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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There are some off the shelf tandem warheads for ATGMs and RPGs that are designed to penetrate armor or bunkers. Fencing around a refinery might require some tweaking, or redesign to defeat. Even better, a completely new weapon, but that might not be realistic. It’s unfortunate that Ukraine doesn’t have cruise/ballistic missiles they can use against these and other targets in Russia. Sabotage or covert attacks might be the best alternative, but is high risk.
“drone” that “hotel”.
Indicted War Criminal Little PUkin will suffer more than if 10,000 RuZZian Boys died on Ukrainian land.
Oh, BTW, Ukraine is still more corrupt than Indicted War Criminal Little PUkin. I’m sure of it...
lol, if so Z has a long way to go to catch up to dear leader without a small mustache 😂
Romania has 4 Patriot batteries, and 3 more awaiting delivery (from a 7 battery purchase contract). They are in talks to provide 1 of the 4 batteries they have now.
Trump established Space Force.
Zelensky is establishing a new Drone Force. Robot Corps? (In search of a kick ass English language name for the new Service - then we can move on to cool new ranks and job titles, like we did for Space Force. Fun.)
Kyiv Independent reports:
“The (Ukrainian) government supported on May 7 a draft decree by President Volodymyr Zelensky on the creation of a separate Armed Forces branch dedicated to unmanned systems, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov said.
Zelensky presented the plan for the new branch in early February as part of Kyiv’s efforts to ramp up production of this crucial military capability.
“This is a strategic step for our country in the face of the growing threat from Russia,” Umerov said.
As the next step, the Defense Ministry will “prepare and introduce the relevant draft law to the government meeting.”
The Unmanned Systems Forces will reportedly focus specifically on improving Ukraine’s work with drones, creating special drone-specific units, ramping up training, systemizing their use, increasing production, and pushing innovation.
Drones have become a crucial factor on Ukrainian battlefields for both belligerents, serving multiple purposes, including reconnaissance, airstrikes, naval strikes, and guiding artillery.
Strategic Industries Deputy Minister Hanna Hvozdiar said in March that Ukraine has the capacity to produce 150,000 drones every month and may be able to produce 2 million drones by the end of the year.
The DoD is paying SpaceX $1.8B for a separate "Starlink-like" satellite constellation. Considering Russia has thus far had very little success in jamming Starlink, a jam resistant military constellation and micro transceivers specifically built for drones might not be prohibitively expensive in the context of the total cost of the war. Alternatively, M-mode GPS and AI, if you trust robots...
“if you trust robots...”
The robots, I trust. Its the people writing code that scare me.
Interesting articles:
Rifle-Armed Robot Dogs Now Being Tested By Marine Special Operators
MARSOC is using robotic dogs equipped with remote weapon stations to detect targets automatically before being given approval to fire.
https://www.twz.com/sea/rifle-armed-robot-dogs-now-being-tested-by-marine-special-operators
these are currently deployed ... somewhere.
“Eric Shell, head of business development at Onyx Industries which supplied the gun system for the dogs, confirmed to TWZ on the floor of SOF Week that they are in use with MARSOC. Shell noted that MARSOC has two robot dogs fitted with gun systems based on Onyx’s SENTRY remote weapon system (RWS) - one in 7.62x39mm caliber, and another in 6.5mm Creedmoor caliber. It’s unclear precisely how many other robotic dogs MARSOC may have at present, however, it appears likely that the two equipped with SENTRY are being tested by the command.
“The underlying robot dog doing this tunnel work for MARSOC is Ghost Robotics’ Vision 60 quadrupedal unmanned ground vehicle, or Q-UGV, Shell said. “
The truth about Abrams tanks in UKR. They are still operating.
‘Tears of joy’: Ukraine uses Abrams to destroy Russian tanks near Avdiivka - 2 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6VWyElstfc
Reporting From Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU/videos
It is under another more massive bot attack and has so far gotten 2 channels shut down. The Russians do not want this honest reporting of fighting on the front to be heard.
No response from YT so far on this issue.
“Greene asked Johnson during a Monday meeting to commit to not supporting any more foreign assistance to Ukraine.”
“Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who is vying with Thune to become the next Senate GOP leader, agreed Johnson shouldn’t make any major concessions to Greene on Ukraine funding.”
““I don’t think Speaker Johnson needs to make any commitments to Marjorie Taylor Greene. I think she’s marginalizing herself and becoming a nonissue,” he said Tuesday afternoon.
Asked last week if Republicans are getting sick of Greene being the face of House Republicans, Cornyn replied, “I think people are sick and tired of chaos and dysfunction.”
Greene named her demands in exchange for not calling a snap leadership election during a two-hour meeting Monday with Johnson.”
Now its all making sense.
