Militär teknik och Ukrainakriget

[Enceladus]

Även USA borde fundera över detta. Användningen av små, obemannade vapenbärare har ju exploderat(!) i detta krig.

‘Interceptor’ Drone Boat Swarm Vision Laid Out By Pentagon

What is known as the Production-Ready, Inexpensive, Maritime Expeditionary (PRIME) Small Unmanned Surface Vehicle (sUSV) project might also a stepping stone to the acquisition of networked swarms of armed uncrewed watercraft or ones with electronic warfare suites. This might even include explosive-packed kamikaze types designed to ram into their targets and detonate. This is a capability pioneered by Iran, who subsequently transferred it to Houthi militants in Yemen, and that has now really come into its own in the course of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

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However, it has been the war in Ukraine that has really underscored the threat that kamikaze drone boats pose. Earlier today, Ukrainian authorities released a video showing a group uncrewed attackers sinking of the Russian Navy’s Project 12411 Tarantul III class missile corvette Ivanovets off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula. You can read more about that incident here.

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It is important to note that the collaborative swarming capabilities that DIU wants for PRIME are also represent a huge leap over the USVs that are being used currently in Ukraine and by the Houthis.

Ukraina och Houthi-rebellerna är pionjärer inom området. Möjligen har Kina liknande förmågor. En av dessa aktörer råkar vara en allierad som kan konsulteras.

Ominous Russian Anti-Ship Missile Drill Sinks Ex-Ukrainian Corvette

Days after Russia issued a warning against vessels sailing to Ukrainian Black Sea ports, the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet conducted live-fire drills in that body of water, sinking a vessel it captured from Ukraine in 2014.

The Tarantul-III class missile corvette Ivanovets “carried out live firing of anti-ship cruise missiles at a target ship” in a combat training rage in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) said Friday on its Telegram channel.

Patetiskt. Ukraina svarar med ett löfte om att jaga bort Svartahavsflottan från sitt territorium:

According to him, the available capabilities will allow Ukraine to "drive the entire Black Sea Fleet closer to Tuapse, Novorossiysk and prevent them from moving in the Crimean zone."

"Our capabilities are not limited to Neptune-type systems. There are other systems as well. We are much stronger in this regard than we were a year ago. And we are moving even further in this direction," he said.

Ukrainas självsäkerhet har ökat efter de senaste drönarattackerna mot den ockuperade halvön.

Nu ligger detta patetiska fartyg begravet på havets botten...

Putin to visit Turkey in February, Kremlin says

Erdogan vill tydligen återuppliva spannmålsavtalet. Ironiskt nog är det Houthi-rebellerna, snarare än ryssarna, som utgör det största hotet mot Ukrainas export.

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Även USA borde fundera över detta. Användningen av små, obemannade vapenbärare har ju exploderat(!) i detta krig.

‘Interceptor’ Drone Boat Swarm Vision Laid Out By Pentagon

What is known as the Production-Ready, Inexpensive, Maritime Expeditionary (PRIME) Small Unmanned Surface Vehicle (sUSV) project might also a stepping stone to the acquisition of networked swarms of armed uncrewed watercraft or ones with electronic warfare suites. This might even include explosive-packed kamikaze types designed to ram into their targets and detonate. This is a capability pioneered by Iran, who subsequently transferred it to Houthi militants in Yemen, and that has now really come into its own in the course of the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

[...]

However, it has been the war in Ukraine that has really underscored the threat that kamikaze drone boats pose. Earlier today, Ukrainian authorities released a video showing a group uncrewed attackers sinking of the Russian Navy’s Project 12411 Tarantul III class missile corvette Ivanovets off the coast of the Crimean Peninsula. You can read more about that incident here.

[...]

It is important to note that the collaborative swarming capabilities that DIU wants for PRIME are also represent a huge leap over the USVs that are being used currently in Ukraine and by the Houthis.

Ukraina och Houthi-rebellerna är pionjärer inom området. Möjligen har Kina liknande förmågor. En av dessa aktörer råkar vara en allierad som kan konsulteras.

