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« Reply #2850 on: May 21, 2024, 02:15:42 am »
When A 70-Year-Old Russian BTR-50 Attacks Ukrainian Troops, It’s Bad News For The Whole Russian War Effort

David Axe  |  May 20, 2024  |  02:42pm EDT



The thinly-protected, 1950s-vintage BTR-50 might not be the worst vehicle the Russian army has sent in a direct assault on Ukrainian positions, but it’s probably the oldest.

And while it’s safer for Russian troops to ride in a 70-year-old BTR-50 with its 10-millimeter-thick armor than to ride in, say, a brand-new Chinese golf cart, it’s still an ominous sign for Russia that more BTR-50s are appearing on the battlefields of eastern Ukraine as Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its 28th month.

“Without mechanized units fully equipped with proper combat vehicles like tanks, achieving swift and decisive penetration of defenses will be very challenging,” Ukrainian analysis group Frontelligence Insight explained. “This limitation is likely to result in slower and more limited advances, hampering the overall progress of Russian forces.”

The BTR-50 is a 15-ton, diesel-fueled armored tractor with two crew and space for up to 20 passengers. It usually packs a heavy machine gun.

The Soviet Union developed the BTR-50 in the early 1950s. It entered service in 1954 and, for the next 12 years, was the Soviet army’s main fighting vehicle.  .  .

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/05/20/when-a-70-year-old-russian-btr-50-attacks-ukrainian-troops-its-bad-news-for-the-whole-russian-war-effort/?sh=6e0950ee243e
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« Reply #2851 on: May 21, 2024, 03:12:53 pm »
It's an IFV, but by way of contrast, a Japanese WW2-vintage Type 95 light tank had 12 mm armor, basically thick enough to protect against .30 caliber machine guns and infantry rifle fire. 10 mm of armor might be similarly protective, but against a .50 or 12.7 mm caliber machine gun possibly not.
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« Reply #2852 on: May 22, 2024, 12:55:58 am »
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« Reply #2853 on: May 22, 2024, 01:01:08 am »
"Liberators" and "protectors", as one poster here put it:



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« Reply #2854 on: May 22, 2024, 01:02:24 am »
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« Reply #2855 on: May 22, 2024, 01:07:08 am »
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« Reply #2856 on: May 22, 2024, 01:12:25 am »
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« Reply #2857 on: May 22, 2024, 01:13:55 am »
Quote from: Hoodat on May 22, 2024, 01:01:08 am
"Liberators" and "protectors", as one poster here put it:



https://twitter.com/nexta_tv/status/1792912587207664000
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« Reply #2858 on: May 22, 2024, 01:19:49 am »
Another Karakurt-class corvette lost in Sevastopol

Correction:  This is the same corvette reported two days ago.  "Cyclone" and 'Tsiklon' are the same.


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« Reply #2859 on: May 22, 2024, 01:25:37 am »
Russia's Black Sea Fleet 'Likely' Lost Its Last Missile Carrier in Crimea

Isabel van Brugen  |  May 21, 2024 at 1:06 PM EDT

Russia's Black Sea Fleet likely lost its last missile carrier in occupied Crimea, according to Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesperson for Ukraine's navy.

A Ukrainian strike Sunday on the bay of Sevastopol in Crimea "likely" seriously damaged or sunk both the Russian minesweeper Kovrovets and the corvette Cyclone, or Tsiklon, Pletenchuk told Radio Svoboda, the Russian service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on Monday.

The Karakurt-class corvette Tsiklon joined the Black Sea Fleet in July 2023. Pletenchuk said at the time that it failed routine tests twice—in 2021 and 2022—and that Moscow put it into operation "because they need a picture that they have launched something, revived something, replenished their fleet."  .  .  .

