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A couple of videos of drone teams, one using the Baba Yaga and another in Kherson. They show the communication between recon drone and attack drone teams. Ukrainians training soldiers on semi-automatic shotguns as a counter to drones - Ukrainian military practices to counter drones with guns

Given the recent discussion on weapon systems, here is an article on the Patriot, its success in Ukraine and how this is increasing demand for it and perhaps increasing its longevity How Patriot proved itself in Ukraine and secured a fresh future

Video of it (from the 2 minute mark)

Is this normal? In both instances it looks like over 20 personnel disembark from a single vehicle. I didn't know you could even fit that many on a tank. From recent videos the Russians have lost a lot of equipment over the past weeks, so are men plentiful but vehicles not so much now?

Vodka is just ethanol plus water, so yes

I just looked on AliExpress and ethanol detector boards can be had for a few dollars a piece. Sensors for methanol and antifreeze might be a bit more expensive.

Claims of 6 destroyed and 8 damaged aircraft Recent satellite pictures of the airfield

The HUR making some bold claims ‘No choice’: Ukraine eyes Kerch bridge in Crimea for drone attack

The manufacturer of the Caesar is talking it up and saying that it's characteristics are helping it to survive better on the modern battle field compared to other self-propelled guns In Ukraine, ‘shoot-and-scoot’ tactics helping Caesars survive

It's ironic that you exactly prove your point by posting an outrage-farming video by someone with a clear political bias watching a video by someone else with a political bias (who misrepresents what people say and asks leading questions) rather than actual data. I will not discuss US politics as I am not American, it is off-topic and it will just lead to a ****-show, so consider this post in the vein of how to form evidence-based opinions, which has been a central point of discussion over the past few pages. Here is an actual study on this topic. Note how they outline their methodology and openly discuss the limitations of the study. You are also free to decide for yourself if these are meaningful when spread out over the entire population (though you would really need to look more closely at local situations given the way the electoral system works). WHO LACKED PHOTO ID IN 2020?: An Exploration of the American National Election Studies

Looking at the news cycle, Havana syndrome is having another moment in the limelight. Maybe it is like flesh-eating disease - case numbers remain relatively stable year on year but every now and then the media picks up on it, starts feeding on itself and then mass reports it like it is a new thing come to get us all. As it happens, a scientific report (not clear if it has been peer-reviewed and officially published yet) and a literature review have just been released too (March 2024) if anyone is interested. NIH studies find severe symptoms of “Havana Syndrome,” but no evidence of MRI-detectable brain injury or biological abnormalities “Havana Syndrome”: A post mortem

Wildberries is like the Amazon of Russia. It could be just a demonstration of what could happen, business as usual, or perhaps someone didn't get the memo about treading carefully. That would back up the quote above from the NYT about tensions over migration policy inside Putin’s security establishment.

Yeah, which is why I was interested in the origin of the conspiracy theory. If it started in Russia and becomes prevalent there, what does it say about Russians' trust in Putin's administration? If Gerashchenko and Nexta, who aren't exactly reliable sources, are feeding grist, then it is just icing.

Is it really a conspiracy theory started and doing the rounds in Russia though or is it Gerashchenko "extrapolating" from a theory put out by Nexta? Nexta don't seem to be attributing the theory to someone else. If it is from Nexta, it will be interesting to see if it takes hold in Russia and the impact it has on the sale of blue sweaters there.

It's possible you were confused for another poster whose name is five letters and starts with "kra", but that's just a theory.

Disgustingly hypocritical generic crap. A day and a half might not even be considered regular for this.

A possible explanation is that Putin was holding off until after the election. Many posts have been written here about the societal effects of a mobilization and the negative political impacts. Now Putin is secure, an emotional attack on Russia helps to underwrite the patriotic mobilisation.

Interrogating terrorist suspects on camera by the side of the road and posting it to Telegram just a few hours after the attack. They can clearly upload faster than they can drive. https://twitter.com/Maks_NAFO_FELLA/status/1771489334979379316 They don't specify who paid him though.

Yeah, the auto-translate says that inertia carried the drone into the grad. Given both cases of changing target, I'm curious if the software has been tuned to prioritise moving targets and if that is a good thing (e.g. breaking off to chase a soldier rather than going after the high-value vehicle). And also, if this is the case and they become more common, what contraptions the Russians will come up with to try and spoof the drones - cope-cages could be joined by cope-carousels or carriage footmen.

More auto-targeting drones, including going after moving targets. In the first case, however, it switches targets at the last moment.

Do you have a direct link for the fundraiser?

Claimed to be one of the first videos of an autonomous targeting drone. Certainly the EW looks to affect the video feed relatively far from the target, but we don't know for sure that the drone that hits the target is the same as the one at the start of the video. Either it's legit, was an incredibly lucky hit despite the EW, or the video has been edited to make it look like it is autonomous.

Ironically (and aptly), plastic fruit in a bowel would look more like real fruit than actual fruit by that stage, but would still stink nonetheless.

The article I linked to about the Ukrainian medical system was written by Ukrainians, based on interviews with Ukrainians, and published by a Ukrainian media outlet. We shouldn't confuse the Soviet civilian medical system with the military one. And we shouldn't assume that design and application are the same things. The main aspect of the article, however, isn't that the soldiers aren't getting treated but that they aren't getting discharged or paid due compensation as a result of bureaucracy, corruption, and inefficiency. It is easy for the system not to buckle under massive casualties when it denies those casualties exist in the first place. We have also heard plenty of first hand reports by Russian personnel about how they receive no treatment for wounds and are thrown back into the fight.

It seems Ukraine still struggles under legacy Soviet systems in some areas. This article on the failures of their military medical system is a hard dose of reality - 'Abandon all hope:' Ukraine’s wounded warriors compare military medical system to the Inferno