Observateur d'activités humaines de nature violente. Accessoirement Ingénieur.
Aug 3 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
VKS's Military Transport Aviation and Ukraine's Long Range Strike campaign.
As the pressure has been growing ever since Ukraine carried it's first long range drone attacks December 2022, Russia has chosen to move its air assets away from the threat.
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From approximately second half of 2023, VKS started massively moving its MTA assets eastwards.
Most airbases considered within reach of Ukraine Long Range Drones have seen their share of Military Transport Aircraft severly reduced or completely gone.
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Nov 24, 2024 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Radio-Technical Regiment Statistics of the Russian Aerospace Forces (non-strategic).
In this thread, I will present you statistics about the composition of Radio-Technical Regiments tasked with Air Space Surveillance and Combat Training.
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There are 948 Radars in both Radio Technical-Regiments, Test Centers, Training Centers and waiting delivery in Factories.
20 different radar systems are in operation in those units facilities. A good share are from the 1970's although modernised.
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Sep 29, 2024 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
Russian Aerospace Forces Air Defence Reserves.
A Thread.
Like I promised earlier this week. I will deal with the current state of Aerospace Forces PVO Reserves.
Most of these inactive systems are stored in private companies repair factories, others in Technical Bases.
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Installations hosting inactive units are:
In Private Companies:
- 502 Factory for Repair of Military-Technical Property.
- 1015 Factory for Repair of Military-Technical Property.
- 1019 Military Repair Plant.
- Khabarovsk Radio Engineering Factory.
In a previous thread, we talked about the 75th Arsenal being mainstay of PVO Reserves.
Other installations, GRAU Arsenals and Artillery Reserve Bases are also storing AD Systems.
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Those Installations are:
- 8th Arsenal
- 40th Arsenal
- 80th Arsenal
- 94th Arsenal
- Arsenal of MU 59313-46
- 216th Storage and Repair Base
- Artillery Storage Base of MU 55472
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Aug 12, 2022 • 21 tweets • 7 min read
Pourquoi les russes ont-ils mis des réflecteurs radars sur le pont Antonovsky à Kherson ? Pour se protéger des missiles de fabrication américaine. Mais il y a un hic. A Thread
Le hic majeur est que ce dispositif est adapté uniquement pour un certain type de missiles, les missiles fournis actuellement par les américains (GMLRS) sont principalement guidés par GPS.