https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1682736554131828737
The link below has info on SMArt155.
Posted on 07/22/2023 8:24:10 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/f-bloggers/4169493/posts
Calling someone a RuZZian on FR is considered an insult.
Calling someone a Comrade on FR is considered an insult.
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA. The biggest winner of the war.
Invaders lost another 10 tanks!
Demilitarization, desatanization and denazification of RuZZia continues.
“Russia Backtracks on Pledge to Raise Minimum Draft Age”
“Russia will keep its minimum conscription age at 18 despite a promise to raise the limit as part of the military’s plans to increase troop numbers, a senior lawmaker said Friday.
A bill backed by President Vladimir Putin originally envisioned an increase in age limits for compulsory military service from the current range of men aged 18-27 to 21-30.
A transition period broadening the eligibility pool was viewed by critics as an attempt to compensate for troop losses in Ukraine by increasing the number of men eligible for conscription.
Andrei Kartapolov, the bill’s co-author and chair of the Defense Committee in Russia’s lower-house State Duma, said the new amendments would keep the lower age limit intact and only raise the upper limit to 30.“
RuZZian losses now exceed Ukrainian losses during UA Offensive
(including 30 UA tank losses vs 54 RU tank losses)
“#Zaporizhzhia counter-offensive equipment loss numbers as of 21 July 2023.
In summary: 210 UA losses vs. 225
RU losses Spreadsheet showing the losses in detail:”
https://twitter.com/naalsio26/status/1682498900572119041
Droned
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682473780013158402
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682743916360089602
“We often say that Russia will never run out of Ural and KamAZ trucks, but as you can see, this is not so ... Due to their large losses, the old ZIL-131 of the 60s of production are massively removed from the storage bases.”
https://twitter.com/AlexRaptor94/status/1682285079064715265
“A Russian 9P138 Grad-1 122mm multiple rocket launcher was destroyed by Ukrainian counter-battery fire near Kamyanka-Dniprovska, #Kherson Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1682734217614991361
“Destruction of a Russian Strela-10 AD system”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1682710446862655489
“Quite an explosion at a Russian-controlled airfield/fuel depot near Simferopol, Crimea. Reports say Ukrainian drones were used to target it.”
https://twitter.com/Mike_Eckel/status/1682681057462693889
“Explosions, as well as secondary explosions, were heard by locals near Oktyabr’skoye, Crimea. Reportedly somewhere from the direction of the local airfield. Russians claim that there was a drone attack. ~175-180km from the front line.”
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1682667526973542400
“Destruction of an enemy T-80 tank on one of the directions”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682744947311624193
“Air reconnaissance of the Volyn Terrodefense tracked the Russian BMP.“
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682743247074885632
“The destruction of the Russian 2a65 Msta-B by soldiers of the 44th OABR in the Zaporozhye direction.”
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1682742953381449731
“Demilitarised: Russian RIA Novosti correspondent and combatant Rostislav Zhuravlev has died as a result of a successful Ukrainian artillery strike near Pyatykhatky, Zaporizhzhia region. As the Russian blogger Zhivov points out, the crew was filming operation of MLRS units in the area. Zhuravlev was not the only one to perish: “In the near future, hohols will post a video of the strike, after which our military correspondents and servicemen died. The guys worked on the material with MLRS crews. After leaving the position, they were hit by a counter-battery strike with cluster munitions. The guys from the artillery regiment tried to save Zhuravlev. They flew to the hospital. But there was not enough time. Unfortunately, the enemy [drones] fly almost with impunity, even in our near rear. They have the ability to track the work of combat artillery units.””
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1682734897083940865
“RIA’s reporter Rostislav Zhuravlev killed on the frontline in Ukraine today was a regional NBP (Limonov’s party) leader from the Urals who took part in the takeover of administrative buildings in Donetsk by the pro-Russians back in 2014.”
https://twitter.com/leonidragozin/status/1682733147019005953
Ukraine: military situation update - July 21, 2023
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
==
——> Trench Warfare In Ukraine Casts Old School Army Training In Different Light <——
The Army’s trench warfare training may have seemed archaic in the past, but the war in Ukraine is serving as the latest reminder otherwise.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/trench-warfare-in-ukraine-casts-old-school-army-training-in-different-light
Reporting from Ukraine:
Narrated by Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.
Translated into 18+ languages.
Note: other versions of this report are found elsewhere on FR, but this is guaranteed to be the complete transcript - unlike the others. Note: 07/13/23, YT now requires sign in to view content of this site.
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
[ Ukrainian Partisans Blow Up a Huge Russian Ammo Depot | Insane Partisan Warfare ]
••Day 513: Jul 21
Today, President Putin held a meeting with the National Security Council and made a series of very important statements in light of what is happening right now near the Polish, Belorussian, and Ukrainian border.
