Russian special military operation in Ukraine #50

The Russian Armed Forces used self-aiming combat elements with SPBE shaped charges in the Avdeevka area against the positions and equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces

These are armed with an EFP warhead. They're not particularly dangerous, not compared to FPV drones with single stage PG-7VL.

Looks like Zelensky just tapped women for mobilization,

They're completely running low on manpower

He's saying they have 5x less losses than Russia

One thing is for sure, he's high on some good shit

Even the Americans are looking with incredulous expressions lol

He's taking 5x less losses, but he's depleted his available manpower lol

These are armed with an EFP warhead. They're not particularly dangerous, not compared to FPV drones with single stage PG-7VL.

The difference is that a FPV drone gets one vehicle at a time and can be very selective, but these top attack anti armour submunitions can be released over an area with armour... basically the charge is angled out at say 30 degrees and as it falls from say 400m it spins, so as it drops and spins it is scanning a circle that gets smaller and smaller and if it detects a tank before it hits the ground it has an IR sensor to detect if the target is already burning and if it isn't boom... a flat disk of metal is accelerated to speeds of 3-4km/s in an instant and a shape similar to that of a shuttlecock from Badminton hits the top of the tank at enormous speeds... in real time it looks like a laser attack.

The munitions can be delivered in bombs or rockets or artillery shells... they have been making them in the mid 1990s.

I would add that if Zelensky follows through on the promise for conscription for women it wont just be the women who rebel... most of the men will think that is just unacceptable too and it might create a civil war between nazi factions and non nazi ones if Russia is lucky.

Yeah you can just blanket the area with them, and devastate their manpower

What's funny is both sides have been using cluster warheads

But now Russia will just introduce an industrial amount, and we are seeing the Russian army advancing essentially along the entire front line

So as these cluster munitions increase in usage, we will see a faster collapse of Ukrainian defenses in the area

Yeah you can just blanket the area with them, and devastate their manpower

The munitions shown are top attack anti armour penetrator munitions that actually find and aim for tanks as they fall.

They have fragmentation minelets that are 2.5kg of HE and fragmentation material (compared with a hand grenade with maybe 100grammes of HE) that are very effective against soft targets in the open.

What's funny is both sides have been using cluster warheads

They certainly have them but I would think considering the west called the use of cluster bombs a war crime near the start of the war that they would show any evidence they had of Russian use of cluster weapons every chance they got to prove how evil Russia is. The fact that they didn't, or if they did it turned out it was from a Ukrainian weapon like Tochka then they remained largely silent about the matter.

When the west ran out of conventional rounds and had to start supplying cluster warheads that had been decommissioned and were in storage for disposal then Russia started using that sort of weapon too... ironically Russia likely had plenty of such weapons in storage but were not using them to avoid claims of war crimes but now Kiev has openly received US cluster weapons Russia is free to use up its supply of such weapons that would otherwise have been disposed of too because there are treaties and agreements against their use. The act of US desperation made things easier for Russia and honestly the most effective cluster munitions shower a large area with deadly fragments making them rather effective against unarmoured targets like troops or civilian vehicles that the Orcs primarily use and not so effective against modern armoured vehicles like the ones the Russians are using...

So as these cluster munitions increase in usage, we will see a faster collapse of Ukrainian defenses in the area

They would be horribly effective against troops in an open field, but you learn to operate in a way that you become less of a target.

Krasnopol-DM is assisting both Koalitsya and Malva weapon systems, and is not compatible with the other 152 mm guns like MSTA.
It is 70+ km range, and most probably even 80+ is used with 2S35.
And is corrected by any available satellite navigation.
Regular Krasnopol was limited to 25km, and which was more problematic on the heavy technical advanced battlefield, it required a laser beam illumination.

I believe the Krasnopol-DM when fired from MSTA can reach targets 43km away because it does not have delicate optical components needed for the laser homing version of the round so it can be accelerated to a much higher speed without risk of damage.

The MiG-35 is supposed to have a new generation laser target marker that can mark targets up to 20km away...

Don't ask questions and don't look at the obvious. Oryx lied profusely when equipment is similar to each other. As soon as the equipment types changed and it was western equipment that was destroyed, he couldn't lie anymore so closed shop.

Never mind the fact that if they captured all that equipment, why did Ukraine beg for equipment?

But, people believe it. Because in the end, people are stupid

It seems that as Avdeyevka is weakening, the flanks are opening up

Russia is doing well to pick objectives distributed throughout the frontline

I would say, the next operational objective could be Niu York

Looking at Niu York, it will lose its right flank entirely with only Toretsk protecting it on the left

As for Krasnogorovka a domino effect will hit from here to Marinka, Vodyanoye, NovoMikhailovka, and Ugledar as each mini fort loses its cover

To the north, the only way to relieve the pressure on Bakhmut is to begin the attack on Seversk

This will open the way to Slavyansk and assist the Kupyansk advance

Then you attack Chasov Yar and Konstantinovka at the same time as they lose Niu York and Toretsk, and their southern positions also become more and more isolated from the northern Donbass

Liberating the Donbass will usher in unprecedented doctrines on Urban warfare

Russia will be able to take entire cities with ease once it applies the learning to its doctrines