Exakt vad jag tänkte igår - USA ska nog vara glada om Iran och Houthi inte kommit lika långt som Ukraina. Det handlar nämligen inte bara om att utveckla sådana vapenbärare utan också att fundera ut hur de ska bekämpas. I vart fall anser US Navy att de behöver bättre beväpning för att bekämpa flygande vapen - och det fort också: Navy Looking For Counter-Drone Systems That Can Be Rapidly Added To Its Ships

Fransoserna provar flygskydd: French Navy Trains Anti-Drone Tactics From Ships And Fighters

Unmanned vehicles are participating in naval warfare year after year. While defense contractors in many countries are working to develop new types of unmanned ships, navies are working to integrate unmanned systems into their fleets under the concept of manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T).

Meanwhile, the effectiveness of the UAV and USVs in the Russo-Ukrainian war proved the paradigm shift in Naval Warfare. The use of UAVs for surveillance and assault missions, as well as suicide USV assaults of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Russian warships showed that these small but effective vessels increased the complexity of Naval Warfare.

In this case, developing countermeasures is paramount. Engaging in such small and swift with classical weapons with non-fragmented rounds doesn’t offer a high probability to destroy the target. Using weapons with fragmented rounds increases the hit probability.

On the other hand, such weapons should be the last measure against such drones, just like close in weapon systems. To decrease the risk against valuable combatants, UAV/USV assaults should be neutralized before the suicide drone enters the vital area of the warship. The importance of arming warships with small guided missiles, such as Longbow Hellfire or L-UMTAS, has increased.

Though guided missiles are effective, it’s still not clear whether they would be enough to repel swarm attacks including dozens of drones. Therefore, adding laser weapons to the warships or flotilla’s layered defense system seems to be a subject in the near future.

The most recent Ukraine war showed that drones are relatively cheap and effective, without developing solid measures and CONOPS, the warships wouldn’t be safe at sea. Even the strongest ones.

Och den indiske putinisten Prakash Nandas flaggskepp EurAsian Times tycker synd om ryssarna:
Russia’s 1st Dandelion Kamikaze USV Ready; Set To Counter Ukraine’s Killer Drone Boat Menace In Black Sea

Dandelion betyder maskros - ryssarna har ovanan att sätta blomsternamn på sina vapensystem.


Den kinesiska kommunistdiktaturen studerar nog allt detta med största intresse.

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Ominous Russian Anti-Ship Missile Drill Sinks Ex-Ukrainian Corvette

Days after Russia issued a warning against vessels sailing to Ukrainian Black Sea ports, the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet conducted live-fire drills in that body of water, sinking a vessel it captured from Ukraine in 2014.

The Tarantul-III class missile corvette Ivanovets “carried out live firing of anti-ship cruise missiles at a target ship” in a combat training rage in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry (MoD) said Friday on its Telegram channel.

Patetiskt. Ukraina svarar med ett löfte om att jaga bort Svartahavsflottan från sitt territorium:

According to him, the available capabilities will allow Ukraine to "drive the entire Black Sea Fleet closer to Tuapse, Novorossiysk and prevent them from moving in the Crimean zone."

"Our capabilities are not limited to Neptune-type systems. There are other systems as well. We are much stronger in this regard than we were a year ago. And we are moving even further in this direction," he said.

Ukrainas självsäkerhet har ökat efter de senaste drönarattackerna mot den ockuperade halvön.

Nu ligger detta patetiska fartyg begravet på havets botten...

Det är ju bara löjligt att uttrycka sig på detta sätt - fiendens örlogsfartyg är aldrig "patetiska", och de är inga modellfartyg av balsaträ och japanpapper. Men havsbotten är den rätta platsen, vare sig vi talar om Svarta Havet eller Östersjön. Ryska soldater är mördare och våldtäktsmän, och får aldrig tillåtas stiga iland i Sverige.

Däremot har varken ryssarna eller någon annan örlogsmakt varit beredd på denna nya vapentyp, och följaktligen varit otillräckligt beväpnade för att bekämpa den. Mot den tänkta typen av mål hade denna robotkorvetts beväpning varit nog så effektiv.

[Enceladus]

Kanske det, ja. Men gör Europa tillräckligt?

EU to Ukraine: You’ll get half the ammo we promised by March

The European Union will only provide half of the promised 1 million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by March, but pledged to send 1.1 million shells by year's end.

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While the EU will miss its target of delivering 1 million rounds of ammunition, European officials insist the Continent now has the capacity to produce that amount.

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According to the commissioner from France, the EU's ammunition production capacity should hit 1.4 million rounds in 2024 before rising to 2 million rounds in 2025.

Kanske inte, men tiden är ändå på Ukrainas sida. Iran har fullt upp i Mellanöstern och Nordkorea har egna behov. Kina vill fortsätta sälja sina grejer till Europa.

