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Footage of a naval battle, Russian Project 03160 Raptor boats, Project 02510 BK-16 landing craft, with Ukrainian Magura V5 sea drones. The location and date of filming are not reported, presumably off the coast of Crimea. Technical information about the Russian Raptor boat is in the link to the video in the comments to the video. The battle uses Ukrainian Magura V5 sea drones armed with Soviet-made R-73 missiles designed to destroy air targets. Russian servicemen use Kord and PKM machine guns to destroy sea drones, and also use the RPG-26 grenade launcher.

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Expensive HIMARS trucks keep getting destroyed by cheap 100 bucks FPV hobby drones.

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relax
global warming coming
this war will be a long war of attrition.
the US has withdrawn from peace settlement. There is 0 hope.
Trump doesn’t care of if this war will cost 1 or 10 million ukraine and russian lives. it’s just a number.
 
relax
global warming coming
this war will be a long war of attrition.
the US has withdrawn from peace settlement. There is 0 hope.
Trump doesn’t care of if this war will cost 1 or 10 million ukraine and russian lives. it’s just a number.
We've got other things to worry about.
 
how Russia can keep accelerating this war is beyond me

how do they replace the losses? they dont even ask for terms ?

they are standing against the combined forces of pretty much the rest of the industrialised world

Russia is Russia

a very Strong Bear
 
Residents of Kharkov began publishing footage of strikes by Russian kamikaze drones "Geran-2" on May 6. The video shows a strike on the Ukrainian railway station Kharkov-Sortirovochny. The strike on the warehouse premises at the "Barabashovo" market, according to Russian media, there was military equipment there. Also shown is a strike by the drone "Geran-2" on the Ukrainian military commissariat department in the city of Kharkov.

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Another M2A2 tank built in the 1980s met its sad end.

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Footage of five Ukrainian Kozak armored vehicles being destroyed by Russian FPV drones. The video was filmed in the vicinity of the village of Velyka Pisarevka, Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. A temporary underground garage was set up in this location. Judging by the video, all the Kozak armored vehicles were new and had no crews. Since the underground shelter had no doors, the military equipment was spotted by drone operators and all of it was destroyed one by one by drones.

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Second Ukraine Air Force F-16 shot down​

  1. Second Ukraine Air Force F-16 shot down


By Combat Aircraft Journal
7th May 2025
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The Ukraine Air Force (UkrAF) has confirmed that one of its US-built F-16 fighters has been shot down during a combat mission in the east of the wartorn country, resulting in the death of its pilot.

The incident is the second loss of one of the newly acquired jets, with the first being brought down in August last year, also killing its pilot.

In a statement, the UkrAF said: “On April 12, 2025, 26-year-old Pavlo Ivanov died while performing a combat mission in an F-16 aircraft. We express our deepest condolences to Pavlo’s family. He died in battle, defending his native land from the occupiers.

Ukraine Air Force F-16 parked
One of the first F-16s to be delivered to the Ukraine Air Force in the summer of 2024. Since then two have been lost during combat missions, with the deaths of two pilots UkrAF
“Today, F-16 pilots perform combat missions in various directions in incredibly difficult conditions almost every day, providing fighter cover for air strike groups and striking enemy targets. Ukrainian pilots work to the maximum of their human and technical capabilities, each time risking their lives while performing combat missions. All circumstances of the tragedy are being established by an interdepartmental commission, which has already begun its work. Eternal flight, hero!”

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy also confirmed the loss on social media, saying that military reports are being prepared to clarify the circumstances. The statements by the UkrAF and Zelenskyy did not specify the excat location or circumstances of the loss, fueling speculation as to whether the fighter was downed by a Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) or friendly fire.

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The Ukrainian army has once again begun attempting to break through to the Kursk region of Russia; fighting has been going on for 3 days. Ukrainian units are advancing from the Sumy region of Ukraine and are trying to break through to the Russian border settlements of Novy Put and Tyotkino in the Kursk region of Russia. At the moment, the breakthrough has been repelled in the area of the settlement of Novy Put, and a battle is underway in the village of Tyotkino. To repel the attack, Russian units are using FPV drones, artillery, and aviation. Some Ukrainian servicemen have been captured. The video shows the defeat of Ukrainian military equipment in the Kursk region and Sumy region. As a result of drone strikes, Ukrainian M2A2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, Kozak armored vehicles, IMR-2 and Wisent-1 engineering vehicles, T-64 tanks, Bergepanzer 2 armored recovery vehicles, M1117 armored personnel carriers, and M113 armored personnel carriers were hit.

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The Russian military unit, the Rubicon Advanced Unmanned Aerial Technologies Center, has published footage of combat operations in Ukraine, of Russian FPV drone interceptors. A total of 67 episodes of interception of Ukrainian drones, manufactured in different countries, are shown. The video also shows the route of the Russian FPV drone interceptor. The video is especially valuable because it can be used as a catalog of Ukrainian military UAVs. For a complete overview of the UAVs used by the Ukrainian army, another video by operators of the Rubicon Advanced Unmanned Aerial Technologies Center has been added. The models of drones of the Ukrainian army are indicated in the description of the video. The video shows Ukrainian and foreign-made UAVs used by the Ukrainian army. FlyEye UAV, Furiya UAV, Mara UAV, Gore UAV, Leleka-100LR UAV, Shark-M UAV, Domakha UAV, Leleka-100EFT UAV, Avenger UAV, Jpiter H-1 UAV, HF-1 UAV, Poseidon H10 UAV, Gore UAV, Jpiter H1C UAV, UAV RQ-20A Puma AE, Leleka-100 UAV, Chaklun UAV, Raybird-3 UAV, Sparrow UAV, Valkyrie UAV.

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