1/ We're finally there! A major Russian storage base is practically empty of any equipment! A thread on the newer footage of the 1295th Central Tank Reserve Base 🧵 pic.twitter.com/LH6IYDcDuZ

— Jompy (@Jonpy99) December 11, 2024

major Russian missile strike on Ukrainian infrastructure. Will be very interesting to see if there is an Ukrianian response on like kind Russian assets.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/13/russia-launches-huge-attack-on-ukraine-with-dozens-of-cruise-missiles-and-drones

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Ex-Soviet Osa SHORAD vehicles adapted to fire air-to-air missiles, creating a "fire and forget" air defense capability and tapping a much larger stockpile of missiles.

SAM

EastSideAg2002 said:

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Looks like Ukraine shot off some more ATACMS. Supposedly all were intercepted per russia, but who knows how true that actually is.

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No more info on this?

2wealfth Man said:

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major Russian missile strike on Ukrainian infrastructure. Will be very interesting to see if there is an Ukrianian response on like kind Russian assets.

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/13/russia-launches-huge-attack-on-ukraine-with-dozens-of-cruise-missiles-and-drones

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A little MORE.

Ukraine ramps up production of the upgraded Neptune-


https://www.rfuplus.com/articles/insider-annual-long-neptune-game-changer-for-ukraines-defense-strategy


Since the beginning of the war in 2022, various reports have indicated that the Neptune missile has undergone updates and enhancements to transform it into a ground-to-ground missile, improving its range, payload, and guidance and navigation systems. This new version has informally been dubbed the "Long Neptune" as Ukraine confirmed a series of successful strikes on Russian territory along 2024. These strikes, attributed to the Long Neptune, include targets such as a fuel depot and a Shahed drone storage facility in the Krasnodar region and an S-400 anti-aircraft battery in Tarkhankut Cape, Crimea, among others.

The Long Neptune has an increased range from 300 kilometers to 400 kilometers and its payload has increased from 150 kilograms to 350, significantly increasing its destructive power. The improved guidance systems now incorporate modern satellite and inertial positioning technologies, improving its navigation and targeting capabilities, and making them less vulnerable to Russian electronic countermeasures. Initially designed to be launched from a ground vehicle, work is underway to develop an air-launched variant as well, capable of being launched from fighter-bombers such as the Su-24.

Recently, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced that the revamped R-360 Neptune is now in mass production, with 100 units to be manufactured by the end of 2024 and an order for 3,000 missiles placed for 2025.

Remarkable cockpit footage of a Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 Flanker launching a salvo of four US-supplied GBU-39 SDB glide bombs at a Russian target.

The Ukrainian Flanker tosses the glide bombs while in a 60+ degree climb. pic.twitter.com/EBhPsFjQyc

— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) December 13, 2024

BACKGROUND

A few quick UPDATES.

First reported NK casualties.

"It added that some 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting and three had gone missing during clashes near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba and Martynovka close to the border."

BODIES

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First reported NK casualties.

"It added that some 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting and three had gone missing during clashes near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba and Martynovka close to the border."

BODIES

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Oh no.

Anyway...

74OA said:

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First reported NK casualties.

"It added that some 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting and three had gone missing during clashes near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba and Martynovka close to the border."

BODIES

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New Ukrainian refugees.

Bashar al-Assad's fall points to a direct lesson: Russia's growing weakness.

"Vladimir Putin's Russia now resembles the Soviet Union in the 1970s. While it is still assertive and interventionist abroad, its economy at home is increasingly weak and distorted by its conversion into a wartime operation. But just as the external expansionism and internal mobilization could not mask Soviet decay forever, so today Putin's bravado should not scare us. Think about it: If Russia were winning in Ukraine, would Putin threaten to use nuclear weapons?"

