Posted on 11/09/2023 7:05:42 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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Previous day’s thread: https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4195377/posts
Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA.
“Anti-Access Air Denial, Jammer & FPV based Ukrainian Air superiority over the Dnipro. It’s time to acknowledge that air superiority is less & less based on crewed high performance aircraft. Control of the electromagnetic spectrum is air superiorities’ most important element 1/
And we are seeing that right now with Russian complaints at #Krynky . This is because observed artillery fire with precision guided artillery projectiles have in part replaced crewed airpower in retail close air support and battlefield interdiction 2/
...when combined with drones. There are so few crewed strike jets now compared to WW2, with too many levels of command claiming “Higher Priorities” for a highly expensive & scarce asset, that Field artillery & attack helicopters have taken up the roles. 3/
And now that Ukraine has both GMLRS & ATACMS to go with their drone intelligence surveillance & reconnaissance (ISR) assets. Ukraine has ‘anti-access area denied’ the VKS’s rotary wing logistics back into Russia behind Rostov-on-the-Don.
And Ukraine would not be able to do that A2AD trick to VKS rotary wing assets without secure, jam proof, data links to its drones. And it’s not just rotary wing assets, it’s the VKS Buk, S-300 & S-400 SAM’s being pushed back by the GMLRS/drones as well 5/
Given that high altitude VKS SAM’s are pushed back out of GMLRS range. There are low altitude sanctuaries for even TB2 sized drones to do the long range surveillance game up to 50 km at 1200 feet (under 300 m) calling down guided artillery rocket hell. 6/
A TB2 orbiting under 1,200 feet at 20km behind the forward edge of the battle area (FEBA) can see 30 km into the Russian tactical depth, calling fire support assets to interdict vehicle movement & perform counter-battery spotting. 7/
In a situation where you masses of “small, cheap, many” FPV drones reaching more than 25 km from the behind the FEBA getting fed that TB2 surveillance data. You get what amounts to the most extensive BAI campaign in human history. 8/
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. The article titled “Conflict Archaeology of Tactical Air Power: The Forêt Domaniale de la Londe-Rouvray and the Normandy Campaign of 1944” is that proof. 1,600 craters from Tac-Air there. 9/
And WW2 tac-air in the 1944 Normandy Campaign was incapable of killing tanks. The same cannot be said of 2023 Ukrainian FPV drones. TheAFV kill numbers from the “Army of Drones” under Ukraine’s Ministry of Digital Transformation are bracing. 10/
BLUF: 12 to 15 THOUSAND FPV drones a month means a level of retail vehicle battlefield air interdiction never before seen in warfare. 11/
And they are kill AFV’s at longer and longer ranges with improving accuracy. 12/
It’s not just FPV’s drone are killing AFV’s. Which we have seen over and over again. 13/
It is — H—ls flipping bells — FPV drones are hunting individual Russian motorcycle messengers. [Try to do that with a “Big/Few/Expensive” F-35. ] 14/
And the Ukrainians have both integrated and “Electronically deconflicted” a new generation of jammers of Russian FPV drones with a new generation of long range FPV drones hardened against jamming. 15/
The age of rapidly iterating small/cheap/many FPV drones & EW is making a mockery of our previous ideas of what constitutes air superiority. A $30K a flight hour crewed jet with a brace of $20K a shot laser guided rockets is no answer to $2,000 a shot BAI capable drones. 16/16”
https://twitter.com/TrentTelenko/status/1722381017917386832
SWEET
“Geolocation of the Ukrainian HIMARS strike on Skadovsk in the occupied Kherson oblast. Destroyed is a second floor of the 2 floor brick building. 46.112865, 32.914884. Several high ranked Russian officers are killed, according to both Russian and Ukrainian sources.”
https://twitter.com/kromark/status/1722555763619471820
“There was shelling in the temporarily occupied port city of Skadovsk in the Zaporizhzhia region this morning which resulted in a collapse of a building. Commentary from Russians hinting that some important people were in the house: “not military, but others”, perhaps officials. But the situation appears worse than what the authorities are trying to paint it. We will soon hear more about it.”