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« Reply #2860 on: May 22, 2024, 01:30:15 am »
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« Reply #2861 on: May 22, 2024, 02:22:49 am »
Ukrainian Missiles Are Blowing Up The Black Sea Fleet’s New Missile Corvettes Faster Than Russia Can Build Them

A Ukrainian ATACMS raid on Sunday reportedly struck two Russian ships in Sevastopol   (The second ship was a minesweeper)

David Axe  |  May 21, 2024  |  06:05pm EDT

The Russian navy missile corvette Tsyklon entered service with the Black Sea Fleet in July 2023, three years after launching at Zalyv Shipbuilding Yard in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Ten months later, on Sunday, a Ukrainian strike sank the 220-foot Karakurt-class vessel in Sevastopol, in Crimea, 150 miles from the front line of Russia’s 27-month wider war on Ukraine. Satellite imagery from Monday confirmed that Tsyklon is resting on the seafloor.

Russian navy officials should be very worried about the future of the Black Sea Fleet. Ukraine is taking out the fleet’s warships faster than Russia can build or reinforce them with ships from other regional fleets.

The Black Sea Fleet is getting seven of the cruise-missile-armed Karakurts. Tsyklon was the first to commission into front-line service. Another Karakurt, the incomplete Askold, was damaged in a November Ukrainian missile raid on a shipyard in Kerch in Crimea.

Since Russia widened its war on Ukraine in February 2022, Ukrainian forces have steadily degraded the Black Sea Fleet, sinking around 15 of its pre-war force of around three dozen large warships—and damaging several others.

As long as Turkey blocks warships from passing through the Bosporus Strait connecting the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea, the only way for the Russians to reinforce the shrinking Black Sea Fleet is to transfer smaller vessels to the Black Sea by river—or to build them in Black Sea shipyards.

It’s not for no reason that, in April, Ukrainian commandos sabotaged the Russian missile corvette Serpukhov in Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea. The Buyan-class corvette was one of the few Russian warships small enough to travel to the Black Sea via canals, the Volga River, the Don River and then the Sea of Azov.

In addition to the damaged Askold and the wrecked Tsyklon, five more Karakurts are under construction at shipyards in Crimea or on the Volga River, which connects to the Black Sea by way of the Don River.  .  .  .

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/05/21/ukrainian-missiles-are-blowing-up-the-black-sea-fleets-new-missile-corvettes-faster-than-russia-can-build-them
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« Reply #2862 on: May 22, 2024, 02:28:16 am »
Putin’s poorly prepared assault on Kharkiv has achieved nothing but record Russian casualties

Today is not that day

DAVID AXE  •  21 May 2024  •  12:39pm

Everyone expected Russia to launch a new offensive in Ukraine on May 9. That’s because May 9 is Victory Day in Russia – the day the country celebrates the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

It’s a symbolic day for a war of choice that’s less about territory or resources than it is about Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s conception of himself as a new Russian emperor lording over a thriving Russian empire.

But Putin’s new Russian empire is a farce, albeit a nightmarishly bloody one. And his Victory Day offensive is a farce, too. Less than two weeks after the first Russian platoons marched across Ukraine’s northern border with Russia, just north of Kharkiv, the Russian operation has ground to a halt after just a few miles.

Even worse for the nearly 500,000-person Russian army of occupation in Russia, the northern offensive has overextended Russian logistics and armor support and forced unprotected infantry to attack on foot. The Russian casualty rate was high before Victory Day. Now it’s catastrophically high as Ukrainian mechanized brigades reinforce the northern front.

It’s even possible the Russians suffered their bloodiest day of the 27-month wider war as the northern offensive culminated. There were a record 1,740 Russian casualties on May 12, according to the Ukrainian defence ministry. That’s hundreds more daily casualties than the Russians suffered in previous weeks.

No one outside of the Kremlin knows what the offensive’s actual military objectives were supposed to be. But in strictly military terms, the offensive almost certainly wasn’t worth it. Not only did the Russians fail to gain control of any important terrain, they also squandered offensive firepower that might have made more of a difference elsewhere along the 700-mile front line.  .  .

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« Reply #2863 on: May 22, 2024, 04:52:43 pm »
The Black Sea fleet may have lost (or lost the use of) its last surface vessel missile carrier, but I think there are still several missile-carrying submarines (Kilo class?) in the fleet not permanently submerged.
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« Reply #2864 on: May 22, 2024, 05:27:17 pm »
A Ukrainian commander had Russian troops in his sights but couldn't attack. He says a US rule is to blame.

