down. A launched Kh-59 missile did not reach its target.
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Itâs just not the same coming in here anymore, now that we no longer hear from Yevgeny Prigozhin or Igor Girkin.
This thread has slowed in line with the Ukrainian offensive.
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The GOP is refusing to authorise another tranche of support to Ukraine unless Biden agrees to major permanent changes to immigration laws. Changes that have some pretty brutal humanitarian impacts.
Republican Congressmen expect funding to be approved some time in Jan or even Feb. They know that the White House sees Ukraine funding as a critical and desperate need, so are using it as leverage to force a domestic policy.
Iâd comment further on my thoughts on the ethics of this game, but my language would likely get me suspended by the mods.
US funding approvals have largely run out, with aid deliveries substantially lower than previous months.
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This article seems to cover what you are talking about, although there is minimal detail about the border funding issues.
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