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@GrandpaRoy2
🇨🇦 🇺🇦 Grandfather, OSINT of Ukrainian and Russian Telegram: FPVs, drone munitions, EW, landmines. ❤️my family (grandchildren!), reading, and Kaja Kallas.
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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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Apr 16 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
“We know where they are flying from, but there is nothing to kill with.”
The reduction in Russian FPVs is profound.
Ukraine is now producing millions of drones and some operators fly 15 missions a day, while a Russian operator says they get 10-15 FPVs per battalion per week.
1/ Russia still has an advantage in fiber optic FPVs in certain parts of the front, but very large numbers of Ukrainian FO FPVs are due by the end of May.
Ukraine is already extending the range of FPVs with big FO FPVs with powerful warheads.
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Apr 16 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
The Ukrainian fighter FPV system targeting reconnaissance UAVs is well ahead of Russia's.
Blogger Alexander Karchenko on Russian attempts to catch up:

“It should be noted that the Russian army is working on the implementation of ‘small air defense’.
1/ “The problem of anti-aircraft FPV-enemy was perceived at the very top. Crews appear in units, equipment is tested on the front lines. Ukrainian radars have become priority targets.
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Apr 14 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Russian blogger Svyatoslav Golikov (“Philologist in Ambush”) quotes a report from a soldier on how Russia continues to fall farther behind in drone warfare.

“‼️ Signal from the ground from a comrade from an ordinary Russian people's (motorized) rifle regiment (I quote):
1/ Image “There are a few thoughts on our Pokrovsky direction. I don't know about other units, but it's as if we stopped at the situation from a year ago, when we were mastering the Mavics and the FPV.
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Apr 13 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A Russian blogger reports on surveys of Ukrainian POWs on what Russian weapon systems they do or do not fear.

“Surveys of captured crests show a general picture of the effectiveness of using various weapons.
1/ “Our Ukrainian partners claim that at the front, as a rule, they are not afraid of aviation.
In the close rear, units are scattered in small groups in houses, apartments, dugouts, where aerial bombs practically do not fall.
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Apr 10 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Russian journalist Alexander Kharchenko on the impact of the first Russian fiber optic FPVs model, “Prince Vandal Novgorodsky.”

“There are guys who are destined to go down in history. Footage from the Kursk village of Giryi blew up the Internet.”
1/ Image “Then a column of NATO armored vehicles was unwound by the Anvar unit, and they even showed footage of the destruction in HD quality, which had not been seen before in the Russian segment of the Internet.
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Apr 8 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Ukrainian intelligence reports on the shift to Chinese electronics in critical components of “Shahed” strike UAVs.

"The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has recorded significant changes in the composition of the electronic components …
1/ Image “…of the kamikaze drones of the Russian Armed Forces "Shahed/Geranium", used to bypass electronic countermeasure systems.
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Apr 8 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
The Russians hate and fear the nocturnal “Baba Yaga”, their name taken from a fearsome witch in Slavic folklore for Ukraine’s large drones that bomb and burn their dugouts and precision mine their roads.
Here are four of these howling multi-rotor nightmares of the night.
1/ Image The “Vampire” is a formidable hexacopter adapted from an agricultural drone by the Ukrainian company Skyfall.
With an anti-jamming GPS system, it can carry 15kg up to 10km, allowing heavy bombs or multiple anti-tank landmines to be precision-dropped behind Russian lines.
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Apr 7 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Russian blogger Roman Alekhine on the Ukrainian UAV strikes on Russia's only maker of fiber optic cable.

