I think Russia also needs to make laser guided rockets for the helicopters which can operate at that range.
When the article above yours says: "They switch to the long range S-8, and then ATGMs. "
I suspect they are lofting rockets at very long range to hit area targets like dispersed troops and material... and then when they get closer they engage individual point targets with ATGMs.
In such a case they would not need a lot of laser guided unguided rockets and it would be obvious when they were being used because they would still loft them into the air but would only fire one rocket at a time if it was laser guided.
Note most helicopters don't seem to carry a full load of rockets in their rocket pods and nor do they carry a full load of ATGMs either, which suggests the computer game idea of fully arming with everything and flying around the front line is not a good way to fight in a modern battlefield.
Commentators argue that there is still a significant presence of pro Ukrainian sympathizers in Crimea that could be providing intel to NATO. If this is true, Russia needs to tighten the noose on these Terrorists.
They will likely be monitored and tracked down... in any place with millions of people there are always a few dickheads.
NATzO planning failed.
HATO logistics was terrible... why would their planning be any better?
A bit more on the Armadillo tank. It looked as if it was being used to mine clear all the roads.
If you look carefully they have included wood and other materials in its construction... in terms of thermal signature wood would be a rather good material if you didn't want to stand out too much.
Boris in one of those moments when he says the truth.
The west is over... the result in Ukraine is irrelevant... Russia is bleeding the west as much as they are bleeding Kiev.
Boris is described by a British comedian as being a shart, which is a combination of a shit and a fart... basically it is when you fart and you shit yourself. He described Boris as funny, but he is such an idiot you have to check to make sure there is no "damage". Sharting is now to be called doing a Boris Johnson...
He said he was funnier when he didn't have a lot of power because it limited the amount of damage he could do.
In this case the damage has been done and he is just the cheerleader.
The power of western soft propaganda consists of two main pillars. It is the consistency and a load.
Western soft power balances on two pillars... information control... the British commonwealth are all fearful of evil Russia and then the evil Soviet Union and now evil Russia again and anything to the contrary is Russian propaganda... the west doesn't do propaganda you see... they tell the truth... from all angles so say the BBC... yet the RT angle is not allowed and never reported on the BBC. The other pillar is the US dollar.... corruption and bribery... which is also used to control western media to make sure the truth never escapes... the internet has put a spanner in that works and of course maintaining a corruption scheme that is world wide leads to 34 trillion in debt and counting.
It didn't start with Putin, not even with the Revolution, but consists of more than a millennium of civilization clash.
We have a harbour gun that was built with local money because we thought the Royal Navy would not be able to protect us from the Russians. It was built in about 1889 so you can't say it was anything to do with communism or the Japs or the Germans etc etc.
On expected lines
You can bet they enjoyed killing him...
I heard drones now can direct POW to surrender ! By loudspeakers ! Or they can take prisoners ! Guide them across !
The Orcs want to kill as many as they can. Most drones wouldn't have the battery life for that sort of thing.... drop a grenade and then head back to be recharged and reused. Suicide drones would definitely not have the battery capacity for round trips.