https://twitter.com/wartranslated/status/1722549264209838347
“SKADOVSK | KHERSON REGION The Russians wrote that the air defense system was working. But, a building where the Russian military was stationed fully destroyed. Most likely, dozens of Russian officers died as a result of the strike. 65km to frontline”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1722558273075741047
Backup Fav video of the day
“RUSSIAN LOSSES | KUPYANSK DIRECTION Destruction of Russian infantry by drone-dropped munitions Drone took a small area of the front under fire control and destroyed the enemy’s manpower”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1722611888209670382
“Another Russian TOS-1A catastrophically disintegrated after being hit by single FPV drone.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1722526577072779531
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
“A record for SBU unit ‘A’. A total of 20 Russian targets destroyed in just one night. Among them 8 tanks, 3 Msta-S self propelled guns, 3 D-30 howitzers, 1 APC and 5 fortifications with at least 17 Russian soldiers inside.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722620738019217628
“Still shots from a Shark UAV that captured the moment a Russian infantry group in the occupied part of the Zaporizhzia region was hit.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722615403007119680
That the best you could do? Couldn’t say Ukraine was attacking a baby formula factory? Baby diaper factory? A hospital filled with dying patients?
“The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt, announced an alleged attack by Ukrainian drones on a butter factory in the city of Sudzha. Russia claims that 3 cluster munitions were allegedly dropped. There were no casualties but damage to the enterprise.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722552956963131472
“A burning Russian tank after it met with a Ukrainian FPV.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1722519887430455592
“Destruction of Russian MT-LB with crew by FPV kamikaze drone of the Ukrainian 63rd Mechanised Brigade.“
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1722530239761293706
RuZZians are being slaughtered
“Field littered with killed Russian soldiers after a failed assault that was repelled by Ukrainian soldiers from the 2nd Battalion of the 30th Mechanized Brigade at Kupyansk area, Kharkiv Region.”
https://twitter.com/GloOouD/status/1722345549934764506
“you’re just scum”
Pretty good!
And I agree with that statement.
I am going to help you out since this thread has 15 posts all from the OP.
““Strategic objectives have not been achieved this year, and it’s hardly possible” in the remaining months, Lieutenant General Ihor Romanenko, former deputy chief of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, told Al Jazeera.
He blamed Western allies for months-long delays of weaponry and a reluctance to supply more sophisticated arms.
“Weaponry should be supplied on time, not the way our allies are doing it,” he said. Ukrainian “generals asked [for certain arms] a year ago, but they still didn’t supply even the types of arms that had been agreed upon.”
Ukrainian top brass have long complained about the delays that Western officials say are caused by logistical hurdles.
Meanwhile, the war has morphed into WWI-like positional warfare that exhausts both sides in terms of manpower and economy.
“This is not our war because resources-wise, economically, Russia looks stronger and has a four-fold advantage in manpower,” Romanenko said.
Russia’s population stands at 143 million, but millions of Ukrainian nationals live in annexed Crimea and other occupied areas of eastern and southern Ukraine.
Ukraine’s current population is between 29 and 33 million, according to different estimates.
And even though men aged 18 to 60 are not allowed to leave Ukraine, and several waves of mobilisation had hundreds of thousands drafted, heavy losses have bled Ukrainian forces dry.
“Obviously, there isn’t enough manpower,” Romanenko said.
He said there should be tougher measures to register all men of fighting age and classify them according to their fitness for combat.
Meanwhile, some younger Ukrainians dodge the draft any way they can.
“I got a summons, it was stuck in my [apartment] door,” Boris, a 21-year-old university student in Kyiv, told Al Jazeera. “I have kept it there for two months so that it looks like no one lives in the apartment.”
Ukraine’s commander-in-chief reportedly admitted that the counteroffensive had reached a “stalemate”.
“Just like in the first world war we have reached the level of technology that puts us into a stalemate,” he told The Economist on November 1. “There will most likely be no deep and beautiful breakthrough.””
The average age of a Ukrainian soldier is now 43, which can be verified through multiple sources. The reason is fairly obvious. Generations of younger Ukrainian men have been decimated or worse. That is what clamoring for war until the last Ukrainian has accomplished.
One enemy soldier showed some spirit unlike most of his pals. He really ran hard to get his comrade off the burning vehicle which took some effort but his pull at the 43-second mark was successful. That guy risked his neck to save his mate.
Now he needs to help get his comrades out of Ukraine.
“...That is what clamoring for war until the last Ukrainian has accomplished...”
The above is as perverted of a thought process as could possibly be made. Ukraine was invaded and brave men are fighting to defend their country. Ukrainians understand Patrick Henry’s “clamoring” for liberty and take it seriously even when the cost is very high. You only cheer the advancement of Moscow’s hammer and sickle flags. You are sick.
Multiple explosions in Sevastopol right now.
RuZZia doing so well, they are recruiting in Africa and Cuba.
“Afro-African mercenary from Nigeria”
https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1722642278152343846
“Cuban mercenaries.”
https://twitter.com/666_mancer/status/1722642043032289761
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