FACADE

this is hardcore footage from the forests of Ukraine

still killing Russians

Enemy in the woods: Ukrainian combat footage from BBC documentary. pic.twitter.com/JzZXhw0OZO

— Clash Report (@clashreport) December 17, 2024

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Ukraine took out Putin's Chief of Chemical and Nuke weapons

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-nuclear-defense-chief-assassinated-095952933.html

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A Russian general accused of using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine was assassinated early Tuesday in Moscow by a remote-controlled bomb planted in an electric scooter, Reuters reported.

Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, died along with his assistant when the bomb was set off outside an apartment building in the Ryazansky Prospekt neighborhood, Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said in a statement.

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Ukrainian security sources told multiple media outlets that the assassination was a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

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74OA said:

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First reported NK casualties.

"It added that some 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting and three had gone missing during clashes near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba and Martynovka close to the border."

BODIES

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New Ukrainian refugees.

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I think it was Ambrose who told the story of a captured Korean during WWII. He had been conscripted by the Japanese, then captured by the Russians, captured again by the Nazis, conscripted, then captured by the Allies. May have a few details wrong...

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First reported NK casualties.

"It added that some 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting and three had gone missing during clashes near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba and Martynovka close to the border."

BODIES

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New Ukrainian refugees.

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I think it was Ambrose who told the story of a captured Korean during WWII. He had been conscripted by the Japanese, then captured by the Russians, captured again by the Nazis, conscripted, then captured by the Allies. May have a few details wrong...

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Must be a fast burner moving up the POW ladder that quickly.

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Ukrainian security sources told multiple media outlets that the assassination was a special operation by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU).

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74OA said:

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First reported NK casualties.

"It added that some 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting and three had gone missing during clashes near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba and Martynovka close to the border."

BODIES

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New Ukrainian refugees.

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I think it was Ambrose who told the story of a captured Korean during WWII. He had been conscripted by the Japanese, then captured by the Russians, captured again by the Nazis, conscripted, then captured by the Allies. May have a few details wrong...

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Must be a fast burner moving up the POW ladder that quickly.

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Defecting for Dummies.

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74OA said:

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First reported NK casualties.

"It added that some 30 North Korean soldiers were killed or wounded in the fighting and three had gone missing during clashes near the villages of Plekhovo, Vorozhba and Martynovka close to the border."

BODIES

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New Ukrainian refugees.

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I think it was Ambrose who told the story of a captured Korean during WWII. He had been conscripted by the Japanese, then captured by the Russians, captured again by the Nazis, conscripted, then captured by the Allies. May have a few details wrong...

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This is going to sound like a totally bul**** story made up under the influence of alcohol but I'll share it anyway.

I have a friend who's father was a Bulgarian that left the Bulgarian Orthodox seminary to join the Bulgarian army before the outbreak of WW II. He spoke English, German, Russian, and Greek. When the Nazis invaded, he was conscripted as a translator in the Wehrmacht and sent to the eastern front. When the Nazis began to retreat west, he was captured by the Red Army and conscripted as a translator. In the confusion at the end of the war in 1945, he manged to shed his uniform and "surrender" to Britiah forces. The post-war Soviet bloc government in Bulgaria declared him an enemy of the state in absentia and sentenced him to death. He married a Polish girl and they migrated to Vietnam from where they applied for residency in the US on the basis of an invitation to work for Werner Von Braun at Redstone. The whole family sailed from Vietnam to Melbourne, FL and arrives one day before the State Department visa offer expired. My friend grew up in Huntsville among the old German rocket scientists in the 1960s. I would be suspicious of the whole story if his name was not on the founder's plaque at the space museum.

I lost you at "married a Polish girl and moved to Viet Nam."

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Ukraine took out Putin's Chief of Chemical and Nuke weapons

https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-nuclear-defense-chief-assassinated-095952933.html

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A Russian general accused of using banned chemical weapons in Ukraine was assassinated early Tuesday in Moscow by a remote-controlled bomb planted in an electric scooter, Reuters reported.

Lt. General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's nuclear, biological and chemical defense forces, died along with his assistant when the bomb was set off outside an apartment building in the Ryazansky Prospekt neighborhood, Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said in a statement.

