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They've been wrong before and the Ukrainians don't need to reach the coast, just far enough to get the transport routes under fire control.
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How Putin Fooled the Western Left
115,209 views Aug 16, 2023
As Putin's brutal invasion of Ukraine continues, we look at the failures of the Western left to grasp what is going on.
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They do not have to make it to the coast. All they need to do is get within fire control of the rail line and the highway.
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The whole idea is to cut the Russians in half and isolate southwestern Ukraine and Crimea, the Kerch bridge will go sooner or later. They are making the Russians relocate their air defenses by continually hitting Moscow and shutting down its airport, there will be less for the Kerch bridge and other targets. I think if the Ukrainians attacked the Russian power grid with drones (they won't) the Russians would be fucked in a month, and it would sure pull the AA defenses out of Ukraine!
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Seems a long way for a suicide FPV quad drone, but partisans behind enemy lines could be using them too. This was well planned; they knew exactly the window to fly into and the pilot planned his approach carefully. Careless talk on a cellphone in setting up the meeting perhaps. This would be a better instrument of assassination for the Ukrainians as it reduces collateral damage and can precisely target the bad guys, they are fighting in their own country, so killing innocents is to be avoided along with too much property damage. A HIMARS could have done the job, by leveling the building.
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For longer range I would reduce the payload and add a set of batteries that would be used at first and dropped like belly tanks on aircraft. In one of the video's above they are saying they are moving away from using the drones for kamikaze runs and dive bombing a target and reusing the drone.
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I'm sure they are trying lots of things and have plenty of targets to practice on, in theory dive bombing could work, the release point for a drone might only be only 100 feet above the target. A plane type drone could need traditional dive brakes to do it through and more training would be required. It is hard to beat the cost of a cardboard suicide plane type drone though that flies right into the target. Another advantage of dive bombing though is the loss of signal drones experience close to the ground, stay up high gives a clear signal. I see many of the drone operators now use a 100ft coax cable to a transmitter module remotely mounted, usually higher up on a pole while the operator remains under cover. Also a GPS tracking antenna (cheap) can greatly increase the range, reduce detectability of the operator and jamming by broadcasting in a beam and tracking the drone with a directional high gain receiver antenna. A simple directional YAGI antenna can serve as both a receiving and transmitting antenna, if everything is on the same frequency.
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Russia wants to ban the publication of videos of drone attacks
The possibility of introducing a law that will prohibit the distribution of photos and videos related to shelling, UAV attacks and other military events in the media and the Internet, with the exception of official information published by the Russian Ministry of Defense, is being considered. This was reported in the press service of Roskomnadzor.
“There is a willingness to consider a bill that prohibits the dissemination of photos and videos of shelling sites, as well as drone attacks, in the media and on the Internet,” the TASS press service reports. They added that other military events may also be banned. In this case, official information from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will be allowed for publication.
The possibility of introducing a law that will prohibit the distribution of photos and videos related to shelling, UAV attacks and other military events in the media and the Internet, with the exception of official information published by the Russian Ministry of Defense, is being considered. This was reported in the press service of Roskomnadzor.
“There is a willingness to consider a bill that prohibits the dissemination of photos and videos of shelling sites, as well as drone attacks, in the media and on the Internet,” the TASS press service reports. They added that other military events may also be banned. In this case, official information from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will be allowed for publication.
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I'd listen to Ben closely he has been one of the guys who has been right quite a bit about this war so far.
Ben Hodges on the Russia - Ukraine war: “We’ll See a Different Situation in a Few Weeks”
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Ben Hodges, retired United States Army Lieutenant general and former commanding general of the United States Army Europe, joined us to discuss why he still believes the Ukrainian counteroffensive can still be a success, why success must come from a logistical blockade of Crimea, and why the United States cannot explicitly say they want Ukraine to win the war.
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Ben Hodges on the Russia - Ukraine war: “We’ll See a Different Situation in a Few Weeks”
159,611 views Aug 16, 2023 #Ukraine #Russia #Hodges
Ben Hodges, retired United States Army Lieutenant general and former commanding general of the United States Army Europe, joined us to discuss why he still believes the Ukrainian counteroffensive can still be a success, why success must come from a logistical blockade of Crimea, and why the United States cannot explicitly say they want Ukraine to win the war.
