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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‘Interesting analysis of RT on Syria’
What’s the gist please?
https://x.com/NAFORaccoon/status/1868258611623018828
Kyiv Post reports:
“According to eyewitness accounts reported by (Russian media outlet) Mash, the Volgoneft-212 was cut in half by waves near the coast of Kerch, while the Volgoneft-139 sank within minutes after waves created a hole in the hull, causing a crack that split the ship in two.
Mash reported that both tankers were built around 50 years ago and were hastily converted in the 1990s from full-fledged tankers to “river-sea” class vessels.
The rushed modifications included cutting the ships in half, discarding the center, and welding the bow and stern together, leaving a large seam that failed under the impact of powerful waves. This seam ultimately split apart, contributing to the vessels’ sinking.”
https://x.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1868309772581376072
HD, day night and thermal camera for terminal guidance.
So, this is an FPV drone.
FPV control, most likely, uses Starlink.
The Speedy appears to be missing related to Trump Derangement Syndrome and the eminent collapse of The Zelensky
“The goal (of disabling the rail line between Crimea and Zaporizhzhia) was to cut off the logistical routes for fuel supplies from Crimea to the territories of Zaporizhia region.”
Or possibly vice versa, if they plan to make Crimea untenable for Russian forces.
Seriously you have to watch it is RT and they talk out of both sides of their mouths
Turkish Straits on Google Maps
“a WW1 style assault”
As Russia runs low on serviceable armored vehicles, its Artillery advantage declines toward a dis-advantage, and its Aviation is attritted or deterred from providing Close Air Support; that is what they will have to increasingly rely on, to achieve battlefield effects.
“with the same result as 108 years ago!”
I would not want to be on the ruzzian repair team.
Ukraine's military leadership has replaced the commander overseeing defenses in the eastern Donetsk region where Russian forces are making swift advances, a military official said on Saturday.
Lutsenko was criticized by Ukrainian military bloggers and some lawmakers for failing to stop Russian troops' relentless push toward the strategic Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk.
https://x.com/RealJakeBroe/status/1868140511476973908
“It will be interesting to see if Turkey closes the Turkish Straits to all ruzzian ships”
That would be a big card to play, but the Turkish economy, despite titular double digit GDP growth rates, is a World class basket case (expanding M2 money supply at over a 20% annual rate, core core inflation rate around 48% annualized (albeit down sharply from 75% in the Spring), and a Central Bank interest rate at 50%).
They make a lot of money (depend on) on Russian trade (14% of their imports; significant revenue from oil, gas, tourism). So Russia has the potential to retaliate (although they could less afford to lose Turkish trade, than Turkey could afford to lose Russian trade. Russia has made other such costly economic decisions for political purposes under Putin in recent years, notably cutting gas flows to European countries that refused to accept unilateral breach of contract by Russia, to demand payment in rubles.
The planned pipeline, which runs through Syria, is meant to provide Europe with an alternative to Russian gas.
https://x.com/NewRulesGeo/status/1865765719889125619
Pipeline construction and on-going revenue will help the Turkish economy,
💥💥💥 “In the Russian city of Ulyanovsk, unknown persons blew up a railway track, the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine reports.”
👉 Lots going wrong today for the aggressor state.
https://x.com/officejjsmart/status/1868301096982282306
Ulyanovsk, ruzzia on Google Maps
“Russia’s ships that had to flee their naval base in Syria are now under-fueled and under-supplied drifting in the Mediterranean Sea without a plan of how they will get home.”
They should be able to pay Egypt to deliver fuel and food if needed, or rotate back to Tartus one at a time to top off, before that base is closed.
It seems likely that Speedy may have died. No one has heard from him, and Free Republic does draw an older crowd.
If that is the case, your posts about him are particularly distasteful and ghoulish.
Personal trolling in any event, is a violation of the rules.
Since they can’t go through the Turkish Straight, they have a long journey to a ruzzian port.
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