A Chinese company, North Heavy (Shenyang) Aviation Equipment Co., Ltd., has unveiled a new ND MINI reconnaissance-strike drone with vertical takeoff capability.
Its cylindrical body with foldable arms makes the drone highly compact: 65 mm in diameter and 350 mm in height.
1/ This allows a single soldier to carry up to four UAVs at once.
The ND MINI has a maximum speed of 90 km/h, a control range of 4 km, and a payload capacity of 400 grams. Claimed strike accuracy is within 1 meter, with an effective damage radius of up to 10 meters.
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2025 became a record year for international security assistance to Ukraine.
🇺🇦managed to secure more than $45bill in aid — the highest amount since the start of the fullscale war and nearly 30% more than last YR.
The key areas of support in 2025 were:
🔹 weapons and ammunition
1/ 🔹development of air and missile defense systems;
🔹 investments in joint production and procurement for Ukraine’s defense industry;
🔹 training, repairs, technical support, and logistics.
More than $6bill was allocated to the development of Ukraine’s defense industry,
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Butusov about the situation in Kupyansk:
"On Christmas, operations were underway in Kupiansk. 🇺🇦 soldiers are clearing the city house by house despite fierce enemy resistance.
Putin and Gerasimov—who claimed the city had been captured—are nowhere to be found. Putin even said
1/ he would invite foreign journalists to Kupiansk, but he lied about that too: both russian generals and Zbloggers are afraid to come here.
ruSSian soldiers are hiding in basements like rats, avoiding open movement. Heavy,painstaking work is underway to locate and eliminate them
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Ukraine’s Minister of Defense, Denys Shmyhal, announced the signing of agreements with Germany on military cooperation worth more than €1.2 billion, funded by German financing. In total, Germany has committed to providing Ukraine with €11.5 billion in military aid in 2026.
1/ The largest of the signed agreements is Germany’s €750 mill financing for the production of 200 Ukrainian 155mm Bogdana SPHs, on a new Mercedes-Benz Zetros chassis. At present, the Bohdana SPHs are produced on the Tatra 158 Phoenix (4.0) and the Tatra T815-7 chassis (3.0).
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Remember the accident at the Baikonur launch pad? There’s an update.

Text from Russian sources:

"The cabin fell because the “stoppers were not secured.” Why? That’s still the main question. The higher-ups were warned that there was a serious problem and tried to secure it,
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https://twitter.com/TheDeadDistrict/status/1994257901112709537

but due to misalignment, the cabin couldn’t be fixed. Officially, of course, nothing is being communicated since the commission is still investigating (within the expected timeline).
In other words, the cabin crew warned that the stoppers weren’t in place, but were still given
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A gunner of a ruSSian T-80BVM talks about the quality of his tank:

"About the BVM — like about the dead: either speak well, or not at all… The situation is like with the AK-12 — something that looks quite good on paper, but the quality of execution… bolts made of silumin,
1/ they break instantly, and you’re afraid to even tighten them.
The electronics are buggy, acting on their own.The components — pure luck.I wasn’t lucky: the hydraulics in the turret started leaking as soon as the vehicle rolled off the trailer.And it’s still leaking to this day
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Project "Hochu Zhit" publisher the names of the 2000 Dead GRU Spetsnaz Soldiers

"We continue to study the losses of the ruSSian army in Ukraine. Earlier, we published a small list of those killed from elite SF centers such as Kubinka, Senezh, and several others.
1/ Now we are publishing a list of those killed from the GRU, Navy, and Ground Forces special units.
The list is not complete and reflects only part of the losses from the beginning of the 🇷🇺 invasion to March 2025. It includes 2285 servicemen, most of whom were Spetsnaz soldiers
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A small UPD about the Pokrovsk direction by Kindratyuk
"Well, the situation near Pokrovsk is once again gradually turning critical.
ruSSians has re-occupied Kotlyne and Udachne (yet again) and is moving toward the Pokrovske mine management area — the very same coking coal mine
1/ They enter the mine’s territory in small groups but fail to hold positions for long, as they are quickly eliminated. Still, these are worrying signs.

In the southern part of the city, the occupiers constantly infiltrate the southern neighborhoods in small groups, taking
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“We Had None, Today We Have a Surplus”: Zelenskyy on Ukraine’s Artillery Comeback.
President Zelenskyy reflected on 🇺🇦 progress in overcoming past shortages of artillery and ammo, noting that the country has gone from having almost none to producing its own systems in surplus
1/ Zelenskyy made this statement in an interview on Oct 9.
“For exple, when we had major problems w/ artillery—at one point, we simply had none—we started using other means,” he said -Today we have artillery systems that we manufacture ourselves; we already have a surplus of them
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The War Zone has published an interesting interview with Andriy Hertsenyuk, the new head of Ukraine’s state defense technology cluster Brave1, regarding ongoing efforts to develop indigenous air defense systems.

According to him, a missile program was launched in 2024, and
1/ currently dozens of companies are working on missiles of various classes, particularly surface-to-air. Several companies already have ready-made solutions undergoing testing at proving grounds and, in some cases, under combat conditions. At least some interceptors designed to
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🇷🇺 banks have reduced lending by more than 4 times in the first half of the year, from 11 trillion to 2.5 tn.

