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DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1696921051786100764

"Putin, having accidentally received great power into his hands, has used it with catastrophic consequences for Russia. And I don't love him because he doesn't love people. He cannot stand us. He despises us. He thinks we're the means for him, that's all. The means to reach his own goals in power. And so he's allowed to do anything to us - play as he sees fit. That he can destroy us however he wants. That we're nobodies. And he, although he climbed on top accidentally, but now a tsar and a god, whom we should worship and fear." - Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist.

She would have been 65 today.

Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the entrance of her own building on 7 October, 2006 - on Putin's birthday.

The persons who ordered her murder have not been found to this day.
 
Fogdog

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DIY-HP-LED said:
Here are some Russian FANTASY weapon systems, if you take a close look at them there are technical difficulties in realizing the fantasy. These things would be easily detectable remotely anyway. For instance, how would they deal with the advanced infantry units accompanying the armor? I think they put these videos out to try and impress the west, but this shit mass produced is more than a country with Russia's economy can do, provided they can even produce them to begin with.

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Remember when the war in Ukraine began how Russian trolls were peppering social media and even this forum with brags about Russia's vaunted advantage in advanced weapons like these?

Russia didn't use them in the first line of defense. Maybe they are luring Ukraine into the second line before using them? Sneaky Putin made us unwary by sacrificing waves of Russian soldiers and archaic tanks into thinking that's all he's got.
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Fogdog said:
Remember when the war in Ukraine began how Russian trolls were peppering social media and even this forum with brags about Russia's vaunted advantage in advanced weapons like these?

Russia didn't use them in the first line of defense. Maybe they are luring Ukraine into the second line before using them? Sneaky Putin made us unwary by sacrificing waves of Russian soldiers and archaic tanks into thinking that's all he's got.
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Potemkinism is an old Russian trait and talent, their army was a Potemkin fake, meant not just to fool outsiders, but apparently Vlad too, just like the original prefab villages along the river hundreds of years ago.
 
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FPV drones appear to be very useful for a variety of warfighting, even cleaning out trenches instead of firing a thousand rounds of small arms ammo at it while yer guys move in and dig them out. Looks cheaper in lives and bullets, they aren't cheap either a thousand rounds at a time, lives are always dear though. If the operator's antenna is up on a pole and directional, then they can go down the trench line from just above and inspect it too, so no surprises.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1696862376467829162
 
Sativied

Sativied

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A very very very long read:

www.spiegel.de

Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points To Kyiv

It's a spy thriller that has the potential to change the course of international politics: A year ago, a secret commando blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Since then, investigators have been searching for the perpetrators. The leads they have found are extremely politically...
www.spiegel.de www.spiegel.de

"That consensus in itself is striking, say others – particularly politicians who believe the attack from the Andromeda may have been a "false flag" operation – an attack intentionally made to look as though it was perpetrated by someone else. All the leads point all-too-obviously towards Kyiv, they say, the clues and evidence seem too perfect to be true. The Americans, the Poles and, especially, the Russians, they say, all had much stronger motives to destroy the pipeline than the Ukrainians."
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Sativied said:
A very very very long read:

www.spiegel.de

Investigating the Nord Stream Attack: All the Evidence Points To Kyiv

It's a spy thriller that has the potential to change the course of international politics: A year ago, a secret commando blew up the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Since then, investigators have been searching for the perpetrators. The leads they have found are extremely politically...
www.spiegel.de www.spiegel.de

"That consensus in itself is striking, say others – particularly politicians who believe the attack from the Andromeda may have been a "false flag" operation – an attack intentionally made to look as though it was perpetrated by someone else. All the leads point all-too-obviously towards Kyiv, they say, the clues and evidence seem too perfect to be true. The Americans, the Poles and, especially, the Russians, they say, all had much stronger motives to destroy the pipeline than the Ukrainians."
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If it was Ukraine, it was a legitimate target in international waters and the German attitude has changed considerably, especially when they weened themselves off Russian energy... They now seem to want the war to end quickly, and conditions are ripe there to start exploiting some of Ukraine's energy resources, they just announced the discovery of another gas field there, so somebody is looking now. I understand German industry is still suffering from a lack of gas?
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Breakthrough enough and you can pour armor into their rear areas cause a panic and begin exploitation of the situation, they have been trained in armored maneuver and when they get through the defenses, they can really put all that combined arms training to use.


Ukrainian Forces Broke the Surovikin Line! | New Russian President in the Making! | Ukrainian Update
 
DIY-HP-LED

DIY-HP-LED

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Drones, AI, Infared sensors and traditional methods on drones used with accurate GPS can deal with mines. I wouldn't be surprised if the Ukrainians observed the Russians laying many mine fields and mapped them into a GIS system using GPS. They can be detected after dusk by a drone with an infrared camera and the drone can automatically fly a pattern and record video mapping them with GPS. It would be logical to use AI with such a system to discriminate the junk from the mines and bombs of all kinds.


These researchers are using drones and machine learning to detect land mines--and save lives
 
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