Sunday, July 16, 2023
I guess posting security is no longer a thing. Ukrainians capture Russian soldier asleep in his bunker
towards the direction of Bakhmut. The Ukrainian Army managed to capture a Russian soldier who had fallen asleep inside his trenches.This is a curious war to me. It would have been frag out. Fuck trying to capture. Bald headed muscle boys in intel could go screw themselves. What has me spinning is the weird mix of unmitigated brutality along with tender mercies. The mix is mind blowing to me and both sides are engaged in it.
by u/CrizalProtect2000 in UkraineWarVideoReport
This is a civil war.
We have no parts of this madness.
Turn it off and settle it at the negotiating table.
FORCE IS AN ANSWER but not the only answer.
Lancet loitering drone production increasing, evolving into a new variant with AI for swarm attacks
Zakharov affirme que la production du Lancet a triplé et que le système évolue vers une variante nommée "Izdeliye-53" intégrant l'intelligence artificielle pour opérer en essaim permettant des frappes contre des cibles en groupe pic.twitter.com/QkGVHh9Nu2
— Ananke Group (@AnankeGroup) July 16, 2023
Poland presented its PIAP ground robotic system equipped with a ZMU-03 turret during the FEX exercise.
La Pologne a présenté son système robotique terrestre PIAP équipé d'une tourelle ZMU-03 lors de l'exercice FEX. pic.twitter.com/6ukpYNDSMq
— Ananke Group (@AnankeGroup) July 14, 2023
Otokar TULPAR with Aselsan KORHAN 35 turret.
Otokar TULPAR with Aselsan KORHAN 35 turret. pic.twitter.com/s44OUvdxjS
— Junsupreme (@RyszardJonski) July 15, 2023
Australia's Amphibious Force @ work
In preparation for #TalismanSabre2023, @AustralianArmy & @Australian_Navy conducted a beach landing at Shoalwater Bay Training Area as part of #ExSeaRaider.
— Talisman Sabre (@TalismanSabre) July 15, 2023
Keep an eye out for some more epic shots over the next few weeks!
📸 CPL Dustin Anderson pic.twitter.com/LWmRBHKs0q
Not quite hillbilly armor but additional armor is being added to Leopard MBTs in Ukraine via Reddit
Soldiers/Marines on the battlefield will tell you where the threat is coming from which makes this so interesting.
Earlier we saw "cope cages" being used by both sides to combat the use of loitering drones.
Now?
Now the Ukrainians are adding extra armor to the turret front and sides of the Leopard MBTs.
That's telling.
Many, including several people I follow on Twitter that know armor have listed the Leopard MBT as the best tank in the world.
I always considered it European bias (they're mostly European) but it was held so widely that I thought I might have been missing something.
I wasn't.
The Leopard leaned too heavily toward mobility at the expense of protection.
That's another thing. The Abrams, Leopard and Challenger (to include the Leclerc) were all built during the cold war. The Abrams and Challenger can both be considered "multi-role" with the Abrams (IMO) being a jack of all and the Challenger (IMO) leaning more heavily towards being a "defensive tank" (heavy armor, limited mobility...it can take a beating but stay in the fight).
The French and the Leclerc always struck me as being more of an "expeditionary" tank with a nod towards ops in Africa/overseas.
But the Leopard? It was always a curiosity to me. The Germans built a tank that was built for a modern day blitzkrieg. Fast as hell, hard hitting but armor not the best.
The pyramid will get its pound of flesh. If you lean too heavily towards one side then it better be firepower (which includes sensors etc..) or armor (if you can't shoot first you better be able to take a punch). But mobility? That's so Desert Storm. Dead as disco.
Nearly a third of the Bradley armored vehicles the US provided Ukraine may have already been lost or damaged
via BI
Nearly a third of the Bradley armored vehicles that the United States has provided to Ukraine may have already been lost or damaged, according to open source data, demonstrating the extent to which Kyiv's counteroffensive against Russia is proving to be a hard and costly slog.
In January, the Biden administration announced it was sending Ukraine no fewer than 50 Bradley Fighting Vehicles, an armored personnel carrier that pairs heavy firepower with the ability to transport about 10 soldiers.
The New York Times reported Saturday that Ukraine's 47th Mechanized Brigade is the only unit known to have received the vehicles. And leaked Pentagon documents from February indicate the 47th Brigade was due to receive a total of 99 of them. But other reporting suggests the United States has delivered as many as 109 of the vehicles, which were first deployed on the battlefield in April.
Oryx, an open-source military research group, reports that 34 Bradleys have now been visually confirmed as having been abandoned, damaged, or destroyed. As Insider previously reported, more than a dozen were lost or disabled in a few days of fighting in June, when Ukraine formally announced its bid to retake territory conquered by Russia following last year's full-scale invasion.
That means nearly a third of the Bradley vehicles may have already been lost or damaged.
The losses are not unexpected and appear to have been concentrated in the first few days of the counteroffensive as Ukrainian soldiers sought to cross territory that was heavily mined by entrenched Russian forces.
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