There has been rumours of the Reds leaving Melitopol since last Autumn.
Great if it happens
She has 2 brain cells and they are fighting each other.
Forest fires are back to fatherland
Czech President says Ukraine has one counter offensive in it this year and that it will be costly for them.
Hardly a revelation but an interesting read.
Russia are using a range of electronic warfare systems in Ukraine, this includes GPS jamming, spoofing and also hitherto-unknown attacks. Newspapers are likely to lump them all under GPS jamming.
In theory the Western guided munitions should indeed fall back to inertial guidance and still perform pretty well, as you say. It's seemingly not happening though, going by articles that have appeared in Western news sources. CNN had five sources (US, UK, Ukraine, etc) saying the same thing, that precision munitions were becoming less and less effective due to Russia's EW.
The Pentagon leaks said something similar. One slide said they (SAG-U) had medium to high confidence that 44% of weapons for a particular strike missed due to GPS jamming.
Without more info we can only speculate at what is happening and how they are being so effective.
In Syria the Russians were able to disrupt C130 specter Gunships targeting and gps systems while trying to provide cover to US special forces on several occasions.
Columns of smoke seem to be very common in Moscow this year.
If the GPS is being spoofed, there's no reason why it would fall back on to INS. If it's being jammed, then you would expect it to fall back onto INS.
Some of the articles mention that the US are looking to tweak the software. Could possibly give an option to disable GPS prior to launch (if Ukraine know Russia are spoofing GPS at a target location) or if the GPS location jumps by a certain distance to ignore GPS and go to INS instead etc... I'm sure there's plenty of ways around it.
Polish Border Guards aircraft lost control and altitude after an Orc SU-35 flew within 5m of it's nose using it's wake turbulence as a weapon.
The current situation in Ukraine is largely due to decades of the west not responding to provocations and turning the other cheek every time. You'd think the lesson might have been learned by now.
Like i said,depending on rockets used
And GPS jamming isnt really that complicated
It could be a simple software issue for what we know
And if they dont use kalman filters,its most likely even worse accuracy then predicted.
Russians have been known in the past to jam even civilian airliners in Finland in the past,but they also have backups.
I dont know how they work againt spoofing though,but thats also easily adjusted to software
Another option is to use Galileo,the European system
Multiple Air raid warnings and explosions been reported over Southern Ukraine
Something big hit in Odesa
Crap,
who the hell is fact checking over there
Which ever explanation turns out to be the correct one, it sure as hell will not calm the nerves of Russians in any part of Ukraine, never mind Melitopol. Throwing away passports and changing out of uniforms etc, is one serious step to take under any circumstances.
Another report on a hit in Odesa
Best wait for a source other than Russian media!
??? Ukrainian media report explosion in Odesa, widespread air raid alerts | Reuters
Fair few reports on Odesa now.
Supposed strikes Strikes on bridges and ammo dumps. I'm sure more will become clear by morning.
Russian media report they hit the Shkolny airfield....
More from kildare
What a sorry sight.
This happens all the time. Reports of Russians looting and leaving a town. It's not a withdrawal though, it's simply a rotation of a new unit into an area.
Why would any Russia appreciate a man who has stolen their national recourses and enriched himself? Russia is one of the most corrupt countries in the world. It is in decline, it is a poor country, with an economy about 4 times that of Bangladesh. A GDP of about $12,500 while the super rich live have everything. Putin could have made it a rich country but instead of investing in his people, he and his friends have stolen as much as they can. Why would anyone appreciate that?
"Russia is a great country we just choose to live elsewhere"
So they tear up their passports, dump their uniforms and booby trap the area and then rotate out for another crew?
Is there a new passport and new uniform waiting for them and do they give the new troops a map of the booby traps or is it like a wee hazing they do?
Loosening the salt shaker lid, I get, leaving tripmines for the new crew, I don't get.
Certainly doesn't look like looting and leaving.
19 hours left for Russia to take Bakhmut for Victory Day.
looking forward to Putin's double's speech.
Lol. This aged well. I hope the below crowd understands why I dont engage in any discussion with them. Their moral compass is build in the same country as the 'give me a tow' tank parody Armata
How many people were there to counter protest? Just you?
It still looks like I was right, most people do not care about Russians having their V day celebrations
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