Russian special military operation in Ukraine #34

Yeah, seems to have been a big bunch of U.S. M112 demolition charges.

The "WARNING: POISONOUS IF EATEN DO NOT BURN-PRODUCES TOXIC FUMES" disclaimer can be discerned under the cling film or whatever they used to hold them together.

Are those upgraded t-72 ?

I wonder if they will upgrade t-62 this way as well. Now that they are working at full speed, it would be worth upgrading 2000 t-62 with the stuff they put on the t-72.

Better solution than awacs could be a tethered aerostat, with multi faceted radar, 4 of them at a height of around 150/200ft, that would be adequate enough to pick up the small uav's at a standoff range, outside of the danger  zone of parked aircraft and other essential facilities, with 24hrs coverage and more Panstir's plus 4 Tor M2 both with a mix of the mini missiles developed to counter small uav's

@Stealthflanker
Black Sea aquatory is much closer to Saratov than Norway or Finland. If there's any NATO record done, it will be done from there.
I doubt that any drone smuggled to Russia can make so much damage after it was shot down. 
Option one would be that Strizh drone is shot down or that something smaller, like Mugin drone was not shot down, but actually executed attack in which servicemen died.
Of course Mugin would be have to be launched within Russia.

Attacks on Russia's nuclear triad facilities by NATzO and its Pukranian cannon fodders crosses the line and needs a prompt response. Russia needs to emphasize this in a live UN broadcast and then launch another massive 500 cruise missile and 1000 geran strikes on all Pukranian NAZI targets.

Food storage, water facilities and the remaining power grid needs to be taken out ASAP. Starve all NATzO cannon fodders to death until they SUBMIT to Russia's noble cause

Rumors floating that Russia has honed its HIMARS detection skills, with multiple launchers destroyed over the past couple of days.

It's not some special system anyway. Long-range GNS-guided MLRS aren't new, Russia possesses the capability, even little Belarus has its own domestic equivalent. But the Ukrainians definitely do their best to "shoot and scoot" and they hide them well, as far from the front as their range permits, in dense urban areas where there are loads of usable shelters.

Pakistan wanted to buy Russian oil at a discount, but Moscow refused to oblige. Pakistan's shipments of weapons to Ukraine might be the reason an oil deal didn't happen.

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/5747360

Dr Snufflebug  "Rumors floating that Russia has honed its HIMARS detection skills, with multiple launchers destroyed over the past couple of days."

This looks like yet another US unintended consequence of their supply of 'advanced', at least for them, weapons. The Russians now have a perfect R&D opportunity to design and implement anti very mobile MLRS techniques whilst improving their own MLRS based on the US/NATO experience. Even though US/NATO has a much bigger problem, given Russia's MLRS systems, whilst as the attacker, it can work on its launchers it does not have the same opportunity to work on defence.

Yet another case of the US presenting Russia with the tools that will allow them to get even further ahead. There must be some forward thinkers in the Western armies that are spitting blood.

EDIT- Take them out after they get faults. The weak link.

Will Schryver
@imetatronink
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Two more HIMARS launchers destroyed yesterday in a Russian strike on a repair shop in Kramatorsk.

Very little of the HIMARS myth remains ...

Updated list of brigades seen in the Artemovsk fighting


Brigades

10 mountain brigade

24 (one company)

30

46 airmobile

54
57 motorized infantry ( 2 battalions)
59 motorized infantry ( 3 territorial battalions attached to the brigade)

60 infantry
62 Mechanized ( 3 battalions)

71 Jaeger
79 brigade (part of it)

92 (withdrawn)
93
97 brigade

120 Territorial (replaced 92)
128 Mountain Assault


That's 15 Brigades, counting another half a dozen brigades that were rotated out during the battle, the Ukrowehrmacht might have commited 20 brigades to the fighting during the previous five months, with most during the past 4 months, battle began in earnest during September, on 7 September the Russians entered Artemovsk eastern factories though they were expelled by a counterattack a month later.

For my overview of the battle see this previous entry

https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/12/07/la-batalla-por-artemovsk/





AFU may lose Bakhmut due to lack of reserves: 1.2 thousand soldiers were killed in ten days



2022-12-26 19:02



Armed conflicts. Combat operations, Reports from the militia of Novorossiya. Latest reports from the DPR and LPR fronts


Since December 15, the AFU reinforcements have lost about 1.2 thousand people killed and seriously wounded in Bakhmut. According to the Military Chronicle, the largest losses were suffered by units deployed to Artemivsk from the southern direction.

