Russian special military operation in Ukraine #60

I can't remember any Soviet missile of similar shape.

The only other missile of that profile would be Moskit (SS-N-22 Sunburn).

Yes, shape would reassemble one as the side air intakes are making the "diameter" from this perspective.
But in both cases, the missile lacks steering wigs that should be there.
3M8 nose subcaliber part is shorter, too.
Weirdo I would say.

Obviously we are just seeing it from one side, but perhaps some of their old anti ship missiles have been taken out of storage... especially now their ship based launch systems have likely been retired... fuel them up and launch them... most had rather large warheads which would be rather useful...

No point storing stuff forever and as their operational launchers are replaced with UKSK launchers using them up would free up space in storage for newer more capable smaller lighter faster systems that are probably more likely to get through.

lancelot wrote:This is Krynky 2.0. The gift that keeps on giving.

What is the most hilarious part of the whole story is the fact, that it is just one more failed tik tok effort by the ukrs.
They have not succeded in any operation since the beginning of the conflict.
Every single one - even the Charkov "offensive" - aligned perfectly well with the Russkie strategy of bleeding them white.
Every gain they achieved cost them thousands of SPAMed ukrowehrmacht and effects in closing the Russkie objectives, at low cost.
Yet it teaches nothing to our doomers, zoo exhibits, and cockroaches who just wait for a single piece of crap to crawl out
Ukro strategy for this war is the biggest failure of the whole conflict, because Russkie did the perfect opposite to the scenario NATO planners put on the ukro shoulders.
Nothing worked as they planned.
This - and nothing else - is a fiasco and catastrophe.

Ukro strategy for this war is the biggest failure of the whole conflict, because Russkie did the perfect opposite to the scenario NATO planners put on the ukro shoulders.
Nothing worked as they planned.
This - and nothing else - is a fiasco and catastrophe.

And even better this is the military planning... HATO is inept... but the west is no better when it comes to Political or Economic strategies... their political failures and sounding around the world and their economic attempts to make the Russian economy scream have been horrible failures too... in fact their own economies have suffered while for want of a better term the Russian economy is booming... and not from ATACMS and Storm Shadows.

Summary of the Russian Ministry of Defense on the progress of repelling the attempted invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine into the territory of the Russian Federation in the Kursk region (as of August 30, 2024)

Units of the North group of forces, with the support of army aviation and artillery fire, repelled five attacks by enemy assault groups in the direction of the settlements of Kremyanoye, Pushkarskoye, Cherkassk Porechnoye during the day.

Attempts to carry out attacks in the direction of the settlements of Malaya Loknya, Pushkarnoye, and Russian Konopelka have been thwarted. The enemy's losses amounted to up to 40 people killed and wounded, three armored combat vehicles and two cars.

Air strikes, artillery fire and military actions defeated concentrations of manpower and equipment of the 22nd, 41st, 61st and 115th mechanized, 82nd airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 1004th brigade of protection and support in the areas of the settlements of Apanasovka, Borki, Bogdanovka, Vishnevka, Gaponovo, Kositsa, Lyubimovka, Mikhaylovka, Novaya Sorochina, Obukhovka, Orlovka, Plekhovo, Russian Porechnoye, Sverdlikovo, Snagost and 10th October. Reconnaissance and search operations are continuing to identify and destroy enemy sabotage groups in the forests.

Tactical air strikes were carried out on the areas of concentration in the Sumy region of personnel and military equipment of the reserves of the 41st and 54th mechanized, 80th, 82nd, 95th airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the 1st brigade of the National Guard, as well as the 101st, 103rd, The 107th and 129th air defense brigades in the areas of the settlements of Belopolye, Bachevsk, Glukhov, Katerinovka, Martynovka, Pervomayskoye, Pustogorod, Pokrovka, Pavlovka, Sumy and Fotovizh.

During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces amounted to more than 380 servicemen and 22 armored vehicles, including one tank and 21 armored combat vehicles, as well as an artillery piece, two mortars, an electronic warfare station and eight vehicles.

