Don's Weekly, 8 January 2024: Part 2
(….continued from Part 1…)
Robotyne
This is the first video I’ve seen of an airburst FPV drone…
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1742952220860002396
A Russian BMD near Verbove fires on a trenchline and drops off infantry, as seen by a drone and from the BMD firing…
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1743089327255470363
Drones are dropping heavier munitions…
https://twitter.com/PStyle0ne1/status/1742908258883719346
A Russian assault south of Marinka failed…
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1742648408001724912
Kherson
Following the loss of up to 5 Su-24s, Su-30s, and Su-34s in this area over the previous two weeks, only two Russian airstrikes were recorded in the Kherson region last week. In the Krynky area, Ukraine appears to have electronic superiority, which means they have drone superiority. They are jamming Russian drones and destroying Russian vehicles both with mines, dropped munitions and kamikaze drones. The Russians can still launch drone attacks on the right bank of the Dneiper. Some of the attacks are reportedly on civilians with dropped munitions. Deep behind Russian lines, jammers, counter battery radar, rocket launchers and anti-aircraft systems are hit. In Krynky itself, it seems that the Ukrainians are being squeezed by a couple hundred meters not so much because of Russian attacks but because of the attacks on both shorelines and the boats that shuttle supplies, ammo, replacements and wounded back and forth across the river.
A Russian rocket launcher, probably firing from a very long distance, created an impact zone that was 1.2 km long for nine rockets…
https://twitter.com/AndrewPerpetua/status/1743445018113622523
Russia announced that it deployed a new counter-battery radar in Ukraine, the Yastreb AV. Hours later, Ukraine announced they destroyed a Yastreb AV. Back in August they said they destroyed one, as well…https://www.technology.org/2024/01/03/ukrainian-himars-destroyed-an-extremely-expensive-russian-radar/
A Ukrainian operator shows a series of videos of drones dropping mines and finishing immobilized vehicles off…
https://twitter.com/OSINTua/status/1743567710087192750
Ukraine loses a few boats every week…https://t.me/Dnepro_Rub/1786
A Russian Strela 10 is hit by GLMRS…https://t.me/ukr_sof/893
Russian vehicles near Krynky being destroyed…
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1743747085369803164
Crimea
Ukrainian attacks on Russian radars and air defenses have degraded Russia’s ability to repel further attack. It is another form of attrition warfare that will have consequences for more than just the Russian assets in Crimea.
A Russian command post was hit…
https://twitter.com/EjShahid/status/1742962266708820134
A radar installation in Uyutne was attacked…
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1742936817081766345
The Saky airbase was attacked…
https://twitter.com/general_ben/status/1743209607126831412
Repeatedly…
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1743632581910766069
Another attack on a Russian base…
https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1743653867496034441
(….to be continued….)
I´m asking myself: every other day I read of the immense availability of drones from the russian sides (just read they are going to produce 300000 drones and train 5200 drone controllers per month)... how comes all videos I see are practically one sided? How comes there are no reports of high vehicle losses or at least high personnel losses? Am I biased and the russian channels are full of these or what?
Sidenote for Mr. Cooper since I cannot write on his FB profile: was the F-5A/E a good fighter-bomber? I recall videos with napalm canisters but were they good for other A2G missions at all given their tiny size?
The Russians seem to still have a lot of ground radars in occupied Ukraine. Also very interesting the use of airburst munitions in FPVs. I remember seeing Russian rosgvardia moving aimlessly in Kharkiv during the start of the 2022 invasion and wondering if drones would be used for such. Glad its now happening and being used.