War in Ukraine, technical and military aspects only

[JWB]

But how many?

 

[JWB]

Exactly what are the Russians targeting?

 

[Sinistar]

23 minutes ago, JWB said:

Exactly what are the Russians targeting?

 

 

why do you find it mysterious

 

both the ukrainians and the russians are posting video of their forces in the area and the engagements taking place

 

i can only conclude that those of you are still mesmerized by the information bubble cannot make sense out of basic reality anymore

[JWB]

8 minutes ago, Sinistar said:

both the ukrainians and the russians are posting video of their forces in the area and the engagements taking place

Thanx for answering a question I never asked.

[Sinistar]

1 minute ago, JWB said:

Thanx for answering a question I never asked.

 

you said:

 

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Exactly what are the Russians targeting?

 

[Josh]

It just looks like area bombardment of the water front. Presumably they think some soldiers are there.

 

[Sinistar]

both sides have already shown their own video of engagements there

 

it is not an open question or a mystery

 

 

[glenn239]

9 minutes ago, JWB said:

Thanx for answering a question I never asked.

You asked what the Russians are targeting.  They appear to be targeting Ukrainian infantry positions.  They usually do that when they're about to attack into those positions I think.

[seahawk]

They will take the city. 

[mkenny]

On 10/23/2025 at 2:47 PM, MiGG0 said:

That wont tell whole picture. RUS advence and get to keep land… and all bodies around.

But how can that be?

Are we in the west are being told that Ukraine is winning/advancing/repelling all attacks?

How can Russia be 'capturing that many Ukrainian KIA if they never take any ground in the first place?

Also if  Russian advances are as small as some here claim then that would mean  all Ukrainian lines are stuffed with soldiers. 

I think we  have to accept the obvious and  stop trying to mitigate the situation for Ukraine

 

[MiGG0]

On 10/24/2025 at 11:14 PM, mkenny said:

But how can that be?

Are we in the west are being told that Ukraine is winning/advancing/repelling all attacks?

How can Russia be 'capturing that many Ukrainian KIA if they never take any ground in the first place?

Also if  Russian advances are as small as some here claim then that would mean  all Ukrainian lines are stuffed with soldiers. 

I think we  have to accept the obvious and  stop trying to mitigate the situation for Ukraine

 

Depends on ”west” sources. Deep State (and its associates) pretty much does that (lag behind real sitatuation and then silently corrects map long after others). Other report accurately based on observed geolocations. Media usually writes only RUS casualties and mostly ignore UKR casualties (or just writes them ”heavy” but not specify more).

Edited October 25, 2025 by MiGG0

[sunday]

This could be interesting

 

[Markus Becker]

The Marder went native to avoid extinction. 

 

 

[kokovi]

On 10/24/2025 at 2:13 AM, Yama said:

EJ200 doesn't exist as a single engine version, so it would be substantial cost increase.

I don’t get that. It’s clear that you will need integration engineering and testing to put it into the Gripen, including an adapted engine control, but all military engines I know and have worked on have everything they need to function attached to it. I don’t understand why this should be a problem. Or does EJ200 have things that are centrally located and shared between both engines? That would be a weird design philosophy in my eyes, as it would probably require unnecessary engine matching activities when you exchange an engine and would somehow contradict redundancy respectively emergency operations in case of an engine failure.

I would see it as a major step to get the Gripen ITAR free. 

Edited October 25, 2025 by kokovi

[Roman Alymov]

7 hours ago, Markus Becker said:

The Marder went native to avoid extinction. 

 

 

Weak imitation of actual "native" (by the way note barbed wire is used in this case  -probably, taken from abandoned pro-Ukr fortifications)

source https://t.me/infomil_live/23535

[Yama]

7 hours ago, kokovi said:

I don’t get that. It’s clear that you will need integration engineering and testing to put it into the Gripen, including an adapted engine control, but all military engines I know and have worked on have everything they need to function attached to it. I don’t understand why this should be a problem. Or does EJ200 have things that are centrally located and shared between both engines? 

I don't know the details, but that was Saab's answer to inquiry whether EJ200 was an option for Gripen.

I suppose there are some things unique for single engine mounting - for example, RD33 has a different version for single-engine use, RD93: gearbox is located differently at least. I don't think they would be anything insurmountable much less impossible for Eurojet, mind you, but it would mean more cost to the project in addition to modifying the airframe.

Maybe it's noteworthy that even Mako was meant to use F404?

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

9 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

Weak imitation of actual "native" (by the way note barbed wire is used in this case  -probably, taken from abandoned pro-Ukr fortifications)

source https://t.me/infomil_live/23535

Mad Max called, he wants his POS back.

