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    Post  thegopnik Tue Jul 16, 2024 9:05 pm

    -failed to arrest and assassinate Trump.
    -stoltenberg said Poland is on its own if it shoots aircraft or missiles over Ukraines airspace.
    -US Intel says ATACMS won't strike deep in Russia.
    -stoltenberg says f-16s will be in Ukraines airfields.

    Since it will be more impossible to steal the election for biden with how high his unpopularity is. Russia better have a dense air defense network and if their satellites suck at picking up ATACMS locations to preemptively strike their locations with drones or missiles ask the Chinese to use their many satellites for their locations. Worried about WW3 before January 20.

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    Post  JohninMK Tue Jul 16, 2024 10:30 pm

    Russia adding some realism to Ukie training.

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    Post  JohninMK Tue Jul 16, 2024 10:48 pm

    The mention of F-15 is an obvious error.

    OSINT Aggregator
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    Russian Company Offers Bounty for Downing Western Fighter Jets

    The Russian Ministry of Defense has announced that military personnel who are the first to shoot down Western F-15 and F-16 fighters will receive 15 million rubles (approximately $165,000 USD). The announcement was made by Ilya Potanin, director of the FORES company who will pay the bounty.

    “There will also be incentives for the destruction of F-15 and F-16 combat aircraft. The reward for the first will be 15 million rubles,” Potanin stated.

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    Post  JohninMK Tue Jul 16, 2024 10:59 pm

    Looks like the Ukrainians needed their forces elsewhere.


    The withdrawal of troops from the Ukrainian cordon is the result of negotiations between the military of the two countries - President of Belarus Lukashenko commented on the de-escalation on the border with Ukraine

    📝 “In this conflict, the military played the entire role. We did not involve diplomats. But we worked in diplomatic language. We have achieved success,” Lukashenko said, adding that “neither Kyiv nor Minsk needs war.”

    Earlier, the Belarusian Armed Forces pulled back from the border with Ukraine after tensions with the Ukrainian side subsided.
    - Ostashko reports

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    Post  GunshipDemocracy Wed Jul 17, 2024 3:23 am

    JohninMK wrote:Russia adding some realism to Ukie training.


    wtf, Iksander for 2 busses?!
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    Post  PapaDragon Wed Jul 17, 2024 5:10 am

    GunshipDemocracy wrote:
    JohninMK wrote:Russia adding some realism to Ukie training.
    wtf, Iksander for 2 busses?!

    Two buses is 100 corpses

    Money well spent

    Better than wasting it on some useless runway or something

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    Post  GarryB Wed Jul 17, 2024 7:21 am

    The buses are not important, it is the people on the buses that were the target, which is why cluster munitions with fragmentation warheads were used.

    You can get fragments shower an enormous area with such a warhead... and in the middle of nowhere there is very low chance of civilian casualties.

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    Post  Isos Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:46 am

    Iskander is used more widely now. I wonder if they started producing a cheaper and simplified version without the fancy manoeuvring stuff.

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    Post  Kiko Wed Jul 17, 2024 12:17 pm

    Medvedev invited the ex-leader of Pink Floyd to perform a concert for the SVO fighters, by Maxim Popov for VZGLYAD. 07.17.2024.

    Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev invited co-founder and former leader of the group Pink Floyd Roger Waters to perform a concert for participants of the special military operation.

    "I believe that Roger Waters' performances will be highly appreciated by our fighters. Therefore, I invite him to perform concerts for the participants of the special military operation," RIA Novosti quotes Medvedev as saying.

    Let us recall that in February 2023, during a meeting of the UN Security Council, Waters stated that he considered the Russian operation in Ukraine to be provoked by other countries.

    https://vz.ru/news/2024/7/17/1277853.html

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    Post  ALAMO Wed Jul 17, 2024 12:33 pm

    Isos wrote:Iskander is used more widely now. I wonder if they started producing a cheaper and simplified version without the fancy manoeuvring stuff.

    They did.
    I was showing screenshots a few months ago.
    I'm not sure if "cheaper and simplified" applies to non-maneuvering, as it retained all steering elements.
    It has a slightly bold body shape and steering surfaces, and lacks visible decoy dispensers.
    But the satellite nav modules number is doubled.

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    Post  franco Wed Jul 17, 2024 1:48 pm

    Ninety-five Russian military personnel were returned from Ukrainian captivity to their homeland today, and the same number of prisoners of war were transferred in return, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.

