Posted on 10/19/2022 5:34:19 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it is not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available
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“Zelenski came out and said about a third of the Ukrainian power generation infrastructure has been destroyed, which is not true.”
How much did this source estimate had been destroyed? (more or less)
I saw a report that Japan has recently offered to help rebuild the power infrastructure, but don’t know how much or how quickly.
He warns the West that he has been restrained so far in what he has decreed. He has barely begun to decree - not even taking his gloves off yet, or exerting even 15% of the decree potential in his pen's ink supply.
What a clown. What a helpless, pathetic, weak loser of a clown. He has destroyed Russia for a generation, if not for good.
Electric substations are easy targets for the Iranian drones. They are relatively easy to repair, if parts are available.
The Buk SAM system is very capable against low flying targets. The missiles are semi-active radar homing...the drones must not be very stealthy. The big unknown is acquisition range of the drones.
Looking at the impact explosion, I would estimate the drone was flying between 300 and 500 feet AGL. I believe they are flying at that altitude to prevent shotguns and rifles from shooting them down.
A drone at 300 to 500 feet AGL is an easy target for a SAM...however, the Russians probably consider it a fair trade one drone for one surface to air missile.
Comments welcome.
A drone at 300 to 500 feet AGL is an easy target for a SAM...however, the Russians probably consider it a fair trade one drone for one surface to air missile.
Agree. Putin’s Plan B has always been having his Soros EU partners in Germany and France cut Ukraine off from ammo resupply. They want business as mostly usual with fascist Russia but don’t want their fingerprints on a Ukrainian defeat. So to achieve that all that must be done is deny Ukraine the weapons to defend themselves against a promised genocide by Russia.
Putin has declared that if he is not given what he wants in Ukraine, he will sign a decree deeming it given to him.
More than a little similar to what Obama and Biden do with wildly illegal executive orders. Three totalitarian peas in a pod there.
“Pentagon replacing HIMARS launcher and rocket stocks sent to Ukraine”
“The U.S. military in recent weeks awarded Lockheed Martin $179 million to replace High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems it sent from its own stockpiles to Ukraine, according to Pentagon data set to be released on Wednesday.
News of the spending, which is part of $3.4 billion in Ukraine-related contracting actions for arms and equipment since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war eight months ago, coincided with Lockheed’s disclosure Tuesday that it’s increasing HIMARS and GMLRS production by nearly 60 percent.”
“Bush told Defense News this month that the Army is looking to “dramatically ramp up quickly” the production line for GMLRS, and that it was one of the systems the Pentagon would like to see produced at double or triple its current rate.
Though in 2018 the Army scaled back the quantities of GLRS it was ordering, Bush said the production line remained “pretty warm” and “much easier to ramp up” than if the line had stopped entirely.”
The Iranian S-138 drone has a wooden frame
It was in the weeds so many KW here verses something else etc.
The metal in the engine and warhead would provide the radar signature. I would guess that nose-on the drone would be quite stealthy. But in the beam (90 degree aspect) the radar signature is sufficient for the BuK SAM system.
“”According to two senior Western diplomats and a senior Israeli defense official...Moscow recently transferred some troops and a Russian (S-300) air-defense system out of Syria, removing one of the main restrictions on Israeli military actions in Syria.””
Old news: 3-4 weeks or more. Transferred from the Tartus base in Syria, but the S-400/S-350 systems remain.
“Accurate grenade drop hits a Russian soldier directly on the helmet. 35th UA Brigade near Kherson. “
A good RuZZian.
Yep you are right. NYT behind by 3-4 weeks.
“Oct. 19, 2022, 1:44 p.m. ET
JERUSALEM — Russia recently redeployed critical military hardware and troops from Syria, according to three senior officials based in the Middle East, underscoring how its faltering invasion of Ukraine has eroded Moscow’s influence elsewhere and removing one of several obstacles to Israeli support for Ukraine.
Russia, which has been a dominant military force in Syria since 2015 and helps maintain the Syrian regime’s grip on power, still keeps a sizable presence there. But the change could herald wider shifts in the balance of power in one of the world’s most complicated conflict zones, and allow Israel, Syria’s enemy and southern neighbor, to rethink its approach to both Syria and Ukraine.
According to two senior Western diplomats and a senior Israeli defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity in order to speak more freely, Moscow recently transferred some troops and a Russian air-defense system out of Syria, removing one of the main restrictions on Israeli military actions in Syria.
The officials had varying estimates about how many troops were withdrawn — two of them said two battalions, or between 1,200 and 1,600 soldiers, while the other said it was far more. But they all agreed that the number of combat troops had been reduced.
Russia has reportedly removed from Syria its S-300 air defense system, like this one shown being fired in 2019, to bolster its flagging invasion of Ukraine.Sergey Pivovarov/Reuters
The Israeli official also said that several Russian commanders had been redeployed from Syria to Ukraine, while Russia’s military leadership in Moscow has become less involved in day-to-day management of operations in Syria, including with military coordination with Israel.
The moves follow a reduction of Russian leverage in former Soviet countries in Central Asia, where leaders say the war in Ukraine has distracted Russia from its traditional leadership role, undermining Moscow’s aura and grip.
