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Posted on 04/25/2023 7:22:42 AM PDT 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. 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.
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Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4147961/posts
“U.S. Says Russia’s Military Actions in Syria Raise Risk of Escalation”
“Russian jet fighters and drones are harassing U.S. forces in Syria with increasing frequency, according to American officials, creating new risks of a deadly miscalculation between the two military superpowers.
Over the past two months, armed Russian warplanes have repeatedly violated longstanding agreements with the U.S. by flying dangerously close to American jet fighters over Syria and over U.S. forces working in the country, the officials said late Monday.
“It’s a ripe situation for us to see some sort of miscalculation,” said Air Force Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, who oversees U.S. military operations in the skies above Syria and 20 other nations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia as head of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command.”
“Russian Combat Air Strengths and Limitations: Lessons from Ukraine”
“The most significant aspect of the VKS performance over Ukraine that had been overlooked or at least not explicitly predicted by VKS experts before the invasion is the fact that Russian pilots and planning staff lack the ability to plan, organize, and execute composite air operations (COMAOs). COMAO is a NATO term used to describe missions where “dissimilar types of aircraft interact in coordinated actions, to achieve defined military objectives within a given time and geographical area…normally involving between 20–100 aircraft.”
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“Many of these limitations stem not from inherent Russian technological limitations, but from the fact that the Russian military as a whole has long relied on massed artillery, armored vehicles, and land-based precision fires for the core of its tactical and operational level battlefield lethality rather than CAS. Therefore, Russia has not invested heavily in the sort of sensors, weapons, and pilot training that Western air forces have taken for granted after decades of counter-insurgency campaigns where airpower provided the majority of deployed joint force firepower. Consequently, it should not have been a surprise for Western observers that the VKS proved poor at conducting dynamic CAS and interdiction on the battlefield in Ukraine.”
https://www.cna.org/reports/2023/04/Russian-Combat-Air-Strengths-and-Limitations.pdf
“Ukrainian military claims “impressive results” against Russia in Kherson”
“’ Ukraine’s military has claimed it is achieving “impressive results” against Russian forces on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson.
“Over the past three days, we have quite impressive results of our combat work,” the spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Command said in a national broadcast Tuesday.
“We have managed to hit and destroy artillery pieces, tanks, vehicles, armored vehicles, and enemy air defense systems,” Natalia Humeniuk said. “In other words, our work on clearing the front line of the east bank is quite powerful, but we are still working in a counter-battery mode.”
Humeniuk hinted that further developments would be expected in the near future. She went on to say Russian evacuations from the banks of the Dnipro were also facilitating Ukrainian operations.”
https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-04-25-23/index.html
“A Russian BMP-1AM “Basurmanin” infantry fighting vehicle was destroyed by the Ukrainian army in Chervonopopivka, #Luhansk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1650815644667981825
“Another Russian scooby-do car (UAZ-452) broke the rules, but Ukrainian kamikaze drone punished him Location: #Donetsk region”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1650823914396819459
“This Russian serviceman was smart and surrendered.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1650808355273728006
Droned
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1650767345881690117
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1650600737582227500
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1650600158239793186
Ukraine: military situation update with maps - April 24, 2023
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine Explained/Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named Reporting from Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
-—> Daily Battle Maps by Date and Region, Showing Troop Dispositions and Movements: <——
https://deepstatemap.live/
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-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk
The Russian military, the second largest military in the world, may not be what it looks like. Lies and systematic corruptions may in fact have dragged Russia into this war with Ukraine, which has been heavily backed up by the US and NATO. We will present the evidence, you make your own decision, because the Russian Army, is not what you think.
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-—> Understanding Combined Arms Warfare <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZOGdKANL5s
Designed to support the U.S. Army Captains Career Course, “Understanding Combined Arms Warfare” defines and outlines the important aspects of modern combined arms operations. This is not a complete history of combined arms warfare. It is intended to highlight the most important aspects of the subject.
The beginning of the documentary establishes a common understanding of combined arms warfare by discussing doctrinal and equipment developments in World War I. The second part compares the development of French and German Army mechanization during the interwar period and describes how each country fared during the Battle of France in 1940. The film concludes by showing how the United States applied combined arms operations in the European Theater in World War II.
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-—> Combined Arms Breach, 1990 <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
What UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines. This visualization was developed for the Maneuver Center of Excellence and is closely based upon the National Training Center Breach and Assault exercise executed circa 1990. This visualization demonstrates viable Techniques, and Procedures as discussed in Army Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures March 3, 1990 for the conduct of the combined arms breach against a hypothetical enemy.
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-—> How Many of Each Type of Tank Does Russia Have In Storage? <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PHUK6zkbpc
Type Good 2023
T-54/55 270
T-62 560
T-64 248
T-72 1841
T-80 942
T-90 50
~3,911 operational tanks in storage as of ~04/07/2023 | Ball park tank number.
[ Ukrainians Cross The River Under Russian Noses | 20 km Bridgehead Established | Counter Offensive, Stage 1 ]
••Day 425: April 24
Today there is a lot of news from the South.
Here, due to the intensification of Ukrainian operations in the Zaporizhzhia region, Russian forces concentrated their attention on this area and even started provoking engagements to entice Ukrainians to attack.