    As a result of the negotiation process, 95 Russian servicemen who were in mortal danger in captivity were returned from territory controlled by the Kyiv regime,” the defense department said in a statement.

    The exchange of prisoners with the Ukrainian side took place through the mediation of the United Arab Emirates.

    https://tvzvezda-ru.translate.goog/news/20247171437-J1t5m.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-GB&_x_tr_pto=nui

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    Post  Isos Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:14 pm

    ALAMO wrote:
    Isos wrote:Iskander is used more widely now. I wonder if they started producing a cheaper and simplified version without the fancy manoeuvring stuff.

    They did.
    I was showing screenshots a few months ago.
    I'm not sure if "cheaper and simplified" applies to non-maneuvering, as it retained all steering elements.
    It has a slightly bold body shape and steering surfaces, and lacks visible decoy dispensers.
    But the satellite nav modules number is doubled.

    Well to keep the same aerodynamics they will keep the same weight and design but with just fake systems.

    The manoeuvring part and communication all way to the target with all the associated electronics makes it very costly for no reasons since ukrainians don't have more than a few systems that could shoot at BMs.
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    Post  Isos Wed Jul 17, 2024 8:15 pm

    That would be impressive if true. They build Kilos from scratch in 2 years easily so repairing one that is 1/4 destroyed could take few months. Not impossible.


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    Post  JohninMK Wed Jul 17, 2024 11:49 pm

    As was inevitable with the German economy heading down due to the lack of low cost Russian gas, there is less tax revenue so less to give away. Reality arrives.


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    Germany will cut its military aid to Ukraine by half in 2025 - from 8 billion euros to 4 billion euros.

    This was reported by Reuters with reference to the draft German budget for next year.

    The government is expected to approve the document today.

    Ukraine broke Germany so much that it backfired.table,

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    Post  JohninMK Thu Jul 18, 2024 12:33 am

    Desperation leads to desperate decisions.

    The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has decided to transfer ammunition decommissioned before 2014 to the needs of the army - the press service of the department.

    NATO standards.

    - FRWL reports

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    Post  GarryB Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:29 am

    The manoeuvring part and communication all way to the target with all the associated electronics makes it very costly for no reasons since ukrainians don't have more than a few systems that could shoot at BMs.

    The onboard detection equipment that detects enemy radar to manouver around SAM sites and other air defence systems could be removed to save weight and reduce costs, but it needs its ability to manouver to not just fly straight up in the air and then fall back down on the launcher when the rocket fuel runs out.

    The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has decided to transfer ammunition decommissioned before 2014 to the needs of the army - the press service of the department.

    So they are going to start using ammo deemed unsafe a decade ago and slated for destruction because it would not be safe to use...

    That is going to help them...

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    Post  ALAMO Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:37 am

    They are even more desperate than it seems.
    Ammunition set for disposal pre-2014 is Soviet origin and calibers.
    They hardly have any guns for those left. Most of the artillery destroyed now is NATO provided.
    It means that they are so short on artillery that will use any sort of it.
    I can suggest some WW2 era pieces standing as monuments here and there ...

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    Post  Isos Thu Jul 18, 2024 8:42 am

    They are used to receive old stuff. After the US missile that malfunctioned during the 91 golf war, they will use soviet shells. At least soviet stuff specially ak-47 is quite resistant to time so it's even better for them than those fancy nato fire arms.

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    Post  ALAMO Thu Jul 18, 2024 9:06 am

    We are not talking about preserved strategic stocks of guns, held in wooden boxes with oil and vax paper.
    It is a rusty dump of old ammo that was considered unusable a decade ago.
    Unusable from the Ukrainian perspective, which was not high already.
    A stuff that could not have been sold, even for pennies.
    Stored in the open air, in 5m high pyramids.

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    Post  Firebird Thu Jul 18, 2024 10:49 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8zLF6AUtnc

    That Zelensky really was a piece of trash from the beginning.
    Any claims that he was "naive" or "misled" hold zero water.
    I look forward to the day he is hanging from a lamp post Mussolini style.

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    Post  franco Fri Jul 19, 2024 3:00 pm

    MOSCOW, July 18. /TASS/. Wednesday’s prisoner swap between Russia and Ukraine became the fifth this year, giving Russia an opportunity to bring back home 555 of its servicemen in total.

    According to earlier announcements by the Russian Defense Ministry, previous exchanges took place on January 31, February 9, May 31, June 25 and July 17.

    On Wednesday, 95 Russian servicemen returned to their homeland.

