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It's not about using chinese chips, but buying western ones from China itself. Russia can make trade agreements for the goods they need, you don't need hard cash when you got natural resources.

If you want to keep Russia away from all those electronics, you gotta sanction China too, and there is no way of that happening.

Russia doesnt rely on foreign semi-conductors for their military, they used to have France supply their T-90s with the Catherine thermal imagers, but from 2015 onwards its all domestically produced (product of early Western sanctions against Russia). You dont need a 7nm GA100 level of silicon in a Kalibr missile, 65nm* is enough for any modern military need. *28nm is from TSMC, but they have the tech for it, but not for mass production, yet.

Thats why Ukraine is claiming 5x+ russian casualties, they think every russian vehicle lost = 100% crew dead. Having a 0,5 casualty per tank is pretty good by any standards, while every western mouthpiece says that the T-series tanks are death traps.

Yeah, it looks like a T-80U '86 that lost the lower 2 layers.

It can be 3 layer cuz the T-80BVMs are upgraded T-80B\BVs

Oh I thought they update it more regularly, thanks anyway. So, they should give an updated casualty report in 2 days or so, if they keep the same interval. Decent article about the recent situation: https://southfront.org/strike-on-moskva-missile-cruiser-is-only-precursor-to-change-in-military-situation-in-region/

When was the last one and what were the casualties numbers? If you don't mind ofc, cuz it's kinda hard for me to find it since I don't know any russian.

Why are they reporting on this but stopped reporting on their combat casualties? And btw, maybe the ship hit a naval mine?

Shit happens no matter what, so its better to evacuate and lose only the ship than both ship and crew, the ship surviving it's the best scenario the russian navy could have hoped for. In my opinion, losing a docked landing ship full of ammo (the one in Berdyansk) it's worse than a damaged cruiser.

Since lots of fuel storage and refineries got hit all over the country, is the ukrainian armed forces able to move troops to reinforce other regions? That push towards Kiev might have actually worked (it could have been executed better ofc), what do you guys think?

No politician likes civil unrest, and going for protesters that are in favor of their own troops does not look good for them. And I think that could have an impact on their decision making or atleast give them a headache or something. It doesnt inspire much confidence for volunteers when you don't have enough deployed troops for such a large frontline and could get killed or worse if captured.

In theory they were killing their own citizens, since they are ukrainian separatists, but now they are killing soldiers of the RuAF, pretty sure the russian population can see the difference.

No protests in favor of their own troops? either for the RuAF to go all-in or to pull out?

@LoooSeR Whats the russian reaction on the torture and killing of russian POWs by the ukrainian armed forces? are people gonna do something about it? will they still trust the government even if it doesnt do anything about it?

Snake Island 2: Electric Boogaloo?

The APS launchers on this photo are kinda smaller than the OG Drozd I know. Edit: nevermind they are not mounted, weird mount for the launch tubes thou. Btw how do you know they were not mounted at the time? and most kills on russian tanks in Ukraine are from side shots, a working Drozd would have not saved them.

Wow a thing that has a gen 1 hardkill APS with only 60-120d frontal turret arc protection got destroyed...

Like when they used Su-34s to drop FAB-100/250s, bruh...

btw I meant on the video, you can see a BMP-2? and a T-64? getting rekt and then a T-72? rushing the other T-64? no idea where or what was happening on that video, but it looks like a tank combat, no ATGMs where used as I can see. And yeah I didnt think this war would happen either, maybe there really were US Biolabs in Ukraine, either way Russia made alot of blunders in the beginning and is still osing a relative high number of personel and equipament (considering its 3 crew dead per armored vehicle/tank).

Anyone got intel on wtf is going on here? (edit: on the video I mean)

Oh wow reddit...

Yeah they should use T-14s and BMPTs to remove rubble, bring food and medical aid...

The 3BM26 should be enough against T-64BVs and T-80BVs, but abandoning a T-80BVM still is pretty stupid...

wtf is Russia doing? why are they abandoning so many military vehicles? and losing many more? they failed big time on information gathering and military intelligence on this campaign...