Battle for Bakhmut-in the trenches

[Suck My Glock]

https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1717140898411114938

 

[Half Cocked]

Ukrainian kamikaze drone attacks Russian in bunker up close and personal.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FwM1JYcVlE[/media]


Fictional dialog of Russian soldiers:

Ivan walks away from the bunker. Dmitri is sitting near the bunker entrance. A Ukrainian kamikaze drone comes along and ...

BOOM!

Ivan walks back to bunker and sees Dmitri writhing in pain.
Ivan: "F*ck!"
Dmitri: "My leg! Aghhhhh!"

Ivan backs away from Dmitri and watches him die. Then Ivan heads back into the bunker, stepping over Dmitri's body.

Ivan: "Hey, Boris! Dmitri's f*cked! They blew his leg clean off!"
Boris: "Da. What a pity!"

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Here is video of another Russian croaker getting hit with a kamikaze drone. :greetings-waveyellow:

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yoIyETtxZU[/media]

 

[Half Cocked]

Russian soldiers from the Atal Battalion celebrate before being sent to Ukraine. :dance: :happy-cheerleadersmileyguy: :happy-partydance:

The Republic of Chuvashia formed the Atal Battalion, a contract signals unit with ties to Oleg Nikolayev, head of the Chuvash Republic. Contract soldiers in Atal are paid a cash signing bonus of $3,775.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJGMZqtTGnY[/media]

I suppose that $3,775 will buy nice headstones for their graves if there are enough body parts left to send back to Mother Russia.

 

[mtptwo]

How many caravans of civilian vehicles are we going to see in this war?

 

[Suck My Glock]

How many caravans of civilian vehicles are we going to see in this war?

Very many, I imagine. Thanks to drones, anything obviously military gets targeted. At least one side tries to verify occupants before attacking them. And with so many trucks and APCs splattered about, there just ain't a whole lot of "proper" vehicles around to get stuff done.

 

[Half Cocked]

How many caravans of civilian vehicles are we going to see in this war?

Very many, I imagine. Thanks to drones, anything obviously military gets targeted. At least one side tries to verify occupants before attacking them. And with so many trucks and APCs splattered about, there just ain't a whole lot of "proper" vehicles around to get stuff done.

Absolutely. The Russian army has a habit of commandeering civilian vehicles from occupied Ukraine. They use stolen ATVs, motorcycles, vans, anything that they can get their hands on. Theft by the Russian army isn't limited to just toilet bowls and washing machines.

 

[Half Cocked]

Just released video of a French SCALP missile striking a newly built Russian corvette in Crimea.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAhIVkeEiAg[/media]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...maged-by-ukrainian-cruise-missile/ar-AA1juq7A
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[Half Cocked]

You can run but you can't hide.

Russians try to hide from Ukrainian FPV drone in a destroyed BTR. Big mistake.

[media]https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1724041485476106624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1724041485476106624%7Ctwgr%5E23de57103ddafbb572088d7e81da0c94f016d3e4%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fembedly.forbes.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3D3ce26dc7e3454db5820ba084d28b4935schema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fbayraktar_1love%2Fstatus%2F1724041485476106624image%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Fi.embed.ly%2F1%2Fimage3Furl3Dhttps253A252F252Fabs.twimg.com252Ferrors252Flogo46x38.png26key3D3ce26dc7e3454db5820ba084d28b4935[/media]

I bet their ears are ringing. :confusion-seeingstars:

 

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A former Russian air commander who heavily criticised Vladimir Putin has been found dead at home alongside his wife – but their cause of death is a complete mystery.

Lieutenant-General Vladimir Sviridov, 68, and his wife Tatyana, 72, had already been dead for around a week when they were discovered.

‘What caused the death of Vladimir and Tatyana Sviridov is still unknown,’ an official report said.

Yeah. You don't criticize the tsar without consequences.

The highly-decorated military chief had previously made a series of scathing comments about Putin for allowing a ‘third-ranking’ air force.

He had once warned the Russian president that top officers were leaving the armed forces because of dire pay and conditions.

Lt Gen Sviridov commanded the 6th Army of the Russian Air Force and Air Defence from 2005 to 2009 in an appointment made by Putin.

But before he left the role aged 54, he hit out at the way Russia’s armed forces were operating.

In one interview, he warned: ‘A pilot must have about 100 hours of flight time per year for full combat readiness.

‘However, this is not yet the case. The average flight time in the army is currently 25-30 hours.’

And in another, he complained: ‘We are forced to appoint not fully trained officers because there are no better ones.

‘For the same reason we are sending to military academies third-ranking pilots. This did not happen in the past.’

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...sed-putin-mysteriously-found-dead/ar-AA1k1opH

Do svidaniya, General Sviridov. :greetings-waveyellow:

 

[Half Cocked]

Drones: 2
Motor vehicles: 0

[media]https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1725117715478614141[/media]

[media]https://twitter.com/sternenko/status/1723722307271532673[/media]

Translating caption of the second video:

BE CAREFUL, THERE IS MEAT

Two Russians were racing on a moped in the Kherson region. They took MANPADS with them.

