Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Poor-quality and 'fake' electronic warfare equipment is costing the lives of Russian soldiers, say angry Russian warbloggers. A gory video shows a Russian soldier on an ATV being eviscerated by a Ukrainian drone despite the presence of what is said to be a fake EW system. ⬇️

2/ The extremely graphic video shows two soldiers on an all-terrain vehicle which has a frontally mounted EW system with four prominent antennas. It is of no benefit to them, as a drone hits the driver in the chest, decapitating and eviscerating him.

3/ The provision of EW systems is often organised by soldiers themselves from their own salaries, or by volunteers, as the Russian MOD fails to provide men with essential equipment. However, warbloggers say that EW manufacturers rip off soldiers with poor-quality systems.

4/ 'Reporter Filatov' comments: "What is on the video is not EW, but a piece of shit... any specialist will tell you by the antennas. Specifically a specialist, and not a middleman who does not even understand how it works, they need to be shown this... And then punished."

5/ 'Archangel Spetsnaz' says that the video "shows what the greed of disrespected EW manufacturers and the re-sticking of nameplates from one device to another with the words "new development" and the appointment of a new price leads to."

6/ "There would be no questions about this approach if the products supplied to our soldiers were truly reliable and saved lives, and not vice versa.

7/ "In practice, we regularly encounter the fact that soldiers are forced to spend time correcting the mistakes of manufacturers and suppliers. Time that they often do not have.

Moreover, it is not just negligence that is behind this – it is human lives that are behind this.

8/ "Every unfinished unit, every poorly soldered wire, every untested module or antenna is potentially someone’s death. This is not household appliances, where you can justify yourself with 'serial defects' or 'human factor'. Here the price of an error is irreparable."

9/ 'Reporter Filatov' makes some more general recommendations:

"If the command is not a bunch of idiots, then it is obliged to know the radio situation on its section of the front."

10/ "The SIGINT and EW service in the 21st century should be present at the battalion level... since attacks are carried out in groups of 3-6 people on equipment by a separate platoon.

11/ "And before sending the guys on the offensive.. checking the EW for operability is mandatory.. and the SIGINT service.. is generally the most important to know what frequencies the enemy flies on in the [area of operations]!" /end

Sources:
🔹 t.me/rusich_army/24…
🔹 t.me/filatovcorr/53…