Live Conflict Ukraine-Russia War

[Spitfire9]

I have no idea if this is true or if it is false but it is plausible, given Ukraine's strikes on Russia's oil industry...

LONDON, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Russia's oil pipeline monopoly Transneft (TRNF_p.MM) has warned producers they may have to cut output following Ukraine's drone attacks on critical export ports and refineries, three industry sources said on Tuesday.
In a statement on its website, Transneft described the news as "fake" and part of the West's "information war" against Russia.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-close-cutting-oil-output-due-drone-attacks-sources-say-2025-09-16/

Who is lying? Who is not? Somebody is.

 

[Relic]

The first 2 PURL packages, valued at $1 Billion usd have officially began to ship from the United States to Ukraine. 2 additional packages, also valued at $1 Billion usd are being prepared and will start to ship in early October. President Zelensky did not list the full contents of the first PURL packages today, however, he did specifically indicate that they will include Patriot Air Defense Missiles and HIMARS MLRS systems.

Ukraine war briefing: Europe-funded weapons shipments begin under ‘Purl’ scheme

Zelenskyy says Patriot and Himars included in Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List; drones threaten Volgograd oil refineries. What we know on day 1,303

www.theguardian.com

 

[Soldier30]

Russian special forces storm two Ukrainian army strongholds. High-quality footage of Russian special forces storming two rear strongholds of the Ukrainian army. The location of the filming is not disclosed. During the assault, the soldiers actively use the LPO-97 light infantry flamethrower and the RPG-26 grenade launcher; their specifications are shown on the screen. The assault is partially shown, but return fire from one of the Ukrainian strongholds is clearly visible. Four Ukrainian soldiers were captured at the second stronghold, as shown at the end of the video.

 

[Soldier30]

Footage of Russian FPV interceptor drones in action in Ukraine and Donbas. The video shows all types of Ukrainian reconnaissance and conventional drones intercepted by Russian drones before September 2025. Russian FPV drones VT-40, Prince Vandal Novgorodsky, and other models are used for ground and air combat; technical information about them is available on the channel. The exact location of the filming is not disclosed. The video features drones manufactured in Ukraine and other countries.

 

[blackjack]

Dear Blackjack, as a moderator, you are responsible for ensuring that participants adhere to the forum rules. But if you violate them...
Please, let's continue the discussion respectfully.

got no warning because there is no violation, bober kurwa is meme, and it addresses Poland's air to air missile capabilities.

 

[blackjack]

https://ria.ru/20250917/bakanov-2042394878.html

MOSCOW, Sep 17 — RIA Novosti. An analogue of the American Starlink system will appear in Russia, said Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Bakanov."Soon we will give our terminal," he said on the airSolovyov Russian troops regularly identify and strike at Starlink stations in the NVO zone. According to Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Digital Transformation Mykhailo Fedorov, the Armed Forces of Ukraine use more than 50 thousand satellite communication terminals.

https://topwar.ru/271189-partija-kompleksov-pvo-buk-m3-dosrochno-postavlena-v-vojska.html

A batch of Buk-M3 air defense systems was delivered to the troops, the equipment was shipped by the Almaz-Antey concern as part of the state defense order. This was reported by the press service of the concern.

A new batch of counter-battery weapons and Buk-M3 air defense systems has been handed over to the military. The delivery parameters were not disclosed, the concern stressed that the equipment was transferred as part of the state order for 2025 well ahead of the delivery schedule. Anti-aircraft systems and counter-battery warfare equipment have already been handed over to the customer. There is no information on counter-battery warfare.

https://tass.com/defense/2018691

MOSCOW, September 19. /TASS/. The Murmansk Arctic University has patented a ship tower that places and launches multicopters on a fiber-optic cable to protect the ship from attacks by unmanned boats, said a document TASS has at its disposal.

It says that one of the main problems for a ship in combat operations and on duty is to ensure its survivability in the absence of protection from unmanned boats.