“We have lost the only Russian manufacturer of optical fiber. We have lost it because our skies have not been closed due to insufficient actions to counter enemy UAVs, …
1/ “…about which dozens and hundreds of posts and letters with justifications have been written, and because in our management there continues to be what Dmitry Medvedev once called "discrepancies".
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Apr 5 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The Ukrainian FPV with radio direction finding has generated much discussion among the Russians about both emulating and countering it.
From blogger “Not Athlete” (Не*Атлет):

“Integrating electronic reconnaissance equipment into FPV drones usually comes down to installing…
1/ Image “…compact receivers for signal analysis — for example, to detect Wi-Fi, radio channels or GPS.
To achieve this result, you need to:

▪️First, select the equipment.
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Apr 3 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Milblogger “Russian Engineer” recognizes the success of Ukraine's campaign against fixed-wing reconnaissance UAVs and the consequences for the Russian summer offensive.
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[Zala-16] “The threat to our reconnaissance UAVs is extremely serious, and although half a year has passed since the start of the use of this new tactic by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, basically all the measures were of a passive defense nature.
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Apr 2 • 15 tweets • 4 min read
Russian Telegram blogger Alexei Zhivov on combating Ukrainian FPV drones.

“3/4 of injuries and deaths at the front are caused by drones. Equipment worth tens of millions of rubles is destroyed by devices worth tens of thousands of rubles.
1/ “Drones dictate changes in transport and weapons

The changes in real (not paper-regulatory) orders at the front are colossal. All modern infantry fighting vehicles, armored vehicles, etc. have become a thing of the past or have already burned down at the front.
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Mar 31 • 17 tweets • 5 min read
Russian blogger “Philologist” (Svyatoslav Golikov) on Ukraine’s dominance in FPV drones.

“On March 27, in a commentary to the information portal, Major General of Aviation Sergey Lipovoy noted that in mass attacks by aerial drones on our territory, …
1/ NEWS.ruImage “…the Ukrainian Armed Forces use the tactic of a thousand cuts. At the same time, he emphasized: ‘The drone itself is a very serious weapon, it has already revolutionized the tactics of modern combat... And if it is not prevented, it can cause a lot of serious damage…
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Mar 28 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
A Russian blogger favorably compares Ukrainian battalions to Russian ones.

“1. Battalions in the brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are independent tactical units permanently, and not only in wartime.
1/ Image “They have their own reconnaissance platoon, for example, their own engineer-sapper platoon, their own fire support company and two mortar batteries. Not to mention the battalion UAV operators.

2. Battalions have not one, but two mortar batteries.
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Mar 28 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
The Ukrainian PPTM anti-tank landmine fabricated by “Madyar’s” drone Brigade is derived from the Russian PTM-3.
The PPTM has a central tube containing two electric detonators that are initiated simultaneously by the “Jonik” magnetic-influence fuze.
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Image This design reflects that of the Soviet era PTM-3 that uses a detonation cord from the fuze that leads to a booster at each end of the landmine.
Both designs result in an explosion that moves from the ends to the middle, forming a linear shaped-charge.
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Mar 26 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
According to “Russian military doctors of the Russian Defense Ministry:
More than 75% of all injuries to Russian soldiers received during trench warfare are caused by attacks by Ukrainian UAVs.
1/ Image “Another 20% of the soldiers surveyed were injured as a result of artillery shelling, 4% - from small arms.
The drones also affected the time it took to evacuate the wounded for surgical care. It increased threefold - to 14.5 hours.”

The war has turned into a war of FPVs.
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Mar 23 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
A short primer on four EW questions by Ukraine’s “Victory Drones”.

“⁉️the enemy has switched to other frequencies
⁉️the drone will arrive on optics
⁉️drones with AI are controlled "themselves"
⁉️we turn on the frequencies that we see on the screen of the drone detector.
1/ Image “1️⃣ frequency relevance. Yes, the enemy is using new frequencies, but the old ones have not gone anywhere. For example, the frequency of 915 MHz, with which FPV began, is still relevant and is used by both the enemy and our side.
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Mar 21 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Now a sixteen-antenna circular CRPA satellite navigation system has been recovered from a Russian “Shahed-136” UAV.
This device may have considerable resistance to Ukrainian GPS/GLONASS electronic warfare jamming.
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Image Ukraine has made significant progress in jamming the 8-antenna “Cometa-M” CRPA, when it is mounted on UMPK heavy glide bomb kits.
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