In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost more than 7,800 soldiers, 75 tanks, 36 infantry fighting vehicles, 64 armored personnel carriers, 507 armored combat vehicles, 235 vehicles, 53 artillery pieces, 15 multiple rocket launchers, including four HIMARS MLRS and one MLRS, five anti-aircraft missile systems, 11 electronic warfare stations, one counter-battery radar, an air defense radar, five units of engineering equipment, including two engineering barrier vehicles and one UR-77 mine clearance unit.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12527282@egNews

Don't know how closely you all are monitoring the daily briefings and blogger reports but has anyone else noticed the drop in the Russians reporting very few tanks being taken out...
not sure if the hoho's are running out or they have withdrawn them for protection. Could be both.

franco wrote:Don't know how closely you all are monitoring the daily briefings and blogger reports but has anyone else noticed the drop in the Russians reporting very few tanks being taken out...
not sure if the hoho's are running out or they have withdrawn them for protection. Could be both.

There was some rumor this week, that ukrs have only 400 pcs of all the armored vehicles left.
Not sure the context now, if they are talking about western supplied or all together.

Edit : who else can make your day happier, if not The Times?

Regarding Zitadel 2.0, here is starts to reveal

"We were running around, pretending there were far more of us than there actually were," the soldier says.

Summary of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the progress of the special military operation (for the period from 24 to 30 August 2024)

From 24 to 30 August this year, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation carried out: massive and 14 group strikes with high-precision long-range weapons, hypersonic aeroballistic missiles "Dagger", as well as strike unmanned aerial vehicles, as a result of which: critically important energy facilities and airfield infrastructure of Ukraine, fuel depots, arsenals of Western aviation weapons were hit and artillery ammunition. In addition, workshops for the production of unmanned aerial vehicles, storage sites for unmanned boats, temporary locations of units of nationalist formations and foreign mercenaries were affected.

During the week, the units of the North group of forces continued to destroy the Armed Forces formations in the Kursk region. The strikes of operational-tactical, army aviation, unmanned aerial vehicles and artillery fire defeated the personnel and equipment of units of four mechanized, tank, two airborne assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and three air defense brigades, as well as thwarted attempts to transfer enemy reserves from the territory of Ukraine. In the Volchansk and Liptsovsky directions, formations of a marine brigade, two defense brigades, and two National Guard brigades were hit. During the week in the area of responsibility of the North group of forces, enemy losses amounted to 3,580 soldiers, six tanks, 181 armored combat vehicles and 103 vehicles. Four multiple launch rocket launchers were destroyed, including one HIMARS manufactured by the United States, 35 field artillery guns, 12 electronic warfare and counter-battery warfare stations.

As a result of the coordinated actions of the units of the Zapad group of troops, the settlements of Stelmakhovka of the Luhansk People's Republic and Sinkovka of the Kharkiv region were liberated. The formations of six mechanized, tank, assault, and airmobile brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two air defense brigades and the Azov special forces brigade were defeated. 34 counterattacks of the AFU assault groups were repelled. The enemy lost over 3,450 troops, two tanks, 11 armored combat vehicles, including three American M113 armored personnel carriers manufactured by the United States, and 51 vehicles. During the counter-battery struggle, the following were hit: a Croatian-made RAK-SA-12 multiple rocket launcher and 38 field artillery guns, including: 18 self-propelled artillery units and 155 mm howitzers of Western production. 16 electronic warfare and counter-battery warfare stations were destroyed, as well as 18 field ammunition depots.

By decisive actions of the units of the "Southern" group of troops, the settlement of Konstantinovka of the Donetsk People's Republic was liberated. The manpower and equipment of three mechanized, two motorized infantry, two infantry, airmobile, four assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and two air defense brigades were defeated. Five counterattacks by enemy assault groups were repelled. The Ukrainian Armed Forces lost over 4,840 servicemen, tanks: "Abrams" produced by the United States and "Leopard" produced by Germany, four armored combat vehicles, 60 vehicles and 57 field artillery guns, of which 23 are manufactured by NATO countries. 11 electronic warfare stations and 16 field ammunition depots were destroyed.

As a result of the active actions of the units of the Center group of forces, the settlements of Orlovka, Kamyshevka, Nikolaevka and Novozhelannoye of the Donetsk People's Republic were liberated. The formations of seven mechanized, two jaeger, airborne, assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two air defense brigades and the assault brigade "Lyut" of the National Police of Ukraine were defeated. 50 counterattacks of the AFU units were reflected. During the week, enemy losses in this area amounted to 3,720 military personnel, seven tanks, 14 armored combat vehicles, including: a German-made Marder infantry fighting vehicle and two M113 armored personnel carriers manufactured by the United States, 38 vehicles, as well as a Grad multiple rocket launcher combat vehicle and 42 field artillery guns.

