Posted on 12/24/2023 12:20:02 PM 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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Summarizing this war:
A tragedy for Ukraine.
A disaster for RuZZia.
A strategic win for the USA.
“Why Internet Trolls Do What They Do and How to Spot Russian Fakes”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLtBzvw0—0
“Here is the best-kept secret about U.S. military aid to Ukraine: Most of the money is being spent here in the United States. That’s right: Funds that lawmakers approve to arm Ukraine are not going directly to Ukraine but being used stateside to build new weapons or to replace weapons sent to replace weapons sent to Kyiv from U.S. stockpiles. Of the $68 billion in military and related assistance Congress has approved since Russia invaded Ukraine, almost 90 percent is going to Americans, one analysis found.”
https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1730119780873441750
On vacation in Europe tomorrow thru Jan 7th.
Will resume daily thread on Jan 8th.
Merry Christmas Everyone!
“Footage of a night drone from Ukraine’s Khorne Group dropping a TM-62 mine on a Russian BTR-80 with a RP-377 EW jammer and 82mm mortar rounds on other vehicles.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1739008403505140147
“There are ongoing rumors that a Russian Su-30 aircraft that launched a Kh-59 missile towards Odesa region, was shot down by Ukrainian air defense. Waiting for more confirmation. The Ukrainian Air Force nor the commander/spokespersons have commented on it yet.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1739015537609330729
How does Russia even have any equipment left with all the losses?
“On the left bank, Russians gathered in a private house which literally got demolished right after.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738928952314384545
“In Kreminna forest near Dibrova, a 2S1 Gvozdika was hit.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738928294408405210
Just Warms the Heart
“A Russian BMP that was trying to get close to the front line on the left bank of the Kherson region was stopped by an FPV drone of the Gryphon unit of the 501st Separate Marine Battalion.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1738885320052003108
A big explosion. JDAM perhaps?
Just happened:
Russian Su-30 shot down over the Black Sea near Odesa.
Russian Su-34 shot down near Mariupol.
Merry Christmas, see you next year. Thanks for all you did and endured.
Pesky Patriots or Evil F-16s?
I assume Su-30 was shot down by the new Patriot battery. Su-34, no idea.
Corruption and fear are hindering effort to rebuild army
POKROVSK, Ukraine—During a break from fighting the Russians, an avuncular rifleman recalled how he was going for a haircut one day when he was press-ganged into joining the Ukrainian army.
Three recruitment officials accosted the stocky, gray-haired 47-year-old outside the barber shop in his small hometown, ordered him to get in a car and detained him for two days in a dark room at the local draft center until he had signed up.
“I got my haircut at the training camp,” he said.
Now known by his military call sign Dubok, the former electrical engineer offered to serve as a technician in the rear. “But to get that job, you have to pay bribes,” he said. Instead, he was sent to join an infantry unit depleted by months of hard fighting. His battalion of the 47th Mechanized Brigade is defending the city of Avdiivka against waves of Russian assaults, the biggest current battle in Russia’s relentless war on Ukraine.
“Physically, I can’t handle this,” Dubok said of front-line combat. “I’m deeply disappointed that I’m no longer 20.”
Ukraine needs to rebuild its battered army. The infantry, which bears the brunt of deaths and injuries, is chronically short of men after nearly two years of resisting Russia’s full-blown invasion.
The most highly motivated fighters volunteered early. Those who haven’t been killed or wounded often say they are exhausted. Ukraine now relies on the draft—and sometimes on rounding up men—to replenish the ranks.
What Su-34 pilots doink?
Waiting on confirmation on the SU-30.
Russian TG channel FighterBomber is pretty concerned about the Patriot, saying the SU-30/34/35 “Khibiny” EW system appears ineffective (as I posted yesterday).
—”For some reason, the jammers, specially designed to counteract this complex, did not work, which do not completely exclude its operation, but significantly reduce its operating range. In any case, they should. Maybe they didn’t exist at all, maybe they were ineffective, I don’t know.”—
Enjoy, merry Christmas
“Russian Su-30 shot down over the Black Sea near Odesa.
Russian Su-34 shot down near Mariupol.”
Wow, its just not safe for the Russian Aerospace Force in the Ukraine anymore.
Maybe they will have to follow the lead of the remaining Russian Black Sea Flotilla, and stay in Russia, where their losses are more moderate.
Also, we don’t seem to be seeing Su-24 and Su-25s anymore. I wonder if they are near the end of their rope on those aircraft, and now having to use up their front line jets, that they had previously been conserving for a contingency against NATO.
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