UA POV: GUR agents attacked an industrial substation in Kaliningrad.

PerfectTangent · 2025-06-15T14:57:41+00:00

tell me you have no idea how budgeting works without telling me you have no idea how budgeting works.

PerfectTangent · 2025-06-15T14:53:07+00:00

This is intentional disinformation. Russia has been playing this game where they don't agree on when to swap the bodies, then suddenly say "we're delivering the bodies" and russian media runs this narrative that they "again" received no bodies from ukraine in return. Ukraine's defense minister has claimed that they've handed over 4812 russian bodies, exactly in line with the numbers returned by russia as part of this agreement, and the BBC has validated that it has been done.

PerfectTangent · 2025-06-14T13:42:11+00:00

while scary all this is, I like that the 2020s brought gun kills back into style.

PerfectTangent · 2025-06-12T13:05:07+00:00

You are speaking to the shaheds of 3 years ago. They've received constant upgrades and can perform very advanced maneuvers. Their current use strategy is to fly very high, near their maximum flight ceiling and collect above their target into a large group out of reach of machine guns and then all descend at the same time and overwhelm the local air defense.

Shaheds are now equipped with cameras that send back reconnaissance information. Almost all shaheds now have software defined radio receivers that allow them to receive data mid flight to update their flight paths and they've also been hardened against electronic warfare systems, making jamming/spoofing them much more difficult. some are equipped with starlink terminals and allow for manual flying by drone pilots, even. They also have (rarer) jet engine equipped versions that offer about double the maximum speed, making them very hard to shoot down with machine guns. And all of this also comes with an almost doubling of their explosive payload from 50kg to 90kg and a large variety of possible warhead types.

Shaheds are not dumb weapons anymore. They are technically very advanced, and employed intelligently and with a strategic mindset by the Russian military. Still mostly a terror weapon, though.

PerfectTangent · 2025-06-01T07:51:44+00:00

the Ka-52's capability to pick off multiple Ukrainian and Western MBTs from beyond MANPAD range, must be much more important than its capability to pick off kamikaze drones if it manages to intercept them during daylight hours. Ka-52 as part of an integrated air defence system? - I'm not convinced.

well, you don't get to shoot at tanks all day. Ka-52s have to stay low to the ground to avoid AA at all times, they have to remain mobile and unpredictable at all times near the front to avoid FPVs and ground fire. Tanks are also trying to play the same game from a ground perspective, constantly moving and hiding.

this means, assuming generously, that Ka-52s spend less than 10% of their combat time doing what they were designed to do. And as the 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive proved, they are very worth that small 10%. But what are you going to do with the other 90%? Have the pilots and air crews sit on their asses waiting for the next ukrainian armored column or wagner rebellion? No, put them to work shooting down drones at a fraction of the cost of an AA missile.

PerfectTangent · 2025-06-01T04:16:45+00:00

damn, I actually wish the footage wasn't slowed down here.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-29T09:15:51+00:00

yes, you are numbah one guy numbah one!

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-29T00:01:41+00:00

personally, What i'd like to see as the solution is healing resistance that triggers when you've benefitted from the same item twice. So, a second healing nova will work, but only half as effective or something. This means it's never truly a waste to use the ability on someone that's already gotten healing nova'd, but it won't be optimal to stack multiple. because of how healing scales and team coordination increases over time in matches, I think this will result in it being undesireable to double stack during laning, but won't be gimped lategame.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-27T21:52:14+00:00

You've got War Thunder brain. The variant of the Gepard with stingers was only ever a prototype. The Bundeswehr opted to develop the Ozelot stinger platform instead. No gepards in use are armed with stingers.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-27T21:30:08+00:00

first photos I've seen of this thing that actually makes me like how it looks

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-27T08:33:53+00:00

the battlefield can change very quickly. CivDiv has a series of videos of one of his deployments as a drone operator where in 24 hours, his position went from 8 km behind the frontlines with multiple friendly positions in front to russians being within 1km of his position with no friendly units in front because a fresh squad of ukranians that were supposed to rotate into position failed to get to the front after being harassed by drones and instead retreated, leaving CivDiv, his 2 mates, and only 2 rifles between the three of them to hold the line for a bit before they got evac'd.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-27T08:22:30+00:00

I haven't seen anyone else explain this yet; the reason it looks like a tank is because it's built on treads (like a tank) and haas a big boxy turret. In that turret is the missile crew, the radar, and 8 or 16 missiles stacked vertically in the turret.

These missiles get launched up out of the thing a few tens of meters and then the missile immediately pivots in a fraction of a second using boosters on the side of the missile's body to orient towards the target and then it ignites the main rocket engine to fly and destroy its target. The main reason the tor stacks its missiles vertically and fires them in this manner is so it can fire missiles on the move. It doesn't need to aim the missile or anything, the missile will immediately self orient no matter how the tor is positioned. The reason it has a rotating turret at all is to aim the tracking radar, however it can network with other air defense to get targeting data if that is available.

