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Soldier30

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Rare footage of the flight and explosion of a Russian cruise missile Kh-22 in the Lipetsk region of Russia has been published. The video, filmed on February 1, shows the force of the Kh-22 missile explosion and the crater that forms after the explosion. Presumably, the Kh-22 missile was launched from a Tu-22M3 aircraft and its engine failed. Kh-22 missiles were accepted into service by the USSR in 1971. In 2000, Ukraine returned 386 Kh-22 cruise missiles to Russia as a debt write-off. After that, Russia modernized the missiles almost to the level of Kh-32 missiles. By 2022, Russia had at least 400 Kh-22 missiles. It is believed that even now, the Kh-22 missile can overcome the Aegis air defense system. You can evaluate the characteristics of some types of Kh-22 missiles in the table. The missile has a liquid rocket engine R-201-300 and inertial guidance with subsequent final active radar homing on the target. New modifications of the Kh-22 missiles have a flight range of up to 600 kilometers, at a speed of up to 5600 kilometers per hour, at an altitude of up to 27 km, the mass of the warhead is 1000 kg. Deviation from the target is about 30 meters. The cost of the Kh-22 missile is about a million dollars.

 

Soldier30

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Russian military personnel showed footage of the launch and landing of the new Russian reconnaissance UAV "Merlin-VR". The UAV "Merlin-VR" appeared in the Russian troops recently, technical information about it in the link to the video in the comments to the video. Currently, the UAV "Merlin-VR" is used mainly to adjust the work of Russian artillery and aviation.

 

Tam

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YouTuber Matsimus gives an overview for the BM-30 Smerch, 300mm MLRS. If you're new and wants a quick nicely presented overview for an iconic Soviet age weapon that's still fearsome today.

Some notes. Some of the footage in the view are that of the 220mm Uragan MLRS, and both tends to be confused.

The use of the guided GLONASS not GPS guided rockets belong to it's modernized version, the Tornado-S.

Smerchs were active early in the Ukraine war, but disappeared after some point. I believed they were all pulled out, and modernized into Tornado-S, which has become gradually more active in time as units were rolled out.

There is a huge overlap between Iskander and Tornado-S attacks. I believe that a number of Iskander attacks are really Tornado-S. Russian Telegram blogs often make this mistake, but it's hard to properly differentiate a weapon is all you see is a flash then a big explosion on a black and white thermal screen.

While there are thermobaric weapons, I never saw them used with Smerch or Tornado-S. By far the most fearsome weapon from the Tornado-S is the cluster munitions.

While all the Russian MLRS are hell on the business side, my vote for the most feared and terrifying, and most decisive is a tie between the TOS-1A and TOS-2. Second would be the Agricultural remote mine layer.

Unlike HIMARS, Tornado-S isn't used to delete single artillery howitzers, SPGs or MLRS. Russian MLRS is used to simply delete all enemy forces within a grid, period. If they need to snipe opposing artillery systems for counterbattery, they use Lancets and Krasnopols, and once in a while, a skilled well place artillery shot.


Tornado-S cluster munitions strike


A more recent Tornado-S strike with cluster munition.

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Tam

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@Tam

Was the Tornado-S attacking all the targets individually with the Glonass-guided munitions?

It was meant to destroy everything within a blast radius, I'm guessing anywhere from 70m to 100m with fragmentation. The kill zone is much greater with cluster munitions. If it's the opposing MLRS, not just the launcher, but the truck with the reloads, and the vehicles that contain the staff that operates the launcher. For example, based on the real life targets mentioned, a temporary deployment point, which is a camping site, with any number of vehicles and personnel camping within an area. One rocket will take out a whole bunch of vehicles and people within a kill zone.
 

Tam

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List of strikes conducted on Feb 3 to 4. Plenty of Geran/Gerbara strikes. Gerbara is a cheap drone used as a Geran dummy or decoy, I would assume, makes up around about half of a Geran wave. Gerans have been updated to thermobarics or to a 90kg HE-FRAG warhead, up from 50kg before so a drone packs a lot of punch. From the list given, many Geran strikes are increasingly of tactical nature, aimed at temporary deployment points and depots. On February 3, there are at least two Tornado-S strikes, both using cluster munitions, which has become the favorite warhead used for this type. Lightning refers to the Molinya winged FPV drone. One of these drones with a TM-62 antitank mine strapped to it can pack quite punch.

From @lost_armour Telegram blog,


3 February 2025
• 09.20 Sumy Oblast - explosions. UMPC. Borderland.
• 10.05-10.13 surroundings of the Khoten settlement, Sumy region - explosions. Tornado-S.
• 10.30 Sumy Oblast - explosions. Borderland.
• 11.45 strikes continue in the border region of Sumy region - explosions. UMPC.
• 13.05 Zaporizhzhia region, crossroads of three regions - explosions. UMPC.
• 13.10 Khoten, Sumy Oblast - explosions. Tornado-S.
• 14.10 neighborhood of Chuguev - explosion. X-59. The rocket was last seen here.
• 15.00 Sumy Oblast - explosions. UMPC. Miropolje.
• 15.00-15.30 Kharkiv - 2 explosions. Lightning.
• 16.30-16.45 Kharkiv region - explosions. 2 UMPC strikes. Kupyansky district
• 16.45 Kherson - explosions.
• 17.40-17.50 Kharkiv region - explosions. 2 UMPC strikes. Kupyansky district.
• 21.05 Sumy region - explosions. UMPK Borderland.
• 21.35 Sumy - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 22.45 Kramatorsk Donbass - explosions. UMPC.
• 23.00-23.40 Sumy region - explosions. 4 UMPC strikes. Yunakovka, Khoten, Yunosha, Prigranichye.

4 February 2025
• 02.05 Konotop, Sumy region, Vyshgorod, Kyiv region - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 02.15 Kanev Cherkasskaya and the outskirts of Kyiv - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 02.40 Krolevets, Sumy region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 03.05 Cherkasy - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 03.10 Vasilkov, Kyiv region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 03.15 Cherkasy explosion again. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 03.35 surroundings of Sumy - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 03.45 Cherkasy, Sumy - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 03.55 Cherkasy - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 04.35 Obukhov, Kyiv region - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 04.50 Kharkov area - explosions. UMPC.
• 05.00 Bila Tserkva, Kyiv region, vicinity of Cherkassy - explosions. Gerani/Gerbers.
• 06.00 Kyiv neighborhood - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
• 06.05 Kyiv - explosion. Geranium/Gerbera.
 

Soldier30

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Uralvagonzavod has shown new footage of the Russian T-90M Proryv tank equipped with the Arena-M active protection system. According to media reports, the system provides multi-level protection, including against drone attacks. It is worth noting that it is unknown how the protection against drones is implemented. Perhaps the optical sensors or radiation modules installed around the perimeter of the turret record drones, among other things. How the Arena-M protection works on the tank is shown in the link to the video in the comments to the video. It is noted that T-90M Proryv tanks with the Arena-M active protection system will soon be delivered to the Russian troops.

 

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T-90MS arrival at IDEX 2025 Abu Dhabi. Enough space for T-14.
This An-124 has played key role in Russia logistics and will be reborn in new form. That elephant walk of 7 An-124 was recently. Soviet engineering transform to meet current tempo.

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Shoigu stated that almost 50 engines have been repaired and delivered for the An-124 Ruslan​

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"There are practically no such planes abroad": military pilot on the An-124​

Honored military pilot Popov: An-124 has unique characteristics

Honored military pilot of Russia Vladimir Popov listed the advantages of the An-124 over similar transport aircraft on air at Sputnik radio.

 
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