But at the same time, they have sharply increased the purchase of federal bonds, from 0 to 1.2 tn ₽.

Banks have started lending for government debt!

What it means⤵️

https://twitter.com/evgen1232007/status/1949141531090112609

What’s Happening with Russian Banks?

❗️1. Lending has crashed

Banks gave out 4 times less money in loans this year.

That means businesses and people are not borrowing, and banks are afraid to lend.

It’s a sign the economy is in big trouble.

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The 1st documented use of the M712 Copperhead 155mm shell by the ZSU.
- Unit - SOF
- Location - Kursk
- Target - communication tower (between the Pravda and Martinivka settlements)
- Aiming device - a Leonardo's Type 163 LTD.
- Distance to the target 2256 meter.
- Gun - M777.
1/ - The 1st round - direct hit to the target (most antennas were damaged or destroyed)
- The 2nd round - direct hit, the tower was partially leaning
- The 3rd round - missed its target, reason - seeker's malfunction
The M712 is a ShCh round, so it was unable to destroy the tower
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According to our various sources, France will supply between twelve and twenty Mirage 2000-5Fs to war-torn Ukraine next year. The Minister of the Armed Forces has targeted the first quarter, i.e. between January 1 and March 30, 2025.
1/ By then, the French teams must ensure the operational transformation of pilots and the advanced training of mechanics and gunsmiths. It is currently unknown whether one or more Mirage 2000B two-seaters will be integrated into the batch of aircraft supplied.
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K3 - South Korean Next Generation MBY.
K3 has traditional layout - a driver's compartment at the front, aturret in the center, and a rear-mounted powertrain.
Tank have 3 crew members - driver, commander, and gunner, all housed in an armored capsule located in front of the hull
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The unmanned turret is armed with a 130mm smoothbore cannon, capable of engaging targets up to 5km away. The tank is also equipped with multi-purpose ATGMs with a range of 8 km, including advanced modes for NLOS and BLOS engagements.
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The russian Army radio communication issue.
russian Army in AFVs uses three basic types of the radios:
- R-123 (Frequency range 27 - 51 MHz)
- R-173 (Frequency range 30 - 75,999 MHz)
- R-168 (Frequency range 30 - 107,975 MHz)
The first two can connected with the R-124 or R-174 tank internal phone. The third one is uses the R-184 AVSK (Аппаратура внутренней связи и коммутации - АВСК)

All these radios can't provide the good communication, first two are very old. The third one is the newest what the russian army has. It is digital and also has Frequency Hopping (FH) and this is the biggest problem of this radio - he can't use the FH to connected with the other old types of the russian army radios, for them it using open frequency, so it's the same shit with the old ones. In case the using the FH, it's also shit - is able to jump frequencies up to 100 hops per second. It's easily intercepted and jammed.
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For the last two years, the Russian army and volunteers have been trying to solve the problem with radio communications.
The army chose the R-187 Azart-BV radio (Frequency range 27 - 220 MHz; 220 - 520 MHz). As you can see on the image they trying to adapt these radio to the tank via these metallic construction and connection adapters for the headphones and antenna, but it's quite ineffective and army didn't get any result yet (radios aren't in service, or they are in very small numbers).
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The new Russian assault rifle AK-22, that feeds with 6,02×41 munintion.
1/ The "Concern Kalashnikov" during trials tested various types of the new munition. From L to R 6,7×45, 6,5×39 and 6,02×41.
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Optical sensors and other parts of the NLAW rocket. Your face when you fell into the hands of a Russian engineer.

#USArmy YPG tests cutting edge parachute system
The Rapid Rigging De-Rigging Airdrop System (RRDAS), which promises to get Soldiers out of a drop zone and into the fight with the equipment they need faster than ever.
1/ Conventional cargo payloads are typically cushioned with a honeycomb-like cardboard material between the vehicle or other heavy item and the steel palette that carries it from an aircraft to the ground. Even with good cargo parachutes and a perfect landing...
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It's not even very rare vehicle, it's the 🇷🇺 experimental Light Tactical Vehicle Scorpion LShA, that spotted in the 🇺🇦
The vehicle is manufactured by ZASHITA company and for the 1st time it's presented in 2012. Vehicle was equipped with Polish made diesel Andoria 0501 ADCR.
1/ Specification and images of Scorpion
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thedeaddistrict.blogspot.com/2012/05/2-kade…

A small treat about war logistics:
Because all comparing the war in Ukraine with WWI, I decided to provide a small data about the "Resources crisis" of the Entente.
1/ I just share the information from the great book "The Intimate Papers of Colonel House Volumes" by Seymour Charles.
Sadly I have only 3rd volume, in Russian, published in 1939 in USSR.
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The World’s War Machine Is Running Low on Ammunition
As Russia's invasion of Ukraine drags on, the two sides are using more shells than they can buy or produce—which means factories are becoming as critical as troops.
Via Bloomberg
1/ On an average day in #Ukraine, the opposing armies lob as many as 30K shells at one another. That’s more than 200K a week, almost 1mill a month—without including the bullets, land mines,hand grenades and other munitions being deployed as Putin’s invasion enters its second year
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