However, in the meantime, Ukrainians discreetly crossed the Dnipro River and established a 20-km wide bridgehead on the eastern bank, opening the way for their sabotage and reconnaissance groups to facilitate the collapse of the front line by hitting Russians in the back.
Last time I told you that Ukrainians improved their tactical position along the whole Orikhiv front, in particular, in front of Kamianske and east and west of Nesterianka. I also told you that the Huliapole front started being more active because of the increasing number of artillery and aviation strikes and ongoing extensive de-mining of the fields.
The freshest reports suggest that Russians decided not to wait until Ukrainians launch their offensive and launched a series of attacks first.
As a result, Russian forces managed to increase their bridgehead in front of Dorozhnianka and Marfopil. Closer positions also allowed Russians to start targeting Ukrainian positions in the unnamed settlement in front of Marfopil.
The main goal of these actions is to not give Ukrainians enough time to prepare and force Ukrainians to engage the accumulated forces prematurely. And Russian sources are reporting significant concentrations of troops, namely up to 10 thousand assaultmen only around Huliapole.
In the Kherson region, Ukrainians have increased their bridgehead on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River to the point where many Russian sources started raising the alarm. Previously, Russian forces continued to occupy and establish observation posts in the residential areas of the islands in the Dnipro River’s delta.
The first clashes for control over the islands started when Russians attacked the bridge to Karantynyi Island. This did not help, as Ukrainians gradually pushed Russians from the Velykyi Potiomkin Island. Shortly, Ukrainians also established control over the proximate island with a lot of places for docking.
However, the biggest news by far became the fact that Ukrainians are present in the residential area of one of the biggest and most important islands in the region - the so-called Antonivsky Island. Such substantial control over the eastern bank of the river gives a lot of freedom for the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups.
This 20-km wide bridgehead is already hard to control, so if Ukrainians establish control over the remaining residential areas and get closer to the mainland, then a lot of Ukrainian sabotage teams will slip through and assist in the main phase of the counteroffensive operation by destroying strategic objects and critical railways and bridges.
Several days ago, Ukrainians also made the third test of their ballistic missile system, Hrim-2. The target became an unspecified object in Kerch. The rocket was shot down, but everyone understands that this is just a test, and the real attack would be concealed behind a massive drone and missile strike.
The most important takeaway is that Ukrainians established at least three positions for launching ballistic missiles: Odesa, Kherson, and Zaporizhia. The targets of the strikes were also objects in the vicinity of critical ground lines of communication, such as the Crimean Bridge and crucial railway stations in other cases.
And Ukrainians continue launching drones on Crimea as well. Today, two drones hit the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. Military analysts are saying that the main goal of these seemingly ineffective drone attacks in small groups is to keep their finger on the pulse and understand the current disposition and capabilities of the Russian air defense.
Ideally, Ukrainian commanders should see a decrease in the air defense density because Ukrainians took significant steps to force Russians to stretch their air defense.
For example, today, Ukrainians successfully destroyed a Russian oil depot in the Luhansk region with a drone attack. Russian sources also reported that today at least 3 Ukrainian drones reached Moscow. Interestingly, they were not shot down, they just ran out of gas. Russian military panicked and temporarily closed the sky over the military bases around Moscow.
Russians have already started relocating their air defense from the front to protect the sky over Moscow, and such drone attacks are aimed at making sure that they continue doing it at the expense of Zaporizhia and Crimea.
Russian analysts are warning that once Ukrainians are ready to launch the main phase of the counteroffensive, they will send swarms of drones to overwhelm Russian air defense in the region, and once the air defense is down, they will conduct extensive HIMARS strikes and use ballistic missiles Hrim-2 to take out Russian supplies right when they are going to need them the most.
••Partial success of drone boats, night time video show big blast were a Russian Navy ship should have been docked. Russian said be using dolphins to find drones.
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Moscow:
The 2 UJ-22 UA drones had 17kg of explosives and had flown past Moscow, crashing southewest of Nogins’k.
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Bakhmut will probably be abandoned in May.
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Kherson:
There were two groups that craved the river, one near the Antonovski Bridge and the second form Kherson.
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Documents that claim the UA lost 40% of its air forces are wrong as many more are no longer air worthy.
UA has sent a large group of it pilots to the US be trained on Western fighters.
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Zero tank loses in April? How can that be. Either the figure is wrong, Russia is not fielding tanks in operations, or they’re out. Which is it?
Once was not enough, it seems.
RuZZia’s winter offensive flopped. 300,000 draftees, hundreds of tanks and ... conquered virtually nothing.
Now RuZZia is playing defense. Tanks are generally staying behind the front lines.
Fork this bloody, evil war.
US suppled APC hit by 2 Russ ATGMs, just crowded with good Uke boys and men. 1/2 of them will probably be in the hospital for months with serious wounds, 1/3 of them die.
Posted today and spare me the typical this is old or CGI generated…look at the trees, that is spring foliage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFaZ2euN21Q
US and NATO ISR flights are back bigtime today watching southern Kherson as well as northern Crimean border…
Indonesian sources are so reliable and accurate. Wonder why any one would use any other source. /s
Hindustani news this time where do you find these paragons of truth? /s
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