Military Equipment & Technology Used In The Russian-Ukrainian War

The Russians have literally dug up a Ukrainian Azov "Invincible Super-Weapon" armoured vehicle, and it is hilarious. At first, I thought this video was a weird April Fool's joke from Patrick, as the vehicle is a total pile of junk. But later on he shows the Ukie propaganda videos for it. I couldn't stop laughing. It was obvious a scam project to rinse mega-$$$ from the West, and they buried it to hide the evidence. Or out of shame. The engineering is like an African backyard project.

Based on a T-64, it is much heavier than a normal Soviet tank. It can hardly move with the underpowered engine, and sinks in mud. There are no viewing ports for the driver, relying instead on three low-res cameras that get covered in mud. Then there are the *two* turrets that bump into each other. On the back is a drone "launch pad". The vehicle was to be entirely covered in up to two layers of reactive armour. There is a single hatch at the back next to the engine, so if hit, the entire crew would probably have to escape through a fire.

 
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Early in the war, there was prolific Russian use of those KA-52 Alligator attack helicopters. We saw tons of videos of those things in action, with much success and the occasional one being knocked out by Ukrainian AA.

I have not seen anything of these lately. Did they just go out of telegram/twitter fashion, or have there been enough knocked out that they are getting limited use now?
 
Early in the war, there was prolific Russian use of those KA-52 Alligator attack helicopters. We saw tons of videos of those things in action, with much success and the occasional one being knocked out by Ukrainian AA.

I have not seen anything of these lately. Did they just go out of telegram/twitter fashion, or have there been enough knocked out that they are getting limited use now?
The flow of battle has changed. Last year Russian attack helicopters took center stage repelling the ukrainian counteroffensive - taking down advancing in the open ukrainian armor, with laser guided vikhr (whirlwind) missiles, from miles away.
But now, since the ukrainians have hunkered down, ukrainian armor provides only fire support from afar. So there are no targets in the open for the Russian helos to hunt down - they've been relegated to indirect fire support duty, with unguided missiles.



And, a rare these days, vikhr missile strike.
 
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FrankenSAM ?
"Pentagon calls it FrankenSAM — a project that cobbles together air defense weapons for Ukraine from an array of parts from around the world.
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A senior U.S. defense official said Thursday that the U.S. has been able to improvise and build a new missile launcher from radars and other parts contributed by allies and partners. The system will be able to launch AIM-9M Sidewinder missiles, which the U.S. announced Wednesday it will send to Ukraine in the latest aid package.
At the same time, U.S. engineers have been able to work with Ukraine to modify a Soviet-era Buk air defense launcher so that it can fire RIM-7 missiles, which the U.S. has in large quantities. Ukraine has a number of the Buk systems, but its supply of missiles had been dwindling."

Buk based "frankenSAMs" destroyed in the Kharkov region.

 
Drone wars - Russian FPV drone attacks an Estonian-made THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle.



The Moscow-based Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST) has announced a reward for the capture and delivery of a Milrem Robotics-built THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) deployed in Ukraine.
Russian occupiers will pay 1 million rubles [approximately €16,600] to anyone who manages to capture a THeMIS UGV and deliver it to the Russian Armed Forces "more or less in one piece," online news portal Censor.net (link in Russian) reported Monday.

(an article from 05.09.2022)
They've got one.
 
An Iranian made Mohajer-6 drone, armed with Qaem smart bombs, crashed in the Kursk region.

These drones are, most likely, used only to deliver strikes in the border zone.
 
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Krasnopol is a great example of differences between Amercian and Russian military industries.

While we are using 2 different projectiles - the Excalibur GPS guided round against fixed coordinates, and the Copperhead laser guided round against moving targets. Russians simply designed the Krasnopol as a universal smart round with both: GLONASS satellite and laser guidance systems.
 
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