Posted on 08/01/2023 8:44:02 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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Ood how 1 dead and 5 wounded sailors came to be, if no ship was damaged. Must be a Russian thing.
Forte11 Global Hawk was watching the Black Sea today with transponder off. Expect more fun in Crimea.
Very interesting!
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1686336083573796864
Brimstone is a ground or air-launched ground attack missile developed by MBDA UK for the UK's Royal Air Force. It is designed for "fire-and-forget" use against enemy armour, using a millimetre wave active radar homing seeker to ensure accuracy even against moving targets.
https://twitter.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1686415584546750465
My guess is that this radar datalinks the GPS coordinates of the RU artillery to observation drones.
The drones then search the area around the GPS coordinates looking for parked artillery.
The parked artillery pieces are easy pickings.
I think it just detects the trajectory, calculates the launch point of the round and drones are not needed.
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1686310816574779392
Sabotage or arson?
We are seeing a lot of drone video of RU artillery being destroyed. The GPS coordinates of a launch point would be a great place to start looking for parked artillery.
Once again, just a guess.
The radar sees the shell as it rises above the horizon, and sends the data to counterbattery which hits it before the second shell is fired. no time to scoot. That’s why some Western arty systems fire shells automatically in rapid succession.
As a "high-value" asset, they would be located well beyond RU artillery and could support multiple counterbattery tubes.
There will be situations where UKR does not have a counterbattery tube in position to attack the RU artillery tube.
So the "data" sent would be GPS coordinates and any UKR artillery system, including HIMARs/GMLRS, that can reach the GPS coordinates would launch.
If none could launch, then sending the drones to search the launch area makes sense.
🧵 HERE'S THE LATEST...
https://twitter.com/ArturRehi/status/1686444317148069894
Hope this is real!
The pic/video is from 2022.
I just saw that...I believe the 1 killed & 5 injured is true. Thanks.
Firefinder was developed before drones were like they are now.
Like PIF says, Firefinder sees the shell as it comes over the horizon, calculates its origin point, and immediately feeds it into the fire control software of the guns. They share a Common Operational Picture, like AWACS feeding icons to a fighter jets display
A counterbattery shell can be in the air, before the enemy’s first round impacts.
As dense as drones are now, they are likely also integrating drones into their targeting loop in many ways (especially in areas where they don’t have Firefinders), like when they have to prioritize among targets, or to search for associated targets, like command vehicles, enemy radars or ammo dumps.
There are even systems that can provide this kind of real time targeting coordinates for sniper bullets.
Twitter is now showing a bit more leg to those without accounts.
When I followed your link, and clicked on the name of the poster, it took me to their page - which now shows a selection of their tweets (not sorted by time, just a mixed sample, perhaps selected by some popularity algorithm). Recently, it was just the header of the poster’s homepage, with no tweets shown.
It is not useful for same day tracking of events, but there is now more to interest people without accounts, who might be browsing.
Is there any chance that something like a Neptune could be mounted on a boat to get within range seems that when the Russians do destroy a naval drone it is very close like they haven’t detected it till them. In which case it seems that getting a boat within range but still far off would be a doable thing
I believe that a ground launched Neptune or ground launched HARPOON could be mounted on a cigar boat.
IMHO, the biggest issue is how to provide target information (GPS coordinates of the target) to the missile.
The boat would also need GPS navigation to determine when the target is in-range.
Perhaps something like the picture below that only has one HARPOON would fit on a cigar boat.
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