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Pretty impressive counter battery work of a sort - track a GRAD to it's base. Then destroy everything that's there - vehicles, ammo, personnel.

Won't it be all nigh impossible to provide any kind of significant levels of supply going over the river though? It is still a real river this far down right?

Almost looks like a Stuart

Kevin is that you? Re the forever war comment I think there's a couple of points that make this quite different to previous interventions. Ukraine wants the help it's receiving and wants western partners to be involved. This time russia is directly involved and not sitting safely behind a proxy. Diminishing russia's ability to be a general pain the *** on the world stage is a big win for everyone (except russia). Better to spend treasure than your own servicemen's lives And those are just the obvious ones.

Heh, the details paint a slightly different picture IMO. I don't think the MoD was actually wrong. The 25th CAA was established a couple of months ago and wasn't due to finish it's training until December IIRC... So this reserve has only just been raised and did not exist at the start of the offensive. I'm hopeful this means their usefulness is quite limited.

Is this a Striker with the mine-roller? Needs some new tires. Also shows 3 Marders (set to an annoyingly loud musical accompaniment). I think these are operating towards Verbove, see post above.

Interesting. These quotes from the start and end of ISW's report from the 24th are more restrained than the tweet from Mr Barros above, even though his name is on the same report.

ISW today does a lot of hedging it's bets on how things are going. Quite a bit of evidence given of a deteriorating defensive situation around the salient but no definitive statement yet. Worth a read. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-september-24-2023

I keep seeing this. Why do the Leo's drive around with their turrets pointing to the rear?

Looking to the board's hive mind for insights re cluster ammo... Any way to change the spread on the cluster rounds - seems they spread a bit too wide most times or do the bomblets have enough shrapnel to cover the area inside the ring? Is the wide spread because they were designed to be fired en masse rather than quite accurate, single tube like we're seeing now?

Like my previous posts in the past 24hrs, reading these twitter feeds, the mind really does boggle. https://twitter.com/i/status/1704185392428146849 And a couple posts down the same feed https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1704130430126174315

Sorry.

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Taking your licks, glorious red army style. https://twitter.com/i/status/1704166094427107663

Just posted (pretty blurry and hard to see what's really going on)

Hromadske report with vision, interviews of life in a UKR artillery unit. UKR to ENG auto-translate works with this one.

Anyone have an insight on what happens in Chechnya if he does go?

Unbelievable.

More re Sevastopol strike - geo-locating is suggesting it's the dry dock that's been hit (may be too good to be true - wait and see). Edit - Check this twit for more pics and explosions https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love Edit 2 - Claims to be

Shipyard on fire in Sevastopol post Ukrainian strike

I saw this posted but am unsure which side is being bombed - seeing as it was posted on two pro-UKR we can probably assume it's the russians copping it. Post also doesn't specify that these are air strikes but they look like it to me.

Some out of the ordinary footage. Seen from both first person and drone camera (with sub-titles) Here's a link the full 13 minute video https://twitter.com/73RDARM/status/1701334364817424587

Analogue armour

Reports of Storm Shadow strikes have dried up over the past weeks making me wonder if UKR have exhausted their supply. Hopefully only for the time being. Makes sense though to use them when they have them and free up HIMARS for other things. In the absence of either side having air superiority and with the heavy reliance on infantry, artillery has proven to be a very effective weapon in this conflict. If UKR can both degrade RU's ability to use their artillery and gain dominance I think it's well worth it - lack of ammunition is great but if you don't have the weapons to use the ammunition, even better. Also, there was something the other day talking about RuAF getting better at distributing/hiding/protecting the higher value assets and targets from long range strikes, it's a few pages back I think.