Russian special military operation in Ukraine #61

These drones can do some very rough aiming if they have weather data for the altitude at which it will fly.  Basically you launch and select a flight altitude based on winds and the drone can climb higher mid route to change course if you need.  I suspect it would need a  dense enough target map to make every flight a winner. Other than that they'll be used as decoys when IIR guided SAM is missing.

They will be horribly inaccurate, like V-1 and V-2 weapons from WWII where the only target they could reliably hit was London... because it was enormous.

In effect these balloons would be ideal if the target was the Black Sea or open empty terrain in Russia.

Blind firing of artillery shells would be about as accurate.

This is a terror weapon, like the desperate incendiary balloons the Japanese launched at America during WWII to try to start forest fires.

So I presume the same is true of the Ukrainian army.

This would mean that the health care system in Banderaland is as good as the Russian one.
Which I doubt.

More sinister, I don't think the Russian medical care system is on the lookout for human organs to harvest... likely for paying customers in Europe and the US... or anywhere that they have money... like the Kiev doctors and nurses might.

Russian MoD reporting 2380 Ukrainian casualties over the past 24 hours including in the Kursk;

During the day, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amounted to more than 340 servicemen, 13 armored vehicles were destroyed, including three tanks, five infantry fighting vehicles, three of them Bradley BMP made in the USA, and five armored combat vehicles, as well as five artillery pieces, 11 vehicles and two electronic warfare stations. Six servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered.

In total, during the fighting in the Kursk direction, the enemy lost 25,662 soldiers, 172 tanks, 89 infantry fighting vehicles, 103 armored personnel carriers, 982 armored combat vehicles, 675 vehicles, 221 artillery pieces, 38 multiple rocket launchers, including nine HIMARS and six MLRS manufactured by the United States, nine anti-aircraft missile launchers complexes, five transport-charging vehicles, 54 electronic warfare stations, 11 counter-battery radars, three air defense radars, 22 units of engineering and other equipment, of which 13 engineering barrier vehicles, one UR-77 mine clearance unit, as well as three armored recovery vehicles.

https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12534019@egNews

"Two Majors" TG - the first burned down Abrams near Kursk / near Vesoloye


https://t.me/dva_majors/55634




@ Flaming Python
Stalin did reshuffle some Koreans, presumably because a large Japanese army was nearby, and they were afraid of spies/saboteurs. However even in the 2021/22 census, there were still slightly more than 100,000 Korean-Russians living in Russia.

Pet's food and baby milk explosions in Odessa again.
Vids in VK widget.


https://rg.ru/2024/10/20/v-portu-odessy-nachalsia-silnyj-pozhar-posle-raketnogo-udara.html



A major fire broke out in the port of Odessa after a missile strike

Residents of Odessa are publishing photos and videos of a powerful fire in the port, where Iskander ballistic missiles have once again landed.

The Odessa port - or rather all three ports of the Odessa agglomeration: the Odessa commercial port, the port of Chornomorsk and "Yuzhny" - are large transshipment bases for military cargo delivered by sea from NATO countries. Mainly from neighboring Romania.

Therefore, Russian missiles visit Odessa berths with the same frequency as dry cargo ships under the flags of banana republics, but with ammunition and military equipment in their holds.

This time the Iskanders hit something that burns very well. A crimson glow lit up half the sky above the southern cities, and the stars were covered by thick black smoke.

ALAMO wrote:The thing on Two Majors vid is clearly not M1.

That's a Swedish CV-90. I did however saw a knocked out M1 together with a couple of CV-90's somewhere a few days ago.

It is reported that the Su-57 and Su-34M crews have begun using Kh-69 ASM with cluster warheads against strategically important rear facilities of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in . These missiles are highly effective in destroying personnel at training grounds, infantry concentrations, and aircraft in open parking lots, as well as passive and active phased array radar stations.