The largest number of dead and seriously wounded was recorded in the reconnaissance company of the 24th AFU Brigade, the 34th and 17th motorized infantry battalions of the 57th infantry Brigade, and the 9th, 10th and 11th territorial defense battalions of the 59th separate motorized infantry Brigade.

AFU reinforcements suffered losses at the positions of the 30th and 54th brigades in the southern suburbs of Bakhmut-Opytne and Kleshcheyevka. After the arrival of the Ukrainian infantry on the positions targeted and partially destroyed by artillery fire, which are under the supervision of the Wagner PMC, the APU used a barrage tactic using 152 mm Hyacinth-B howitzers.

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 62nd mechanized Brigade from the 4th Army Corps of the AFU Reserve also suffered heavy losses. These units came under a barrage of artillery from the Wagner PMC during an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to counterattack in the area of Kurdyumovka and Ozeryanovka, 20 km south of Bakhmut.

The situation is particularly difficult in the 59th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In just three days, from December 23 to 26, the unit lost about 185 people killed and wounded. A reconnaissance company of the brigade and a self-propelled division with howitzers "Gvozdika" of 122 mm caliber were almost completely destroyed.

On December 24, due to the impact of 300-mm Smerch complexes, the brigade lost the control point of an artillery reconnaissance battery with the American AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder counter-battery radar and the Starlink satellite terminal in the Ivanovsky area (a southwestern suburb of Bakhmut). After that, the headquarters structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area switched to data exchange via the Iridium PTT (Push-To-Talk) system, which complicated and slowed down the exchange of information and counter-battery warfare in this area.

The destruction of the AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar also made it difficult to use the 155 mm TRF1 French howitzers deployed near Bakhmut. Due to a lack of intelligence, the Ukrainian artillery was unable to conduct targeted fire for several days and twice hit the positions of the 54th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south-east of Artemivsk.

The Bakhmut garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffers heavy losses on the first and second lines of defense, where, in addition to the orchestra artillery, T-80BV/BVM "jet" tanks are very active. According to the Military Chronicle, the Ukrainian infantry in this area suffers from a shortage of anti-tank grenade launchers and gradually loses the ability to deal with the rapid breakthroughs of tanks in the depth of defense at a speed of 60-70 km/h.

According to AFU radio intercepts, the infantrymen left on the first two lines of defense are dying without weapons and cover, while the reserves inside Bakhmut are working on a plan of action in urban battles in case the front collapses. The AFU reserves are forced to prepare fortifications inside the city for the fall of the defense around Bakhmut manually due to a shortage of engineering equipment, which the Military Chronicle reported earlier.


Source: life.ru

psg wrote:Better solution than awacs could be a tethered aerostat, with multi faceted radar, 4 of them at a height of around 150/200ft, that would be adequate enough to pick up the small uav's at a standoff range, outside of the danger  zone of parked aircraft and other essential facilities, with 24hrs coverage and more Panstir's plus 4 Tor M2 both with a mix of the mini missiles developed to counter small uav's

The better solution is to lay the entire atom bomber fleet to a completely new Airbase.

This should not have a forest, no villages or cities or other hills within a radius of 25km. Then pull three security zones around this new base of 1km, 5km, 25km.

Ring 1 close range 1km, with 2x S-400, 2xS-500, 2xBUKM3, 8x TorM2, plus fixed 12x AK630 near-area defense.
Ring 2 at 5km, with 8x BukM3 in east, south, west and north from the base. In addition, 2 TorM2 for the BukM3, at Südost 2x TorM2, Südwest 2xtorm2, northwest 2x TorM2, northeast 2x TorM2.
Ring 3 at 10km, every 3km 2x PanzirSM system.

Of course, the basis should also have a Groupe of MIG-31BM, a Groupe SU-35 and monitoring drones for the range with 24/7 service as protection.

Space for at least 48 protected parking spaces (which never allow a review from space) for TU-160 and TU-95. However, 96 parking spaces would be better. That means the base should be very large. In addition, three very wide runway.

Similar to T-3 the Syrian.
Please put the whole base behind Moscow.
T-3 The Syrian is also far from the IDF.

Would be a very big large solar park in the Place where sheep keep everything short.
No tree within a radius of 25km. Everything solar. Everything can be easily overlooked by Radar.

That's 15 Brigades

On paper.


Twitter rumours:
It seems Russia is preparing a new wave of attacks.

Some comment from a user:
This might be the reason they're launching these desperate drone strikes on the big airfields. US intelligence might be giving them a heads-up when Russia is preparing a new raid, and so they try to disrupt and delay it as much as possible with these attacks.

