Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments PART 2

[A.P. Richelieu]

I said you can virtualize any "hardware dedicated processing task".

ADC is to get data from real world, you can't virtualise a sensor certainly. But once you get the data digitally, you can handle it in a general purpose processor like in any other specialised hardware would do, slower.

The DSP in the drones are mixed signal chips.
You cannot replace them with just a general purpose processor, which is the point.
The use of DSP instead of a general purpose microcontroller indicates that running the algorithm slower will mean that the program will fail.
You forget about the flight controls, rudders etc. Those need analogue inputs.

Chinese companies that ship stuff to Iran risk being targetted by the US. It is known to withdraw right to use of patents for companies that ship parts to Iran.
That means that if they do not stop shipping parts that violate those patents immediately, the whole company will be sanctioned.
Why would a chinese company risk their business with the West to ship a few thousand chips to Iran. That would be bad ROI.

But every sensor that need flying pistachios 136 has his civil double-use product widely available (GNSS receiver, Inertial guidance: gyroscope and acelerometer, data link, and so on). AFAIK at least.

With sanctions, maybe the cost increase a little, it losts some warhead useful weigh load and some accuracy, but they can keep banging Ukraine even using a 100 EUR smartphone as only Shahed-136 digital hardware.

In the west military industry often they dont care about prices, and every little crappy thing has overrated costs.

Iran is doing something that we can call LowCost Warfare, and it must be fought in the same way.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Spoiler: Graphic

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583584116322488320

 

[_Nabil_]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583504530280357893

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583631455808532481

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583600681751318529

https://twitter.com/x/status/1581381393581428736

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583598098726543360

It looks like the Russians have neutralized the threat from much vaunted, GPS-guided HIMARS rockets. And it does explain the recent development where the British defense secretary rushed to Washington to share some dire warnings or perhaps desperation on his part.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583576510161485824

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583608415234174976

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583593975822569472

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583439954465943552

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583637147248365569

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583637147248365569

Lancet is basically Javelin except 20 times the range.

 

[ziaulislam]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583598098726543360

It looks like the Russians have neutralized the threat from much vaunted, GPS-guided HIMARS rockets. And it does explain the recent development where the British defense secretary rushed to Washington to share some dire warnings or perhaps desperation on his part.

Then how would you explain the gains ukrianians are making..

Russia has been pounded bad and has been exposed how poor they are in equipment and training

 

[khansaheeb]

U.S. Sees Opportunity for Ukraine to Capitalize on Russian Weakness​

WASHINGTON — The Ukrainian military has a window of opportunity to make gains against Russia’s army over the next six weeks, according to American intelligence assessments, if it can continue its push in the south and the northeast before muddy ground and cloud cover force the opposing armies to pause and regroup.

American officials say there is little chance of a widespread collapse in Russian forces that would allow Ukraine to take another huge swath of territory, similar to what it claimed last month. But individual Russian units could break in the face of sustained Ukrainian pressure, allowing Kyiv’s army to continue retaking towns in the Donbas and potentially seize the city of Kherson, a major prize in the war.

U.S. Sees Opportunity for Ukraine to Capitalize on Russian Weakness

The next six weeks, before fall mud spreads, could allow Ukraine’s military to press forward in the Donbas and potentially retake Kherson, American officials said. But Russia may not be deterred.

www.nytimes.com

Defenses are harder to crack than an offense, it would be incredibly risky to just blindly charge into Russian Artilleries and the Ukrainian cost will be too high. All Ukraine has to is keep making the Russian pay a heavy price for the misadventure and grind the Russians down.

Iran could normalize the relationship to the west. They could sell oil and gas to the west. They could do normal trades, investments with the west. But No, they rather collude with Russia and go down the drains together.

Yep just like Germany and Vietnam have gone down the drain.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

Then how would you explain the gains ukrianians are making..

Russia has been pounded bad and has been exposed how poor they are in equipment and training

Early victories can still lose. England lost Hundred Years War despite early victories.

Defenses are harder to crack than an offense, it would be incredibly risky to just blindly charge into Russian Artilleries and the Ukrainian cost will be too high. All Ukraine has to is keep making the Russian pay a heavy price for the misadventure and grind the Russians down.

Time is not on Ukrainian side. Russians outnumber Ukrainians more than 3 to 1. The longer the war, the more Ukrainian attrition. Russians can replace tank losses with new tanks. Ukrainians cannot replace losses.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1583404167254933504

 

[aviator_fan]

If you think 42 million Ukrainians can fight 146 million Russians you have another thing coming.

The mental stupidity is back. You were gone for a while. Population has never been the determinant for military victory (no more than having trees is a way to print money which you also keep on idiotically writing about):
1. Japan 1/10th population occupied China (US defeated Japan)
2. Israel beat Arabs in conflict while outnumbered 10:1
3. European powers were small in population and (unfortunately) colonized the world

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

The mental stupidity is back. You were gone for a while. Population has never been the determinant for military victory (no more than having trees is a way to print money which you also keep on idiotically writing about):
1. Japan 1/10th population occupied China (US defeated Japan)
2. Israel beat Arabs in conflict while outnumbered 10:1
3. European powers were small in population and (unfortunately) colonized the world

Keeping all other factors constant, population makes a huge difference. Germany would have won WW1 and WW2 if they weren't outnumbered 2 to 1.