Russian Ground Forces: News #3

cavity emperor wrote:@Garry
Sergei Shilov and Aleksandar Harchenko from RIA Novosti are behind that channel. Probably among 5 best known Russian war correspondents.
Considering your involvement with this forum for such a long time, your ignorance about Russia is appalling.
Stop reading western sources and learn some Russian.

@Garry
Propaganda rule number one is buy all the foreign media you can because it is money well spent...
Do they disclose where their incomes come from?

High morale is easy to have as you go forward. When you storm the same fortification for the 10th time and all those with whom you started your service are torn to pieces near this damned greenery, then the morale of any unit will disappear. Moreover, the fortifications are stormed not by specially trained special forces or MTRs, but by infantry. Infantry is mobilized. Half of them just drank at the training ground and did nothing, the other half were taught to simply handle weapons and sent into battle. Some, however, have now begun to be taught, although they have been in the army for half a year.

After mobilization, they created a bunch of artillery regiments without artillery and some kind of battalions. They carried out an ideological sabotage with people: they said that they would not be sent to the front line, but they would serve on the "second and third lines." When they did get to the front, they experienced a culture shock. It turns out that it will be necessary to fight, which means going to the assault. There is no one else to go on the assault. The personnel units of the Corps ended a long time ago. The mobilized in the LDNR have already ended, but the war has not ended. Orenburg, Perm, Irkutsk, etc. will have to go into battle. peasants. Not everyone has a motive.

I said the first reason for the lack of motive at the very beginning: an assault, which means that someone will definitely be killed or injured, but there may not be a result. (Each of us reads, listens to the year of the summary of the assault on Avdiivka and Maryinka, for example, and understands this). In the Great Patriotic War, this issue was resolved by detachments, tribunals, etc., because no matter how you train the personnel, an assault is ALWAYS killed and wounded. (Do not tell me about the harsh Stalin and his order, but just try to calculate how many people ruined at least Marshal Konev).

Yes, and what can be taught to people if, after storming enemy positions, enemy artillery simply throws you. We have nothing to suppress, except for the VERY scarce Lancet, which means we will need new mobilized ...

In addition to the military and military-technical component, in order to successfully complete this war, we need to decide whether this is necessary at all? Why these sacrifices? How a person will literally go to a mortal battle, knowing that in the rear, not for everyone, he is now accomplishing a feat. Knowing that some Leybin ("Russian reporter") demands to recognize the crimes of the Russian army. Millionaire bloggers operate in the rear, each issue telling how Russia unleashed an unjust war in Ukraine, degenerates from RUDN University hang out an enemy trident, and in some other institute they can hunt a guy or a girl for supporting the SVO. How to go into battle when the son-in-law of the Minister of Defense shows a disregard for what is happening in all his social networks. Okay, grain and ammonia deals... Somewhere we shove ammonia, somewhere they sell us the necessary parts for rockets. Somewhere we sell gas, but they don’t blow up the South or some other stream. We will not get into this issue - there is such an equation with a bunch of unknown denominators and, as I said, it is not clear who will be worse off if we cross some "red lines", but society must be mobilized. And any filthy mouth that stinks about "the crimes of the Russian army", "aggression" must be shut up. Not just a phrase about an inogen at the beginning of the video, but a criminal case.

You can’t send soldiers to death with one hand, and feed those who betray it with the other.

“Every kingdom divided against itself will be desolate, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.” Matthew 12:25

Lyle6 wrote:Laugh all you want but its even funnier that the humble Russian 30x165mm caliber is so threatening to NATO IFVs and medium weight vehicles in general that the classification is now obsolete. NATO IFVs like the Puma are all 40 ton monstrosities in combat configuration just because the Russians finally introduced a proper APFSDS shell for their 30 mm guns...

Distinguish friend from foe. What is known about the new speech recognition system for the army

Military historian Knutov: development of the "Friend-foe" system is extremely important for the Russian army
RIA Novosti
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The new "Friend-foe" recognition system will help Russian troops recognize the enemy, including enemy drones. Signals from infrared sensors will be read by a special system that is extremely difficult to hack. On some parts of the front, the novelty may arrive quite soon, but for mass use it will take another five to six months.
The army will receive the "Friend-foe" system

Russian scientists have developed a special identification system. It will allow the military during the battle to increase the coherence of actions and quickly identify not only opponents, but also their drones, the Telegram channel Mash reported.