    On June 25, Russia brought back 90 servicemen, on May 31 - 75 servicemen, on February 9 - 100 servicemen and on January 31 - 195 servicemen. In return, Russia handed over to Ukraine a corresponding number of Ukrainian soldiers.

    The United Arab Emirates mediated all those exchanges.

    https://tass.com/defense/1818325

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    Post  Mir Fri Jul 19, 2024 5:19 pm

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    Post  franco Fri Jul 19, 2024 5:32 pm

    Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from July 13 to July 19, 2024)

    From July 13 to 19, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out 11 group strikes with precision weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles on enemy air bases, energy facilities that provided the work of enterprises of the defense industry of Ukraine, air defense and electronic warfare of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The locations of the AFU units, echelons with weapons and military equipment, ammunition depots, including those supplied by Western countries, and materiel were also affected. The targets of the strikes have been achieved. All assigned objects are hit.

    During the week, the units of the North group of forces improved their position along the front edge. They defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, assault and motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two marine brigades and four air defense brigades. 23 counterattacks by enemy assault groups were repelled. The losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to 1,370 servicemen, five tanks, 25 vehicles, 28 field artillery guns, of which seven 155-mm howitzers of foreign manufacture, as well as seven electronic warfare stations.

    Units of the Zapad group of forces, as a result of successful actions, improved the tactical situation and defeated formations of four mechanized, tank, two infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three air defense brigades. We repelled six counterattacks by enemy assault groups. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 3,920 servicemen, a tank, eight armored combat vehicles, including three M113 armored personnel carriers manufactured in the United States, 46 vehicles, 38 field artillery guns, including twelve 155-mm howitzers produced in NATO countries. In addition, 30 field ammunition depots and six electronic warfare stations were destroyed.

    The units of the "Southern" group of troops occupied more advantageous positions and defeated the manpower and equipment of three mechanized, motorized infantry, two airmobile, as well as two airborne assault formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 10 counterattacks of the enemy's assault groups were repelled. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 3,930 servicemen, a tank, 14 armored combat vehicles, including two M113 armored personnel carriers made in the USA and three HMMWV armored vehicles made in the USA, as well as 48 vehicles, 71 field artillery guns, 28 of them Western-made. 10 electronic warfare stations and 24 field ammunition depots were destroyed.

    As a result of active actions, the units of the Center group of troops liberated the settlement of Yuryevka in the Donetsk People's Republic. The formations of three mechanized, two motorized infantry, infantry and amphibious assault units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as two air defense brigades, were defeated. 38 counterattacks of enemy units were repelled. During the week, the losses of the Armed Forces amounted to 2,215 military personnel, 11 armored combat vehicles, including a Bradley infantry fighting vehicle manufactured by the United States, two M113 armored personnel carriers and a MaxxPro armored vehicle manufactured by the United States, 26 vehicles and 27 field artillery guns.

    The units of the Vostok group of forces, as a result of successful actions, liberated the village of Urozhodnoye in the Donetsk People's Republic. They defeated the manpower and equipment of five AFU formations, three air defense brigades and a National Guard brigade. Five counterattacks by enemy units were reflected. In a week, the Ukrainian Armed Forces lost up to 925 servicemen, a tank, three armored combat vehicles, two of them M113 armored personnel carriers manufactured in the United States, 35 vehicles, 26 field artillery guns, of which 19 howitzers and 155-mm self-propelled artillery units produced in NATO countries.

    The units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated the formations of two mechanized and mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a marine brigade, as well as three air defense brigades. The enemy's losses amounted to 715 soldiers, two tanks, 37 vehicles, and 21 field artillery pieces. Nine electronic warfare stations and 11 field ammunition depots of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were destroyed.

    During the week, three MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian air Force were shot down by air defense means, eight ATACMS tactical missiles manufactured in the USA, 10 Hammer guided bombs manufactured in France; an anti-aircraft guided missile of the S-200 complex modified for hitting ground targets, 44 HIMARS rockets manufactured in the USA, as well as 305 unmanned aerial vehicles of these, 94 are in the airspace of the western regions of the Russian Federation. The forces of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed 10 unmanned boats in the Black Sea.

    During the week, 19 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered on the line of contact.

    In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have lost: 630 aircraft, 277 helicopters, 27,841 unmanned aerial vehicles, 552 anti-aircraft missile systems, 16,611 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,379 multiple rocket launchers, 12,059 field artillery and mortars, as well as 23,829 units of special military vehicles.

    https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12521069@egNews

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