Man gör det enkelt för sig om man har utgångspunkten att Ukraina alltid talar sanning och ryssarna alltid ljuger.

​How russians Explain Losing Ivanovets Ship and Missile Strike on Belbek Airfield

According to this blogger, a whole small fleet of nine sea drones entered the Black Sea from the Danube Delta but only five managed to reach the designated area, where all of them were destroyed. Four got eliminated by patrol boats and aviation, however, one exploded near the corvette's side. The other four missing drones were also found and destroyed by helicopters and a fighter aircraft.

This description of events leaves only wonder what drones the russians were taking down as we can see in the video footage that at least six unmanned boats hit the Ivanovets corvette in a sequence: two blasted at the stern, and three more struck from the side, while the sixth one just recorded the ship's nose looking from the surface as it sank.

Zvinchuk also commented on the Ukrainian aerial raid on the Belbek airfield. He claims at least three Ukrainian Su-24M bombers, accompanied by MiG-29s and Su-27s, launched six Storm Shadow/SCALPs, and after that six more, despite the fact each Su-24 can usually carry only two of such missiles at a time. Of course, all of them were "shot down," it's just that only one allegedly got "intercepted directly above the ground", but it did not cause any damage to the airfield.

Det är en rimlig ansats. Trots lögnerna likviderades generalbusen Tatarenko. Analytikern Lokeren håller koll på de stora fartygsförlusterna, men mycket återstår.

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Kanske det, ja. Men gör Europa tillräckligt?

EU to Ukraine: You’ll get half the ammo we promised by March

The European Union will only provide half of the promised 1 million rounds of ammunition to Ukraine by March, but pledged to send 1.1 million shells by year's end.

[...]

While the EU will miss its target of delivering 1 million rounds of ammunition, European officials insist the Continent now has the capacity to produce that amount.

[...]

According to the commissioner from France, the EU's ammunition production capacity should hit 1.4 million rounds in 2024 before rising to 2 million rounds in 2025.

Kanske inte, men tiden är ändå på Ukrainas sida. Iran har fullt upp i Mellanöstern och Nordkorea har egna behov. Kina vill fortsätta sälja sina grejer till Europa.

Det där har ju varit känt länge, så det verkar lite konstigt att 50% leverans beskrivs som en framgång:
The EU has sent less than a third of the 1 million rounds of ammo it promised Ukraine, report says

Problemet är att Ukraina behöver granaterna nu: Ukraine says it is facing "critical" shortage of artillery shells – Bloomberg (Ukrainska Pravda)

Att tillverka artillerigranater är, som jag framhållit många gånger, en tung industriell process som inte är så enkel att skala upp. Vi får väl se vad dessa löften är värda.

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Det är en rimlig ansats.

Ja, sanningen ligger i betraktaren öga - tydligen. Rimlig är ett tänjbart begrepp - för att uttrycka sig försiktigt.

[Enceladus]

Förrförra året använde Ukraina den kreativa taktiken att transportera BM-27 Uragan på en pråm för att befria strategiskt viktiga Ormön.

Nästa: ‘Floating HIMARS’ – Ukraine Threatens Russia With Inflatable MLRS As It Stares At Crimean Kerch Bridge – Watch

On what looks like a warm sunny day, the HIMARS dummy is seen floating on the surface of the Black Sea with thumping, daring music playing in the background. The song is ‘Do you have any regrets.’ The caption with the video reads, “Kerch Bridge…we are watching you!” in what seems to be a direct warning from Ukraine’s official Defense Twitter account.

Kriget i Ukraina upphör inte att överraska!

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Förrförra året använde Ukraina den kreativa taktiken att transportera BM-27 Uragan på en pråm för att befria strategiskt viktiga Ormön.

Nästa: ‘Floating HIMARS’ – Ukraine Threatens Russia With Inflatable MLRS As It Stares At Crimean Kerch Bridge – Watch

On what looks like a warm sunny day, the HIMARS dummy is seen floating on the surface of the Black Sea with thumping, daring music playing in the background. The song is ‘Do you have any regrets.’ The caption with the video reads, “Kerch Bridge…we are watching you!” in what seems to be a direct warning from Ukraine’s official Defense Twitter account.

Kriget i Ukraina upphör inte att överraska!

Den indiske putinisten Prakash Nandas alltid lika pålitliga flaggskepp EurAsian Times.

