Posted on 02/24/2024 5:59:01 AM PST 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. Loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles 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 a vehicle is captured and then lost in service with its new owners, it is only added as a loss of the original operator to avoid double listings. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it's 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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LOL!
We've visualized the number of strategic aviation aircraft at Russia's key airbases, using the most recent data available to us. A total of 44 Tu-95MS and 12 Tu-160 aircraft are currently located at key Russian airbases, not including the Tu-22M3.
Check the airbases here https://x.com/avivector
What is that 2-300 per car lol
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1945450875914219617
Long distance CAS.
Already active in combat, these 300 km/h interceptors are launched from mobile, handheld, or airborne platforms, Militarnyi reports.
https://x.com/NOELreports/status/1945416290128048553
Russia really seems to be being pushed to full 1984. The legislator’s move for a bill on compulsory male focused reproduction suggests Alexandr Dugin’s moves behind the stage. I get the impression that with Putin’s promises to consider some of Dugin’s other ideas in the future. Dugin suspects, probably correctly, that his ideas are being shelved for the far, far future. I suspect such a law requiring reproductive activity, especially after only 3 “dates”, would trigger another flood of Russian males fleeing Russia for friendlier, less compulsory countries. It would make life in Russia impossible for any exclusively gay male living there. Then their only option would be compulsory military service and probable death. Of course the Russian women reported to be black widows who make a point of marrying men to get their enlistment bonuses would have a field day.
Regarding the poor laying hens who are being thrown out on the street. I imagine their fates will be either someone’s next dinner, or perhaps someone’s new source of daily eggs or a small business by selling eggs. Thus a source of micro-capitalism, so antithetical to Dugin ideology. I am not sure Kirill’s crosses are going to solve any of these issues. Russia is such a fun place.
Russians have had the advantage of glide bombs for some time now, but now they are getting a taste of their own medicine.
Drone dropped bombs and grenades are good, but this takes it up to a new level. No escaping these
Remember the important difference that Russia is targeting a large number of civilian and even medical targets. Ukraine is targeting military/industrial targets with possibly some collateral damage. So far I have seen NO statistics regarding Russian civilian casualties not directly caused by being too close to a legitimate war related target.
In Russia the Muslims and other minorities have decent bitrates. While Russian birthrates are a disaster. This has been killing Putin (mentally) for years. Putin plotted to take all of Ukraine in a swift government decapitation in Kiev and an overall blitzkrieg attack. To takeover-annex Ukraine within a month while Zombie Biden and Europeans sat on their hands. Taking Ukraine intact meaning instantaneously adding 43 million Slavs to Russia. Putin calls Ukrainians little Russians. That they are Russian enough to add 43 million new Russians to the existing number of 107 million. This Tsarist style scheme failed, so now he is destroying Ukraine, while keeping Kiev and Odessa (super important gem of the black sea) mostly intact.
Annexing Ukraine was Putin's solution for miserable Russian birthrates.
The Battle for Ukraine Is a War of Demography
Russia’s crisis of depopulation is at the heart of Vladimir Putin’s paranoid military strategy.
December 6, 2024, 3:37 PM
By Ivan Krastev, the chair of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, Bulgaria, and Stephen Holmes, a professor of law at New York University.
https://archive.is/THnJO#selection-3191.0-3262.0
US, UK and Turkish ISR flights today over the Western Black Sea today watching Crimea. USAF Forte 10 Global Hawk still airborne and watching Crimea after more than 18 hours. Somewhat out of the ordinary.
I suspect the US Intel pipeline is wide open at this point.
Tax and Burn (the money in war). Smells like crisis brewing.
Russian authorities call for urgent tax increase to save national budget
Kyiv Independent (16 July):
“Moscow needs to urgently raise more money as shrinking oil and gas revenues and a worsening economic outlook continue to strain the federal budget, a senior Russian lawmaker warned on July 16.
Anatoly Artamonov, chair of the Federation Council Committee on Budget and Financial Markets, cautioned that Russia’s financial situation is becoming more serious and that immediate steps are needed to stabilize it. “We need to use all available resources to increase the revenue base,” he said, according to the Moscow Times.
One step, he suggested, could be reducing the number of tax exemptions. Artamonov said these exemptions currently make up about a third of the federal budget...
...He also pointed to the widespread issue of shadow employment—undeclared work often paid in cash—to avoid taxes...
...Artamonov also criticized the Russian government’s hesitation to move forward with privatization efforts. Selling off certain state-owned assets, he argued, could provide much-needed funds to help fill budget gaps.”
That would be a great gig, sell the state owned property, collect the cash then re- nationalize
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