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Sounds like the Ukrainians have been getting a little training from the Mossad. All that is missing is cell phones blowing balls to jelly.

Drones carrying drones.

"The Ukrainian Navy (VMS ZSU) recently revealed a completely new type of USV which adds several previously unseen features. This new design, as yet unnamed in public, adds small aerial drones, and possibly mines, to the capabilities of USVs. And it has already proven them in action."

USV

Every war has something about it that accelerates weapons development (and subsequently countermeasures) that changes how wars are fought to some degree.

Clearly Ukraine has accelerated the development and use of drones and UAVs to a degree and at a speed that I can't immediately recall having seen in prior wars. It's truly remarkable and has to have planners at the Pentagon and elsewhere racing to catch up.

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Drones carrying drones.

"The Ukrainian Navy (VMS ZSU) recently revealed a completely new type of USV which adds several previously unseen features. This new design, as yet unnamed in public, adds small aerial drones, and possibly mines, to the capabilities of USVs. And it has already proven them in action."

USV

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I wonder how many layers of drones carrying drones you can go.

Russian nesting dolls if you will.

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Its happening

I wonder who will be the next high level Russian targeted by the SBU? Those guys better get some eyes in the back of their heads. I bet they get another one soon.

Pentagon update on Russian advances.

"Though Ukraine is losing ground in the east, especially around the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk, it would take several years before Russia could capture the entire Donetsk region based on the current pace of the conflict, a senior military official told The War Zone Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Ukraine can hold its Kursk salient for at least the next few months despite increasing Russian pressure and the influx of North Korean special operations troops who are starting to take heavy casualties there, the official said."

SITREP

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Update on Russian advances.

"Though Ukraine is losing ground in the east, especially around the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk, it would take several years before Russia could capture the entire Donetsk region based on the current pace of the conflict, a senior military official told The War Zone Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Ukraine can hold its Kursk salient for at least the next few months despite increasing Russian pressure and the influx of North Korean special operations troops who are starting to take heavy casualties there, the official said."

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video of NORK heavy self propelled artillery on trains is now on Twitter

claiming they are heading to Kursk.

170 mm. which sounds no bueno for Ukraine

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74OA said:

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Update on Russian advances.

"Though Ukraine is losing ground in the east, especially around the key logistical hub of Pokrovsk, it would take several years before Russia could capture the entire Donetsk region based on the current pace of the conflict, a senior military official told The War Zone Tuesday afternoon. Meanwhile, Ukraine can hold its Kursk salient for at least the next few months despite increasing Russian pressure and the influx of North Korean special operations troops who are starting to take heavy casualties there, the official said."

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video of NORK heavy self propelled artillery on trains is now on Twitter

claiming they are heading to Kursk.

170 mm. which sounds no bueno for Ukraine

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Second such shipment. Russia is struggling to provide enough guns domestically.

"The M1989 "Koksan" is a long-range self-propelled artillery piece developed in the 1980s. Its western designation references the year of its first public appearance. Known for its range and firepower, the M1989 is a weapon system designed for heavy bombardment and strategic artillery roles."

CANNON

Drone food

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Drone food

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Yeah they have a decent range and they're self propelled but even firing in bridgade strength is going to be difficult if they're reload time really is 5 minutes. As soon as that starts falling if there are any fire finder radar around you're going to get swarmed by drones PDQ. And to my knowledge the NORKs don't have any kind of specialized anti-HARM artillery ammunition. So in a heavy attack those are going to get 3 to 4 rounds off prior to getting swarmed. Dangerous tool but I don't know how much they'll change things on the ground.

In addition to fearing the subversive effect of a free, democratic and prosperous Ukraine on his doorstep, Putin's other motivation to invade is straightforward robbery.

Scroll to the maps. "Will Trump let Putin get Ukraine's $26 trillion in gas and minerals?"

REAVERS

💥 Russia: Two large explosions at a military facility near the main naval base of the Northern Fleet in Murmansk. The blast waves were felt kilometers away according to locals. pic.twitter.com/uqoletRr38

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) December 19, 2024