The War in the Ukraine

[Tam]

DPR tanks attacks Ukrainians at said place.

Ukrainian convoy ambushed.

Ukrainian Iveco damaged or knocked out at Kherson.

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Russian MSTA b taken out by an Excalibur.

Ukrainian humvee hits a mine.

Ukrainian tank ambushed at close range.

POV from a DPR tank.

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[Tam]

Ukrainian recon force hit with artillery. First the pickup got stopped then got hit. Looks to me like Krasnopol handiwork.

Russian position got pasted by artillery.

 

[FriedButter]

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If this is proven, does it not constitute a violation of the New Start(2021) treaty?

Doesn’t seem like it. Says the limit is on ICBM & SLBM launchers and bombers is 800 which only 700 can be equipped with nuclear armaments. Can’t see any mentions of cruise missiles.

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[ZeEa5KPul]

Ukrainian recon force hit with artillery. First the pickup got stopped then got hit. Looks to me like Krasnopol handiwork.

Russian position got pasted by artillery.

Russians do this very annoying thing where they'll have a drone close by film a target then switch to a much farther drone to show the actual strike.

 

[zhangjim]

" 20 NATO member countries out of 30 have exhausted the possibilities to send weapons to Ukraine "

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That sounds terrible. It seems that the combat effectiveness of NATO after the Cold War has been greatly exaggerated. Many member countries simply do not have the material conditions to confront Russia (which has been so weakened) in a positive way.

I once saw a commentary video on the Iraq war, which mentioned that NATO allies cannot actually conduct joint operations with the US military.

 

[FairAndUnbiased]

It's going to be a white, snowy Christmas in Kiev...

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[gelgoog]

Why can't they simply get more from nearby countries?

I doubt anyone has a stockpile of diesel train locomotives lying around to give away and even if they gave some to Ukraine. It would have to come from former Soviet states because the Soviets used a different track gauge (1520mm) while the rest of Europe adopted the standard gauge (1435mm).

I keep seeing people saying this. Alexander Mercouris being one of these people. That no one outside the Soviet space makes diesel locomotives for Russian track gauge. Which is simply not true. Like I said here before US company GE Transportation made diesel locomotives for Kazakhstan for example.

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[Tam]

Russians do this very annoying thing where they'll have a drone close by film a target then switch to a much farther drone to show the actual strike.

If the video is released officially to Russian TV, some law prohibits the video from showing actual moment of death, such as if the video shows bodies or parts of bodies being tossed about. But if the video is uploaded directly to the Telegram channels, like from some DPR or LPR battalions, the video won't mind that technicality and these videos won't be shown in Russian TV without said portion being edited.

Here is a video that East Tribune took from the Wargonzo channel. This is an example of a video that's uploaded to social media directly without going through Russian TV.

This also shows why its stupid to use technicals. You don't need a direct hit to render the pickup useless, tires flat, panels penetrated by fragments.

Ouch. Russian tank waiting at the corner and the Ukrainian tank wasn't looking. One crewman survived.

 

[Tam]

Armata sent to Ukraine?

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Dutch donated YPR-65s in Ukrainian service.

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[foxmulder]

I made same effort to identify the ICs in the Kalibr.

Funny thing : D
The AD9218 is a 20 years old IC, if I want to buy it for cheap I need to soruce it from china

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Not expensive, 13 dollar each.300 MHz AD converter, good for small handheld oscilloscopes.
Next one, gigabit controller.

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It is a 20 years old product as well, suprise,there are few supliers outside of China.
Just type back to aliexpress or ebay the 88e1111.

Now, the most funny part, 18 mbit SRAM.

Just for reference, it is 2 mbyte, (+ parity), the typical Pentium class computers contained 512 kbyte of this ram in 1995.

I haven't found the introduction date, but it has to be around 2000.

There was a notice from the manufacturer in 2016 about the transition to 60 nm manufacturing process for these ICs : D

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This monster requiring 130 nm technology, available from 2000.

Just to clarify, the challange to make exact copy of these ICs is to remove the cap with HNO3,make few picture and make copies of them.

Require same time to finetune the machines, but let say it is a side project for few bored engineer. If they have nothing better to do.
Economical reason doesn't exist to do this kind of project.

No surprises here.. Military hardware comes 4-5 generations behind because reliability and durability is paramount. It is same for western and Chinese equipment. This why sanctions to countries like China and Russia to prevent military development is a joke.