Russian special military operation in Ukraine #50

I have just checked the Zaliv precise location and how the shipyard is arranged. The location of ships at pierse etc.
Honestly never bothered.
It looks like missiles were coming from a Zaporhoze-Dnepropetrovsk-Pavlograd triangle direction.
My guess is, that those slipped through some weak point between Melitopol and Berdyansk where there is no serious Russkie air defense as there is nothing to cover.
And a target is unusual either.
A case of well-planned NATO assets use type of attack, that will lead to closing a gap by Russkie soon.
And they will seek for another one, for more TikTok victories to be released, once a month at best.

Novorossiysk is well out of reach.
A whole of naval tactics is shaping in front of our eyes, so just take a beer and enjoy the show.

These are armed with an EFP warhead. They're not particularly dangerous, not compared to FPV drones with single stage PG-7VL.

Bro, they will try to hit combat units in Novorossiysk as well. wrote:

The question is: will they get AGM 158? They waited a very long time even with ATAMCS

These are armed with an EFP warhead. They're not particularly dangerous, not compared to FPV drones with single stage PG-7VL.

The difference is that a FPV drone gets one vehicle at a time and can be very selective, but these top attack anti armour submunitions can be released over an area with armour... basically the charge is angled out at say 30 degrees and as it falls from say 400m it spins, so as it drops and spins it is scanning a circle that gets smaller and smaller and if it detects a tank before it hits the ground it has an IR sensor to detect if the target is already burning and if it isn't boom... a flat disk of metal is accelerated to speeds of 3-4km/s in an instant and a shape similar to that of a shuttlecock from Badminton hits the top of the tank at enormous speeds... in real time it looks like a laser attack.

The munitions can be delivered in bombs or rockets or artillery shells... they have been making them in the mid 1990s.

I would add that if Zelensky follows through on the promise for conscription for women it wont just be the women who rebel... most of the men will think that is just unacceptable too and it might create a civil war between nazi factions and non nazi ones if Russia is lucky.

Eugenio Argentina wrote: Russian troops have begun to use modernized Krasnopol precision-guided munitions with increased accuracy in the special operation in Ukraine, Sputnik has learned

It is not the accuracy a point here, but range and correction method.
Krasnopol-DM is assisting both Koalitsya and Malva weapon systems, and is not compatible with the other 152 mm guns like MSTA.
It is 70+ km range, and most probably even 80+ is used with 2S35.
And is corrected by any available satellite navigation.
Regular Krasnopol was limited to 25km, and which was more problematic on the heavy technical advanced battlefield, it required a laser beam illumination. Designed to be assisted by frontline operators with laser emitters, which is quite problematic today. Being useful as the laser emitters were transferred to the recon drones, yet it is still not an optimal solution.
So it took Russkie a year to check the advantages of GPS guided ammunition when used, and made&field own equivalent as a whole system.

GarryB wrote:
The difference is that a FPV drone gets one vehicle at a time and can be very selective, .

That is why this new Scalpel is quite an interesting thing. It can loiter within 40 km radius, even cheaper than Lancet, and carries 5 kg "payload". They cal it payload, not a warhead, as it can be adjusted to the mission. You just put a needed one inside before start. Five kilos of HE won't leave much of any type or artillery or stronghold.

Yeah you can just blanket the area with them, and devastate their manpower

The munitions shown are top attack anti armour penetrator munitions that actually find and aim for tanks as they fall.

They have fragmentation minelets that are 2.5kg of HE and fragmentation material (compared with a hand grenade with maybe 100grammes of HE) that are very effective against soft targets in the open.

What's funny is both sides have been using cluster warheads

They certainly have them but I would think considering the west called the use of cluster bombs a war crime near the start of the war that they would show any evidence they had of Russian use of cluster weapons every chance they got to prove how evil Russia is. The fact that they didn't, or if they did it turned out it was from a Ukrainian weapon like Tochka then they remained largely silent about the matter.

When the west ran out of conventional rounds and had to start supplying cluster warheads that had been decommissioned and were in storage for disposal then Russia started using that sort of weapon too... ironically Russia likely had plenty of such weapons in storage but were not using them to avoid claims of war crimes but now Kiev has openly received US cluster weapons Russia is free to use up its supply of such weapons that would otherwise have been disposed of too because there are treaties and agreements against their use. The act of US desperation made things easier for Russia and honestly the most effective cluster munitions shower a large area with deadly fragments making them rather effective against unarmoured targets like troops or civilian vehicles that the Orcs primarily use and not so effective against modern armoured vehicles like the ones the Russians are using...

So as these cluster munitions increase in usage, we will see a faster collapse of Ukrainian defenses in the area

They would be horribly effective against troops in an open field, but you learn to operate in a way that you become less of a target.

Krasnopol-DM is assisting both Koalitsya and Malva weapon systems, and is not compatible with the other 152 mm guns like MSTA.
It is 70+ km range, and most probably even 80+ is used with 2S35.
And is corrected by any available satellite navigation.
Regular Krasnopol was limited to 25km, and which was more problematic on the heavy technical advanced battlefield, it required a laser beam illumination.

I believe the Krasnopol-DM when fired from MSTA can reach targets 43km away because it does not have delicate optical components needed for the laser homing version of the round so it can be accelerated to a much higher speed without risk of damage.

The MiG-35 is supposed to have a new generation laser target marker that can mark targets up to 20km away...