Bharat Rakshak

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They also claimed they shot down a bunch of drones and fighters there without any evidence to back that up. So again, where’s the proof that it was a Ukrainian TB-2 filming a Ukrainian helo being shot when all evidence (visuals not just claims) points to multiple successful strikes by Ukraine on th...

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The Russians came out and said it was an Ukrainian helicopter not a Russian helicopter. And the missile was not from a TB-2 attach but a different missile. They also claimed they shot down a bunch of drones and fighters there without any evidence to back that up. So again, where’s the proof that it...

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^^ There is no evidence that this was a TB-2 attack on a Ukrainian helicopter. If you have some hard evidence please share as one would need some pretty strong proof to claim that this was a fratricide. From what I have been able to make out, the Mi-8 was destroyed much after the air-defense system,...

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New development around guidance for extreme range artillery round being competed (Boeing, Raytheon and BAE in the competition) for presently - @MIL_STD US Army's Tech Maturation Board has approved the Army to begin working on the Target Seeking-ExtRange Seeker for its #XM1155 ER round. TS-ER seeker ...

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Russia Just Lost Its Most Advanced Operational Tank In Ukraine Shared on Twitter by The Kyiv Independent’s defense reporter Illia Ponomarenko, the image, dated May 4, shows what appears to be the remnants of a T-90M tank, still smoldering after a direct hit somewhere within Ukraine’s northeastern K...

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The Snake Island attack via TB-2, and Ukrainian AF's fast jets (which we were told they don't have) appears to have also taken out an Mi-8 using a TB2. Looks like a coordinated attack with unmanned and manned based on good intel. Video below. @RALee85 This might be the first TB2 UCAV aviation kill. ...

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@OAlexanderDK Initially the Tor near the lighthouse was taken out by a TB2 drone strike. This allowed Ukrainian Su-27s to strike the Island safely, leveling the lighthouse complex. I expect this resulted in heavy Russian casualties. LINK https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSL356pXEAMAJkZ?format=jpg&na...

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So it seems Ukraine does have an Air Force and claims otherwise were misinformation. They probably don't have a Navy but still seem to be able to sink a ship every now and then using ground or air based systems. It's quite amazing how they can detect, track, target and sink a cruiser (flagship of th...

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Hope you realize Ukraine doesn’t really have much of navy and even what they scuttled it. From the earliest days of the Russian invasion, the Russian navy has largely followed a classical strategy. When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014 and retook complete control of the then divided naval base at Seva...

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Lockheed Martin’s First TPY-4 Radar Completes Production..

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So their strategy was based on faulty intelligence you say? I am sure there is an appropriate thread somewhere (if not then we could alway start one) for you to present your thesis on the geopolitical chess game and reference queens bishops and kings. Not sure that "Ukrainian Combat Tactics&qu...

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One of the first images of the LW155 (M777) in Ukraine from a Japanese correspondent (TBS Japan). There are reports that Canada has supplied Ukraine with a small batch of Excalibur precision guided rounds. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FSEypK2XEAEIx2W?format=jpg&name=900x900 https://twitter.com/Hi...

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. According to the US, Russia has fired over 2000 missiles since the start of the war. What kind of stocks of the KH 101/55 and Kalibr cruise missiles did Russia have at the start of the war and what is their production capacity. If you look at the US equivalents i.e. Tomahawk (4000), JASSM-ER (500...

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Yeah most of the 100 or so LW155s committed by US, Canada and Australia have been delivered with I believe two batches of soldiers trained as well. More in the form of wheeled and tracked ? Howitzers are on the way but I suppose those just have all been destroyed (even the ones not yet delivered) be...

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Russia Just Lost Its Most Advanced Operational Tank In Ukraine Shared on Twitter by The Kyiv Independent’s defense reporter Illia Ponomarenko, the image, dated May 4, shows what appears to be the remnants of a T-90M tank, still smoldering after a direct hit somewhere within Ukraine’s northeastern K...

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New Official Art Reveals Advanced F-22 Capabilities, Possibly JATM An artist’s concept of the Lockheed Martin F-22, posted on Instagram by Gen. Mark D. Kelly, head of Air Combat Command, offers an official glimpse of new capabilities for the Raptor, including a possible first look at the highly cla...

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Link about planned invasion of Donbass by Ukr https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/russia-receives-intel-that-nato-planned-to-deploy-military-i Since this is a combat tactics thread let's (re) focus on combat tactics. What firepower, force structure and tactics, would Ukraine need and deplo...

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Can we stick to the topic on this thread? I'm sure there's a thread on the political aspect of this conflict and proxy war where there's space to give one's takes on who is interested in splitting what territory and what the refugee mix is going to be in Europe or elsewhere and what we want to call ...

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It has been clear for some time that the US Airforce leadership isn’t interesting in growing for sake of growing or maintaining a particular footprint but ensuring that they grow the right side of the force structure and that they buy systems that will contribute positively to the joint fight in the...

