Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Something that some may find amusing, this is a scene from the 2005 film "Lord of War" starring Nicholas Cage (It's a dramatized story of a real life Soviet arms dealer who sold off tons of hardware during the fall of the USSR and during the 90s).

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The scene is shot in the Czech Republic and the tanks in the film were real, because hiring them for the day from a Czech arms dealer was cheaper than paying for CGI. But in addition to that the tanks in this scene were sold to Libya where they took part in the civil war, before most of them were purchased from Libya by the USA, sent back to the Czech Republic for refurbishment then sent to Ukraine to fight Russians.

Another comical note from the film is that the AK's in the film are actually Czech SA-Vz rifles, which are also real as they were cheaper than AK props.
 
video has just appeared on Twitter with m2 Bradley aiming through its night vision sights and destroying Russian vehicles at long range
 
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Harlequin said:
British soldier in that video - iirc its the training ground in Dorset (Bovvy)
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The hedge row looks much more like Dorset/Somerset border area than typical for Ukraine though that doesn't mean much.

CaptainRAVE said:
Sounds like Ukraine are having a lot of success at night, Russia have little to counter them with.
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IIRC the Russian helis and SU-25 also have impacted range at night with anti-tank weapons.

EDIT: Yeah Vikhr effective range is sub 5km at night.
 
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bingham67 said:

Hopefully more and more can be taken out quite a lot of videos in the last week causing problems for Ukraine :(
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Interesting that the Ukrainians and even the MoD were making a lot of noise about the (genuine) issues those Ka's were causing. Almost like, 'oh noes, those terrible things - we can't do anything about them...'
Suddenly 4 of them knocked out of the sky in a couple days. Sucker punch.

Be interested to know how they are getting them. Assuming they are and it's not hopium/copium or whatever the reddit kids are calling it.
 
Grim5 said:
Kremlin's spokesperson Dmitri Peskov says one of Russia's goals for the war has been achieved. He says Russia wanted Ukraine to no longer have Soviet weapons and currently that has been achieved as Ukraine is fighting mostly with western weapons, all the Soviet weapons are used up so Ukraine is now demilitarised

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Man that is Roar/Elon levels of copium! Hats off for that 4D chess. Good job lads!
 
Washout said:
Interesting that the Ukrainians and even the MoD were making a lot of noise about the (genuine) issues those Ka's were causing. Almost like, 'oh noes, those terrible things - we can't do anything about them...'
Suddenly 4 of them knocked out of the sky in a couple days. Sucker punch.

Be interested to know how they are getting them. Assuming they are and it's not hopium/copium or whatever the reddit kids are calling it.
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There was a report issued by the Ukrainian MoD a year or so back that showed how the Ka-52 can be knocked out of the sky with 7.62 despite their armour being rated by Russia as being able to take hits from, and survive, 12.7mm.
 
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The threat from the KA-52’s is that they can hover out of the normal range of MANPADS like Stinger, Grom, Igla etc, and use their EO sensors to lob Vikhir ATGM’s from 12km out. I’m wondering whether there has been already, or there will be soon, an air-air kill using an FPV suicide like Switchblade or similar?
 
Mercenary Keyboard Warrior said:
Not sure if it counts as an attack so will not post

Ruskies sent a T54/55 towards the Ukrainians stuffed full of TNT or similar. It hits a mine and stops
Then its hit with a RPG type thing and the explosion is insane!

I suspect they are getting desperate now
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Jesus I hope they were in cover for that explosion, at that range the blast wave isn't a joke at all!
 
Washout said:
Interesting that the Ukrainians and even the MoD were making a lot of noise about the (genuine) issues those Ka's were causing. Almost like, 'oh noes, those terrible things - we can't do anything about them...'
Suddenly 4 of them knocked out of the sky in a couple days. Sucker punch.

Be interested to know how they are getting them. Assuming they are and it's not hopium/copium or whatever the reddit kids are calling it.
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My bet is they are either moving infantry In light recon groups through a porous front and taking out these helicopters in places they thought were save or they are using the hvm Stormers that the British supplied with the starstreak mk2s as they are listed as having a range greater than 7kms.
 
The Funktopus said:
The threat from the KA-52’s is that they can hover out of the normal range of MANPADS like Stinger, Grom, Igla etc, and use their EO sensors to lob Vikhir ATGM’s from 12km out. I’m wondering whether there has been already, or there will be soon, an air-air kill using an FPV suicide like Switchblade or similar?
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ukraine have already achieved one air kill of a helicopter with artillery (yes, an artillery shell hit an helicopter while it was flying) - maybe they just need more heat seeking artillery shells lmao
 
Grim5 said:
ukraine have already achieved one air kill of a helicopter with artillery (yes, an artillery shell hit an helicopter while it was flying) - maybe they just need more heat seeking artillery shells lmao
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I remember reading something years ago from someone who IIRC flew helicopters, and it was some jokey comment along the lines of "it is contraindicated to fly through the same airspace as an artillery barrage". I'm guessing even if you just get hit by the shell and it doesn't go off it's likely to do nasty things to the blades/transmission/engine, whilst airburst rounds could be very unpleasant over a fairly large area for anything flying low.
 
The Funktopus said:
The threat from the KA-52’s is that they can hover out of the normal range of MANPADS like Stinger, Grom, Igla etc, and use their EO sensors to lob Vikhir ATGM’s from 12km out. I’m wondering whether there has been already, or there will be soon, an air-air kill using an FPV suicide like Switchblade or similar?
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I've seen this said a lot over the last few days but AFAIK the KA-50 series has a max effective range of about 8km (realistically 7-8km) with the Vikhir, maybe 8-10 with an experienced pilot and that can be sub 5km at night or depending on weather conditions. One thing they can potentially do due to being able to map targets from 20+km out is close to firing range and out run the max range of reactive return fire from shorter range air-defence systems (or manoeuvre out of effective line of sight).
 
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