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  1. Beer
    Aftermath of the alleged Russian strike near Jarabulus. Plenty of destroyed oil tankers and a massive crater, although too small for Iskander singular warhead I think. Could it be Onyx/Bastion-P instead? It has roughly half-sized warhead.
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    Another WTF accident
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    According to this Osa-AKM can not successfully engage Bayraktar TB2. AFAIK the normal flight altitude with weapons is +/- 6000 meters.
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    Iran tested Bavar-373 long range SAM. Not sure if what was shown in the video is real or intentionally missleading leak. Anyway ...
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    BMP-3 with Epokha module. And... WTF?
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    This has likely something to do with Nagorno-Karabakh war or with possible Turkish offensive in Syria... Allegedly several missiles flying from Hmeimym hit fuel storage depots near Jarabulus in Turkish-occupied zone of Aleppo countryside.
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    Next batch from my hiking trips. View roughly from the grave of Jaroslav Hašek (the author of the famous book The Good Soldier Švejk) towards the medieval castle of Lipnice nad Sázavou, Czech-Moravian highland area. View from the ruins of Ralsko castle sitting on a volcanic peak, northern Bohemia. This area used to be a Soviet military zone till 1990 and cyrilic writings can still be found on the castle walls. Lužice mountains, Northern Bohemia at the German border. Very speciffic countyside around Louny, some 50 km to the north-west of Prague. The photo is taken from a place which is probably the oldest European quartzite mine and a place which was inhabited since 2 million years ago. The oldest traces of buildings are 250 thousand years old. Valley of Jizera river with not just one but two castle ruins (Vranov - Pantheon and Frýdštejn), so-called Czech paradise natural area. Czechia has officially 461 medieval castles and their ruins (not counting huge number of chateaus) and with less than 79 thousand square kilometers it's really difficult not to find some. View from Radyně castle ruin (near Pilsen city) towards Šumava mountain range which creates the south-western border with Germany and Austria.
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    Czech army will replace the older infantry machineguns entirely with Minimi (which is in limited use already). The new order is for 950 MGs (of that a dozen in 5,56 and the rest in 7,62). https://www.czdefence.cz/clanek/armada-nakupuje-proverene-kulomety-minimi
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    Czech army took first eight RBS-70NG of sixteen ordered, the rest will be delivered in November. They shall replace Strela-10M. The army uses another sixteen older RBS-70 too. https://www.czdefence.cz/clanek/strakonicti-vojaci-prevzali-prvni-cast-modernich-protiletadlovych-kompletu-rbs-70ng
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    15x Dana M1 SpH in action. This is funny. Some small successes of NKR troops (if it's not an old footage). BMP-2 and BTR-82A captured.
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    Iranian AD shot down another Harop.
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    Russian soldiers taking positions on the Armenia - NKR border. Bayraktar TB2 wreckage. Could be the one from which the gimball is.
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    I can't help myself but especially the driveshafts look very thin to me. They probably know what they are doing but it doesn't bring much confidence by the simple look of it.
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    I can't see much chances for Armenia to keep the NKR territory. They are clearly on the loosing side and it's not getting any better for them. These are totally devastating numbers. Azeri convoy hit by Armenian artillery. Looks like some trucks probably carried ammo. In other news another An-2 decoy wreck.
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    The driver must feel really happy to have both exhaust tubes on his side. Just saying.
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    Sure a lot of UAVs were shot down but that didn't stop them to change the situation on the ground in all Syria, Libya and Nagorno Karabakh. They are usually far cheaper than manned aircraft and expandable. If they are shot down it doesn't hurt the operator a lot, especially in terms of own population approval rate. I think that the main problem of detection is likely a work of EW units (Koral system possibly). Bayraktar TB2 has 12 meters wingspan. There is IMHO no reason why it shouldn't be normally detectable by the AD radars at a distance reasonably greater than its weapon range. If the enemy is able to disrupt the AD radars, it doesn't matter anymore which type of missiles or cannons you have as all are near useless. The idea of counter UAVs is interesting and in theory it could work however first it's necessary to solve the problem of detection under heavy EW and also a need to give an armed device a certain level of authonomy which is IMHO very problematic at several levels. If on the other hand such hunter UAV shall be piloted by a human operator it would loose the advantage of being available en masse to cope with mass scale attack. I don't know how difficult it is but I think that a way could be in massive use of EW also in defence targeting the UAV communication lines. However it may be an issue to design it so that own air operations aren't disrupted as well. Maybe (just thinking loud) the accuracy of passive tracking system localization of an UAV is good enough to create targeted EW attack in its direction to make it loose signal and make it sort of mission kill (or at least win some time to take it down by other means). EDIT: One more thing. While radar guided systems clearly suffer a lot when exposed to EW, we have also seen Houthis sucessfully taking down several Predators and Reapers by home-made AD systems using IR-guided R-73 and R-27T AA missiles fired from improvised ramps (in daylight and clear sky conditions). I think that currently no ground AD systems able to reach MALE UAVs are equipped with IR seakers but maybe I am wrong. I mean at least in theory a combination of passive signal tracking (to know where to look) and optical/infrared guidance (to lock the target and engage it) should work against the UAVs even under EW.
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    It's more complex IMHO. For example the most common Turkish UCAV, the Bayraktar TB2 can strike such system from outside of its envelope (it flies at roughly 7000 meters and its bombs have 8 km range). I don't think that any single system is an answer but a differently built layered defence than what is used today is necessary.
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    A bit back to the UAV topic. I have a feeling that what we see now in NKR (and to some extent what we saw in Syria and Lybia) is something no air defence in the world is actually prepared for. The combination of heavy EW and oversaturation of the AD network with plenty of suicide drones and UCAV looks to me like a real game changer. Even the strongest air force is not an answer to this threat because it simply can not track and hunt every loitering munition. In this regard I think that way too many western countries are prepared even much worse than the eastern ones which traditionally put a lot of emphasis on the ground AD for their field units. A lot is going to change in the following years for sure. Also it would be interesting to know how much are the passive tracking systems (like VERA NG) able to change the situation. That is IMHO one of the few abilities of the existing ground AD networks that the UAVs can not cope with.
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    The impact of the Elbrus ballistic missile in Ganja on aerial photos.
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    Posted just because it's a rather uncommon vehicle.
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    EDIT: Now I see it's indeed Elbrus TEL even with remains of the missile loaded. The angle of the vehicle confused me.
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    So far all SAA T-34-85 I saw were wreck from the Six day war but this one looks like it's in working condition... and the tactical number
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    Some sort of new sights for Chinese Malyutka.
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    The destruction of NKR 36D6 premumably by IAI Harop kamikaze UAS radar of S-300PS battery cought on CCTV. Azeri websites published two videos today of a capture and subsequent execution of two NKR/Armenian soldiers. I will not post that one. You can easily find them even though the original upload is already deleted.
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    Yes, but the option with an AI commander is a sci-fi scenarion atm. First the development in AI and sensors isn't able of self commanding yet and won't be for for years to come. And the second thing and probably more important is the one that you simply can't give the AI the trigger. You can do that in a designated kill zone, i.e. for example in a defence perimeter of an ICBM base but not in the open where combatants and non-combatants mix in the weirdest possible combo and where everything you didn't think about during the design will certainly happen because such is life.
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