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Some about Russian gears... Here captured Russian recons. Four men. One dead, other probably wounded or just surrendered. This guy was captured barefoot - probably he had gumboots and lost them in the mud, when runinig away across the field. Instead the socks he has footcloths (rus. "portianki")
BMP-2 on background is Ukrainian.
 
 

hmm, I suspect the Donbass/Donets area troops might need some more training:
both videos absolutely unbelievable. Not sure if the explosion part is edited? but still...

I always like first person accounts.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/03/american-volunteer-foreign-fighters-ukraine-russia-war/627604/
@Haiduk what do you think?

Reinforcements are on the way. Look at the video below the tractor.
 

Recenty known photo of Russian tank in the river, but here the new photo of the bridge. Russian driver thought his tank would pass such tiny bridge... Locals say whole crew is still in the tank. This is Plishyvets village, Poltava oblast and the small bridge through Psel river.

 
 
 

Reinforcements are on the way. Look at the video below the tractor.
 

Reinforcements are on the way. Look at the video below the tractor.
 

Reinforcements are on the way. Look at the video below the tractor.
 

Russia has to upgrade their LSTs.
 

This makes more sense based on the visual evidence than Tochka-U or MLRS:
 

Russian column, destoyed near Makariv, Buk TELAR, Buk TEL, MTLB. and some sort of EW asset, probably Leer-3 and engineer vehicle KRAZ-255 with EOV-4421 excavator

Turret space launch. UKR Leleka-100 UAV is filming
 

UKR MLRS strike of the forest north of Kyiv, where Russians hide. Bright dots are probably bonfires near which Russian soldiers are warming themselves
 
 
 

@sburke, unnamed Lt. Col. captured, possibly commander of an EW or ELINT unit.
-BBC

If we don’t blow ourselves up soon then the future is going to usher in some wild advances, quantum computation is one. AI is another and crazy stuff like Elon Musks experiment with implanting micro chips onto human brains.
Science fiction becoming science fact…I’m old enough to to remember watching Star Trek and saying those communicators are cool. We now have them- it called the smart phone.
When I bought my first board war game I thought-it would be cool if this could be done on a computer…
On another note there seems to be a mad rush to monetize this war on social media. People who never had an interest in the military or war are now experts…
There was an earlier post about the experts and their predictions before the war and how they’ve been wrong and why do we listen to them…
IMO it’s about getting your name out there and name recognition. Doesn’t matter if you’re right or wrong. If you’re name is known you’ll get invitations to speak at events and monetize your expertise.
Also the defense companies and probably their stocks are going to be quite profitable. Countries are going to spend more on defense and the supply of weapons will need to be replenished.
Also fertilizers will become more expensive and scarce and the wheat shortage not only means more expensive food but starvation in many parts of the world potentially leading to more wars and unrest.
The US military may be very busy for the foreseeable future.

I Totally Agree 100%, release the Polish Armed Forces. I believe the Poles know that they are next on Putin's hit list along with the Baltic Countries. 

Seems like they hit a jackpot with this one:
 
 

@sburke, okay, this one is a bit sketchy, but fun.  37th Guards Separate Motor Rifle Brigade commander Col. Yuri Medvedev, hospitalized in Belarus after being intentionally run over by one of his own soldiers:

Whatever victory parade Ukraine holds in Kiev MUST included a company of tractors pulling captured RUS vehicles.
It would tie in perfectly into the whole humour/mocking aspect of Ukrainian resistance, which has been deeply inspiring.

it was only a matter of time
 
 

I don't see how Russia and current administration will ever restore relations with the West after all this mess. After some point they may not care at all. Now most of the media depicts them as orcs, hitlerisks, institutions boycott swan lake or Dostoyevski and so on. Imagine after some more months of shelling Ukrainian cities... They are down the road of no return. I don't think any other nation has done more harm to itself with a single military action in human history, and it seems it was due to tragic miscalculations. 
Besides Ukraine, I'm actually very sorry about Russia too. My father was a kid under the Nazi occupation of Athens, the famine killed hundreds of thousand people here, and his only hope was listening with a forbidden set, to BBC radio Moscow. The victories of the red army and liberation marked his life, and he was the one that made me a WW2 buff.  He introduced me to the series, "unknown war" with Burt Lancaster, that was a brilliant doc on the eastern front, and I got hooked. I grew up with an admiration for the sacrifice of russian (and all Soviet people) ,(despite my nick 😏) This war has put a big stain on Russia, that perhaps is not what it's people, rich culture and achievements like sending first man in space, really deserved. 

Ah, now that I have recovered from busting a gut after that post re: Orville Peck secret identity....
Great stream of (mostly) curated picks from social media. My favourite today is this one by @Haiduk. I find remarkable how good UKR is at using conventional artillery as a stand in for eye wateringly expensive PGM. It looks to me that since UKR had to rebuild its military from scratch, had an opportunity to adopt new ideas and technologies dealing with little or no institutional inertia.
I wonder what the process is for those arty strikes, maybe something like this?
1. Drone controller has UAV loitering on suspected area of RF activity.
2. Controller spots location of RF assets, then registers the location by taking snapshots of target from several points and angles (see this for instance https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0926580518308641)
3. Photos, along with camera parameters and geo location info forwarded to fires coordination center. Firing solution calculated automatically and fire task assigned to friendly asset.
4. Fire task executed, drone controller reports damage assessment.
An iteration over the above wouldn't take very long at all, the most finicky part being that of maneuvering the UAV to take the measurements you need for registration.  And that could be automated too (the controller activates the "registration" behaviour and that's it).
The workflow above could be implemented with very few fancy equipment/algorithms, you just need good software and network engineers using pretty mundane hardware.
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On another topic, I am glad to see tactical psychology being used... the most efficient way to defeat an adversary is to destroy its will to fight. So far UKR has been fighting smart, they just need to keep doing so!

Nah, black smoke ...still in the election phase...once the smoke turns white they have a new president...Habemus Papa...oh wait...