Ukrainian Ground Forces:

Army desertion epidemic: https://regnum.ru/news/polit/2514316.html

That's not counting Ks those who AVOID THE DRAFT!
As the Ukrainian saying goes: Нема дурных!-nema durnych!
http://portal-kultura.ru/articles/best/83055-voevat-nema-durnykh/?print=Y&CODE=83055-voevat-nema-durnykh

Ukrainian modernized tank T-64B model 2017



https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3529980.html

The Ukraine tested the MAM-L adjustable ammunition on the Turkish UAVs Bayraktar TV2

As Ukrainian State Concern Ukroboronprom reported on March 21, 2019, the acquired Turkish tactical unmanned aerial vehicles Bayraktar TB2, which successfully passed tests in the skies of Ukraine on March 20, are armed with high-precision MAM-L bombs from the Turkish company Roketsan. These and other high-precision munitions were purchased along with a batch of drone drone for the Ukrainian armed forces.



https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3583080.html

An expert explained that both tanks represent a cost-effective upgrade package of the Soviet-designed main battle tanks. The upgrade of T-64 and T-72 tanks allows a significant expansion of their combat capabilities with minimal investments.

Comparing the best tank the Ukraine might get in small numbers eventually, with a cheap stopgap upgrade of an old Russian tank is amusing, but rather pointless.

Ukraine launched regular launches of Alder and Alder-M guided missiles for the Smerch MLRS

Activity of the Nikolaev armored repair plant

In Ukraine, two factories launched the serial modernization of T-64 tanks of the 2017 model

As Ukrainian State Concern Ukroboronprom said on August 12, 2019, the Lviv Armored Plant State Enterprise, which is part of the Ukroboronprom Group of Companies, has launched serial modernization of T-64 tanks of the 2017 model, which are equipped with thermal imagers, digital radio stations, satellite navigation and new dynamic protection.

Thanks to this, it was possible to significantly expand the combat capabilities of the T-64, which is the main combat vehicle of the armored units of the Ukrainian army and has shown itself perfectly in confrontations with the aggressor in eastern Ukraine. In addition, this particular tank proved itself in the NATO tank competitions The Strong Europe Tank Challenge in 2017 and was demonstrated during last year's parade on the occasion of Independence Day of Ukraine.

During modernization, a new sighting system of the gunner with a thermal imager is installed on the combat vehicle, which ensures the detection, recognition and destruction of the enemy by the fire of a 125-mm gun at any time and in any weather conditions.

At the same time, other crew members receive new night vision devices with a third-generation electron-optical converter. These devices are highly resistant to light noise, they are not sensitive to light exposure even when the enemy uses special interference in the infrared range. In addition, they are installed on standard mounts and connected to the tank’s electrical network without changing it, which can significantly reduce the time and cost for integrating devices into combat vehicle systems.

Also, the T-64 model of 2017 received a new dynamic defense, significantly enhancing the level of protection of the combat vehicle and effectively counteracting all modern anti-tank weapons: cumulative and armor-piercing, as well as shock-cumulative ammunition of the type "shock core".

Another feature of the T-64 model of 2017 is the satellite navigation system from the Orizon-Navigation State Enterprise, which is part of the Ukroboronprom Group of Companies. This navigation system works in an automated digital system and allows you to exchange securely encrypted data online. The location of each vehicle can be received by the commander of all levels, from the platoon commander to the leadership of the entire combat operation.

The tanks are also equipped with the new Lybid K-2RB digital radio stations, which provide reliable communications protected from interference and interception over distances of up to 70 kilometers.

Note that earlier the modernization of T-64 tanks to this level was carried out only by the Kharkov Armored Plant of Ukroboronprom, which has already sent more than a hundred and a half T-64s of the 2017 model to the Ukrainian army. And thanks to the capacities of the Lviv Armored Plant, the process of re-equipping the Ukrainian army with modernized vehicles will be much faster.

The capacities of these two tank enterprises allow, with a stable order and financing from the customer, to modernize all T-64s in the near future.



https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3735869.html

Ukraine bought 16 Soviet-made 122mm Gvozdika self-propelled artillery guns from Czech Republic

https://tass.com/defense/1079606

Reported very recently on the Polish television:


U.S. government has permitted the sale of 150 Javelin missiles to Ukraine.

The Russians should pass some money to the forces in Donbass to buy some of them so they can examine some new build models...

Edit: Seriously Russia should start an add campaign saying anyone handing over an intact Javelin missile will get $100K dollars... even if no one tries to collect it means they will be much more careful about how they deploy the missiles and use them in the field.....

Kharkov Armored Plant continues to modernize the T-64BV and T-80BV tanks

https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3972111.html

The fact that it is still working and is largely intact suggest someone with power owns it... which suggests good relations with Russia are not likely any time.

Russia is putting T-90 stuff in their T-80s so there is little trade/interaction likely... any Ukrainian parts they adopt will be at the expense of new Russian parts so why would you reward the Orcs?