They went to hell.
Soldiers of the M2 unit of the Central Security Service and the SBU hit them with a drone from the HROZA series — named as a sign of revenge for the killing of civilians by the Russians in the village of Hroza (Thunderstorm) in Kharkiv Oblast.

 

[Suck My Glock]

Currently, the arming of FPV drones like that sort of democratizes warfare and makes it possible for the little guy to be able to attack the big guys from the air, which is cool and all. But eventually (rather soon) the world is going to have swarms of these things piloted by AI,...and suddenly we are all under threat of a Skynet scenario.

 

[Half Cocked]

Russian pro war "Z" poster. The caption reads #Своих не бросаем (We don't abandon our own).

Let's see how that plays out in the real world.

[media]https://twitter.com/region776/status/1728069625999475121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1728069625999475121%7Ctwgr%5E277d4bf38c8528cb6c237615a3593fbda625d983%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.akfiles.com%2Fforums%2Fthreads%2Frusso-ukrainian-war-updates-news-links-and-reports-only-please.477319%2Fpage-960[/media]

 

[Half Cocked]

War videos made by Russians.

[media]https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1728324921573466517?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1728324921573466517%7Ctwgr%5Ed7770af218f83f4f63a392d96055b0bc3e4c8bf3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.akfiles.com%2Fforums%2Fthreads%2Frusso-ukrainian-war-updates-news-links-and-reports-only-please.477319%2Fpage-961[/media]

[media]https://twitter.com/UKikaski/status/1728542229206073459?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1728542229206073459%7Ctwgr%5Ed7770af218f83f4f63a392d96055b0bc3e4c8bf3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.akfiles.com%2Fforums%2Fthreads%2Frusso-ukrainian-war-updates-news-links-and-reports-only-please.477319%2Fpage-961[/media]

[media]https://twitter.com/DevanaUkraine/status/1728712233398522028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1728712233398522028%7Ctwgr%5Ed7770af218f83f4f63a392d96055b0bc3e4c8bf3%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.akfiles.com%2Fforums%2Fthreads%2Frusso-ukrainian-war-updates-news-links-and-reports-only-please.477319%2Fpage-961[/media]

 

[Half Cocked]

Effect of cluster munitions on a Russian column. :shock:

[media]https://twitter.com/Rinegati/status/1732043062896156720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1732043062896156720%7Ctwgr%5E0966c4ba621a6fd6b4a86027381c4c497b73ab3f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.akfiles.com%2Fforums%2Fthreads%2Frusso-ukraine-war-debate-thread.477393%2Fpage-1952[/media]

 

[Half Cocked]

More video of Ukrainians clearing trenches of Russian invaders in the Bakhmut direction. Age restricted.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FompoLbNB_8[/media]

 

[Half Cocked]

Russia has run short of artillery shells so it is receiving ammunition from North Korea. The North Korean ammunition may not be the greatest quality.

The russian invasion forces in Ukraine have recently been complaining a lot about artillery shells arriving from North Korea. Supplied in a hurry, even without firing tables, the ammunition displayed "systematic dispersion in range," reported by russian artillerymen from the frontline.

The investigation of five randomly selected charges with the same marking found that they all had different powders, and the powder bundles had different weights. Some charges lacked a de-copper: a lead wire meant to reduce copper buildup inside the barrel due to the repeated use of shells with a copper driving band. Additionally, some of the shells had traces indicating hermetic lids were opened.

[media]https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1733363021907411351?[/media]

The use of different powders in ammunition from the DPRK is explained by the country's isolated status, pushing it to scrap components for powder production from wherever possible which reflects in the overall quality of the final product.

And once again, the planned economy in North Korea, prioritizing quantity over quality control, contributes to these "planned defects."

https://en.defence-ua.com/analysis/..._artillery_shells_russians_complain-8818.html

In addition, Ruskie howitzers end up kabooming from both the low quality Nork ammo and excessive barrel wear.

Artillerymen of russian invasion forces fighting in Ukraine more actively complain about their equipment, reiterated in another photo of a D-30 towed howitzer with a torn-apart barrel published online.

First reports of an outbreak of broken artillery barrels date to spring 2023, long before foreign ammunition started flowing into the country and to the frontlines. The reason was the high degree of barrel wear. Additionally, defects develop inside worn-out barrels, resulting in shells detonating before leaving the gun.

This is all the more expected outcome considering russia was pulling dozens of old and dusted Soviet-era guns out from warehouses, kept without a roof and care. But even that doesn't compare to how many photos of torn-apart pieces of russian artillery appeared recently.

https://en.defence-ua.com/weapon_an..._nkorean_shells_not_the_only_reason-8881.html

 

[Half Cocked]

A Ropucha-class landing ship of the Russian Navy has been promoted to submarine. The ship is the Novocherkassk, commissioned in 1987.

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RlFtg6CJ7I[/media]

edit: What the Novocherkassk looks like now.

 

[Half Cocked]

#Своих не бросаем (We don't abandon our own)

[media]https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1739384484422631518[/media]

 

[Half Cocked]

OUCH!!

[media]https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1739281214266040544[/media]

 

[xerts1191]

Ouch