There were drones EVERYWHERE at DSEI. Air drones, land drones, sea drones and several systems to combat them. You can definitely see the direction that warfare is heading.
Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Wow. And it does appear to be the case.
"Headed."
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Really wanted to go this year. However, we had to prepare for a 3 Star visit on the project we are working on.
Still not sold on the ground drones yet. Concept is brilliant, execution so far has been somewhat disappointing. Everything I have seen used on the ground so far has been beset by reliability, communication and power issues. Its all good and well bringing all this new tech. None of the soloutions that I have seen demonstarted so far is seriously tackling the power/charging, logistics and maintenance burden.
Nice shiny on paper, but problematic, loud and just a hassle to work around in practice. I'm sure they will work out the balance in time.
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Are we getting other sources now?
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I see the Russian Embassy for UK is having fun on Twitter amplifying those calling out double standards between what Russia does and what Israel is doing
Just waiting battlefield mobile fabrication facilities..
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Russia didn't get thousands killed by the people right next door, and have the forces hiding amongst the civilians, and all the rocket launch positions on civilian infrastructure.I see the Russian Embassy for UK is having fun on Twitter amplifying those calling out double standards between what Russia does and what Israel is doing
There is a clear difference. Hell... Russia will just outright lie, so does it make a difference anyway?
(EDIT: I'm not super pro with them btw. A lot of their decisions and actions are questionable IMO. Likely a lot of countries would be the same if they were under constant attack from every side however.)
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They make a lot of stuff for navies (not ours though) - stick it on a flatbed Stormer
I don't understand why there aren't more serious efforts to make a bit smaller variants of these systems which can be mounted on a vehicle like that and used to give cover down to even company level (though obviously needs resources to produce and operate at that level). Against many drones even some hotter .2xx calibre rounds will do the job out to 1-2km or so.
This may amuse some people 
As I've mentioned in the past I have a Russian friend I met in the early 2000s after he moved here because he thought Putin was a ****, dude works in the defence sector and did before moving which is one of the reasons I know so much about ex-Soviet hardware. Anyway, I was chatting to him today and he was telling me his brother back home is livid at the moment because Putin has "stolen his tank" xD
Obviously that needs some explanation, no Vladimir Putin did not personally come to his compound and seize his prized T-55, it was army representatives. But apparently they are now appropriating tanks and heavy military vehicles from businesses all over the area.
For anyone wondering why he had a tank, basically prior to 2022 he was running a holiday business for westerners who weren't keen on Ibiza and would rather spend a weekend in Russia driving a tank around the woods while drinking vodka and firing machine guns and RPGs. Apparently this isn't even that uncommon, Russia had a whole subsection of it's tourist industry dedicated to it before the war.
As I've mentioned in the past I have a Russian friend I met in the early 2000s after he moved here because he thought Putin was a ****, dude works in the defence sector and did before moving which is one of the reasons I know so much about ex-Soviet hardware. Anyway, I was chatting to him today and he was telling me his brother back home is livid at the moment because Putin has "stolen his tank" xD
Obviously that needs some explanation, no Vladimir Putin did not personally come to his compound and seize his prized T-55, it was army representatives. But apparently they are now appropriating tanks and heavy military vehicles from businesses all over the area.
For anyone wondering why he had a tank, basically prior to 2022 he was running a holiday business for westerners who weren't keen on Ibiza and would rather spend a weekend in Russia driving a tank around the woods while drinking vodka and firing machine guns and RPGs. Apparently this isn't even that uncommon, Russia had a whole subsection of it's tourist industry dedicated to it before the war.
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Back in the 90s a friend of mine, who's an amateur pilot, went to Russia and flew a couple of different military jet airplanes (Mig 29 and Su 27 if I remember correctly). The experience was organized by a private company, but the planes belonged to the Russian Air Force and there was a second pilot on all flights, who was an active duty military pilot.
A pastime shared with Texas only its whiskey not vodka.
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I was genuinely looking at this myself a couple of years ago
Was iirc about £20k to get technically into space (ie the point considered the space barrier) in a Mig. It was only just technically there (bit like the Branson one), and for a very short period, but was just aiming to be able to claim to have been in space.
Not half. The Russians have taken a proper tanning.
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Hardly a surprise though, given how hard Ukraine has found taking the fight to Russian defensive positions and they've access to western weapons, counter battery radar, precision guided missiles etc. Wagner was pretty much Russia's only reliable force it had in it's arsenal, everything else they had that could fight has been worn down to the point where there no longer combat effective or reinforced with mobiks and prisoners.
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One of the Ukraine commanders was commenting recently how Russia isn't running out of man power any time soon, contrary to the impression/opinion of some, but it is increasingly composed of poorly trained troops with low moral. They still have a lot of effective artillery and counter-battery capability, anti-tank and anti-air though making assaults hard.
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