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Aug 25 • 5 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
1/ Telegram emerged early on in the Russia's invasion of Ukraine as the key source of open and largely unobstructed conversation and critique of the Russian military and its technology. So much so that the Russian government... finance.yahoo.com/news/telegram-…
2/ ...eventually tried to suppress, or at least significantly influence such critique by intimidating and coopting many key bloggers and correspondents. It remains a key platform and a source of data and information about this war.
3/ Additional context for Durov's arrest as more info will become available in the coming days
4/ A Russian military blogger on the role of Telegram in the war
5/ According to at least one Russian Telegram channel, "Russian officials in law enforcement agencies, the presidential administration, the Russian government, senior MOD levels and key businessmen have received an order to delete their official correspondence in Telegram." t.me/dva_majors/506…Image

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Aug 23
1/ QUICK TAKE: Russian deliberations on the "People's VPK" vs. traditional VPK (VPK stands for defense-industrial complex), a continuation of debates that I highlighted earlier from various Russian experts and volunteers. Main points below: Image
2/ "It so happened that in recent years I (Aleksey Rogozin) have been communicating daily with both private developers - startups, small design bureaus and inventors - and with the heads of Russia's large industrial enterprises supplying products under the state defense order."
3/ "Many private-sector and volunteer developers (including those supplying the front line with their products) literally despise the classic defense industry with its long R&D projects (experimental design work) and giant slow-working factories."
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Aug 19
1/ QUICK TAKE: A Russian TG commentary on how historical and personal interpretation of WW2 is affecting Russians society's and its military leadership's views on Ukraine combat. Main points translated below: t.me/russ_orientali…

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2/ "Many problems of a military and political nature are directly related to the cult of the Great Patriotic War (WW2). About 20s ago... I would not have said this, but now, from the height of my current experience, it is obvious."
3/ "The long-standing, almost religious, cult of (WW2) Victory is fixed in the consciousness of the broad masses of Russian people, and even the authorities - this image of war with mass casualties, destruction and abstract, poorly explained, ideological motives."
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Aug 10
1/ QUICK THEAD: Russia’s Aleksey Chadaev, a key promoter of “people’s VPK” on the “valley of death” for domestic volunteer drone development: “The problem is not that the “devils in uniforms(generals)” just want one drone supplier since…” t.me/chadayevru/3097
2/ “..,that is all they can handle and manage (a swipe at the Sudoplatov effort) - the problem is that domestic “garage manufacturers” cannot provide a technological ecosystem to support their drones that has the full cycle of technical, developmental…”
3/ “…software and other support alongside of training the pilots and operators and tech support specialists in their specific drone product. This is the “valley of death” not just for small developers in Russia, but also for some larger enterprises.”
Read 4 tweets
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Aug 9
1/ Russian military bloggers' continued attempt to understand Ukraine's successful "EW offensive": "What did our enemy do based on the knowledge of our modest capabilities in low-altitude air (drones, etc) and EW (on the Kursk border)? First, he developed a strategy ..." Image
2/ "...for the step-by-step advancement of his armored columns under his own EW coverage, while perfectly understanding that our drones in this direction would be few in numbers. Second, he did what we had only planned (but not executed)..."
3/ "(Ukr. military) closed all frequency control ranges (via EW), leaving only one or two frequencies for his drones. All of the enemy's low-altitude air (UAVs) was sent on a frequency against which we did not have EW stations, or they (EW) did not have time to reach the troops."
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Aug 6
1/ The Russian government and the MOD are making significant changes to its annual ARMY military forum and expo - the event will no longer feature regular visitors, but will be limited to the military, industry and foreign visitors from other countries' MODs. The event will...
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2/ ...also run for just 3 days rather than a week-long expo in years past. Unsurprisingly, ARMY-2024's main topic will be the war in Ukraine and technologies and systems deployed there or developed for this invasion. The Aug 12-14 forum will also feature volunteer R&D. Image
3/ Expect all kinds of quadcopters, UAVs, EW, CUAS, UGVs and related technologies to take center stage at this event. There will be open and classified discussions as well dealing with military tech, especially AI and ML.
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Jul 31
1/ THREAD: Yesterday, Russian Defense Minister Belousov's comments about how many drones are at the front caused a slight confusion. Russian state media outlet RIA first reported him saying that "domestic FPV drone production has grown to 4000 per day." But then...
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2/ ...RIA edited the original article so that he was quoted saying that the "number of FPV drones on the line of contact has sharply increased to 4000 per day" (see screenshots above). Russia's Lenta media outlet did not help either - it has him saying that every day, "4,000 FPV drones are delivered to the front in response to the wish of one of the soldiers to have a certain number of drones in each detachment."Image
3/ Russian military's bloggers seized on these numbers, assuming Belousov's original comment was the right one: "About 4,000 FPV drones delivered per day means a production rate of about 1.4 million drones per year. At the same time, if you divide this figure by the number..."
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