The first Kh-69s delivered to the combat units of the VKS were equipped with penetrating-frag-HE warheads and demonstrated their high potential in overcoming the Ukrainian Air Force's anti-missile barriers formed by mixed batteries of Patriot PAC-2 GEM-C / PAC-3MSE air defense systems. This potential was achieved due to the low-altitude flight profile and the widespread use of composite materials and radar-absorbing materials in the airframe design, reducing the effective reflective surface to 0.02 - 0.03 sq. m. The Kh-69's range reaches 290 km

Felon is jailbreaking NATO IADS and taking out manpower with cluster warhead stealth cruise missiles

Are we seriously discussing the Abrams as some sort of wunderwaffe? My God they took out such a prize. No, it couldn't be...

It's just more NATzO trash used up on the Ukr front. Nothing special.

https://t.me/milinfolive/133404

Cool footage of a VDV combat air controller, so these are the guys designating coordinates for FABS or rocket strikes, one thing is that we see the effect of NAR launches with S13 rockets

It would be interesting to see Ugroza variant with laser guidance

Newsweek:

South Korean media claimed on Monday that Seoul could send military and intelligence personnel to Ukraine after the North dispatched troops to support Russia in the war.

A report said the government and military of South Korea "are reviewing a plan to send an appropriate number of personnel, including intelligence officers [specialized in North Korea] and experts in enemy tactics," to Ukraine, citing a South Korean intelligence official.

https://www.newsweek.com/south-korea-news-could-follow-north-russia-ukraine-war-1972082

Mir wrote:

ALAMO wrote:The thing on Two Majors vid is clearly not M1.

That's a Swedish CV-90. I did however saw a knocked out M1 together with a couple of CV-90's somewhere a few days ago.

My bad i didn't notice in tiny smartphone display but th emiost important is that M1 is destroyed as well

South Korean media claimed on Monday

The same media that claimed for years that Kim killed his uncle, his girlfriend, his sister and a lot of other people
that later showed up alive.

South Korean media claimed on Monday that Seoul could send military and intelligence personnel to Ukraine after the North dispatched troops to support Russia in the war.

A report said the government and military of South Korea "are reviewing a plan to send an appropriate number of personnel, including intelligence officers [specialized in North Korea] and experts in enemy tactics," to Ukraine, citing a South Korean intelligence official.

Then Russia needs to KILL these interlopers along with their "volunteer" NATzO buddies

These missiles are highly effective in destroying personnel at training grounds, infantry concentrations, and aircraft in open parking lots, as well as passive and active phased array radar stations.

To be fair it is not about the missile or delivery system, it is about an area soft target like people or large radar antenna that are fragile, or aircraft spaced apart so big bombs wont take them all out.

Cluster munitions are ideal for soft or fragile targets over a large area... thank you to the US for making these an acceptable weapon of war again... in comparison a single explosive of a few hundred kgs would be much less effective than cluster munitions that spread the fragments and blast so much more effectively.

one thing is that we see the effect of NAR launches with S13 rockets

It would be interesting to see Ugroza variant with laser guidance

Laser homing S-13 rockets would be interesting... the S-13 rockets are rather huge, 122mm calibre rockets designed for the purpose of penetrating hardened aircraft shelters and destroying aircraft parked inside. Their 80mm S-8 rockets have warheads up to about 8kgs, while the warheads for the S-13 rockets come in a variety of types up to 33-37kgs... the original S-13T has a dual warhead that comes in two parts... a 90mm calibre 21kg warhead to blow a hole in the structure 6m of earth and 1m of concrete with a follow up warhead of of about 16kg to explode inside the hardened aircraft shelter to spread fire and fragments to destroy the contents of the shelter.

Obviously such rockets would be effective on buildings and bunkers and other structures too, and quite devastating against light armoured vehicles I suspect too.

Later models are 122mm calibre end to end...

Their direct fire range is only about 3km or so, but the HE Frag model would be rather powerful lofted towards troops on open ground, and of course a laser homing model could be lofted towards the target with a good chance of a direct hit beyond the direct fire range...