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🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Grandfather, OSINT of Ukrainian and Russian Telegram: FPVs, drone munitions, EW, landmines. ❤️my family (grandchildren!), reading, and Kaja Kallas.
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May 28 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
An excerpt from Russian blogger “Philologist” argues that maneuver with masses of “fat” vehicles is being replaced by highly mobile, precision-strike drones.

“The issue of massing forces and assets in the direction of the main attack, I believe, requires a certain rethinking.
1/ Image “Speaking about massing, in my opinion, it makes sense to focus on the concentration of highly mobile and high-precision strike assets (strike drones, loitering munitions, frontline aviation with guided munitions) with appropriate reconnaissance support, …
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May 26 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
A summary by @YigalLevin of an article from the IDF magazine “Maarachot” on the FPV revolution in military affairs.

“FPV kamikaze (hereinafter simply FPV) is not another new approach or weapon, it is a revolution in military affairs. Old doctrines no longer work.
1/ Image “NATO generals have yet to grasp the full depth of the changes. The only ones who are improving in the field of FPV today are the armies of Ukraine and Russia.
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May 24 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Russian blogger “Zhivoff” admires the Ukrainian distributed digital system of 3D printing for military components.

“Our enemy has created a unique distributed production cluster in which there is a place for every household in Ukraine. By the way, this is real digitalization.
1/ “If you want to help the army and live off it - no problem. Two clicks on the website, three assembly schemes, four boxes with components, and now you are helping the Armed Forces of Ukraine for your own benefit.
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May 23 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
While the Russians are unhappy about having to switch from the Mavic 3 to the Mavic 4, this blogger acknowledges that Russia does not have the capacity to make a domestic equivalent.

“I will comment on the thesis about the possibility of producing a ‘domestic Mavic’.
1/ Image “The DJI Mavic drone is a very complex device. Starting from the data exchange protocol and adaptive radio signal modulation and ending with the body made with the highest precision.
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May 22 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Interesting Russian Telegram post on their cybersecurity recommendations.

“❗️MEMO FOR FRONTLINE SOLDIERS❗️

Warrior! Maintain digital hygiene!

✔️use an Android phone with firmware not tied to the Google ecosystem (for example, Crdroid)
1/ Image “✔️ remove applications from your phone that work in the foreign computer intelligence system "PRIZM": WhatsUp, Facebook, Instagram, Signal

✔️ turn off location determination in emergency cases, geolocation, location refinement via GSM and Wi-Fi networks
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May 22 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Russian blogger “Professor [Dmitriy] Vinnik” reports on survivors from battles near Toretsk and Orekhovo describing devastating “clouds” of Ukrainian drones.

“Today I interviewed quite a few wounded who survived the battles near Toretsk and Orikhovo.
1/ “They all say similar things: clouds of drones and cluster munition strikes. One group of 6 people counted about a hundred Mavics with drops and the same number of FPV-kamikazes, which they call ‘hysterics’, in 5 days.
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May 21 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Ukrainian blogger “Sharp Hat” on Russian motorcycle assaults.

“The pressure of the Russian troops in the Donbas is noticeably increasing. Assaults on motorcycles are actively used. This is far from a new tactic, it involves great losses, but it still has certain results.
1/ Image “For example, 20 motorcycles are riding, some of them are destroyed by artillery, some by drones, someone is eliminated by mining, and someone else is still taken out by our infantry in a gun battle.
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May 21 • 16 tweets • 4 min read
Ukrainian drone leader “Madyar” forcefully explains how Russia must be stopped by expending drones and not soldiers.

“Below is my option for stopping the enemy's advance and preserving the infantry.

Rhetorical ‘what to do?’
1/ “I propose the formula "counting the yobbleks". The current base of PtakhivM. We live and fight by it.

Axiom:
to destroy the LIVE force of the enemy. WITH DRONES, not in hand-to-hand combat.
To shred in industrial volumes.
I will briefly justify.
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May 20 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
The Russians are concerned about having to switch to the Mavic 4 and ultimately lose their spare parts, modifications, firmware and repair expertise for Mavic 3.
A blogger says:

“How some units got into the ‘trap’ of the Mavic 3 UAV (as well as the Mavic 3 T and pro).
1/ Image “It is no secret that in the Russian Armed Forces, the main workhorse for observation, reconnaissance, adjustment and "bombing" is the Mavic 3 and derivatives of this series.
Why is this - availability, maintainability, the ability to roll firmware…
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May 17 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Russian blogger “Reporter Filatov” on how Russian Generals and the military-industrial complex cannot understand FPVs and the small drone warfare revolution.

“About FPV and that the world will never be the same.
1/ “There is [a] stereotype among the technical intelligentsia, allegedly, some high-ranking generals consider FPV a temporary problem, that the regulations are not outdated and are quite consistent with the realities of the modern battlefield.
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May 15 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Russian blogger “Unfair Advantage” describes the tactics of combining FPVs with an infantry assault.