The units of the Vostok group of forces occupied more advantageous lines and positions, defeated the manpower and equipment of two mechanized, motorized infantry brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and four air defense brigades. 18 counterattacks of the AFU assault groups were repelled. The enemy lost up to 860 servicemen, seven armored combat vehicles, 43 vehicles, 11 field artillery guns, including seven 155 mm self-propelled artillery units and howitzers of Western production, as well as four electronic warfare stations.

The units of the Dnepr group of forces defeated the formations of the infantry, mountain assault brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, two brigades of marines and a brigade of defense. The losses of the Armed Forces amounted to up to 460 soldiers, two armored combat vehicles, 32 vehicles and 16 field artillery guns, including six American 155 mm howitzers. In addition, seven electronic warfare stations and three field ammunition depots were destroyed.

During the week, air defense means shot down a MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force, three ATACMS tactical missiles manufactured by the United States, four Tochka-U tactical missiles, 19 guided Hammer bombs manufactured by France, 31 HIMARS missiles manufactured by the United States and 311 unmanned aerial vehicles, including 127 outside the zone a special military operation.

The forces of the Black Sea Fleet destroyed six Ukrainian unmanned boats.

During the week, 58 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered on the line of contact.

In total, since the beginning of the special military operation, 641 aircraft, 283 helicopters, 30701 unmanned aerial vehicles, 575 anti-aircraft missile systems, 17783 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1431 multiple rocket launchers, 13809 field artillery and mortars, 25447 units of special military vehicles have been destroyed.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12527287@egNews

Russian MoD reporting 16,910 Ukrainian casualties over the past 7 days.



NOTE: reports out of Ukraine suggests they struggle to recruit 10,000 new service people a month, mostly conscripted. Meanwhile Russia is able to recruit around 30,000 per month, all volunteers. These imbalance cannot continue indefinitely, hence the main point of the Russian military strategy of attrition. Same situation exists with regards to military hardware.

ALAMO wrote:Yes, shape would reassemble one as the side air intakes are making the "diameter" from this perspective.
But in both cases, the missile lacks steering wigs that should be there.
3M8 nose subcaliber part is shorter, too.
Weirdo I would say.

It could be the Moskit or the Krug - or perhaps a Kh-31 or the S-200?

Idiotic. I am no expert but even I can see the massive issues with it. The production and storage and utility of hydrogen has a few key and very important uses but it being used as a large scale, practical energy medium is ridiculous.

"Green" energy (green here is short for greenbacks - there's your clue) is a scam by the west to pull the ladder behind them after they got rich off of "fossil" fuels (no such thing, hydrocarbons are minerals and naturally replenish deep underground).

Kamera screen of a missile used on Krivy Rog attack 3 days ago :

Maybe something new.

Ukro strategy for this war is the biggest failure of the whole conflict, because Russkie did the perfect opposite to the scenario NATO planners put on the ukro shoulders.
Nothing worked as they planned.

Best strategy would have been to build a defensive line behind the Dnjepr and retreat all other forces to Lviv.

"We were running around, pretending there were far more of us than there actually were," the soldier says.

Like Rommel.

These imbalance cannot continue indefinitely, hence the main point of the Russian military strategy of attrition. 

Even worse: those Ukro dudes get less and less basic training.

Carelessness no doubt 

These careless smokers. 

Ukrainian terror shelling in Belgorod today. Many civilian casualties again.

Don't know how closely you all are monitoring the daily briefings and blogger reports but has anyone else noticed the drop in the Russians reporting very few tanks being taken out...
not sure if the hoho's are running out or they have withdrawn them for protection. Could be both.

Well they didn't have enormous numbers of them in the first place, but this operation behind enemy lines with very small groups of men is probably not great in terms of maintenance and support and having so many different western vehicles with non compatible parts and instructions on how to keep these vehicles running... not to mention the supply issues of keeping a rather large diesel or gas turbine in the case of the Abrams running, I am surprised they still have tanks in operation anywhere.

Driving around in a 60-70 ton tank uses a lot of fuel and draws attention to your position. A private car on the other hand uses a fraction of the fuel and are abundant on the battlefield and are less likely to draw attention of those hunting you down.