[Yama]

Is there even anything under that? Methinks it's just a decoy, meant to attract Ukrainians throwing all their FPS drones at it believing it is some super-powerful breakthrough vehicle.

[glenn239]

3 hours ago, Yama said:

Is there even anything under that? Methinks it's just a decoy, meant to attract Ukrainians throwing all their FPS drones at it believing it is some super-powerful breakthrough vehicle.

It's all about the weight of the structure. A couple tons is nothing.

[JWB]

Hydro plan. Probably has little to no effect.

 

[Roman Alymov]

On 10/26/2025 at 7:47 PM, JWB said:

Hydro plan. Probably has little to no effect.

 

Western news. as usual not new 

 

By the way, since rivers mentioned - situation East of Kupyansk on 23.10.2025 

 

 

[Roman Alymov]

Not clear how representative this statistics is, but still might be useful

"Rubicon Center - 10,000 targets hit!

The official channel (https://t.me/icpbtrubicon ) of the unit published over 10,000 (https://lostarmour.info/tags/rubicon ) episodes of hitting enemy targets.

The structure of the affected targets:

• 37.5% - Unmanned systems, including:
22.3% - multicopter type UAVs;
12.3% - Aircraft-type UAVs;
2.9% - NRTC (land drones).

• 16.3% - Communication systems (including radars, electronic warfare stations, radar, surveillance systems).

• 14.5% - Unarmored vehicles.

• 13.2% - Tanks and armored fighting vehicles.

• 12.1% - Temporary deployment points, field fortifications and firing positions.

• 3.5% - Enemy personnel.

• 2% - Artillery systems (self-propelled guns, towed guns and mortars).

• 0.9% - Other targets

The growth in the number of targets hit by the Rubicon Center's operators is accelerating.  

Since the first 5,000 hit targets was fixed (https://t.me/lost_armour/6096 ) at the beginning of August 2025 - a year after the formation of the Center, it took a little more than 2.5 months for the next 5,000. 

In the period May-September 2025, record numbers of published strikes are updated monthly, having more than tripled over the specified period! (https://lostarmour.info/tags/rubicon#intense)" https://t.me/boris_rozhin/184914

[KV7]

14 hours ago, Roman Alymov said:

Not clear how representative this statistics is, but still might be useful

"Rubicon Center - 10,000 targets hit!

The official channel (https://t.me/icpbtrubicon ) of the unit published over 10,000 (https://lostarmour.info/tags/rubicon ) episodes of hitting enemy targets.

The structure of the affected targets:

• 37.5% - Unmanned systems, including:
22.3% - multicopter type UAVs;
12.3% - Aircraft-type UAVs;
2.9% - NRTC (land drones).

• 16.3% - Communication systems (including radars, electronic warfare stations, radar, surveillance systems).

• 14.5% - Unarmored vehicles.

• 13.2% - Tanks and armored fighting vehicles.

• 12.1% - Temporary deployment points, field fortifications and firing positions.

• 3.5% - Enemy personnel.

• 2% - Artillery systems (self-propelled guns, towed guns and mortars).

• 0.9% - Other targets

The growth in the number of targets hit by the Rubicon Center's operators is accelerating.  

Since the first 5,000 hit targets was fixed (https://t.me/lost_armour/6096 ) at the beginning of August 2025 - a year after the formation of the Center, it took a little more than 2.5 months for the next 5,000. 

In the period May-September 2025, record numbers of published strikes are updated monthly, having more than tripled over the specified period! (https://lostarmour.info/tags/rubicon#intense)" https://t.me/boris_rozhin/184914

If true and roughly representative this is a big correction to the impression that might be formed from posted videos where many attacks are on infantry. 

It is difficult though because "Temporary deployment points, field fortifications and firing positions" will seemingly also mostly be infantry, as most UAV have limited means to directly attack such targets either in some area attack or via direct destruction of some bunker etc. and so are arguably attacks on infantry that happen to be in these positions. 

[Stuart Galbraith]

 

[Roman Alymov]

10 hours ago, KV7 said:

If true and roughly representative this is a big correction to the impression that might be formed from posted videos where many attacks are on infantry. 

It is difficult though because "Temporary deployment points, field fortifications and firing positions" will seemingly also mostly be infantry, as most UAV have limited means to directly attack such targets either in some area attack or via direct destruction of some bunker etc. and so are arguably attacks on infantry that happen to be in these positions. 

Note Rubikon is not "ordinary" FPV team but sort of "elite squad" and their priorities may be different.

   For example, in this case they have hit something that is believed to be SAM covered in forest, 55 km away from contact line https://t.me/boris_rozhin/185022

Edited October 28, 2025 by Roman Alymov