Time to put some sanctions on top of existing sanctions. It will be the nesting dolls of sanctions.
The War in the Ukraine
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Time to put some sanctions on top of existing sanctions. It will be the nesting dolls of sanctions.
The Russians do not put any system into production unless each component has a Russian made 2nd source component to replace it available. That Xilinx FPGA or TI DSP for example, there are 2nd source suppliers in Russia. The Russians also have their own thermal sensors.
To cut production costs lower priced Western or Chinese electronics are used. If for whatever reason supply is cut then they can fall back on more expensive 2nd source Russian components.
Russia makes their own 640x480 thermal sensors. These are typically made in older generation factories and Russia has plenty of those.
To cut production costs lower priced Western or Chinese electronics are used. If for whatever reason supply is cut then they can fall back on more expensive 2nd source Russian components.
Russia makes their own 640x480 thermal sensors. These are typically made in older generation factories and Russia has plenty of those.
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They should get done with Avdeevka ... the faster the better as that's where apparently most of the punitive strikes to city of Donetsk originates. Capture or destruction of it will give morale boost and calm to the city as well as more buffer zones.
SteelBird
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If they want to support Russia without risking themselves a sanction, they should try to produce products without mark or with Russian marks.
You might want to read that quote again:
That company has already been supposedly sanctioned. Basically, any company that got sanctioned by the West in general can do business with Russia. I'll stop right here since this can go off topic easily.
I think that one of the biggest surprises of the Russo-Ukrainian War has been the return of trench warfare. It seems that one of the major reasons is that technologies like ISR, ATGM's and modern air defense systems, drones, telecoms, artillery enabled by modern electronics technologies, etc, make it very difficult to carry out blitzkrieg style mechanized offensives unless the attacker has massive superiority and/or is able to surprise the defenders and catch them off guard.
This particular piece was produced in 2018. Apparently if it's produced after 2022 and intended for Russia then it wouldn't have any Chinese writing on them.
Loss of faces: why AFU does not retreat from Avdiivka
Ukrainian formations are ready to hold on to the territory of the DPR, not paying attention to the number of deadIn the Donetsk area, our troops are conducting a successful offensive, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. On March 16 alone, the VFU in this direction lost almost 300 militants and 10 pieces of equipment, including tanks, MLRS and self-propelled guns. In total, since the beginning of the month, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed more than 3,000 Ukrainian servicemen here. Experts note that in recent days, Russian forces have stepped up attacks in the Avdiivka area, where they are now finishing off the Ukrainian fortified area. The losses of the enemy are increasing due to the fact that he holds on to the city, not paying attention to the number of dead. Correspondents of "Izvestia" visited the artillery unit and saw how they support the infantry advancing in the direction of Donetsk with fire.
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During the active operations of the units of the Southern Group, air strikes and artillery fire in the Donetsk direction, up to 275 Ukrainian servicemen were destroyed per day. In these battles, the enemy lost two tanks, two armored vehicles, two pickup trucks, a Uragan MLRS combat vehicle, a D-20 howitzer, a Gvozdika self-propelled gun, and a US-made M109 Paladin self-propelled gun, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on March 16.
Since the beginning of March, according to the Russian military department, the AFU has lost more than 3,240 militants in this direction.
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The situation in the Donetsk direction is now developing in our favor, military expert Alexei Leonkov told Izvestia.
- The same Avdiivka for the Ukrainian forces does not have great value, as a logistical or some other point - everything is destroyed there, - the expert emphasized. - In the battles for her, as well as for Artemovsk and Marinka, they suffer unreasonably high losses. The remnants of regular servicemen and, most importantly, officers are being sought in them. However, they see the point in it. They are afraid that the front will move, our offensive will begin and they will not hold it. Therefore, the enemy is trying to hold these points so that in the future they will be stumbling blocks for the Russian troops, which hold back the advance and draw our forces onto themselves. They are unlikely to have other such fortified areas with concrete bunkers, warehouses and developed minefields. They have been building for years.
Oleksiy Leonkov believes that in this way the Ukrainian armed formations are gaining time for the long-announced spring general offensive.
“They are preparing for it”, he says. - The recently delivered NATO equipment at the front was not seen, it is being cherished, accumulated in the rear for more important and decisive, as it seems to them, actions. True, they exchange hours, minutes and days for hundreds and thousands of lives of their servicemen.
The expert noted that in the current situation we need to be careful in order to repel the blow in time.
“Next, we will move on to fulfilling our plans,” Alexei Leonkov noted. “ We will move west, freeing the Russian regions and expanding the security zone.
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The reasons trench warfare work in Ukraine are the Russian ISR sucks big time and Russians don’t have enough precision weapons.