F.ö. en idé från 1700-talet: Skottpråmar

Raketartilleri har ju den fördelen att det är i stort sett rekylfritt.

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Italien beställer fler SAMP/T luftvärnssystem: Italy orders four SAMP/T new-generation air defense systems

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has created urgency among European countries to beef up air defense, as well as replace systems donated to Ukraine. Germany has rankled French sensitivities by proposing the IRIS-T system by Diehl Defence and the U.S.-made Patriot for its European Sky Shield Initiative, rather than the SAMP/T developed by Thales and missile maker MBDA.
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French President Emmanuel Macron in June warned against rushing to buy air defense capabilites, as purchasing off-the-shelf would mean a lot of non-European equipment. He called the war in Ukraine a brutal reminder of the vital nature of air defense.

Olaf Scholz ESSI fortsätter att skava på de europeiska samarbetet.

[Enceladus]

Olaf Scholz ESSI fortsätter att skava på de europeiska samarbetet.

Tyskland har däremot gått med på att beväpna sina allierade i Mellanöstern:

Baerbock had broached the Eurofighter blockade during a visit to Israel, saying Germany would no longer object to a U.K. sale of the aircraft.

Germany, as a co-producer of the jets along with the U.K., Spain and Italy, can veto Eurofigher sales to countries outside of the core user group. The aircraft are made by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo.

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Speaking in Jerusalem, Baerbock specifically mentioned Ryadh’s use of its Eurofighters in intercepting Houthi missiles and drones aimed at Israel, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

Erdogan räknar med samma "positiva inställning" som Saudiarabien har fått:

Last week U.S. President Joe Biden's administration formally notified Congress of its intention to proceed with the sale of 40 Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) F-16s and nearly 80 modernisation kits to Turkey, a day after Ankara fully completed ratification of the NATO membership of Sweden.

Although it does not expect Congress to block the F-16 sale, Turkey still wants to buy Eurofighter Typhoon jets, a Turkish defence ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"We are still interested, we expect the consortium member Germany's positive approach on this issue," the official said.

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Olaf Scholz ESSI fortsätter att skava på de europeiska samarbetet.

Tyskland har däremot gått med på att beväpna sina allierade i Mellanöstern:

Baerbock had broached the Eurofighter blockade during a visit to Israel, saying Germany would no longer object to a U.K. sale of the aircraft.

Germany, as a co-producer of the jets along with the U.K., Spain and Italy, can veto Eurofigher sales to countries outside of the core user group. The aircraft are made by a consortium of Airbus, BAE Systems and Leonardo.

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Speaking in Jerusalem, Baerbock specifically mentioned Ryadh’s use of its Eurofighters in intercepting Houthi missiles and drones aimed at Israel, according to the Süddeutsche Zeitung newspaper.

Ja, det gäller att veta på vilken sida av brödet man har oljan!

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Erdogan räknar med samma "positiva inställning" som Saudiarabien har fått:

Last week U.S. President Joe Biden's administration formally notified Congress of its intention to proceed with the sale of 40 Lockheed Martin (LMT.N) F-16s and nearly 80 modernisation kits to Turkey, a day after Ankara fully completed ratification of the NATO membership of Sweden.

Although it does not expect Congress to block the F-16 sale, Turkey still wants to buy Eurofighter Typhoon jets, a Turkish defence ministry official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"We are still interested, we expect the consortium member Germany's positive approach on this issue," the official said.

Och att casha in. Någon belöning ska Erdogan väl ha - för gott uppförande, eller någonting liknande.

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Ja, här är några tyska skenmål. Tydligen nappade ryssarna på betet. Titta på detaljerna! Bundeswehr har av en händelse just publicerat en video om skenmål:

Skenmål kan göras mer eller mindre sofistikerade beroende på hur mycket tid och pengar man vill lägga ned, med tanke på att de är avsedda att förstöras. Just den här, som jag visat tidigare, är uppblåsbar: viewtopic.php?p=414192#p414192

Uppblåsbart skenmål föreställande en S-300 eldenhet

The WarZone har också skrivit en bit om detta: Ukraine’s Air Defense Decoys Keep Getting Better

Back to Ukraine, repeated warnings from officials that the country is running low on ground-based air defenses systems suggest that the value of those already in its possession will only grow. This is especially the case for the high-end Western-supplied systems like the IRIS-T SLM and AN/MPQ-64. With that in mind, we are likely to see more innovative measures to create convincing decoys as the war continues.

