Russian special military operation in Ukraine #55

Arrow wrote:Is the war in Ukraine low intensity?  This is the biggest conflict since World War II.

Still think Vietnam and Korea were much bigger. Maybe in Europe it is.

thegopnik wrote:

Dont want to be that guy, but I found out your news report was from 2 years ago, still waiting on the DXL-5 sniper that is claimed at 7kms.

Then you need to redirect your question to Russian news outlets like RIA or RG, feel free to share their response.

Sadly FPV drones are the new snipers where clothing and EW systems are used to minimize them finding you.

You of course are entitled to your opinion though military dont seem to share it.

mnztr wrote:

Arrow wrote:Is the war in Ukraine low intensity?  This is the biggest conflict since World War II.

Still think Vietnam and Korea were much bigger. Maybe in Europe it is.

????? Absolutely not.

Danilov fired. This from ZH.

In an apparent continuing shake-up of his defense leadership, Ukraine's President Zelensky has fired the the head of the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council (SNBO), Oleksiy Danilov.

A decree confirming his removal was published to the Ukrainian presidency's official website, however, it provided no reason or explanation for the decision. Danilov had been installed in the top national security office in October 2019.
Oleksiy Danilov, via Moscow Times

The Kyiv correspondent for the Financial Times, Christopher Miller, has also confirmed the high level removal...

"Another big and expected shakeup in Kyiv. Zelensky has dismissed Oleksiy Danilov from the post of head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council and replaced him with Oleksandr Lytvynenko, who has been serving at Chief of the Foreign Intelligence Service," writes Miller.

This is but the latest in a major shake-up of top defense ranks which began in early February. At that time Ukraine's top general and commander of the armed forces, Gen. Valery Zaluzhny, was booted out despite his widely reported popularity among military ranks.

Also

Danilov's new replacement is the head of the SVRU(Foreign Intelligence Service), Litvinenko.

Litvinenko studied at the Dzerzhinsky KGB Higher School.

Ukrainian media claim that Danilov was removed for calling Chinese Ambassador Li Hui "some kind of s...m"

@DD_Geopolitics

ALAMO wrote:
Check the vids of direct drone strikes against manpower.
A solid part of those now is being carried with use of IR that finds the people.
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Tech changes everything true. This applies to the way snipers work as well and if you didn't see them that means their camouflage works well .

Drones don't hunt people 100-600m away. Or in forrest or in urban warfare. Not yet at least. Sometimes you need to take down only one person only not blast everything 5 meters around... drone cannot stay in the air for 2 days too

So snipers will still be around for some time.

TMA1 wrote:

mnztr wrote:

Arrow wrote:Is the war in Ukraine low intensity?  This is the biggest conflict since World War II.

Still think Vietnam and Korea were much bigger. Maybe in Europe it is.

????? Absolutely not.

Vietnam had millions of KIA Korea 2.5m

Arrow wrote:Ukraine it was also stronger than North Vietnam. I don't know about Korea?

dunno about that, NV had defeated the French before they took on South Vietnam. And they were initiator of hostilities. Not only that Russia assisted them in building the most advanced air defence network in history to that point. And by assisted I mean the Vietnamese made the rice..until Russia trained them to operate it.

The use of Tsirkon is IMHO as big a revolition as Kinzhal. With Kinzhal Ukraine could sees the MIG-31 take off on radar and then know something was up. With land, sea or sub launched, by the time they see it there are but a few minutes to react in any way.

Kh-35 seem to be the best weapon to destroy them. 

Russians used a big ammount of Kh-31 and destroyed lots of radar systems in the past two years with it.
There were a ton of videos about that.
Like with the LMUR and the Lancet to show the use of the Kh-35 is now "in". 

And then they are shot down by anti-aircraft artillery,

Sure. That´s why there was absolutely no reaction from AD systems in Kharkov and Odessa in the past days
as the Gerans were coming in.

I mean low intensity for USA/NATO.

Spending thousands of vehicles, most of your ammo reserves and lots of AD units and their missiles, which are
in low supply, isn´t low intensity.

Litvinenko.

Didn´t the guy die years ago? 

So snipers will still be around for some time.

Not all people can be drone operators.

I don't know about Korea?

Depends if we are counting the Chinese troops or not.

NV had defeated the French

That´s really difficult. 

With Kinzhal Ukraine could sees the MIG-31 take off 

You maybe able to see the plane, but that doesn´t mean you can do something against the missile.
Also Russia can send up a few MiG-31BMs to play games with the Banderites.

"for natural reasons, during free time from duty"

I think we would go along with that. It is natural to die from asphyxiation when a bunker falls in on you at a time you are on 'holiday' in Ukraine.    

The command of the Polish army reports the unexpected death of Brigadier General Adam Marczak

Some Western and Russian resources link the general’s death with information that appeared on the Internet about an attack on a buried command post in Chasov Yar.
“We regret to inform you that on Tuesday, 26 March 2024, the Chief of Staff of the EU Operational Command Althea in Mons, Brigadier General Adam Marczak, died,” the Polish Armed Forces Operational Command announced.
It is specified that the death was unexpected, but “for natural reasons, during free time from duty.”
“Waging someone else’s war has its consequences,” foreigners who do not believe in death from natural causes write in the comments.
- RVvoenkor

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@DD_Geopolitics
Today, Russian sources reported a massive Iskander strike on an underground Ukrainian command post near Chasov Yar. They claimed that among those killed or wounded were several NATO officers, including Polish Brigadier General Adam Marczak.

A few hours later, Polish social media and news outlets reported Brigadier General Marczak's death, stating he "unexpectedly died of natural causes."

Clearly a member of the 'In Crowd' who are allowed to get out clutching their cases of US$ before the END.