“Accompanying an attack with UAV strikes.

Due to systematic and unanswered UAV strikes over a long period of time, soldiers begin to hide from the sound of UAVs alone…
1/ Image "…and do not leave cover for a long time. Drones are usually heard but not seen. They are difficult to detect without special equipment.
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May 12 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Russian blogger “Evil Sailor” believes that Ukraine is much better organized for drone warfare.

“AND WE HAVE TRAFFIC JAMS IN THE AIR!

The number of FPVs in the sky, on both sides, is only growing.
The enemy divides pilots in their squads by functionality: …
1/ “kamikazes, miners, repeaters, reconnaissance, bombers, wing hunters, fighters, etc.
We also have such pilots, but the non-brothers are one step ahead.
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May 11 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
Russian milblogger “ Atomic Cherry” is very impressed with Ukraine's new Direct Action Marketplace linking military units and defense manufacturers.

“1) Forming an "interface" for interaction between a soldier and military bureaucracy through an analogue of in-game stores…
1/ Image “…is an extremely interesting and high-quality idea from the point of view of sociology and psychology. Mass armies always consist of former civilians; accordingly, the army system should also adapt to formats that are intuitively understandable to non-professional soldiers.
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May 8 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Russian blogger “Vault 8” describes how the dominance of Ukrainian reconnaissance and FPV drones extends 25km deep from the front line.

“When they talk about the horrors of the front, they all concern the attack aircraft on the front line.
1/ “What part of the personnel, according to observations, constantly risks their lives?
Now, everyone who is within 25 km of the LBS. The crests have established such a regime of reconnaissance and kamikaze strikes that if you simply drive on any roads, you risk your life. 2/
May 4 • 4 tweets • 4 min read
The Russian “Black Eye” EW system that jams FPV and Mavic video is now in mass production and is appearing across the whole front.
This is a serious development for Ukraine as one system can shut down radio drone operations across an area of 2-4 km when located high enough.
1/ Image Ukrainian EW expert Serhii “Flash” has just published an (unrestricted) manual on “Black Eye.”
He emphasizes that the system must have line-of-sight to Ukrainian drone operator video receivers many km away, and so the distinctive antennas will be located as high as possible.
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Apr 30 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Russian blogger MultiXAM analyzes Ukrainian drone tactics.

“The formation of separate battalions, regiments and brigades of unmanned systems (UAS) in the structure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in 2024 allowed the enemy to bring the use of UAVs to a systemic level.
1/ “In those areas where the configuration of the UAS has not changed significantly during the year, the enemy equips positions for round-the-clock surveillance using video cameras, optical-electronic means, thermal imagers, tied to forward control posts.
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Apr 29 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Russian blogger “Atomic Cherry” warns that as the war grinds on with no conventional resolution, there will eventually be large-scale chemical or pollutant attacks.

“The search for a military-technical solution, however, has also been in a dead end for a long time now.
1/ Image “The reasons for this are quite prosaic: firstly, the general scientific, technical and industrial degradation of the post-Soviet space, which results in the inability to develop and produce new types of classic weapons…
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Apr 25 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
Telegram blogger “Russian_FPV” reveals more barriers to developing a Russian heavy drone “Baba Yaga” fleet like Ukraine's.

“Dear and respected commentators, who write and present us with charges for using Chinese components every day, this post is for you.
1/ Image “Let's start with the fact that yes, we, like many other UAV manufacturers, use cameras, flight controllers and GPS systems produced by craftsmen from the Middle Kingdom. And we do it consciously.
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Apr 24 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
Maria Berlinska on the Ukrainian lack of “Middle Strike” capabilities compared to huge sums spent on “Deep Strike.”

“We don't think about war mathematically.
That's why huge budgets are invested in Deep Strike, the effectiveness of which is now literally a few percent.
1/ “Because we think cinematically, in pictures: we ‘know how it burns in Russia’. Even if we spent hundreds of millions, and burned 10-15.
This does not mean that Deep Strike is not needed.
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Apr 22 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The Russians claim to have used new tactics in their latest “Shahed” attack on Odesa.
Arriving UAVs circled the city at high altitude until all were present, and attacked together in order to saturate Ukrainian air defenses.
1/ They also claim that reconnaissance UAVs had arrived first over the city to expose the location of the air defenses and conduct additional reconnaissance, and that this information was used to modify the “Shahed” flight profiles.
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Apr 19 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Russian blogger “Veteran's Notes” laments that Ukrainian dominance in FPVs frustrates any assault.

“Without a systemic solution to the problem of countering fpv drones, any maneuvers, especially in the offensive, will either be doomed to failure, …
1/ “…or the result will be minimal and with disproportionate losses. The enemy has learned well to use its, to date, only advantage in the form of small UAVs. Today, we are lagging behind the enemy both in the production and use of drones of this type.
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