Russian special military operation in Ukraine #34

All AD missiles have proxy fuze. Without it they would have trouble hitting anything. Radars don't work over very small distances, IR seajer might see just a big red target in the last seconds and is a dumb seaker contrary to radar...

No.

The original Igla and Igla-1 didn't have a proximity fuse... they were accurate enough to get direct hits on targets the size of aircraft and helicopters and therefore didn't need anything other than a graze fuse.

The Igla-S added a proximity fuse for use against tiny targets like cruise missiles or small drones where the missile might not make actual contact with.

Tests of Igla showed that against an AT-3 Malyutka ATGM drone target five out of nine shots got direct hits, but that obviously four out of nine shots did not make contact with the target. The AT-3 is a rather small target so five hits out of 9 shots was actually rather good especially at a altitude of about 15m, but it was determined for targets like small drones and cruise missiles a proximity fuse needed to be added... resulting in the Igla-S.

Igla S may have better stuff but even former Igla had proxy fuzes.

The Soviet Igla and Igla-1 didn't. Eastern european ripoffs of Iglas might have a proximity fuse added... but in this case it clearly failed.

But these cities would be russian then and the Ukros would attack them like they attack Melitopol or Donetsk now. The regime has to go.

The current regime are too in bed with the west and the agreements they sign are not worth anything at all so they do need to be replaced with people who are no corrupt goons of the west.

Or the charge is reduced.
Interesting.

Have never heard of any reduced propellent charge options for 125mm guns... just the standard charge for all rounds, and an increased charge for some of the newer APFSDS rounds which have additional propellent encasing them too.

Not sure if the picture is morphed but why would a Su-35 carry such a large payload of air to air missiles?

Its primary kill weapons would be the R-37s because when Su-35s get airborne I suspect Orc aircraft will run away or land or not launch, so they will be doing most of their shooting down of Orc aircraft from 200km plus distances.

The R-77s and R-73s would be fine for medium sized drones, but the Kh-31s would be used against any radars they detect including battlefield radars trying to spot Russian artillery.

R-77s and R-73s could in theory be fired at incoming BUK and S-300 missiles too I suspect... but the primary war load is ARMs and long range AAMs.

"Putin’s Belarus Visit Stokes Fears It Could Be Drawn Into Ukraine War"

"Russia’s closest ally has resisted being pulled into the conflict, but pressure from Moscow to open a new front appears to be growing"

Western bullshit... there is no evidence that Moscow wants Belarus to join the conflict... more like the west wants to use their Ukrainian meat puppets to damage Belarus as well as Russia...

"Poland prepares for 'liberation march' in Ukraine. We already know the most important dates": Niezależny Dziennik Polityczny writes that Poland's ruling party has not only fully agreed on a plan to take over Western Ukraine but has also set dates. Having invaded on 4 May, the Poles expect to hold a referendum on accession on the symbolic day of the beginning of the Volyn massacre, 11 July.

Good... a western massacre of Polish troops might ease the pain of Ukrainians... Polish columns of forces could be devastated by cruise missile attacks using cluster munitions to destroy vehicle convoys...

If they wanted to destroy energy system they would have targeted the nuk power plants... not their goal. They need to provide the people with electricity after the war.

A lot of their infrastructure needs to be replaced anyway...

Reading mixed reports on Marinka. If nothing else, the center fell to RU/DPR. Very good. Hopefully momentum accelerates so that Donetsk can have a buffer zone, as today's shelling demonstrates that it desperately needs.

Doesn't really matter where they move the border to someone will still be getting shelled... it is a question of destroying those firing the shells and the logistics systems that supply ammo and fuel and food etc etc.

Poland attempting to get a slice would be excellent opportunity to pop that taboo about NATO being untouchable

Poland sending forces into the Ukraine would completely nullify Article 5 and mean they are on their own... fair game...

Losing a soccer game as nothing to do with this war

A competition Russia and Belarus were excluded from because of this conflict.

No, it definitely matters. Luhansk, for example, is no longer being shelled. There's a pretty big difference between an unpopulated village being shelled and a city of 1+ million.

When they push the Orcs back to 300km away from Crimea or initial Russian territory, how long before the US approves the delivery of ATCMs to the orcs?

The all of a sudden lots of centres will be in range again...

Igla was designed with a proximity fuse from the beginning, the only issue was the fact that the program was much delayed.
So the Igla-1 system was adopted, being a swap of newly developed solutions with an already working Strela-3 9K34 missile.

Whether they were designed with a proximity fuse or not does not really matter... the Igla and Igla-1 missiles deployed did not have proximity fuses fitted to them.

The results of tests against small targets (ATGMs) resulted in the new Igla-S whose main feature was a proximity fuse and other improvements.

AFAIK Verba and the new Metka have proximity fuses too.

It combined contact fuze with some mechanism that detonated the missile only if "touched" the target.

You mean a graze fuse?