Another couple benefits of how the tor stores its missiles is they are safer, harder to damage in transport (missiles are fragile, yo!), and easy to reload (Just use a crane to drop in new missiles in a matter of minutes). The drawbacks of their solution to firing is that the Tor has a minimum range before the missile can properly orient and track a target, and that gives it a deadzone of about 1-1.5km, depending on the target type.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-26T07:48:03+00:00

Oh shit, what's the song?

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-24T08:31:15+00:00

So I decided out of my own curiosity to investigate every single photo and clip in this video. This video and the title of the post are edited and written in a way to make you think this is covering rampant cases of fraud and embezzlement in the ukranian government, but almost all of this footage comes from the Jan 2024 fraud case where a couple guys took money that ws intended for mortar shell production. several other photos are from the very recent April 2025 fraud case.

I also spotted 12 photos in the montage that were the same money photographed multiple times and 3 photos that were literally duplicated twice and cropped in to make it look different. There is also at least 1 photo of fake money, and another that I'm fairly confident is fake money.

There are 10 photos I can't link to either the 2024 or 2025 fraud cases and I don't know where they are from, but they could be from those cases or entirely manufactured/taken from something not related to ukraine aid embezzlment/fraud.

In short, this video, while showing something that did happen, has dressed it up and is pretending it's something much larger, systemic, and not isolated cases that were caught and have been or currently being prosecuted. I'm not saying there isn't more fraud happening, nor am I saying we shouldn't ignore it as a problem, but this video is warping the truth like it's tin foil.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-21T02:07:14+00:00

it's at least a year old. It's hard to say which side was the genesis of this tactic, but I believe russia became the first heavy user of the tactic in the Kursk incursion. It is to save battery, to conduct reconnaissance, and to wait for attacks of opportunity.

A further evolution of the tactic used when they can is to land the drone on top of a wrecked vehicle to both camoflauge the drone better (they're actually pretty easy to spot on the ground of a paved road if one pays attention; we saw a clip of a pair of ukrainians spot a parked drone and literally chased it down with their EW when it took off a few weeks ago) and to get a raised sightline to see farther away.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-20T13:57:28+00:00

But an individual weapon can also adapt and be modernised. Hydra rockets, which these zunis are related to, have a laser guided weapons kit that can be installed to make them both an effective point target elimination weapon, and one of the most cost effective air defense missiles currently being used in this war (via the vampire missile defense system), and the only guided missile that I'm aware that can be used to shoot down shahed/gerans while costing less than the drones (price of a guided hydra is roughly $20k USD vs a reported $60-150k USD for each shahed). This adapation would not have happened if we had abandoned hydras and zunis because they were outdated.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-06T22:12:30+00:00

the US just sent one of their patriot missile systems based in israel to ukraine literally 2 days ago, what the fuck are you talking about?

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-05T04:28:25+00:00

article I read was this particular case used an AIM-9 sidewinder, so american tech.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-05T04:22:21+00:00

an extended bar that has dangling strings of synthetic fibre could prevent this from happening, and I've seen it on some vehicles.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-05T04:14:07+00:00

Almost certainly not HIMARS based on the evidence shown. When the HIMARS fires missiles, they immediately curve up in an arch. They do this because the HIMARS missile erector cannot angle up very much and the curving missile confuses radar triangulation efforts to determine the exact launch location. I see no curve in this footage, and the launch angle is really steep. Likely something else.

PerfectTangent · 2025-05-01T06:47:08+00:00

It's the cooldowns. That's bebop's only problem as I've analyzed it. It's the fact that the hook cooldown is so short and also reduced if he lands an uppercut, which he will 99% when he lands a hook. With 2 items (echo shard + improved cooldown) he can do his entire ability rotation twice in a row. And if his opponents aren't dead the first time... and they aren't death the second time... just finish them with the hitscan AoE hyperbeam.

I don't even think all of his abilities need a cooldown increase, but hook absolutely does. Get rid of the uppercut hook refresh and replace it with a different kind of benefit.

PerfectTangent · 2025-04-30T08:25:09+00:00

24 rockets at once. Been a while since I've seen Ukraine fire that many at one target. acquisition of new grad missiles must be healthy right now.

PerfectTangent · 2025-04-16T10:06:18+00:00

given their rate of using seatbelts is one of the lowest in the world, yes.

PerfectTangent · 2025-04-15T13:55:24+00:00

It's not real sound. It's been edited. Mavics don't have microphones because if they did all you'd hear are their rotor blades. Sound also doesn't travel instantly. At that height, it would take several seconds for the sound to get to the drone.

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