Posted on 12/06/2023 6:40:07 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
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Three huge pumps, generators and fuel trucks working together to fill kilometers of Hamas tunnels in the coming weeks.
Russian air attacks in the south of Ukraine drop sharply after Ukrainian Forces down Su-24M bomber.
“Video of a likely Ukrainian SMArt 155 or Bonus precision-guided artillery strike on a Russian T-72B3 (?) tank with a roof screen. “
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1732483686291952024
” Fiery destruction of the 🇷🇺Russian IFV by 🇺🇦Ukrainian 65th Mechanized Brigade in Zaporizhzhia region”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1732477493112643816
Su-24M bomber.
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They are getting wildly inaccurate, but even when told they missed count the mission a success, if the bomb exploded.
Did the attack around the Kerch Bridge the other night amount to anything meaningful?
Russia accumulating resources for a 3rd offensive on Vuhledar.
Nothing that I saw.
Bridge was closed but I think attack was aimed at other targets.
“G-7 to Ban Russian Diamonds Starting Next Year
Move is latest effort to squeeze Kremlin’s revenue for war
Diamond industry has been lobbying over terms of restrictions”
“Italy Tells China It Will Exit Belt and Road Investment Pact
Minister says joining pact hasn’t produced ‘desired effects’
Italy’s participation in program was due to expire in March”
If their GPS glide bombs are wildly inaccurate, then the bombs are being jammed or the pilots are releasing the bombs early.
If the Su-24Ms are dropping unguided bombs, then 45 degree dive bomb would be the most accurate delivery. However, that requires directly over flight of the target.
Level delivery at high altitude or lofting the bombs from low altitude are inaccurate deliveries.
the bombs are being jammed or the pilots are releasing the bombs early.
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that’s the case: the jamming pushes them to release early which is OK as long as the bomb explodes somewhere.
“or the pilots are releasing the bombs early.”
Who did it and ran...
Pilots probably just want to keep their boss off their back, and make it through their tour alive.
Our Best Look At A VAMPIRE Counter Drone System For Ukraine
This is the first time we have seen the actual configuration of VAMPIRE, which was rushed to Ukraine to swat drones out of the sky.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/our-best-look-at-a-vampire-counter-drone-system-for-ukraine
“We delivered the first four systems in only six months by leveraging an innovative contracting strategy and working diligently to keep pace with the system’s rapid development,” Navy Cmdr. Kevin Raspet, the Foreign Military Sales deputy program manager within PMA-242, said in a statement today. The Navy says it expects the last of these systems to arrive in Ukraine by the end of this month.
The Pentagon previously confirmed that VAMPIRE was in operational use in Ukraine in August.
“to fill kilometers of Hamas tunnels in the coming weeks.”
I saw one report that the installed pumps could push “thousands” of cubic meters per hour.
A basic tunnel would be about two meters high, and two thousand cubic meters will fill about a kilometer (so 1-5 km per hour, or 24-120 km per day, from “thousands” (2-10?) of cubic meters per hour).
The commonly reported total estimate for the whole Metro system is about 300 miles, or 480 kilometers. So 4 to 20 days to fill it, plus drainage, and plus additional large spaces (rooms) that might be in the underground network.
The drainage rate might be significant, if they are mostly dirt floors above the water table. Israel should pretty well know the drainage rate - Hamas tunnels have been flooded before, across the Egyptian border.
Perhaps additional pumping capacity might be installed over time, changing the calculus.
But with that kind of water flowing, Hamas is being flushed out already tonight, and that will spread.
Hamaz’ Secret Labyrinth of Tunnels Submerged Under Seawater! Unstoppable Progress From Israel! (Raptor News)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edv0Zi3f6Tc
The video that you linked indicated that the tunnel flooding operation is focused on a dense section of tunnels in the NW of Gaza (al Shati), that is of particular Operational interest (Command Posts, VIP houses).
That more limited network of tunnels should flood fairly quickly, as compared with the whole of Gaza, and produce significant Operational effects (overnight, and over just a couple of days).
Another day, another ruble to the dollar (93).
(Ruble Deathwatch)
Another day, another ruble to the dollar (93).
(Ruble Deathwatch)
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