Because it didn't have any commentary I skipped by this initially. But this is significant, Russia's loss rate at Adivka is higher than it was at Bakhmut, and their losses there were staggering.
Russian corps are smaller than western corps. An American corps is usually about 3 divisions, or about 30-40,000 troops. A Russian corps is usually about the same size as a western division or 10-15,000 troops. A Russian corps losing 10,000 dead is gutting the unit. They may be feeding in more replacements so the unit may still have some strength, but losing troops at that rate is going to destroy the unit as an effective fighting force and destroy morale. It's most likely that anyone with any combat experience is dead or wounded and the replacements are milling around without a clue what they are doing with nobody to lead them or train them.
Trying a different Twitter-account... [That seems to have worked...]
@TrentTelenko
I'm no 3D/AM expert, but that casing looks like either 3D/AM or plastic injection moulding.
And I'm not seeing anything that looks like a sprue mark for this Russian “butterfly” anti-personnel mine.
This is technical evidence of a new mine production line in Russia, either way.
Nasty. But predictable. Buying 3D printer from China is not going to be that expensive. I've been looking at a 3D printer for myself and you can get a pretty nice one for less than $500. The cheaper ones are only a couple hundred.
3D printing is another big change that is coming very soon. The printers are getting cheap enough and fast enough that they will likely start becoming staples of manufacturing soon.
More evidence that Ukraine has been successful in destroying Russian air defense systems.
The British Defense Ministry reports Russia is now withdrawing air defense systems from Kaliningrad. A few months ago it was from the Russian Far East.
The Kremlin has likely moved a number of strategic air defense systems from its Baltic Sea base at Kaliningrad to the current front lines in Ukraine to "backfill recent losses," the British Defense Ministry wrote in its latest update.
Russia's NATO risk highlights "overstretch" caused by war: UK
This is interesting. The Ukrainian claims for destroyed equipment now claims about 1/2 of Russia's pre-war gun artillery and a pretty hefty slice of Russia's pre-war tank and AFV fleet, but only about 10-15% of their pre-war air defense stockpile. The reason they haven't put as deep a dent in Russia's air defense systems is the number Russia started with. They had a mountain of S-300s.
If Russia is removing AD systems from all their bases around the country, that's in indication something is going on beyond what Ukraine is claiming.
Quite the mix of hardware there. I didn't recognize all the guns, but there were American .50 caliber Brownings, Russian/Soviet .50 DShK, even a pair of Maxims. The Maxims were built through WW II, but they are old, with the design dating back to the late 19th century.
The crewed gun on the rotating carriage with the crew sitting on the carriage looked like the Soviet answer to the Bofors 40mm which was a standard AA gun in the WW II era among the western Allies. It was the standard USN medium range AA weapon on ships for most of the war. Many PT boats had one mounted on the stern.
If the west could resurrect some 40mm Bofors, they would be a good weapon against drones. 40mm shells with proximity fuzes would be cheap and effective, only need a short burst per drone.
Agreed, but it's also written 1e^4 or 1(e^4) which might be a bit clearer. The first thing I thought about was the E was Euros if you didn't have the € symbol handy.
The E is a commonly used symbol on a calculator to denote exponent.
www.zerohedge.com
www.rferl.org
www.theglobeandmail.com
