Russia - Ukraine war part ll. News and Discussions

[BigGazza]

Some info on performance of latest Russian antidrone systems, this time the Citadel automated 30mm cannon with pre-programmed ammo (each shot is coded to detonate at a pre-calculated distance to generate a cloud of shrapnel to damage/destroy the target).

As reprted by Izvestia, a ZAK-30 Citadel destroyed a Flamingo FP5 cruise missile using just two 30 mm shells with programmable detonation.

The missile was flying at an altitude of up to 100 meters over a forest at a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour when the system’s radar detected the low-flying target. The crew chief ordered the system to open fire, and two shots were enough to destroy the missile, the report said.

The shells detonated approximately 1 to 1.5 meters from the missile, releasing a concentrated stream of fragments toward the target without requiring a direct hit. The missile’s warhead exploded in midair, and its debris fell into the forest. No damage or casualties were reported.
https://s1.cdnstatic.space/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/adasda.mp4

I guess this must be one of those Soviet-legacy system cuz Pootin doesn't make anything new...

Russian reality >> NAFO nonsense

 

[BigGazza]

destroyed a Flamingo FP5 cruise missile

Correction - the video doesn't show an FP5 but a small prop-powered drone. I suspect the video is a combo of stock pics and unrelated test-range footage against target drones.

 

[Leclerc]

This thread feels more alive now.

 

[Leclerc]

 

[Soldier35]

Footage shows Russian FPV drones striking operators from the 46th Separate Airmobile Brigade of the Ukrainian Army. The operators were spotted while in the process of launching their own drones. The video was captured by operators from the 3rd Army Corps of Russia’s Southern Group of Forces. The location and the specific models of the FPV drones used have not been disclosed.

 

[Leclerc]

 

[Leclerc]

From the UAF - evacuation of a soldier using a drone (the thumbnail looks quite funny to me):

 

[Leclerc]

Russia resumes serial production of Tu-160M strategic bombers​

https://en.topwar.ru/292020-rossija-vozobnovljaet-serijnoe-proizvodstvo-strategicheskih-raketonoscev-tu-160m.html

 

[Watandar]

This fits a pattern in Trump admin where they use private entities to signal or do something they want done, but not get involved directly.

 

[K2RULEZ]

This rebuttal is epic.

 

[BigGazza]

Russian reassert themsleves in Kupyansk, erasing the (temporary) gains from the Ukrop zerg counter-oink after the Russians last took Kupyansk. The final result is that the Ukrops failed to retake the city, and have lost a great deal of their best troops and equipment in the failed operation. As usual the Russians won't say anything to let us evaluate the loss-ratio but i'd assess that (again) the ratio is massive and in Russias favour given that the Ukrops were the attackers, pushing into prepared Russian defenses, subject to superior Russian long-range fire, and that the Russians withdrew under pressure rather than defending ground till the bitter end.

 

[BigGazza]

Some advances around the Zap theatre.

 

[BigGazza]

This rebuttal is epic.

Bingo. Max was succinct and right on the money. Jacob Rhys-Mogg is a war mongering slimey C U Next Thursday who wants to throw the British working-class and poor into an unnecessary and unwinnable meat grinder in the vain hope of preserving the wealth, authority and dominion of the UKs corrupt compromised ruling (Epstein-)class psychopath toffs. Britain desperately needs its own version of the Frenchy Revolution (the 1789-99 version, not todays minor social disturbance...).

Guillotines on Picadilly? Yeah, bring them on

BTW I'm an ex-Brit, I'm just too ashamed of the behaviour of Perfidious Albion to admit it on my profile

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

This thread feels more alive now.

What makes you say that?