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  • The Infrared Hunt for Russian Troops in the Battle for Bakhmut

    12/15/2022 5:01:58 AM PST · by Timber Rattler · 26 replies
    The New York Times ^ | December 15, 2022 | Thomas Gibbons-Neff
    Wind howled through leafless trees and through the windows of the blown-out apartment building as the surveillance team marched up flights of stairs covered with broken glass. The cold numbed their fingers as they set up their equipment: a laptop-size thermal imaging sight, its tripod and a Starlink satellite dish and battery. (snip) What unfolded over the next half-dozen hours was a routine but essential part of the daily rhythm of the war — part drudgery and part urgent calculation as the team ascertained the coordinates for enemy positions, relaying them to the Ukrainian artillery battery miles away. This type...