Russia-Ukraine War - News and Developments

[Paul2]

Imagine a future where a large cruise missile delivers 10's/100's of smart/AI based suicide drones over an airfield each with the explosive power of a grenade. The Americans and Chinese are working on this and others will not be that far behind.

Future of warfare is brutal and *** fast *** ... entire suites of capabilities can be lost in a moment.. Such a change - requires a change in doctrine and who "strikes" first becomes ever more important than it used to in the past - given how much damage first mover advantage offers you now..

Drones are a massive game changer as is AI ... dont think everyone has worked out what this means for the future of warfare yet.

Yes, CBU 97, and XM29 are only peanuts vs. what is to come.

Imagine 122mm missiles carrying cluster munitions with these switchblades with HEAT warheads.

2-3 drones per missile, and can cover an area bigger than a whole 300mm salvo.

XM29 got 1 kill per 2.5 rockets, 4-5 kills per salvo.

A Grad with Switchblades with 30% kill rate would be 40 kills per salvo, or 1 dead armour battalion.

 

[dBSPL]

The Central Bank of Russia has announced that the Russian Mir card payment system can be used in Turkey to withdraw cash and pay for shopping on Türkiye İş Bankası, Ziraat Bankası and VakıfBank devices.

Russians are preparing to shop through Turkish banks.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1503845091408072713

 

[Wood]

This isn't exactly fairly framed. Russians never stated their goal being taking over all of Ukraine. Maybe their game here is to make it seem like and then settle for what they want, annexing certain parts of Ukraine. This allows Russia to escape the trap of occupation vs insurgency war.

Russia militarily cannot afford to be trapped in such a type of war.

Ukraine also said they wanted to compromise and reach some agreements and previously said Russian demands were too great. I suspect these are just two sides haggling over a deal and both employing haggling tactics like one would do with a vendor in a tourist area lol. Ukraine making deals and previously saying they're willing to make deals doesn't mean "Ukraine regime is not according to plan".

Russia wanted a surrender from Ukraine before. They went to invade Kyiv with a political goal of installing a new pliant political leadership in the country. It does not seem like this is going to be the case anymore

 

[dBSPL]

Emissions are visible in the NASA GEOS-5 system across Europe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/te09gu

In a few months, coal consumption will increase significantly across Europe. This map shows only the atmospheric effect of the Ukrainian war, but the consequences will be much greater.

 

[Amliunion]

Hope Russia attack the Convoy supplying this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504067534684921862

 

[Amliunion]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504071814519029764

 

[vizier]

We can expect the Russian side to come running to the negotiating table if this is effective

Small drones can be wideband jammed close range by man portable drone jammers or ew systems like leer 3-4. Hitting mobile targets would be difficult. Home on jam is an option but might be difficult to implement for small drones.

However static targets is another story. ins + gps or if gps is jammed simple image recognition close to target site coupled with ins would be enough to hit non heaviliy fortified static positions.

What would be a breakthrough in my opinion is when a mini cruise missle 50-100km+ range with a miniaturized jet engine is developed standing under its body that can be launched from small trucks. These would be faster and have heavier warhead for hitting buildings and more fortified positions and would be small-terrain hugging enough to evade enemy mobile ads. These can be hidden like atgms and manpads as well in bunkers-houses-buildings similar to grad rockets used by infantry groups worldwide.

So even if enemy forces capture some land it will be difficult to hold that position under continious attacks.

 

[RescueRanger]

Hope Russia attack the Convoy supplying this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504067534684921862

They have bigger problems at home:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504057954701561857

 

[Beny Karachun]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504056185879764993

The Switchblades will decimate Russian ground forces. They fly a lot faster than the TB2 drones.

I wish we sent in the Spike NLOS

 

[Wood]

Hope Russia attack the Convoy supplying this:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504067534684921862

More good news. Russian side will not find it easy to take Kyiv under proper SAM cover

 

[Type59]

On March 7 and 15, total 14 helicopters of the invading Russian forces deployed at Kherson airport were destroyed. An artillery attack was carried out on the same base, one week apart.

Facepalm... Helicopters were stationed within enemy artillery range and an entire fleet was lost. Look, it's great shame for any army. No NATO country army would do such an amateurish thing.

It is one of the dozens of indicators that the Russian army has become a rotten structure with a merit problem.

I followed the insurgency in Iraq. I remember one attack damaged and destroyed a number of Blackhawks.

US base attacked in Iraq

Mortar rounds hit a US Air Force base north of Baghdad today, destroying one helicopter and damaging nine others, police said.

www.irishexaminer.com

 

[Type59]

They have bigger problems at home:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1504057954701561857

Problem globally

 

[RescueRanger]

Problem globally

More so when you are a cash strapped nation with an economy nose diving into oblivion.

 

[FuturePAF]

A very good unbiased video from a veteran Iraq war soldier.

 

[Wood]