The university has created a special tower installed on the deck of the ship. In its frontal part, there are rows of openings equipped with airtight covers that open from top to bottom. Inside the tower, on the floors corresponding to the rows of openings, belt conveyors oriented into these openings are placed. The conveyors have pins for attaching fiber-optic drones, which continue to operate in electronic warfare conditions.

"A promising area is the use of attack drones, whose stability in electronic warfare is ensured by cable control. In turn, it is the ship that has the maximum concentration of electronic warfare assets and, using them on unmanned boats, and a simultaneous use of its electronic assets, will negate the control of attack UAVs. This determines the prospect of using combat multicopters with remote control systems via fiber-optic cable on ships. The increased quality of information transmitted over fiber-optic cables, when used in marine environments, provides improved control accuracy for combat multicopters," the developers said.


According to the patent, when approaching unmanned boats are detected, the necessary number of openings lift their covers. Next, fiber-optic drones are pushed out of the tower onto the covers with the help of belt conveyors, after which they are launched. It says that, if necessary, new multicopters are put forward to replace the launched ones, until the charged reserve of belt conveyors or clips is exhausted.

https://topwar.ru/270989-bpla-kamikadze-geran-ih-sila-v-roe.html

It would seem that this is the solution, because due to the high flight speed, such Geran-3 kamikaze UAVs are almost as difficult to shoot down as cruise missiles?

However, everything is not so simple, the problem is that a turbojet engine is a very expensive product, the difference in the cost of a turbojet engine and a piston engine can be several orders of magnitude.

In addition, the increase in speed and high temperature of the turbojet engine increase the visibility of the UAV for radar and infrared detection means, and therefore the vulnerability to enemy anti-aircraft missile systems (SAM). And the increased cost of the kamikaze UAV due to the use of turbojet engines makes it quite an attractive target even for destruction with the help of missiles and air-to-air missiles.

However, there is an opportunity to increase the speed of kamikaze UAVs "inexpensively" - to use a pulsed air-breathing engine (PuVRD), which was used on German V-1 cruise missiles during World War II.

Compared to the turbojet engine, the PuVRD consists of almost only disadvantages - it is a noisy, hot, fuel-consuming jet engine, but it has one critical advantage - if its design and production processes are optimized, the PuVRD will be much cheaper than the turbojet engine, its cost may well be comparable to the cost of a piston engine from a "moped".

In fact, the PuVRD is a curved tube with a fuel injection device, in which there are no rotating parts, heat-resistant turbine blades and other complex and expensive parts - earlier we talked about the potential of the PuVRD for use on kamikaze UAVs in the material The V-1 was reinvented in the United States: this can be a new milestone in the creation of kamikaze UAVs.

How much will the flight range of the Geranium kamikaze UAV equipped with a ramjet decrease compared to a UAV equipped with a turbojet engine or a piston engine?

It is difficult to say, especially given that we do not know for sure the range of the basic model with a piston engine. It can be assumed that if the range of the Geran-2 kamikaze UAV with a piston engine is about 1000-1500 kilometers, then for the Geranium with a piston engine it will be about 200-500 kilometers.

Well, a significant number of enemy objects will still be in the zone of destruction of the Geran-2 kamikaze UAV, even if they are launched from transport aircraft outside the range of the enemy's air defense systems or from inconspicuous Gazelles cruising several tens of kilometers from the line of contact.

In any case, the Geran-2 kamikaze UAVs will not replace, but will complement existing modifications, significantly expanding their "habitat" - the scope of application.

ВКС России получили четвёртую в 2025 году партию фронтовых бомбардировщиков Су-34

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On September 15, 2025, PJSC United Aircraft Corporation (UAC, part of the Rostec State Corporation) announced that as part of the execution of the State Defense Order, it had transferred a batch of new Su-34 front-line bombers to the Russian Ministry of Defense. The aircraft passed a set of necessary ground and flight factory tests and were handed over to the customer.