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^ Hit close to the side & explode just below the waterline to give torpedo shock-wave effect? I believe that's how it is designed to operate but we don't know yet. This is just a proof of concept demo for the fuzing and seeker and I believe the fielded system would probably utilize an extended ...

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Watch The Air Force’s New Ship-Killing Smart Bomb Snap A Vessel In Two

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F-22 Being Used To Test Next Generation Air Dominance ‘Fighter’ Tech The Pentagon's Fiscal Year 2023 budget request documents provide interesting details that may help add a bit of explanation to the sudden jump in unignorable testing of new features on the F-22 Raptor, all of which The War Zone wa...

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Yes its free hence "military aid". Costing is based on whatever DOD residual value of the equipment they are using based on their internal accounting (residual values are maintained for all equipment like one would expect). Drawdown authority gets approved by Congress and is then at the di...

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I has asked brar_w ji if all the aid and funding from US to Ukraine was free donations. Unless I'm mistaken, got no answer. Didn't realize you were serious about that since the answer was so obvious. The equipment sent by the US and most other countries (in 2022 once the arms transfers started) is ...

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Boeing Unveils First T-7A Red Hawk Training Jet For The Air Force

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IN a modern battlefield ISR is the new king of battle. Without capable, survivable, and layered ISR capability you cannot generate and regenerate rapid targeting that you need which makes the tens of thousands of missiles one is advocating quite redundant. Targeting (via ISR and survivable and resil...

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Yet I believe that it is not a question of mission profile, but a matter of being able to adept to changing mission situations. No matter which way you look at it, it’s actually way more flexible then the Tejas or another fourth gen platform from that stand point. It can be configured for penetrati...

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Comments like that make no sense. How much payload can th Tejas MK1 carry in its internal bays? What’s it range and Payload in a high-low-low profile? This is a completely different mission. If it were executing the Tejas missions it would sling external payload and fuel and would out range and out ...

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Setting politicians aside, most industry insiders I know aren’t very bullish on any dramatic increase in US defense sales to India over and above the current levels. Most of their projected growth is from US demand for new equipment and to increase stocks or existent kit via-a-vis China and that of ...

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Wrapping up air-defense testing ahead of maiden COCOM deployment (ship has deployed under USN but later this year will be the first COCOM tasking) - USS Zumwalt Conducts Live-Fire Missile Exercise https://cdn.dvidshub.net/media/thumbs/photos/2204/7162076/1000w_q75.jpg PACIFIC OCEAN — Guided-missile ...

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They will be lucky to get NGAD at 2x the F-35's URF. 3-4 x will be more like it. You are talking about a 6th generation fighter, operational in the early 2030s (probably a good decade and a half before anybody else fields anything like it) that will have the size, range and magazine for PACAF (as op...

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^^ Those stealthy pods are actually real and F-22's have been testing them. Appear to be some sort of passive targeting system. https://www.thedrive.com/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thedrive.com%2Fcontent-b%2Fmessage-editor%252F1644258978777-273410496_10219639469084880_108766156211070317_n.jpeg...

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This is offer a major boost to the South Korean Navy's air and missile defense capability - SM-6 for South Korean KDX-III Destroyers South Korea has approved a project to purchase Standard Missile 6 (SM-6) multi-mission missiles via the US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programme to arm its KDX-III Ae...

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The Search To Replace The Air Force’s Geriatric E-3 Sentry Radar Jets Has Officially Begun (Updated). Officials from across the service have earmarked the Boeing E-7 Wedgetail as their preferred Sentry successor. The U.S. Air Force has officially launched the process of finding a replacement for it...

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Back on topic - Looks like an ammunition depot has caught fire in Belgorod region. Cause not yet clear.

The governor of Belgorod said there is a fire at an ammunition depot near Staraya Nelidovka. A CCTV video shows a flash in the sky, possibly from anti-aircraft missiles. LINK (includes video )

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Lets stick to the conflict, material, and tactics here. Civilization discussions and politics is probably apt for another thread.

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Short video clip of a destroyed Su-34. ECM pods can also be seen along markings for ID.

https://twitter.com/ukraine_af/status/1 ... NOHsPQ-Phw

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There is the risk of over estimating the wiggle room that they have when it comes to mobilization. You have to balance doing that and the public perception side of it with the hard reality that throwing poorly trained mobilized forces will likely lead to greater losses and there’s no real exit or go...

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A neat graphic showing the evolution of the various iterations of the M1 Abrams over the years and some rough production numbers for the US Army-

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A data point from the latest US mil (for next year) budget rolled out a few weeks ago - Air Power @MIL_STD Nothing shows the DODs pivot to preparing for a different future fight better than the AF/Navy missile buys for FY23 (beyond).They are buying nearly 1000 air to air missiles in 2023 and 1,000 a...

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