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Has this been mentioned already? A pickup-mounted (on a pallet) laser for shooting down drones: https://www.rtx.com/raytheon/what-we-do/integrated-air-and-missile-defense/lasers Also, the KA-52 Alligators may end up destroying themselves due to a vibration issue:

My bet is that it passes. I think it's cleverly-written to inflict a 1% budget pain on those "entities" that fail. That's not too much pain, but it is a small incentive. https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-sanders-make-bipartisan-push-to-audit-the-pentagon-and-curb-wasteful-spending

https://t.me/wargonzo/13399

More details on what Biden said at a campaign event earlier this week. I'll paste in the parts in some way related to Ukraine: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2023/06/19/remarks-by-president-biden-at-a-campaign-reception-atherton-ca/

I appreciate the summary of Prig's comments. Then I watched the video in order to see the translation in real-time. Wow, did he really lay into the MOD!

Ukraine's deputy minister of defense, Hanna Maliar, says: https://t.me/annamaliar/864

Russian telegrammer Rybar says:

https://www.reuters.com/world/biden-says-threat-putin-using-tactical-nuclear-weapons-is-real-2023-06-20/ Biden says threat of Putin using tactical nuclear weapons is 'real'

Perhaps the US will find room to send more weapons to Ukraine now. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagons-ukraine-accounting-error-revised-up-62-billion-2023-06-20/

Maybe the Stryker when equipped with sidewinders? https://www.facebook.com/generaldynamicslandsystems/posts/yes-those-are-aim-9x-sidewinder-missiles-arming-the-stryker-maneuver-shorad-laun/1844875482213038/ Or the Croatale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotale_(missile)

Russian optimisim:

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-artillerymen-praise-us-howitzers-outside-russian-held-town-2023-06-19/

I did find this: https://t.me/notes_veterans/10433 https://t.me/epoddubny/16447

So if Russia is pushing hard on the eastern portion of the front, does that mean their reserves are not as spent as we would hope? https://t.me/annamaliar/860

This update is not totally positive .https://t.me/sashakots/40458 But I think either Google Translate is not understanding it well enough, or the original text is not perfectly written so that I can't grasp the full meaning. By the way, what does BC mean as in "BC is being delivered, but there is a lot of work."

That guy tends to over-exaggerate Ukrainian successes on his appearances on the @MyryiaReport podcast.

US-made MaxxPro mine-resistant armored fighting vehicles 'are almost indestructible,' Ukrainians say https://www.businessinsider.com/us-mine-resistant-maxxpro-armored-fighting-vehicles-indestructible-ukraine-russia-2023-6

Reportedly, another attack underway south of Orikhiv https://t.me/RVvoenkor/47484 https://t.me/wargonzo/13323

https://www.radio4.dk/nyheder/danmark-klar-til-at-donere-kampfly-til-ukraine-siger-fungerende-forsvarsminister/ DENMARK READY TO DONATE COMBAT AIRCRAFT TO UKRAINE - SAYS ACTING DEFENSE MINISTER

French channel TF1 does a report from the Russian side of the front lines:

I find it interesting that we monitor the Russian bloggers, and then, in turn, monitor ours.

Another Russian telegram update: https://t.me/Sladkov_plus/7968

Russian telegram channels report a small Ukrainian push on the western portion of the Zaporizhzhia front: https://t.me/vrogov/10338