A new Russian air-launched cruise missile called “Izdeliye 30” has a jam-resistant 12-element “Comet-M12” CRPA satellite navigation system.
The estimated range of the new missile is 1,500 km, with a speed of 600–800 km/h, and an 800 kg warhead. 1/
Controlled Reception Pattern Antennas resist jamming by adjusting reception.
Using multiple elements, directions of lowest sensitivity (nulls) are aimed toward a jammer, while maintaining gain for GPS signals.
Adaptive beamforming defeats multiple jammers for stable reception. 2/
The new missile is apparently a cheaper analogue of the Kh-101 cruise missile for Tu-95 and Tu-160 bombers.
It has a composite body instead of aluminum, which makes it more suitable for mass production. 3/
Excerpts from a TV interview given by Kirill Budanov, the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.
“The [Russians'] achievements this winter in terms of territory are minimal. Probably the least compared to all other periods of all campaigns against Ukraine. 1/
“But it's also true that there's a factor of influence on society, primarily through attacks on energy. They were, let's say. And here they achieved significant success in that, not in terms of influencing society, but in terms of destroying our energy system.
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“But with the arrival of spring, this factor will gradually fade away.
Our military personnel are doing a titanic job, because 150 thousand and then 170 thousand troops, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, were concentrated on the Pokrovsky direction. 3/
“The D-30 battery received an order from the army commander to move forward because they weren't meeting the average distance from the front line. There's a certain distance in kilometers that the guns should be from the front line.
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“For our current tasks, our position is optimal and we can fire at targets of our unit.
There's an order, and we went to scout a new location. At a distance of 1.5 kilometers ahead, we found that there's simply no place to set up in the immediate area - …
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Following close on the heels of losing their Starlinks, the Russians are stunned and baffled at the abrupt throttling of the Telegram messenger app by the State, since it is used for a wide variety of critical military communications.
Blogger “Battle Unit” expresses it best: 1/
“From tomorrow, many units are being ordered to switch to MAX, close Telegram, and delete work channels, right up to completely deleting accounts. They promise checks, controls, and IT security.
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“Everything is abrupt, without a transition period, without a clear explanation, and without understanding what this will lead to.
And here the main question arises: who actually calculated the consequences?
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Russian politician and blogger Dmitry Rogozin continues his examination of “Madyar's” adoption of corporate practices and metrics instead of traditional military bureaucracy to achieve battlefield truth.
“In parallel, a large-scale management reform is being carried out. 1/
“Project management is being introduced, personal responsibility is being strengthened, transparent calculation of needs is being automated, redundant positions are being cut, and the role of analytics is being enhanced.
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“In essence, the Ukrainian leadership is striving to replace the traditional military bureaucracy with a corporate management model.
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FPV drones have risen from an obscure hobby of racing drones to the mass production of millions and dominance of the Ukrainian battlefield.
However, cheap but lethal FPVs are rapidly being assimilated by terrorist and separatist organizations, cartels, and criminal gangs. 1/
In the Sahel, al-Qaeda-linked Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) has used FPV drones armed with explosive warheads against fortified positions.
This marks a significant shift from indirect IED warfare to long-range precision-guided strikes. 2/
Other regional jihadist actors, including elements tied to Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and Boko Haram, have adopted similar FPV systems.
Commercial quadcopters have been adapted into guided kamikaze attack platforms. 3/
Russian blogger Dmitry Rogozin compares Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces Commander “Madyar’s” use of statistics-based management, transparency of data, and confirmed results of operations with the Russian inheritance from the Soviets of the “operational lie”: 1/
“In early 2026, one of the key commanders of the Ukrainian drone units, … Brody-Madyar, published a programmatic text in which he detailed his vision of the development of the war against Russia for the next year.
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“This material is noteworthy not for its grandiose slogans or emotional rhetoric, but for its pronounced pragmatism - today, for the readers of my Telegram channel, we will analyze it together with the head of the Unmanned Systems Service at the ‘Bars-Sarmat’..
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