Putin said that Poland is preparing to leverage its NATO membership status to invade Ukraine and possibly Belarus to annex its supposed historical territories.
Putin emphasized that Poland seized historic Russian territories in the past by taking advantage of the civil war in Russia at the time.
Putin also emphasized that Poland received its western territories as a gift from USSR and noted that if Poland forgot about that, then they would remind it.
In the meantime, Polish security official Stanislaw Zaryn stated that the Wagner Group is deploying it’s forces to the Polish border.
As you remember, after a demonstrative unsuccessful coup, the Wagner Group was supposedly exiled to Belarus, where they were received as experienced military instructors who would be training the Belorussian forces.
Zaryn stated that such developments are not surprising and that Poland is aware of the fact that the Wagner group could be used in provocations near the Polish border.
This is a dangerous path for escalation and direct implication of Belarus and Poland in the conflict.
In the meantime, Russian Black Sea Fleet decided to demonstrate what would happen with the ships that entered Ukrainian harbors after the cancellation of the grain deal and destroyed a ship as a part of target practice.
As a target, they used an empty Ukrainian Corvette, Ternopil, that Russians seized in 2014 when they occupied Crimea.
The ship was destroyed and sunk somewhere between Odesa and Sevastopol.
Today, Russian forces also continued destroying Ukrainian harbors in the Odesa region.
This time the main target of the Russian missile strike became not terminals with wheat, but terminals with peas and barley.
The spokeswoman for the Southern Group of Forces reported that Russians destroyed 120 tons of grain.
Meanwhile, Russian forces are facing a rise of Ukrainian partisans.
Today Mariupol Mayoral Advisor reported that Ukrainian partisans identified and destroyed a huge Russian ammunition depot near Mariupol.
Russian commanders who were responsible for handling supplies in Mariupol complained for a long time that the local residents were giving away their movements and location to the Ukrainian forces.
That is why missile strikes here are so frequent and so precise, and destructive.
It looks like one of the solutions to this problem was to relocate ammunition depots further from the city. Unfortunately for Russians, it became the target of the partisans instead.
Simultaneously, a huge fire broke out in Rostov.
Local residents were consumed by panic, as Ukrainians previously conducted a lot of drone strikes on the oil refineries in the region.
Russian sources reported that someone caused a fire in the facilities devoted to collecting and recycling paper.
Even though it is not a military target, such news amplified the awareness of the successful actions of Ukrainian partisans in Mariupol.
Ukrainian forces also conducted a drone strike on Crimea. The first target became Russian military objects in Rozdolne.
The footage from surveillance cameras indicates that there was at least 1 explosion somewhere outside the settlement.
Some Ukrainian sources reported that the target of the drone was the Russian air defense.
Other drones were seen in the sky near the Russian airfield in Saky.
At first, Russian sources concluded that all drones were shot down, as there were no reports of explosions in the vicinity of the airfield.
However, later it became clear that most drones managed to penetrate Russian air space and reach Hvardiiske.
There are multiple airfields around Hvardiiske that are constantly being used by Russian
forces.
Due to the activity of electronic warfare systems, some drones got hijacked or redirected,
which is why some drones fell on Simferopol.
In light of the increased activity of Ukrainian forces in Crimea, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Gavrylov stated that the chances of the Russian Black Sea Fleet surviving are shrinking every day.
He said that compared to the last year, Ukrainians significantly improved their fire control over the Black Sea with aerial and marine drones, which is why Russian ships are not moving as freely as before.
He said that his main goal right now is to force Russians to move their ships away from Crimea, especially missile carriers.
••Strelkov created the Angry Patriots Club, consisting of fellow war criminals and high ranking military officers. Strelkov is facing 20 years in prison.
Translating Strelkov’s Telegram writing is very difficult because he uses “specific” [ idiomatic? ] Russian.
Besides castigating Putin as a “cowardly mediocrity”, he was likely arrested because his huge popularity, like Prigozhin’s, presents a threat to Putin.
Strelkov started the war in Ukraine in 2014, and he is the one who ordered the Malaysian MH-17 shot down.
And so, after Prigozhin’s rebellion, Putin began the hunt for those that could destabilize the Russian system. Strelkov certainly qualified.
Many clans in Russia, from the military to the FSB, support Strelkov.
Russia Clans:
Clan 1. Military Command Officers, like Shoigu and Gerasimov. Shoigu and Gerasimov have held their positions for a long time and want to keep this positions and the corrupt schemes they have organized like the SMO. Putin also supports them.
Clan 2. FSB also gets some support from Putin, but not as much as Clan 1.
[ Clan 3. GRU which seemed to support Prigozhin. ]
==
Egypt which consumes 1.8 million tons of Ukrainian grain a year, condemned Russia for destroying the grain deal. Egypt uses other Ukrainian agricultural products to support their own farms along the Nile. [Without this grain, Egypt faces famine & unrest. ]
Negotiations continue between Turkey, Ukraine, and the UN.