In Mariupol school No. 27 was opened and also keys to new apartments were handed over to the first 5 families from Mariupol and 10 from Volnovakha:

Since December 15, the AFU reinforcements have lost about 1.2 thousand people killed and seriously wounded in Bakhmut. According to the Military Chronicle, the largest losses were suffered by units deployed to Artemivsk from the southern direction.

The largest number of dead and seriously wounded was recorded in the reconnaissance company of the 24th AFU Brigade, the 34th and 17th motorized infantry battalions of the 57th infantry Brigade, and the 9th, 10th and 11th territorial defense battalions of the 59th separate motorized infantry Brigade.

AFU reinforcements suffered losses at the positions of the 30th and 54th brigades in the southern suburbs of Bakhmut-Opytne and Kleshcheyevka. After the arrival of the Ukrainian infantry on the positions targeted and partially destroyed by artillery fire, which are under the supervision of the Wagner PMC, the APU used a barrage tactic using 152 mm Hyacinth-B howitzers.

The 1st, 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 62nd mechanized Brigade from the 4th Army Corps of the AFU Reserve also suffered heavy losses. These units came under a barrage of artillery from the Wagner PMC during an attempt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces to counterattack in the area of Kurdyumovka and Ozeryanovka, 20 km south of Bakhmut.

The situation is particularly difficult in the 59th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In just three days, from December 23 to 26, the unit lost about 185 people killed and wounded. A reconnaissance company of the brigade and a self-propelled division with howitzers "Gvozdika" of 122 mm caliber were almost completely destroyed.

On December 24, due to the impact of 300-mm Smerch complexes, the brigade lost the control point of an artillery reconnaissance battery with the American AN/TPQ-37 Firefinder counter-battery radar and the Starlink satellite terminal in the Ivanovsky area (a southwestern suburb of Bakhmut). After that, the headquarters structures of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in this area switched to data exchange via the Iridium PTT (Push-To-Talk) system, which complicated and slowed down the exchange of information and counter-battery warfare in this area.

The destruction of the AN/TPQ-37 counter-battery radar also made it difficult to use the 155 mm TRF1 French howitzers deployed near Bakhmut. Due to a lack of intelligence, the Ukrainian artillery was unable to conduct targeted fire for several days and twice hit the positions of the 54th Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south-east of Artemivsk.

The Bakhmut garrison of the Armed Forces of Ukraine suffers heavy losses on the first and second lines of defense, where, in addition to the orchestra artillery, T-80BV/BVM "jet" tanks are very active. According to the Military Chronicle, the Ukrainian infantry in this area suffers from a shortage of anti-tank grenade launchers and gradually loses the ability to deal with the rapid breakthroughs of tanks in the depth of defense at a speed of 60-70 km/h.

According to AFU radio intercepts, the infantrymen left on the first two lines of defense are dying without weapons and cover, while the reserves inside Bakhmut are working on a plan of action in urban battles in case the front collapses. The AFU reserves are forced to prepare fortifications inside the city for the fall of the defense around Bakhmut manually due to a shortage of engineering equipment, which the Military Chronicle reported earlier.

Just like virtual peremogas, and alleged intercepted phonecalls of russians soldiers calling their mothers, theres no way to verify this.

Soldiers of the 9th regiment stormed the enemy's stronghold

Artillery of the 9th regiment with well-aimed fire destroyed long-term enemy firing points covering the approaches to his stronghold. This allowed the armored group to break through directly to the enemy fortifications. Firing from the standard armament of the infantry fighting vehicles of the 9th regiment, they landed troops, who managed to capture the positions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

yay, 65m of random "ultrafortified"  trenches  were liberated. Maryinka by 2053!

This tg page has lots of mercouris grade copium.
https://t.me/incato2

Posts of dead pigs. Most of them are unverified tho

"JohninMK wrote:
How do they keep the vision ports and other optics mud free?"

The South African Tank Technology Demonstrator used high pressure compressed air to keep vision slits and optics clear of African dust.
I'm sure Russia uses a similar method, but with the addition of fluid, due to the difference in conditions..ie mud instead of dust.

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1607477025962430465?s=20&t=lnDbxVKU74SSkL5ybsiCug

MaxBlumenthal wrote:After months in Ukraine training soldiers, Ret Col Andrew Milburn of
@TheMozartGroup
mercenary firm gets sauced on camera & spills the beans:

Ukraine is a "corrupt, fucked-up society" run by "fucked-up people"

Ukrainian soldiers "kill dudes who surrendered," commit "atrocities"

PMCs have more moral fibre than UAF…

Us waiting for the winter offensive.

Russian soldier with ultra-light high-mobility vehicle (in short: ULHMV). American version will cost 250.000$ without extras (wheels).