Danilov, dismissed from the post of Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, will be appointed ambassador to Norway, People's Deputy Goncharenko reports. - FRWL reports

I was surprised by the sudden dismissal of Danilov, for a moment I thought it was a face saving thing after the strikes on the GUR terrorist central. Ie dismissed because he actually dead.

But Norway, okay...

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:I was surprised by the sudden dismissal of Danilov, for a moment I thought it was a face saving thing after the strikes on the GUR terrorist central. Ie dismissed because he actually dead.

But Norway, okay...

my vote goes on TV interview:  about Chinese "hui"  

That's like the 4th in a bit more than a week. Kh-35 seem to be the best weapon to destroy them. Maybe its seaker is better than the one of the kh-31 or its low flying path makes it give no warning to the target compare to a high flying kh-31.

They likely have enormous numbers of both. The Kh-31 is intended for hitting enemy radar that is operating, and would be used to hit the SAM or other radar before that SAM could launch a missile at the aircraft carrying the Kh-31.

Weired they don't equipe those drones with a grenade and use them in suicide mode in case they spot some high value targets and have no missiles ready to fire. Damage will be smaller but still a chance to destroy any target.

It is two separate and distinct jobs... one is to look for targets and monitor them during the attack to see if follow up attacks are needed, and the kill, which can be suicide drones, or ground or air launched missiles or artillery.

Fitting the recon drone with grenades will just slow it down and shorten its range and reduce its endurance... plus the altitude it will be flying at grenades would not be very accurate so very small ones might be of no use at all.

A good recon drone with decent high resolution high zoom optics with good stabilisation allows you to detect targets and those targets don't know they are already dead...

Ingenious

That is just what the Russian Penicilin system is for artillery detection.

Back in January or February of 2024 Zelensky claimed that 31 000 members of the Ukrainian armed forces were killed.

He was lying. If they had only lost 31K they wouldn't have needed 15 mobilisations... but even if he was telling the truth he claimed the Russians lost a million... maybe he was telling the truth mostly and the lie was about which side was which...

Tech changes everything true. This applies to the way snipers work as well and if you didn't see them that means their camouflage works well Twisted Evil Twisted Evil Twisted Evil.

Drones don't hunt people 100-600m away. Or in forrest or in urban warfare. Not yet at least. Sometimes you need to take down only one person only not blast everything 5 meters around... drone cannot stay in the air for 2 days too

So snipers will still be around for some time.

You can take out everyone in a car that is 10km away with a Kornet-EM with a HE warhead, with no training and the missile and launcher are probably cheaper than a sniper rifle and ammo, but the fact of the matter is that a sniper is more than just a guy that pulls a trigger. His presence on the battlefield can cripple a much larger force of enemy knowing he is there and working. Picking off the officers in a conflict like this where conscripts with very little training are sent to the front line means picking off the ones that appear to know what they are doing will have a dramatic effect on the enemy.

Even just the information the Sniper collects... rifles have improved but so have riflescopes so a modern sniper can take photos of video of the enemy position, they can watch for hours or days and collect information about all the weapons the enemy uses and where.

They can carry a target marking laser to guide artillery shells for one shot kills, they can carry drones and they can hunt drone operators behind enemy lines.

Operating near the front line with a reach of 5km or even 7km is astounding and starts to be a real threat that can terrorist an enormous area of no mans land.

During WWII the Soviets really focussed on snipers and did all sorts of things for them including making suppressors for Mosin rifles for sneaky operations in cities to make it hard to work out where the shot came from...

The Soviets made more silencers than the Germans made sniper rifles... and of course they created really the first customised from the ground up sniper rifle that was not based on another model that was bolt action or semi automatic (SVD), but they never really spent time or money on long range sniper rifles and very long range shooting like the Americans did.

Well that has changed.

Their range of sniper rifles is extensive from the SV-99 in .22lr calibre for close range urban combat, through the VSS and SVD and SV-98 and various other new weapons they have a range of calibres and weapon types for the job.

General Marczak's death, stating he "unexpectedly died of natural causes."

Well, you could say that for a soldier dying in a bunker hit by a missile is sort of a natural cause. 

Many NAFO retards still think that Russian hypersonic missiles don't exist. Because how could untermenschen have something that the
US ubermenschen don't. YouCrap recommends videos that purport the availability of the "first ever" air launched hypersonic missile
from the USA. Living in delusional fantasy appears to be endemic in NATzO.

"Two Russian government aircraft appeared to travel to North Korea in the dark of night last week, including a cargo plane the U.S. previously accused of delivering DPRK ballistic missiles for use against Ukraine, according to NK Pro analysis of flight tracking data.

It is the latest in a steady stream of unpublicized Russian military flights to North Korea since last fall, amid questions about whether Moscow is acquiring short-range ballistic missiles (SRBMs) from the DPRK by sea or by air.

Flightradar24 data shows a Russian 224th Flight Unit State Airlines Antonov An-124 cargo plane (tail number RA-82030) — one of the largest transport planes in the world — was traveling from the DPRK toward Vladivostok just east of the two countries’ shared coastal border at 6:47 a.m. KST on March 21.

It appeared to have been in North Korea, likely Pyongyang, for several hours. Tracking data shows it departed Vladivostok around 2:30 a.m. KST before quickly shutting off its location transponder

https://www.nknews.org/pro/massive-russian-cargo-plane-linked-to-missile-trade-flies-to-north-korea/

And this radically changes the strategic balance of the entire SMO. 

The "balance" was lopsided from the beginning.

including a cargo plane the U.S. previously accused of delivering DPRK ballistic missiles 

The countries are connected by rail. Why should they use planes to deliver quite heavy ballistic missiles?

"One of the largest transport planes in the world".

A heads up to what can happen with a faulty launcher. The guy losing his head is an instructor