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says Doctors Found a Dead Worm in His Brain
The presidential candidate has faced previously undisclosed health issues, including a parasite that he said ate part of his brain.”
Dead worms in lefties brains could account for their hatreds of everything not them. And that would be the case also with muslims.
“Angry Families of Missing Russian Soldiers Want Answers From Putin”
“Natalia Kruglova last spoke to her husband, Pvt. Ivan Petrov, on Sept. 29. The Russian army conscript told Kruglova he had been ordered back to the front lines in southeastern Ukraine. Then he disappeared.
Kruglova wrote to her husband’s commanding officers, the Defense Ministry and even military prosecutors in search of news, but to no avail. Weeks later, the army declared Petrov missing but offered no explanation of what had happened to him.
“It’s as if no one owes you anything, no one cares,” Kruglova, 45, said in an interview from her home in the Russian far eastern city of Magadan.
Since President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, Russia has dispatched hundreds of thousands of men to battlefields that have become charnel houses.
Now, the mothers and wives of servicemen whose fates are unknown have emerged as some of the most vocal critics of the Russian war effort, presenting a rare public challenge to Putin and the authoritarian system he has built.
Amplifying the grief and anger is the Russian government’s lack of transparency about soldiers who are missing or presumed to be dead.”
“And that would be the case also with muslims.”
Kazan states on FR be is a muslim
I call him a muslim on several threads.
I got suspended for 2 weeks.
How many worms does he have?
They still can’t find the keys to lock those hatches.
“The crew of a Russian T-90 left the hatch open. You know what happens if they do..”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788105159475700171
Atta Boy!
‘The oil depot in Luhansk sustained heavy damage. Several oil tanks burned down while others took significant damage. In addition, power lines and a gas pipeline were damaged/destroyed.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788093277750591609
“Remains of an ATACMS missile were claimed to be found in occupied Luhansk after yesterdays attack on an oil depot.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1788073124010852698
How many worms does he have?
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I don’t know. But each dead one ate part of his brain, like RFK. Live ones are still munching.
oilPrice.com reports:
EU Proposes First Batch Of Sanctions On Russian LNG
“Politico has reported that the European Commission has proposed sanctions on Russia’s LNG sector as part of Brussels’ 14th sanctions package against Russia.
The proposed sanctions would prevent EU countries from re-exporting Russian LNG after receiving it and also ban EU involvement in upcoming LNG projects in Russia. However, the measures wouldn’t directly bar Russian LNG imports to the EU.
Similar to previous sanctions, the import ban is intended to disrupt Putin’s ability to continue financing his war in Ukraine. Although Russian LNG accounted for just 5% of the bloc’s energy consumption in 2023, it still netted the Kremlin ~$8 billion in revenues.
The proposal also suggests prohibiting the use of EU ports, finance and services to re-export Russian LNG, essentially meaning that Russia would have to overhaul its LNG export model. Currently, Russia supplies LNG to Asia through Europe, where Spain, Belgium and France are major hubs.
“If they can’t transship in Europe, they might have to take their ice-class tankers on longer journeys,” Laura Page, a gas expert at the Kpler data analytics firm, has told Politico, adding that Russia “may not be able to get out as many loadings from Yamal because their vessels can’t get back as quickly.”
Norway and the U.S. have replaced Russia as Europe’s biggest gas supplier: Last year, Norway supplied 87.8 bcm (billion cubic meters) of gas to Europe, good for 30.3% of total imports while the U.S. supplied 56.2 bcm, accounting for 19.4% of total...
...it’s going to be interesting to see whether the natural gas price gains will hold with Europe having exited the winter withdrawal season with record amounts of natural gas in storage. The continent ended the season with more than 70 bcm of natural gas in its stores, the highest on record for this time of the year.”
Kyiv Independent reports:
“Armenia will not partake in the financing of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Yerevan announced on May 8.
This comes as the latest in a series of steps the country has taken to distance itself from the Russian-led security alliance.
Speaking to Factor.am, the country’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed Armenia would not contribute to the CSTO’s 2024 budget, which was adopted in November of last year.
The CSTO, which was established in 2002, includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan...
...The CSTO did not intervene during Azerbaijan’s offensive (that captured Armenian-occupied Nagorno Karabakh) in September 2023.
Pashinyan said in February that Armenia had “frozen” its participation in the Russian-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) because it failed to uphold its objectives regarding Armenia.
In recent months, Armenia has further sought to distance itself from Russia, repeatedly accusing Moscow of being an unreliable partner.
In March, Armenia’s Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan revealed that the country is considering applying for membership in the European Union, aiming to strengthen ties with the West. Yerevan also asked Russian “peacekeepers” who have been stationed at Yerevan’s international airport since the country’s independence to leave.
In January 2024, Armenia joined the International Criminal Court, becoming one of 124 countries obliged to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin if he steps foot in national territory.”
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