The new "Friend-foe" complex is a cartridge that has an infrared tag sewn into it. It can be inserted into the helmet or armor of soldiers. A stationary device under the operator's control will read the beacon signal.

In addition, the new system will allow fighters to exchange short messages. The developers claim that the signals will go as encrypted as possible and it is almost impossible to crack them.
Scout and tankman of the Russian Army in the "Ratnik"outfit
Scout and tankman of the Russian Army in the "Ratnik"/Wikimedia Commons
The "Friend-foe" story

The need to develop such a complex became obvious in the Second World War: losses from "friendly fire" in the US and British troops amounted to 20-25%. These countries were the first to develop an identification system.

The USSR took advantage of the fact that each branch of the armed forces had its own frequencies and codes, but in 1955 the Soviet army also had the Silicon-2 system. However, it was quite vulnerable and easily detected by radio intelligence.

Modernization took a long time: accidents and enemies intercepting the secrets of Soviet scientists interfered. Only in 1977, the state tests of the Password system were completed. Its authors received the Lenin Prize.
Soviet coding machine Violet M-125
Soviet coding machine Fialka M-125/Wikimedia Commons

Six years ago, Russian specialists created another "Friend-foe" device — the "Eye". It allowed commanders to determine the location of their fighters unnoticed by the enemy, and also secretly, without going on the radio, give commands in Morse code, Izvestia wrote.

In addition, two years ago, the Display design bureau created helmet-mounted display systems. These tactical glasses helped to distinguish their own from the enemy, quickly showed information about the terrain and the opponent, and also protected the eyes of the fighter.
RIA Novosti
Why do you need the "Friend-foe" system?

Retired Colonel Anatoly Matviychuk, in a conversation with 360, stressed the relevance of the new development. It is especially important for identifying drones: after all, both your own drones and enemy ones can hover over positions.

Imagine: a soldier is sitting in a trench, and a drone is spinning from above. Whose is it? In whose favor does it conduct intelligence? Is he going to attack? You need to know if this is your UAV or if it needs to be shot down immediately. The new system will be able to solve this problem.

Matviychuk noted that during military conflicts, new products in the army appear in a fairly short time. When the Soviet contingent was in Afghanistan, new developments for the military were introduced within a maximum of one and a half weeks.
Soviet soldier in Afghanistan, 1988
Soviet soldier in Afghanistan, 1988/Wikimedia Commons
The system must be reliable

Yuri Knutov, a military historian and director of the Air Defense Forces Museum in the village of Zarya, Balashikha district, said that the Russian army already has various variants of the "Friend-foe" identification system.

The development of the "Friend-foe" system is extremely important. The main thing is that it is reliable and well encrypted. Otherwise, the enemy can easily pick up easy keys and easily overcome the air defense system and other defenses under the guise of their own, and end up in the rear of our troops.

Yuri Knutov

For old models of armored vehicles and military equipment of the old model, up to "Ratnik", it is not possible to use identification systems, said the source of "360". Therefore, they are distinguished only by visual signs (colored ribbons) or symbols.
Russian military personnel with white identification ribbons
Russian military personnel with white identification ribbons/RIA Novosti
Terms of introduction to the army

Roman Nasonov, a member of the Rosgvardiya Constitutional Court and a veteran of military operations, noted that the current development cannot be called a novelty in the full sense: such a principle of identification of aircraft, ships and other objects has existed for quite a long time.

"We are talking about some kind of modernization of this feature, which is extremely important and can exclude the possibility of hitting your object from your car. This system will not make it possible to fire a salvo or a shot, " Nasonov explained.

According to the expert, interference with the enemy identification system is extremely unlikely. Constantly changing frequencies and other parameters will eliminate the possibility of hacking or logging in under someone else's name by 99.9%.

The speed of implementation depends on the degree of need to address this issue. But the system still needs to be tested in the army: teach the crews to use it, teach the system (exactly the system!) recognize it and reconfigure it correctly.

Roman Nasonov

Nasonov suggested that in general, the new recognition system will be implemented no earlier than next year. However, it is possible that it can be quickly and easily installed on individual armored objects by modifying the existing equipment there.