Thibault Spirlet  •  6h

A Ukrainian commander operating near the Russian border described how his unit watched as Russia amassed a huge force but had to wait for the troops to cross the border to hit them.

"There were a lot of Russians gathering, and we could have destroyed them on the way in, but we don't have many ATACMS, and we have a ban on using them over there," he told The Times of London.

Drago, a special forces commander with Ukraine's Kraken detachment, was redeployed, along with his unit and other special forces troops, in April from the eastern Donbas region to Kharkiv to strengthen Ukraine's forces there, per the Times.

But instead of hitting the Russians, he and his unit were forced to watch as the troops gathered on their side of the border, according to the outlet.

"We had to wait for them to cross," he said, referring to a US policy that bans Ukrainian forces from using US-supplied weapons to strike targets inside Russia.  .  .

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-ukrainian-commander-had-russian-troops-in-his-sights-but-couldn-t-attack-he-says-a-us-rule-is-to-blame/ar-BB1mQbnU



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« Reply #2865 on: May 22, 2024, 09:11:00 pm »
The purpose of this DC-imposed rule for use is to avoid looking like US weapons are being used to assault/invade Russia. Russian orcs are using this rule to stage men and equipment in what amounts to a US-created sanctuary.

What are the Las Vegas odd that had this Ukrainian commander gone ahead and taken out the staged orcs and their equipment, some US Congress critter - perhaps Rand Paul - would have demanded an investigation and the canning of any commander who ordered it?
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Quote from: PeteS in CA on May 22, 2024, 09:11:00 pm
The purpose of this DC-imposed rule for use is to avoid looking like US weapons are being used to assault/invade Russia. Russian orcs are using this rule to stage men and equipment in what amounts to a US-created sanctuary.

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What are the Las Vegas odd that had this Ukrainian commander gone ahead and taken out the staged orcs and their equipment, some US Congress critter - perhaps Rand Paul - would have demanded an investigation and the canning of any commander who ordered it?

You won't hear that complaint from Rand Paul.  He isn't the micromanager type.  He's opposed to aid in general - not in what they do with it.
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How Could A Ukrainian Drone Weighing Just A Few Pounds Blow Up A 46-Ton Russian Tank? The Warhead Is The Answer

David Axe  |  May 22, 2024  |  08:00am EDT

Ukrainian workshops build more than 100,000 explosive first-person-view drones every month for the Ukrainian military. That’s a lot of drones. But each drone weighs just a few pounds and typically carries a single grenade weighing just a pound or so.

So while 100,000 drones represent a lot of firepower, it’s not very heavy firepower. FPV drones are extremely dangerous to exposed infantry, but armored vehicles can usually shrug off multiple strikes by FPVs—and keep fighting.

That appears to be changing, however. It seems Ukrainian drone crews have found some way to massively boost the explosive potential of a single FPV. Consider the Russian T-80 tank that rolled toward Ukrainian lines in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast recently.

As a surveillance drone from the Ukrainian army’s 47th Mechanized Brigade observed from high overhead, an FPV drone zipped past the 46-ton, three-person T-80—which sported blocks of add-on reactive armor as well as an anti-drone screen—and then turned around.

The quadcopter FPV barreled toward the T-80. Normally, an FPV strike on a tank would result in minor damage. This time, however, the T-80 exploded in a massive fireball that separated the turret from the hull and incinerated the crew.

Did the FPV crew get lucky? Or was some new technology at work? Trent Telenko, a former quality auditor with the U.S. Defense Contract Management Agency, suspected the latter. “I am beginning to wonder if Ukrainian FPV builders have stolen [an idea] from the Swedish RBS-56,” Telenko wrote.  .  .

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/05/22/how-could-a-ukrainian-drone-weighing-just-a-few-pounds-blow-up-a-46-ton-russian-tank-the-warhead-is-the-answer/
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