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.
Columns of smoke seem to be very common in Moscow this year.
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.
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.
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.
Forest fires are back to fatherland
She has 2 brain cells and they are fighting each other.
There has been rumours of the Reds leaving Melitopol since last Autumn.
Great if it happens
Think many first of all misunderstands the accuracy of the himars missile and what gps jamming does to it
Himars rockets are INS/GPS guided,meaning inertial guided with gps assistence,with gps it can hit a target within 5 meters or less,without it its probably reduced to 20-30 meters,depending on the inertial guidance system,if it uses kalman filter etc.
With M31 with a high explosive rockets this is a problem if you want to hit a building close to others,say a ammo depot in one building close to others,same goes for JDAMs
With M31a1 rockets,ment for soft targets and light armoured vehicles,and have 180000 tungsten balls that spreads out over 4 fotball fields ,not so much.
Irish/Russian
Is yer one Russian or Irish or just been here a fair while? She seems to have a bit of a Dublin twang in her accent towards the end of the video.
We did, which gives me some hope. Don’t get me wrong, if this is a bug out I’m delighted, but I’m wary. The Russians have a lot dimwits in their ranks, but they might have a couple of sharper minds who want to throw the AFU’s strategy with some clever situation theatre.
I hope my fears are unfounded and that the Russians actually are making a run for it.
Claimed attacks on civilians ,
Stray HIMARS could explain some of the "attacks on civilians" in Donbas.
We saw similar things happening during karkhiv and Kherson offensives it's possible they know something is happening or coming there way ,
One to watch
(Checks date: July 2022)
Meanwhile in western business park
Wait…are they actually bugging out of the area? I smell a rat here, seems too good to be true.
A possible ruse to trick the AFU?
More on Melitopol
Not sure about the source on that but goodwill gesture? I think not. Zaporizhzia area is being evacuated according to the news so it's possible the reactor there has finally reached a state thay has the Russians bricking it. Power plant is only about 90km from Melitipol.
lol
Melitopol is hugely important in the big scheme of the war and coming counter offensive,if you cut off and take Melitopol you cut the Russians vital landbridge,you also split and isolate forces in Mariupol and weaken the ability to hold Kherson and Zaporizhzhia.
There's being percision strikes regularly hitting melitopol for months now ,since late January at least
This is the second reference I've seen to this. Something happening?
PStyleOne1 on Twitter: "‼️🤔Guys, something is going on in Melitopol The Russian passport office closed and Russians threw away their uniforms and disappeared per local chat. Goodwill gesture? #Ukraine #Ukraina #UkraineRussiaWar https://t.co/3W6La9T8TC" / Twitter
Seems Russia has put a serious effort into trying to counter the HiMars threat by jamming gps systems recently, hopefully the Ukrainans overcome the jamming, being the HiMars are their best precision weapon that can reach behind orc lines ,
Hmmm, that being so, if tyrants want to make their country bigger at the expense of others, maybe the ultimate punishment is to go and make their country actually smaller, like what happened to Germany in 1918 and 1945…..?
Haha, two-headed chicken………. Class :)
(C/P from Julia Davis’s thread on twitter)
As I said. Putin said that he wants to conquer ex-soviet countries. He wants to be like Peter the Great. If you fall for their Nazi nonsense then they are making a fool of you. That line was pushed for useful idiots to latch onto and have some semblance of justification for rape, murder, terrorism, kidnapping, genocide, land grab, etc.
Putin is a fanatical nobody who wants to be somebody. Such people are useful. That is why the FSB gave him power. He will be discarded when he serves no further purpose.
Is “rooting out Nazis” still not the official Kremlin line despite dissenting opinion?
Euronews: Wagner boss openly defies Kremlin Ukraine 'Nazi' narrative.
Russia’s Artillery Is Wearing Out And Blowing Up (forbes.com)
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