Russian special military operation in Ukraine #47

One Odessit is playing chess and is asked in "ukrainian" he replies that she shall ask in Russian because he does not understand her Smile, was funny a bit. Of course there was one ukrainian clown speaking in fluent russian says I don't speak russian I speak Odessian and follows explaining it's actually an ukrainian dialect. I have to cringe at stuff like that.

Actually that is funny... reminds me of a joke about Northern Ireland... a catholic is walking through the city at night and a large group of men approach him and just looking at them he knows he is in trouble but can't be sure which side they are on (catholic or protestant) so when they ask him what his religion is he says he is Jewish... to which they shout with glee that they are the luckiest muslims on the island and then beat the crap out of him.

That Russian speaking guy is just hedging his bets because no matter what the guy with the camera thinks if he says he prefers Russian seeing that video a group of nazi locals might decide to teach him a lesson.

He is essentially disagreeing with the nazi Kiev message but also covering his arse so they can't call him a Russian sympathiser directly.

Armament consists of a 7.62mm rotary machine gun and 4 launchers with interceptor drones² equipped with fragmentation warheads. It also has an electronic jamming system.

Nice. With air burst command detonated 40mm grenades I would swap the gun for a grenade launcher and maybe add LIDAR if possible with a jamming function if a laser weapon was not powerful enough to destroy the targets... at least blinding them.

Without the airburst 40mm grenades the 7.62mm gatling gun makes sense because the ammo is relatively cheap and widely available and effective out to the 2km range of drone detection.

Would be interesting to have an 80mm rocket pod with laser guided rockets as an option in addition to perhaps an 80mm anti drone drone, or if they can't make it that small then a 122mm rocket pod perhaps with laser guided and drone rockets.

Would be fun testing these systems on a test range...

Bomb the nightclub. There may be some UkroNazi officials or NatZo mercenaries in the crowd. It doesn't matter what excuse you have to make, just take them out. Why should they have fun when people in Donbass still have to sleep in bunkers?

Hell no, those people dancing while Orcs are dying is making those Orcs wonder what they are fighting for... which really is a question they should be asking themselves over and over... who are they dying for... those kids at the nightclub didn't start this war and neither are they making it continue... it is your Joe Bidens and Stoltenbergs and Johnsons that are creating this conflict and keeping it going... because they are making money.

can't help but notice 9 out of every 10 people present are females

All the more reason for the men in the trenches to be upset by that...

Perhaps Kiev needs to leap into the 21st Century and pay homage to their western friends and extend conscription and the draft to females... at the very worst 99% of them will suddenly find they are pregnant and cannot go to war which will help with their demographic problems, and the alphabet people of the west can only applaud Kiev for being so forward thinking to treat women as equals to men the way the west really does not.

Honestly I think Ukrainians should realise that they shouldn't be complaining about the clubbing people but the people being clubbed on the front line to no end for Ukraine.

Their deaths on the front line serve no real purpose and really achieve nothing at all... but until they are ready to surrender it will continue.

Though I would perhaps replace the "interceptor drones" with solid rocket anti air missiles.

Was thinking the same myself with those new box rocket launch tubes for the aircraft, a laser homing rocket might be good for direct line of sight engagements but a slower drone might be more manouverable and with radar you could have it using command guidance which would be cheap and not effected by flares or low radar cross section or low IR signature.

I would say a box of 57mm laser guided rockets and these drones in tubes on top would be excellent even for something like a Tigr or Typhoon light wheeled vehicle.

You could have a couple of Iglas or Verbas inside with a few gripstocks too or perhaps reload drones and rockets.

They say NATO membership is possible with territorial concession to Russia

That might be HATOs offer but Putin has said for peace the Orcs have to lay down their arms and surrender and then agreements can be made.

I would say at the very least the Russians will occupy the Ukraine while referendums take place offering the locals a choice of their future... joining HATO or EU wont be options.

Neutral disarmed region between Russia and Europe will be one option or joining the Russian Federation might be the other.

Looks don't matter if the hack saves the lives of the crew. For some reason the peanut gallery thinks aesthetics is more important than
function.

The fact of the matter is that for smaller drones... the ones that carry the RPG-7 rocket warheads, you could use up the older smaller calibre warheads because part of their problem was that they had too short a nose so impacting directly on armour didn't give enough space for the shaped charge to form a proper plasma beam to penetrate the armour so their armour penetration was quite poor unless they hit something in front of the armour. Putting such a warhead on a quad copter drone and detonating it on impact with the cage should allow it to penetrate more than the 300mm or so it could penetrate originally, which should be plenty to penetrate the top armour of most tanks the Orcs have access to...

Why would NATO risk such a loss of credibility?

What loss of credibility... we sent arms and ammo and they rejected us before they could defeat the evil Russians... it is never our fault.

We would have succeeded in Afghanistan too if only the damn natives had fought harder against the taliban and ISIS.

And if the west is willing to risk this kind of blowback over Afghanistan, Ukraine, Niger, it becomes clear they are unable to manage global processes any longer

They wont be able to hide the conditions their economies are in and as the US dollar loses its shine and countries stop using it their ability to pay for upgrading their military is going to weaken dramatically.

Funny, they kept talking about the Ukraine being a second Afghanistan for Russia but it is looking more like a second Afghanistan or second Vietnam for them.

Their proxies just are not up to fighting the locals and neighbours.

But guided munitions in general are also susceptible to jamming.

Not laser homing ones... you need to pop smoke but Russian laser homing weapons only have the target lased for 1 second before impact for direct fire weapons and 3 seconds before impact for ballistic weapons.

Not a lot of time for the smoke to deploy, or for the target to move out of the path of the guided round.

Izdeliye 53, a drone with Convolutional Neural networks, already in service

Such drones are excellent to utilize, with ranges of up to 70km, it is excellent option for all kinds of front line strikes

All which is missing, is Izdeliye 720, light cruise missile, and the aerial strike component will be completely capable to launch airstrikes without manned fighters over the battlefield