Since civil war broke out in Syria in 2011, President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has relied on military support from Iran and its proxies to keep rebels at bay, as well as from President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Russia has kept a military presence in Syria since the 1970s, but Mr. Putin significantly bolstered it in 2015 with several thousand Russian troops and aircraft, turning the tide of the Syrian war in Mr. Assad’s favor.
An enemy of both Iran and Syria, Israel regularly strikes targets in Syria to prevent Tehran from cementing a foothold close to Israel’s northeastern border. In 2018, the risk to Israeli pilots during those raids increased after Russia moved a sophisticated air-defense system, known as the S-300, to Syria.
Though control of the S-300 was never transferred to the Syrian government, the risk that it might be used against Israeli planes was a major reason Israel has rebuffed Ukrainian requests for military hardware since the Russian invasion began in February.
According to the three officials, Russia has now removed the S-300 system from Syria to bolster its flagging invasion of Ukraine — reducing Russian leverage over Israel in Syria, and altering Israeli considerations with regards to Ukraine.
Iran’s growing military support for Russia, coupled with rising Russian strikes on Ukrainian civilians, have already resurfaced a debate in Israel in recent days about whether Israel should provide arms to Ukraine. Israel produces several air-defense systems that might be useful to Ukraine in shooting down missiles and drones, including the short-range Iron Dome, which Israel uses against rockets fired from the Gaza Strip, and the longer-range Barak 8.
An apartment building in Bakhmut, Ukraine, last month, after it was heavily damaged by Russian bombing. Wary of angering Moscow, Israel has resisted sending air defenses to Ukraine.Tyler Hicks/The New York Times
An Israeli cabinet minister, Nachman Shai, said on social media this week that Iran’s military assistance to Russia removed “any doubt where Israel should stand in this bloody conflict. The time has come for Ukraine to receive military aid as well, just as the USA and NATO countries provide.”
But Mr. Shai does not speak for the Israeli government. On Wednesday, the Israeli leadership stressed that while it could provide Kyiv with early-warning systems to alert Ukrainian civilians about incoming strikes, Israel would not send arms to Kyiv.
In a statement, Benny Gantz, the Israeli defense minister said: “Israel supports and stands with Ukraine, NATO and the West — this is something we have said in the past and repeat today.”
“This being said,” he added, “I would like to emphasize that Israel will not deliver weapon systems to Ukraine, due to a variety of operational considerations.”
Those considerations include Russia’s lingering military presence in Syria, including a separate air defense system, the S-400, and large air and naval bases in Western Syria. Though Russia withdrew combat troops from Syria, they have been replaced by military police officers, the senior Israeli defense official said.
Israeli officials have expressed concern that further Russian drawdowns in Syria could allow Iran to expand its influence there.
Israel also wants to avoid any disruption to practices that allows Israeli and Russian commanders to communicate with each other and avoid conflict between their forces. An encrypted telephone line was installed in 2017 to connect a Russian air base in western Syria to an Israeli Air Force command center beneath a military base in Tel Aviv.
The mechanism helps the sides avoid overlap between Russian and Israeli actions, preventing incidents like one in 2018, when Syrian forces shot down a Russian military plane that they had apparently mistaken for Israeli, killing 15 Russians.
Lining up outside an Israeli field hospital in Mostyska, western Ukraine, in March. Israel’s assistance to Ukraine early in the war was mostly humanitarian aid.Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Israel also fears that the Kremlin might act to limit Jewish emigration from Russia, after the Russian authorities opened a court case against the Moscow branch of the Jewish Agency, an Israel-based organization that helps Russian Jews establish new lives in Israel.
On Monday, Dmitri A. Medvedev, the deputy head of the Russian security council and former president, warned Israel against any “reckless” supply of military aid to Ukraine. “It will destroy all interstate relations between our countries,” Mr. Medvedev wrote on social media.
Nevertheless, there are signs that Israel is providing more help to Ukraine than it did in the opening months of the war, when its assistance was limited to mainly humanitarian aid, including a field hospital.
Israel is providing Ukraine with basic intelligence about Iranian drones used by Russia, and has also offered to examine the remains of drones that crashed in Ukraine, according to senior Ukrainian and Israeli officials.”
Reportedly, the Ukrainians have been able to drop most of them (~80%) with a wide variety of systems. Including, rumor has it, one code named "Granny".
The reaction to the use of these as terror weapons against cities, seems to be an increase and acceleration of multiple Air Defense systems to the Ukraine. NSAMS, Crotale, even reportedly Israeli Iron Dome. Also some drone-specific ECM. Perhaps they will develop an effective no-fly zone of their own as a result. I'd imagine that German Gephards would make short work of them, if they came within range.
The original story was back in Aug-Sept I believe - maybe was on Twit, as it had sat images of the emplacements before and after.
“Lockheed’s disclosure Tuesday that it’s increasing HIMARS and GMLRS production by nearly 60 percent.”
I doubt that will be the last increase - likely just one step in a series of increases in the rate. Poland alone wants 500 HIMARS launchers. Post-war Ukraine will likely want some similar package. Taiwan wants more. ATGMs, MANPADS, Artillery - they are all getting contracts and ramping up rates.
Defense production is ramping up across our Allies. Korea is off to the races, with its largest Foreign Military Sales ever recently booked.
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