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GTX said:
www.defense-aerospace.com

Norway Donates Cargo Carriers to Ukraine

OSLO --- Norway will donate approximately 50 tracked cargo carriers to Ukraine. "These are important to get supplies to areas where there are no roads,"...
www.defense-aerospace.com www.defense-aerospace.com
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This reminds me of the M548 or the Wehrmacht's Raupenschlepper.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ15uAi1WW4&pp=ygUTUmF1cGVuc2NobGVwcGVyIE9zdA%3D%3D

Germany should have had these, Maultiers and a whole lot more Sd.Kfz. 251 APCs from the onset of Barbarossa.
 
MiTasol said:
Also not strictly speaking linked to Ukraine but almost certainly because of the Russia/China aspects of the deal.

www.abc.net.au

Dutton dubs Labor scrapping billion-dollar military drone plan 'contemptible'

Australia quietly cancels plans to buy reconnaissance drones used by China and Russia under a $1 billion Navy project controversially approved just days before last year's election by then defence minister Peter Dutton.
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au

From my perspective buying a unit that is owned and operated by China so who can easily work out ways to hijack your units while in flight is just plain nuts.
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They're manufactured by an Austrian company, Schiebel, who sell them to China. The bid was for them to be manufactured jointly by Schiebel and Raytheon.
 
Ascent said:

View: https://twitter.com/ArmedMaidan/status/1704187669880750095?t=SghPNHDtEKdnfqNrG_O1bA&s=19

Interesting calculation on Russian casualties. Suggests that Ukraines figures are fairly accurate.
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260k dead Russians in nearly two years of fighting? That's a fortnight's tally on the Somme. The Ukrainians are going to have to kill four times this before the Kremlin has to worry about public disorder. It took three and a half years and 2.2 million dead in the First World War before the Russian people deposed the Tsar.

With about 700,000 in the AFU, most of the 11 million Ukrainians available for military service remain on a civilian footing. Unlike in Israel, where if the country is invaded it's considered a fight to the death and every adult man and woman outside of essential work is armed and ready to go. Yes, of course Ukraine's people still need to run the factories, farms, transport, schools, government, police, hospital and infrastructure, etc. as well as the civilian apparatus and logistics of supporting the armed forces. Nevertheless, the AFU will need to field one million men and women in frontline combat units, plus another million in uniform support roles before this is over.
 
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Russian losses have reportedly significantly increased in western Zaporizhia Oblast in recent days, and the Russian military likely struggles with a lack of available combat-effective units that the Russian command is willing to laterally redeploy to this sector of the front. Ukrainian Tavriisk Group of Forces Spokesperson Colonel Oleksandr Shtupun stated that Russian forces lost 313 personnel (likely a total of killed and wounded) in the Tavriisk direction on September 18, including western Zaporizhia Oblast. Shtupun stated that this is significantly higher than Russian losses during the previous two days when Russian forces lost roughly 200 personnel each day.[17] Shtupun stated that Russian Airborne (VDV) forces are conducting defensive operations in the Tavriisk direction (likely in western Zaporizhia Oblast) and that "Storm-Z" detachments with convict recruits have arrived to act as "cover" for VDV units, possibly referring to the need to cover the VDV units during a potential withdrawal.[18] ISW has previously observed elements of the 7th Guards Mountain VDV Division and 76th Guards VDV Division conducting counterattacks against Ukrainian forces in the Robotyne (10km south of Orikhiv) area, and ISW has previously assessed that these operations have likely degraded these VDV forces heavily.[19] "Storm-Z" detachments are often combat ineffective and will likely provide the Russian defense in western Zaporizhia Oblast with marginal combat power.

Institute for the Study of War

This page collects ISW and CTP's updates on the conflict in Ukraine. In late February 2022, ISW began publishing daily synthetic products covering key events related to renewed Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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