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Part of it is a "western" bias of the journalists, but also the fact that Russian sources are basically non-existent. AFAIK the only things Russian press are reporting are more or less based on official statement from the Russian ministry of defense (which is neither a neutral source nor particularly verbose). The main problem is that we have only one side of the narrative, which for a conflict is less than ideal. @LoooSeRand other Russian speaking members are in the best place to gives us the point of view reported from the Russian side.
 
 
As for who is collecting the information, most of it comes from journalist of generalist news agencies (Reuters, AFP, Associated Press, etc) which have people on the ground and the rest comes from the Ukrainian side of the war (either official or civilian) since there is barely anything coming out from the Russian side.
Very few newspaper or TV channel still have dedicated war correspondents and most of what's coming out in western press is an amalgam and a global interpretation of various snippets bought from various news agency. Meaning that at the roots, all of the factual information comes either from probably less than 10 journalist on the ground or from the Ukrainian side.
So very few sources and even less which are somewhat neutral and factual.

Ian got his hands on NK LMG
 

I think i see one of reasons why NLAW isn't popular:

 
 
NLAW launch

Hell, i didn't knew they already had red dot sight. Will be interesting to see how much foreigh parts they use in it.
 
   Vzor-1 is already avaliable for purchase
https://zenitco.ru/catalog/red_dots/kollimatornyy_pritsel_vzor_1/
Price is 39 800 rubles, which is in capitalist US rubles is (75 rubles per 1 US$) 530$.
 
For that price you get:
 
From their site some stats:
Zoom - 1x
Objective (lens) diameter - 22mm
Reticle size (dot) - 1MOA
Reticle size (circumference) - 34MOA
NVD Compatible - Yes
Adjustment 1click=1MOA
Aiming mark brightness - 10 levels
 
Battery type: AAA battery, 1.5 V.
AAA, 1.2 V battery is acceptable. 
 
Term of continuous operation on one battery:
1 year - "point" mode in medium brightness; 60 hours - "point and circle" mode at maximum brightness  Reticle modes:

 
Weight (without battery, mounting platform and protective covers) : 103 +- 2g
Overall dimensions (without mounting platform and protective covers): 69x52x39 +- 2mm 
 

GM-94 3D schematics

 
 
Ammo container for 43 mm grenades (23 of them in that 12 kg cylinder).

 
 

LMUR is F&F.

A bit of more info on new Mi-28NM's datalink with UAVs 
https://iz.ru/1204441/anton-lavrov-aleksei-ramm/mi-poleteli-dlia-chego-nochnykh-superokhotnikov-vooruzhaiut-dronami-kamikadze
 

Ear destruction and eye brows deletion with KORD
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Doesn't say what exactly is there. Found in Andrey's blogpost (in Russian).

British procurement looking more like that of India every day , evil tongues could say of same folks running the show .

Roof protection for tanks, IMO pretty Jihad.
 
 

Composite picture
 
Picts make cockpit canopy  look small like in in the old 60s era fighters 
 

Well someone from the show crew leaked photos of the plane. It looks quite interesting imho.

Results of mine detonation under it.

 
   Also, interesting bit - BMP-2 vs BMD-4 suspension:

   Smoothly going over bumps.
 

   A NU SUKA BLYAD

Interesting victim in the yard of 38th NII testing ground (Russian army main testing facility for AFVs)

Heh, it appears that YaK-130 UBS have an unknown button near one of screens that was unmarked and not marked on documents for a plane, and if you press it a message appears on the screen saying "Kill all humans! Long live robots!"
   Video in the link (proof) https://diana-mihailova.livejournal.com/4077485.html

   Here is offical document asking producer to fix that.

Looks more like a PG-7M warhead to me.

VSS disassembly and some close ups.
   

 
 

New Chinese 35 mm AC + AA missiles SHORAD on wheeled chassis, vs drones, cruise missiles, etc.
   Looks like autocannon have muzzle device for proximity fused munitions programming.

Russian PMC in Africa

Well, judging by AK-12, Kalashnikov concern isn't far behind them, 

Agava-2:
http://www.omsk.ru/industry/rossiyskie-teplovizory
FOV is 2,5° x 4°
256 elements matrix (possibly)
 
https://andrei-bt.livejournal.com/1174038.html
    I had opportunity to talk to ex-Soviet/Russian tanker, who moved to Israel, about our tanks, his description of Agava-2 was "when you look in it, it is hard to understand if it is broken or should work like that".
 
Stats for Agava-2

 
 
   Another stats sheet found on otvaga:

   Vertical angles - from -10 to +20 degrees, horizontal - from -7.5 to +7.5 degrees
Fields of view at 5.5x zoom - 4x2.7°, at 11x - 2x1.35° 
Modes - main - control from gunner station, "Double" - from commander's position.
 
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   About Nocturne:
http://38niii.ru/analitika/173-tankovye-pritsely-i-sistemy-upravleniya-ognem-suo.html#teplovizionnye-pritsely
 
http://www.ktso.ru/normdoc8/r78_36_027-2012/r78_36_027-2012_11.1.7.3.php#:~:text=Танковый тепловизионный прицел «Ноктюрн» предназначен,-72 и Т-80.
   Stats for Nocturne thermal imager:
 

Sadly there are no eng subs (only if you turn on auto translated ones, which are so-so), very informative video on Rys'-T helmet (Altyn's cheaper brother, made out of titanium as well).
   Guy shows real helmets and even helmets that were tested by NII Stali (Google translated NII Stali as "her steel", lol), plenty of close ups and so on.
 
   Protection provided by 3.8 mm of titanium, aramid backing, rated against steel core 7.62x25 mm bullets from Tokarev. Glass is rated for 2 shots of 9x18 from Makarov. Glass section is 2 layered, frame for glass is made out of worse metal alloy.  
   Compared to Altyn, Rys'-T is less repairable (use of rivets vs screws on some small components like clamps for fixing faceshield in open/closed positions), and overall somewhat cheaper (rubber on helmet titanuim plate edges was changed to cloth tape, for example).
   In 2014 rubles helmet costed more than 100 000. 4 years warranty, heh, 1.5 for radio. Rys'-T is no longer in production.