Russian special military operation in Ukraine #51

So Germany sending enough 155mm shells to last Ukraine half a day nice

In regards to drone production. That will be 200 Geraniums-2 per month, not just drones as a collective. They will be producing other types of drones in greater numbers, as well as Geranium-1 for the smaller stuff. The thing is Ukraine still hadn't got an effective system for taking down geraniums apart from shooting randomly into the air, which is a good way for Russia to deplete their small arms ammo.

Couple of interesting comments in this

Victor vicktop55
@vicktop55
An interesting observation from Ukrainian government procurement.

Ukrainian government agencies have begun massive purchases of shredders and other equipment for destroying documents. Among them are Sumy officials, the Kharkov City Council and the High Qualification Commission of Judges of Ukraine.
Usually documents are destroyed en masse if they are sure that the enemy will soon enter the territory.

https://t.me/vicktop55/19062

This is the future

Size matters

WTF was this?

It is bigger with a smaller caliber gun. Oversized, overweight junk designed for MIC profits. It does not have superior armour for all of its
size. Just more useless empty space.

No autoloader too.

Mig-31BM2 Super Irbis-E wrote:

JohninMK wrote:WTF was this?

looks like a rocket launch. What weapon we refueled with liquid fuel at the front?
is there a VLS vertical there?

If you step it through at 6 seconds this is the sequence

- a white spot appears on the ground
- the fireball ignites perhaps 100m high
- the fireball moves to ground level
- the fireball increases dramatically in size and turns from yellow to white
- the white fireball shrinks to have a yellow corona
- the fireball is centered perhaps 20 meters into the field from the white spot
- there now could be a dark impact crater and a possible secondary explosion, with a blast 'dome' created
- dense black smoke covers the remaining fireball that comes out of the crater
- smoke turns grey and there are local smoking secondary fires.

Any more ideas?

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (as of December 9, 2023)

- The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a group strike with high-precision long-range air-launched weapons on the production sites of ammunition for the Vilkha and Grad multiple launch rocket systems and the Grom operational-tactical missiles. The targets of the strikes have been achieved. All designated targets are hit.

- In the Kupyansk direction, coordinated actions of units of the “Western” group of forces, army aviation strikes and artillery fire defeated accumulations of manpower and equipment of the 43rd mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and the 113th territorial defense brigade in the areas of the settlements of Kurilovka and Petropavlovka, Kharkov region.

Enemy losses amounted to up to 105 military personnel, three vehicles and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.

- In the Krasnolimansky direction, units of the Center group of troops repelled an attack by the assault group of the 1st brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine in the Serebryansky forestry area.

In addition, the personnel of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were defeated in the area of the village of Grigorovka, Donetsk People's Republic.

Enemy losses in this direction amounted to up to 155 military personnel, two armored combat vehicles and three cars.

- In the Donetsk direction, units of the “Southern” group of forces, in cooperation with aviation and artillery, repelled five enemy attacks in the areas of the settlements of Belogorovka, Krasnoe and Shumy of the Donetsk People’s Republic, and also defeated the personnel of the 22nd, 93rd mechanized and 79th th air assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Marinka, Kurdyumovka, Andreevka and Kleshcheevka of the Donetsk People's Republic.

The total enemy losses amounted to up to 200 military personnel: two infantry fighting vehicles, two cars, an Msta-B howitzer, and a D-30 gun were killed and wounded.

- In the South Donetsk direction, units of the Vostok group of troops, in cooperation with army aviation and artillery, repelled an attack by an assault group of the 58th motorized infantry brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the area of the settlement of Novodonetskoye, Donetsk People's Republic.

The losses of the Ukrainian Armed Forces amounted to up to 80 military personnel killed and wounded and two vehicles.

- In the Zaporozhye direction, units of the Russian group of troops, air strikes and artillery fire defeated the manpower and equipment of the 33rd, 117th and 118th mechanized, 128th mountain assault brigades of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of the settlements of Stepnogorsk, Pyatikhatki, Verbovoe and Rabotino, Zaporozhye region.

Enemy losses amounted to up to 35 military personnel, two vehicles, a D-30 howitzer, and a Gvozdika self-propelled artillery mount.

- In the Kherson direction, as a result of the actions of units of Russian troops, artillery fire and air strikes, enemy losses amounted to up to 50 military personnel and three vehicles.

Operational-tactical and army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles, missile forces and artillery of groupings of troops of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation destroyed the ammunition depot of the 120th territorial defense brigade near the city of Volchansk, Kharkov region, damaged the military infrastructure at the Kulbakino airfield, Nikolaev region, as well as manpower and military equipment of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 118 districts.

Air defense systems destroyed 11 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the areas of the settlements of Topolevka, Shipilovka in the Lugansk People's Republic, Opytnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic, Skelevatoye and Vasylivka in the Zaporozhye region.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the following have been destroyed: 550 aircraft, 257 helicopters, 9,588 unmanned aerial vehicles, 442 anti-aircraft missile systems, 13,924 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,188 combat vehicles of multiple launch rocket systems, 7,284 field artillery guns and mortars, as well as 16,096 units of special military vehicles.
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Seems like a fully loaded Tos-1 got hit by a drone maybe in that video above.