(Cambodia) On the 16th of May Phnom Penh and Beijing started the Golden Dragon 15 day military exercise in the central Kampong Chhnang Province of Cambodia involving around 2000 troops of which around 750 were Chinese. The interesting thing here was the Chinese army showcased their latest robotic military dog.
Friday, May 24, 2024
China: Army shows off armed robotic dog
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5/24/2024 01:18:00 PM
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Labels: China, Weapons news
Thursday, May 23, 2024
Interlude: The Mavericks - Dance The Night Away
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5/23/2024 08:00:00 PM
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Labels: Good Music
Ukraine: Despite overwhelming Russian pressure, Kyiv continues to knock out high value Russian targets.
(Mospyne) Despite the acute pressure Moscow is placing on Kyiv of late:
- Large scale attacks on energy production capabilities
- Advances on the Avdiivka front
- Advances on the Kharkiv front
- Advances on the Sumy front
And today it has been reported that the
Ukraine targeted a air defence missile system in the village of Mospine which
can be found 15 miles behind Donetsk city destroying the following:
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X S-300/400 air defence missile
launchers were destroyed:
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1 X S-300/400 air defence
missile launcher was damaged
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1 X Radar “96L6E” was
destroyed;
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1X Control centre of the
S-300/400 air defence system was destroyed:
Update:
Video has emerged of the above missile strike. (I recommend keeping the sound off)
So whilst the Russians is easily able to replace men and armour, its ability to replace high value targets such as Ships, Aircraft and Missile systems such as the S300 and S400 is a lot harder and that we have seen in how Ukraine in its selective targeting has effectively removed the Black sea fleet (due to losses) from around the Crimea Resulting in Russia conceding command of that area to the Ukraine which hasn't a navy and as we are seeing it is slowly but surely eradicating Russian long distance Anti-air missiles systems from the region as well, which I feel will come back to bite Moscow in the near future.
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5/23/2024 07:08:00 PM
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Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Russia: New weapon of choice is slowly turning the tide for Moscow.
(Ukraine) One of the weapon systems Russia has quickly developed in which to make up for its depletion of its holdings of cruise and precision guided missiles (Which after 2 years of war even Moscow's huge stocks which it started with has been drained) was knocking out their version of the US Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) or glide bomb. However whereupon the JDAM was designed in slow time taking 7 years to develop with it entering service in 1999. The Russians took less time and whilst their cheap as chips UMPK glide wing kit is deemed not as accurate as the JDAM, their ad hoc Heath Robinson affair works and allowed them to use the thousands of dumb bombs they held in stock, which due to Ukrainian air defence they couldn't use the old fashion way, but by fixing a set of wings and some form of guidance, they could drop the bombs from inside Russia (and safe from air defence) and hit targets 30 miles inside the Ukraine with 1000lb bombs
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5/22/2024 12:23:00 AM
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Labels: Russia, Weapons news