Attack On Europe: Documenting Russian Equipment Losses During The 2022 Russian Invasion Of Ukraine

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[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.

[EEGator]

I don’t have any revolvers…

An aside - more people get killed via hands and feet than shot to death.
Can I carry a battle axe?

[WMarshal]

Mark my words, domestic Russian manufacturing and agriculture will come out of this much stronger.

[WMarshal]

Neocons putting ‘Z’s in everything and the Tolkien references show just how mindless that they are.

[FtrPilot]

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Gets Sea King Helicopters From Britain

Sea Kings to Ukraine

The link above (same link in PIF's post above) is well worth reading. The Ukrainian crews have already been trained in the UK.

Sea Kings flew in the Falklands War, the Gulf War, the Bosnian War, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, and soon will fly in the Ukrainian war.

There are several variants of the Sea King. One variant is an airborne early warning platform. Hopefully, this variant is the one being provided to Ukraine.

They could provide earlier warning of a drone launch. Perhaps they could even be used to identify the launch location of the suicide drones.

[PIF]

Happy Under-cooked Borscht Day!

[BeauBo]

“We gives Thanks that we are a nation at peace.”

Amen, Amen.

[FtrPilot]

The Russian drone appears to be a DJI Mavic 3. Here's a picture:

From the video, I can't tell the Ukrainian drone type.

Descending onto a drone should damage the propeller blades, causing the drone to crash. Hanging a metal strip below your drone, such as a hacksaw blade, would do the trick.

[BeauBo]

@ChuckPfarrer Nov 23
SAVING UKRAINIAN LIVES: On 23 NOV, Ukrainian air defense forces shot down 51 of 67 incoming Russian cruise missiles— an overall intercept rate of 76% Of the 30 missiles launched at Kyiv, 20 were downed— a point defense interdiction rate of better than 66%.

[BeauBo]

@ChuckPfarrer Nov 23

"MORE AID: The US has approved 400 million in additional military aid for Ukraine. Included are precision-guided 155mm Excalibur artillery rounds, additional HIMARS ammunition, and High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs)-- which are used by UKR to destroy RU air defenses."

[BeauBo]

Have the Ukrainian forces found an answer to the Russian Lancet loitering munitions? 10 reported defeated here:

@ChuckPfarrer 7h

"IZIUM AXIS/ 1430 24 NOV/ RU forces were repulsed at Stelmakhivka. Heavy RU shelling along Forward Edge of Battle Area. 10 Russian Lancet UCAVS reported downed by UKR air defense units. RU constructing defenses."

[BeauBo]

@visegrad24

“Sweden & Finland are using their special skills in winter warfare to prop up the Ukrainian Army ahead of winter.

Euronews reports that Ukraine is probably receiving winter uniforms, under-clothes and camouflage suits together with special sleeping bags & tents with stoves.”

Beyond Sweden and Finland applying to join NATO, another effect of this war has been to draw the Nordic Countries (including Norway) closer together, into a cohesive bloc.

[BeauBo]

@bayraktar_1love 1h

"Iranian instructors who taught Russian military to pilot the Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were killed in Crimea - According to the words of the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine."

[FtrPilot]

High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARMs)...one of my favorite missiles.

I wonder what ELINT capability Ukraine has...or do they rely on NATO assets.

Either way, the HARM can be programmed to attack a specific radar site or a specific type of radar. If programmed by radar type, the pilot can program several different radar types by priority.

[FtrPilot]

Iranian instructors who taught Russian military to pilot the Shahed-136 kamikaze drones were killed in Crimea

I wonder what Chuck Pfarrer has to say about that. I'm guessing SOF.

This might be old news.

[Kazan]

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/11/ukraine-running-on-empty.html#more

Russia expert Gordon M. Hahn looks at the upcoming Russian Winter Offensive. Only with a ceasefire can Ukraine and its sponsors avert the upcoming catastrophe. This for three reasons:

First, the Russian hammer is about to fall on Ukraine. The gloves are coming off; electric energy stations, bridges, and even ‘decision centers’ such as central Kiev’s government buildings are being targeted. ... What will the sociopolitical situation be like when these critical infrastructures are in complete collapse and temperatures are 20 degrees colder? Russia will be moving closer to the strategy of ‘shock and awe’, fully destroying all infrastructure – military or otherwise – as the US did in Serbia and Iraq and will likely take less care now to avoid civilian casualties.

After the infrastructures are completely destroyed or incapacitated, Russia’s reinforcements of 380,000 regular and newly mobilized troops will have been fully added into Russia’s forces across southeastern Ukraine. ... A winter offensive by some half a million troops will make substantial gains on those three fronts and multiply Ukrainian losses in personnel and materiel`, which are already high. This could lead easily to a collapse of Ukrainian forces on one or more front. On the backs of such a success Russian President Putin might also make another attempt to threaten Kiev ...

Second, the West is suffering from Ukraine fatigue. NATO countries’ arms supplies have been depleted beyond what is tolerable, and social cohesion is collapsing in the face of double-digit inflation and economic recession. All this makes Russia the winner on the strategic level and is forcing Washington and Brussels to seek at least a breathing spell by way of a ceasefire.

... Third, Ukraine’s greatest political asset – Zelenskiy himself – just got devalued, putting at even greater risk Ukraine’s political stability. ... For now, in order to keep the West on board, Zelenskiy is rumored to be pushing Ukrainian armed forces commander Viktor Zalyuzhniy to start a last pre-winter offensive in northern Donetsk (Svatovo and Severodonetsk) or Zaporozhe in order to put a stop to the West’s ceasefire murmurs and reboost support. At the same time there is talk of continuing Zelenskiy-Zalyuzhniy tensions over the latter’s good press and star status in the West. ... On the background of the deteriorating battlefield and international strategic situation, such civil-military tensions are fraught with the potential for a coup. ...

... We may be reaching the watershed moment in the Ukrainian war. No electricity, no army, no society.

[BeauBo]

@visegrad24 1h
Hungary to ratify Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership applications in early January 2023.

That was the message delivered by PM Orban at today’s Visegrad Group Summit in Slovakia.

[BeauBo]

Nine months today.

Russia is about halfway depleted of its conventional Military systems and stocks, while the USA spent about 5% of its annual Defense budget on the war.

At this rate, and at these prices, there is no need for the West to take the gloves off.

Russian implosion is now inevitable.

NATO expansion is non-negotiable.

[BeauBo]

@visegrad24 6h
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced today that works have started on the EU’s 9th sanctions package against Russia.

[BeauBo]

@visegrad24 12h
“The Prime Minister of Armenia, Nikol Pashinyan, today refused to sign the draft declaration of the CSTO Security Council after its meeting.

Both Lukashenko & Putin were furious.

The collective security organization is on the ropes.”

[BeauBo]

@visegrad24 15h

Breakdown of who voted against the European Parliament’s vote on declaring Russia a state sponsor of terrorism.

A small majority of MEPs are from France & Germany. Party-wise, Rassemblement National, AfD and a coalition of small Communist and socialist parties were behind the opposition.