==
After South Africa asked the International Court for an official warrant did Putin cancel his appearance at the BRICS meeting.
==
Wagner forces deployed to the Polish border in “training exercises”. Poland sent reinforcements to its border to keep the Wagners from doing something foolish. Putin immediately criticized Poland for wanting to annex the Western side of Ukraine, followed by more Putin Blah-Blah.
==
France offers asylum to Russian draft dodgers. But, the air lines between France and Russian are shut down, and many EU countries have closed their borders to the same group.
==
Russia continues to take more territory near Karmayznivka, around 2.8km in one day, southwest of Svatove.
••Ukraine offensive about to gain pace.
The dynamics at the front are about to change. Ukrainian counteroffensive “gaining momentum” - Zelensky
According to him, our fighters “are already passing through some places of mines and clearing these areas.”
He also called for more long-range missiles and modern fighter jets to be supplied to Ukraine.
==
Military vehicle losses for the last couple of days; RU=45. UA=24, including 1 Bradley destroyed.
==
Minus the Russian military propagandist.
The Ukrainian military liquidated the Russian propagandist Rostislav Zhuravlev.
Zhuravlev was a “military correspondent” of the RIA Novosti agency. They reported today that their employee “died as a result of Ukrainian shelling”
https://t.me/pilotblog/5503
==
The Armed Forces of Ukraine have every chance to achieve significant success during the summer counter-offensive
The corresponding statement was made by the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) William Burns, Bloomberg quotes.
Intelligence notes that the Russian army suffers from significant “structural flaws” that hide a powerful defensive fortification. In particular, this is evidenced by the low morale of soldiers and disorder among the political and military leadership of the Russian Federation.
“It will be a difficult task, but as an intelligence agency we will do our best to provide the kind of intelligence support and data sharing that will help Ukrainians make progress,” Burns said.
==
A new kaboom in Crimea. Military airfield and depot
https://t.me/pilotblog/5500?single
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Anxious Saturday in Crimea continues: after the explosions, a fire broke out at the railway station in Oktyabrsky
“... sources in the FSB, GRU and Ministry of Internal Affairs explain why Vladimir Putin’s security apparatus failed to stop Wagner from seizing a key military base and charging all the way to the gates of Moscow.”
Long article.
https://theins.ru/en/politics/263596
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1682736554131828737
The link below has info on SMArt155.
What do you do, write up your replies essentially to yourself, before you make your post so that you can copy and paste them into your stupid, daily screed?
Pathetic isn’t a strong enough word to describe this.
155mm SMArt
155mm Sensor Fuzed Munition (SFM) for the Artillery
SMArt 155, a Sensor Fuzed Munition (SFM) for 155mm Cannon Artillery, is a fire and forget artillery round that is very effective in GPS denied environments and against targets with large target location errors (TLE).
SMArt 155 uses high performance explosively formed penetrator (EFP) technology and a multi-mode sensor suite to provide predictable and precise lethal areas of effects in all weather and environments.
SMArt 155 is compliant to the DOD Unexploded Ordnance requirements.
The SMArt 155 will bring a proven, cost effective, and low-risk solution to the US Army and the Marine Corps providing a robust solution to defeat medium and heavy armored targets.
The SMArt 155 projectile consists of a thin-walled shell body, a base plate, an ejection unit, time fuse, and two functionally identical submunitions.
SMArt Warhead provides maximum penetration performance and behind armor effect for today’s and future requirements to reliably defeat any kind of combat vehicles on the battlefield
Features:
NATO Type-Classified
Demonstrated for use in US 155mm Artillery Systems through a Foreign Comparative Test (FCT) program
Over 12,000 rounds produced
Two redundant self-destruction mechanisms in order to avoid unexploded ordnance on the battlefield
Meets US DOD Cluster Munition Policy and UXO requirements
Technology was developed, qualified and is currently in service at various armies (GE, GR, CH, AUS)
Maximum Range: 22 km
General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) and GIWS (Gesellschaft für Intelligente Wirksysteme mbH) have teamed to provide the US Army and the Marine Corps with a 155mm Sensor Fuzed Munition (SFM) artillery round.
Excellent hit accuracy, unmatched penetration performance and reliable target destruction and neutralization has been proven with heavily armored targets, including reactive armor as well as semi hard targets.
155mm SMArt 155 Technical Specifications:
Weight with Fuze......103 lb (47 kg)
Length with Fuze......35 in (898 mm)
Body Material......Forged Steel
Color......Olive Drab with Yellow Markings
Explosive Fill......High Explosive 9.7 lb (4.2 kg)
Packaging......US Standard Packaging Configuration
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