Ukrainian project of the Otaman armored personnel carrier with a 6x6 wheel arrangement













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Tests of Ukrainian 122-mm rockets "Typhoon-1"

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, on April 29, 2020, at the Ukrainian state test site Alibey in the Odessa region, the second stage of testing of 122-mm Typhoon-1 missiles developed by the Yuzhny Design Bureau named after M.K. Yangelya "(Dnepropetrovsk). Test launches of the Typhoon-1 missiles were carried out at the maximum range (declared 40 km).

A prototype of the 122-mm Typhoon-1 projectile developed by the Yuzhne Design Bureau named after M.K. Yangelya ”during test firing at the Ukrainian state testing ground Alibey in Odessa region, 04/29/2020 (c) www.facebook.com/GeneralStaff.ua

Typhoon-1 missiles are designed to replace standard rockets in the 122-mm MLRS BM-21 Grad and various clones and derivations of this system (including the Ukrainian Verba and Berest). Like most modern-designed BM-21 shells, the Typhoon-1 has a maximum range of up to 40 km. The projectile is equipped with a high-explosive fragmentation warhead with a mass of 18.4 kg. In Ukraine, the production of rockets for BM-21 was absent.

The first test phase of the Typhoon-1 missiles with short-range launches took place in 2019.

Judging by the images, the modern ballistic radar of the Danish company Weibel, recently imported by Ukraine, was used to fix the flight parameters of the Typhoon-1 missiles.

It is reported that Yuzhnoye Design Bureau is also working on the creation of large-caliber rockets — the 220 mm Typhoon-2 for the Uragan MLRS and the 300 mm Typhoon-3 for the Smerch MLRS. In addition, work is underway on the creation of a high-precision version of the Typhoon-1 rocket.

Earlier in recent days, on the Alibey test site in the Odessa region, on April 24, three test launches of the 300-mm Alder-M rocket for the Smerch MLRS were also carried out, and on April 25, two test launches of the R-360 anti-ship missile being developed by the Ukrainian anti-ship missile system RK-360MTs "Neptune". The lead developer of the last two products is Kiev GKKB "Luch".






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Ukrainian MIC amounts to glorified maket makers. Their new IFV probably performs like dog-shit, see the Oplot and the BTR-4 for reference. The welding seams on their AFV's are as resilient as the seams on a sliced peanut butter and jelly sandwich's. It goes to show that the Russians were the brains behind their MIC...when they left, the quality went with them, and were even starting to see the same phenomenon in Belarus' MIC as well.

magnumcromagnon wrote:Ukrainian MIC amounts to glorified maket makers. Their new IFV probably performs like dog-shit, see the Oplot and the BTR-4 for reference. The welding seams on their AFV's are as resilient as the seams on a sliced peanut butter and jelly sandwich's. It goes to show that the Russians were the brains behind their MIC...when they left, the quality went with them, and were even starting to see the same phenomenon in Belarus' MIC as well.

This is no joke. The whole post USSR space outside Russia is undergoing hard core decline in terms of industry and technological capacity.
This is not some chauvinist self-delusion, it is real. Economics and technological capability are not something that is trivial and a few dollars
will keep things intact. It requires a critical mass to function by focusing the education and training of young workers and viable throughput
of factories that pay for research divisions. The post Soviet space has been infested with western laissez-faire monetarist voodoo that
has diverted the economy to reselling of consumer trash and other get rich quick nonsense that afflicts 3rd world countries.

It is sad to see all of the knowhow and human capital wasted, but it is the local residents that drink the koolaid and not just their elites.
Their hate for Russia is simply insane. By now anyone with a functional brain should have realized that Russia was no colonialist occupant
but facilitated development and real prosperity for the masses (NATzO Cold War propaganda is not worth the paper space).

Russia by contrast retained the critical mass all though it was touch and go during the 1990s since the same voodoo economics rot was
afflicting it as well. But Russia has to stand on its own to survive the attack from NATzO since it has not surrendered like the post Soviet
Ukraine, Georgia, now Belorus and apparently Kazakhstan. Their elites just need some crumbs from their NATzO masters and can let their
countries decline to real 3rd world levels but Russia cannot.

George1 wrote:Ukrainian project of the Otaman armored personnel carrier with a 6x6 wheel arrangement

1) Tiny wheels for vehicle of this size

2) Insufficient number of wheels for vehicle of this size

3) Huge wheel spacing for vehicle of this size

And in light of those issues ground clearance isn't filling me with optimism either


Why is it so hard for the Ukrainians to understand this stuff? It's not even the first time they did it.

I mean just check out our Milos MRAP, if it had wheels any bigger it would have been a monster truck:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A_lissUgxto/hqdefault.jpg

Probably cheaper to use existing truck tires instead of more suitable ones... and cheaper to have 6 rather than 8...