Category: Russian Industry
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Russo-Ukrainian War Press Updates (2023-05-16) and the Usual Rant
In a non-important but somewhat indicative news articles of the last few days, a few caught my eye. Coinciding with the start of the Ukrainian spring offensive which is intended to push Russia back to the pre-2022 or even pre-2014 borders. While some claim the offensive is not yet begun, it is obvious to me…
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Updates (2023-02-17)
The “balloon panic” continue to successfully distract the public from the real issues. Russian supplies of energy to EU managed to bring the prices or natural gas to their pre-war level, around 500-600 USD per 1,000 cubic meters. Russian government is searching for a way to retroactively tax “large” businesses to bring another 300B rubles…
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Conquering of Soledar and Other Updates (2023-01-11)
According to Wagner Group’s owner Evgeniy Prigozhin, Soledar is being fully controlled by his forces. The “Twice Hero of the Russian Federation” was carful in noting that it is his forces, and his forces alone that brought this great victory to Russian war efforts. “Fully controlled” doesn’t mean the fighting is over in Soledar, but…
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Updates (Russia)
A blast of the natural gas pipeline in Russia that supplies the Europe via Ukraine is reported to be a result of repair works gone bad. Three workers died as a result. The Gazprom has already assured the supplies to the “unfriendly” countries won’t be affected, as this section is used to provide about 42…
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UA Updates: Static Front, Lessons Not Leant, Skidding Russian MIC, Infrastructure Warfare
There are no big news currently coming from UA. The front has stabilized for now, Russians seem to have just enough troops to hold any Ukrainian breakthroughs past its defenses. Wagner Group is the only force on Russian side making any progress. They are free from Russian command insanity to manage themselves and aren’t limited…
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Correction — Destroying the Legacy
The original article is here. There I wrote: For now, those improvements, reportedly, led the Russian MIC to think about restoring the production of the past generation infantry combat vehicles (IFV). By “past generation” I get it means BMP-2, since BMP-3 is still theoretically in production, and the new generation IFV is still nowhere to…
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Possible New Iranian Types of Drones to Enter Russian Army Service — a Commentary on Rybar’s article.
There is a speculatory post on Rybar’s Telegram channel, celebrating the rumors of possible new types of Iranian drones to be purchased by Russian MoD. It talks about two types of drones, the long, ~2,000 km range drone with simple valve motor propeller engine, and an Iranian clone of the US-made Switchblade tactical drones. The…
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The State of Russian Army — Back to the USSR
In last days I saw three articles on BMPD (a Russian CAST military “think-tank”) Telegram channel: T-62 main battle tank (entered service in 1961) Let’s start with the first article. T-62 is a second post-WWII generation MBT. It succeeded the first past-war generation T-54/55. In turn, it was followed by the third generation T-64 and…
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Russian Military Usage of the Iranian Drones
We see Russian Army started to use Iranian drones Shahed-136 (dubbed “Geran’-2” in Russian service) on regular basis. Those drones are now used as cheap cruise missiles. They don’t have an imaging sensor, so they cannot be used for reconnaissance or for autonomous target detection. Instead, they rely on a GPS navigation, which, as I…
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Su-75* “Checkmate” Update
* Su-XX is a Russian Airforce (RuAF) designation for in-service aircraft designed by the Sukhoy bureau. Since the “Checkmate” haven’t entered the RuAF service, it cannot be officially designated as Su-XX by the Russian military. This is an industry invented designation made to look like the RuAF designation for the advertisement purposes. The latest word…
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