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Why China will be watching as Ukraine’s marines attack Russian troops | Defence in Depth
242,304 views Aug 17, 2023 #ukrainewar #ukraine #china
Marine units, amphibious forces, naval infantry, however you want to describe them, offer military commanders a niche capability: the ability to approach the often overlooked flanks of rivers and the sea and launch an assault. Or, threaten to launch an assault.
Projecting military force from the sea onto the land has always been a tricky business. But with 40 per cent of the world’s population and many economic and political centres of power located within 60 miles of the coast, dominating the littoral zone - the bit of the earth where rivers and seas meet land, plus a bit extra on either side - has always been a critical task for the military.
The problem is that land-based systems to target troop ships and aircraft carriers now have ranges of hundreds of miles, all part of what the military calls an Anti-Access Area Denial, or A2AD, bubble. How to safely penetrate and operate inside an enemy’s A2AD bubble is evident today in Ukraine and is focussing minds thinking about a potential conflict over Taiwan in the near tomorrow.
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Some of the best drone video of Russians getting hammered is on telegram and Russians and Ukrainians use it, it must be a battlefield in its own right with a telegram war! Are they gonna censor telegram, can they? Telegram is where all the shit they are talking about is or originates.Russia wants to ban the publication of videos of drone attacks
The possibility of introducing a law that will prohibit the distribution of photos and videos related to shelling, UAV attacks and other military events in the media and the Internet, with the exception of official information published by the Russian Ministry of Defense, is being considered. This was reported in the press service of Roskomnadzor.
“There is a willingness to consider a bill that prohibits the dissemination of photos and videos of shelling sites, as well as drone attacks, in the media and on the Internet,” the TASS press service reports. They added that other military events may also be banned. In this case, official information from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation will be allowed for publication.
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I would call what the video shows "toss bombing", with a quadcopter, releasing a grenade at around 60 mph at the right altitude. It might take a bit of practice, but I can see a fellow getting good at it, seems to work fine and a drone can throw a grenade further than an arm can or even a grenade launcher. It can toss them right into a bunker, window or doorway, yep with a bit of practice I can see some of these boys getting pretty good at toss bombing, a potential battlefield sport! Grenades are pretty light so the range and handling of the drone should be good too.
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With a 15kg payload these things could be equipped with various bomb racks for dropping everything from several mortar rounds to 30 hand grenades to do a number on a Russian trench line at night. When the drone lands they change out the battery and plug in a fresh loaded bomb rack and off they go again. Having drones operating overhead is terrifying by all accounts and it takes a psychological toll on the troops, and these ones are bombers that can literally rain 30 hand grenades down on them or drop them one at a time.
In a western style army, it is up to the unit how it takes the objective using imagination and tactics and tactical calls are made at low level. If your objective was to take a Russian fortification a couple of miles away, you would want to be well equipped with drones, it makes your job easier, and they make you live longer! Reconnaissance, land mine detection, killing the enemy in their bunker's, foxholes and trenches for cheap, protection from tanks and the means to destroy, mortars, trucks and APCs well back from the front. A dog might be man's best friend, but I think a drone might be a modern soldier's best friend, either that or their worst enemy.
In a western style army, it is up to the unit how it takes the objective using imagination and tactics and tactical calls are made at low level. If your objective was to take a Russian fortification a couple of miles away, you would want to be well equipped with drones, it makes your job easier, and they make you live longer! Reconnaissance, land mine detection, killing the enemy in their bunker's, foxholes and trenches for cheap, protection from tanks and the means to destroy, mortars, trucks and APCs well back from the front. A dog might be man's best friend, but I think a drone might be a modern soldier's best friend, either that or their worst enemy.
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The US military are currently replacing almost 12,000 heavy military trucks, I wonder how many of these will have a second life in Ukraine over the next few years... Very useful for more than transport, you can mount a variety of heavy weapons on this platform from AA defense to 155mm artillery and MLRS. They should be going cheap, and Ukraine could use them today and into the future.
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Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement - Wikipedia
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This stuff should be out of the radio range of even cardboard plane type drones, how are they controlling them and getting a video signal? Relaying the signal from another flying drone? Using lower radio frequencies that work better close to the ground? These things are tens of kilometers from the front and to FPV suicide drone them ya got to be able to see them on video and control the drone into the target. They could also have been autonomous using GPS, but it's hard to hit targets in the trees using such a method. Beyond the range of a quadcopter, but not a simple cardboard plane type drone.