Posted on 06/02/2015 5:14:03 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
For more than a year the InformNapalm team of volunteers and researchers presented hundreds pieces of evidence of Russian aggression against Ukraine. The information was found by monitoring open sources and analysis of photo and video materials posted on social media pages of mercenaries and Russian military servicemen. Then, it was compiled into articles that formed a complete picture of the Russian military presence in Donbas. However, there can never be too many facts, so, we keep looking for more information and analyze it with hope that our work will be used when the people, responsible for starting this war, are put on trial for their crimes.
After Aleksey Mozgovoy (commander of the separatists’ Prizrak Battalion) was killed, Russian mercenaries felt that something was wrong. “Cleaners” from the Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate appeared in the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic again. As it is known, the psychological state of a mercenary, who expects his “adventure” to be over soon, is very unstable.That is why their field commanders started exposing their Russian donors on camera. Even Motorola (commander of the Sparta battalion) helped with this.
The caption with the photos: “Information from the militia of Novorossia. May22, 2015. Photos from “Motorola”.’Before upcoming battles, we get new weapons and practice every day. We were able to get new pieces of weaponry. They shoot in tighter groups with less recoil. Guys are happy. Thanks to the good people who helped with the iron.”
In the picture on the left, we can see a Russian 7.62 mm machine gun, the PKP Pecheneg, that was designed on the basis of the PK machine gun. It is deployed by the Russian army and has never been supplied to Ukraine or deployed by the Ukrainian army.
In the picture on the right, we can see a Russian heavy machine gun, the Kord, with a belt feed for 12,7×108 mm rounds.
The Kord machine gun was developed in the 1990s as a replacement for the NSV machine gun because, after the dissolution of the USSR, the main production of NSV guns was located outside of Russia. It was designed in the Degtyarev plant in Kovrov and has been mass produced there. The Kord machine gun has been deployed by the Russian Armed Forces since 1998.
It was actively used by the Russian army during the second Chechen campaign and then during the military conflict with Georgia in 2008.
The posting of the two pieces of photo evidence of Russians supplying weapons in one message from the popular separatists’ group is frankly a slap on the face of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the whole propaganda machine who said that Russia was not a side of the conflict.
To make it even more convincing, we present one more piece of evidence: a Russian command vehicle.
On May 10, 2015, a video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5LjhrPFH9c) showing training maneuvers of the so-called motor rifle battalion “Vikings” of the DPR army was posted. Those “Vikings” try to imitate the 5th tank division SS “Viking” (5 SS-Panzer-Division “Wiking”). The only difference is that they have Russian not German weapons. However, the ideology of the new Russian-Aryan missionary work is presented to the same extent.
So, the video of the “DPR battalion exercises” shows an exclusively Russian command vehicle, constructed on the basis of the KAMAZ truck with an open aerial antenna.
This type of command vehicle is used by combined anti-aircraft batteries, batteries of BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launchers, OTR-21 Tochka ballistic missiles crews, and other units of the Russian armed forces.
We can assume that the mercenaries, who keep taking selfies and shooting videos that demonstrate exclusively Russian pieces of military equipment, do that not because they are stupid, but on purpose, because they want to drag Russia into a full scale open war with Ukraine. The separatists do not count on their own forces to win the war, even with the support of Russian weapons or various Russian units, any more. Of course, there is the risk of being mopped up by the Russian special forces for activities that contradict the official Kremlin statements. However, they have no choice. This is the way “Novorossia” exposes Russia to the international community, making all the Russian attempts to hide the hybrid war ineffective.
Translated by Maksym Sviezhentsev
I want a Kord. Is that wrong?
No its not bad. I want a pecheneg.
Great intel.
Thanks
Article says BM-30 Smerch multiple rocket launcher. Is it similar to our M270 mlrs?
Born: April 14, 1862 Died: September 18, 1911 (aged 49) Bio: Pyotr Arkadyevich Stolypin served as Prime Minister and the leader of the third Duma, from 1906 to 1911. His tenure was marked by efforts to counter revolutionary groups and by the implementation of noteworthy agrarian reforms. Stolypin's reforms aimed to stem peasant unrest by creating a class of market-oriented smallholding landowners.
Great work, as usual, UMCRevMom! Keep staying on top of events there. Not many others seem to care enough to do it.
Then we have the FR Putin Buttkisser/paid troll group that goes around trying to connive FR-ers over to their side. That certainly doesn’t help.
LOL
market-oriented smallholding landowners... who were later rounded up as Kulaks.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn highly praises Stolypin, who was assassinated in Kiev in 1911. I have relatives (originally from Lutheran communities on the Polish-Russian border), who elected to be participants in the Stolypin reforms in Siberia, and some of them are still landowners and farmers.
In a way it is.
Its based on the same truck chassis as the SCUD launcher.
ping to an interesting topic
Unless you've got a really good source for linked 12,7mm Soviet ammo, yes. However, if you go for an older 12,7mm DShK Дегтярёва-Шпагина Крупнокалиберный [Dashka] they can be converted to use the U.S. .50 Browning/ 12.7x99mm NATO cartridge.
Not very, though the 9A52 wheeled version is similar. Twelve launch tubes, on a VERY heavy 8x8 truck chassis. There's also a lighter version, mounted on an 10x10 KamAZ truck chassis, with a six-tube launcher. They've been reported to be in use in Syria, as well as a few years back during the Russian incursion into Georgia, and possibly in Chechnya.
The BM-30 Smerch (tornado) is the most powerful multiple launch rocket system in the world. It was developed in the early 1980s and was accepted to service with the Soviet Army in 1987. Currently Russian Army operates just over 100 of these artillery rocket systems. It saw combat during both Russian wars in Chechnya. Other operators are Algeria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kuwait, Peru, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela.
Russian designation for the whole artillery system is the 9K58, while the launching vehicle is the 9A52.
The BM-30 Smerch has 12 tubes for 300-mm rockets. The standard rocket is 7.6 m long and weights 800 kg. This multiple launch rocket system has firing range of 20 - 70 km. Rockets are fitted with a range and direction correction system for better accuracy. A number of rockets are developed for this vehicle, including HE-FRAG, fuel-air explosive, incendiary, cluster with anti-personnel and anti-tank submunitions or self-guided anti-tank munitions. Launcher is capable of single or salvo firing. A full salvo of this rocket system covers area of up to 67 hectares.
The Smerch launch vehicle is prepared for firing within 3 minutes. It takes the same amount of time to leave firing position. Rockets are launched directly form the cab, or remotely form the vehicle. A full salvo takes 38 seconds.
The Smerch launching vehicle is based on the MAZ-543 8x8 heavy high mobility truck. Vehicle is powered by the D12A-525A 38.9-liter diesel engine, developing 525 horsepower. It is fitted with a central tyre inflation system.
Reloading of the BM-30 is assisted by the 9T234-2 reloading vehicle. It is based on a similar modified MAZ-543A chassis. The reloading vehicle is fitted with hydraulic crane and carries a full set of 12 reload rockets. Reloading takes 36 minutes. A Smerch unit is typically composed of six launchers and six reloading vehicles. Reloading usually takes place away from the firing position, to avoid counter-battery fire.
The fire control system of the Smerch, the Vivari, can function automatically or under manual control. The Vivari system is housed in a command vehicle and controls six launchers. it calculates ballistic and targeting data of each launcher.
Artillery, it has been said, lends dignity to what otherwise would be an vulger brawl.
Good to see you around.
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