Just nu verkar Shahed-UAV-er vara den huvudsakliga attackvektorn. Ryssarna vräker vågor av Shaheds över Ukraina:
Russians launch 24 Shahed UAVs, 11 of them shot down, 7 "locationally lost (Ukrainska Pravda)

Fast här är ju syftet rena terrorbombningar mot civil infrastruktur.

[Enceladus]

Kanske inte, men tiden är ändå på Ukrainas sida. Iran har fullt upp i Mellanöstern och Nordkorea har egna behov. Kina vill fortsätta sälja sina grejer till Europa.

Covert Cabal och high_marsed har än en gång tittat på satellitbilder för att identifiera Rysslands artilleriförluster:



Antalet dragna artilleripjäser har minskat från 14 631 till 6 786, d.v.s. förrådet räcker i knappt två år till. Antalet självgående artilleripjäser har däremot minskat från 4 450 till 2 961, d.v.s. förrådet räcker i knappt fyra år kvar. Ryssland förbrukar alltså fler dragna än självgående artilleripjäser. Oryx har motsatta siffror:

Antalet bekräftade ryska förluster utgör 14 247 enheter, varav 2 710 stridsvagnar och 1 352 artilleripjäser (340 dragna, 665 självgående samt 347 raketiska).

Det sägs att Ryssland använder de dragna artilleripjäsernas eldrör för att ersätta imputerade förluster. Tydligen sliter de nordkoreanska granaterna väldigt hårt!

Czechs want EU to shop abroad for Ukraine shells

Frustrated by this shortfall, Prague is pushing EU countries to finance the purchase of what it estimates are 450,000 rounds of artillery available outside the bloc, four diplomats and a person familiar with the talks told POLITICO.

When the EU was calibrating its military aid commitments in early 2023, France — the bloc’s defense industry leader — had been pushing to make sure that subsidies were focused only on local production, rather than being funnelled abroad.

But the Czech call raises the prospect that Europe would turn instead to arms companies in South Korea, Turkey and South Africa. The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell specifically mentioned that Korea — a major weapons producer — could be tapped for extra shells, according to the official.

EU väntas ge Ukraina över en miljon artillerigranater i år. Tjeckien nöjer sig ändå inte! Enligt uppgift finns nästan en halv miljon artillerigranater till salu.

Conservatives call on Canada to donate rockets to Ukraine — but not all are battle-ready

The Canadian Armed Forces has a stockpile of 83,303 CRV7 rockets, a 1980s-vintage weapon that was taken out of service in the early 2000s.

Three years ago, the federal government signed a contract to dispose of the rockets over several years.

Poilievre said he understands Ukraine has asked Canada to donate the CRV7s instead of destroying them.

Även Kanada kan bidra med diverse ammunition. CRV7 är ett gammalt raketvapen från 1970-talet. Det sägs ju att kvantitet är en kvalitet i sig!

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Conservatives call on Canada to donate rockets to Ukraine — but not all are battle-ready

The Canadian Armed Forces has a stockpile of 83,303 CRV7 rockets, a 1980s-vintage weapon that was taken out of service in the early 2000s.

Three years ago, the federal government signed a contract to dispose of the rockets over several years.

Poilievre said he understands Ukraine has asked Canada to donate the CRV7s instead of destroying them.

Även Kanada kan bidra med diverse ammunition. CRV7 är ett gammalt raketvapen från 1970-talet. Det sägs ju att kvantitet är en kvalitet i sig!

Vad är det här nu då? En gammal ostyrd 70mm flygplansburen attackraket, fysiskt lik den amerikanska Hydra-70 (som Ukraina disponerar), men verkar ha kortare skottvidd. Vapenkassetterna för de två olika rakettyperna förefaller inte vara kompatibla, men här kan uppgifterna i öppna källor vara ofullständiga. Tillverkaren Magellan gjorde ett försök att göra raketens styrbar, på samma sätt som BAE:s APKWS, men utan någon kommersiell framgång. Det är antagligen förklaringen till varför Kanada nu skrotar raketen. Det är osäkert om den fortfarande kan tillverkas. Det är möjligt att APKWS går att aptera på CRV7 ocxkså.

Ostyrda raketer är egentligen WW2-vapen. Att angripa fienden i sk. close-air support, oavsett om det sker med kulspruta/automatkanon eller (ostyrda) raketer är ett riskfyllt uppdrag, beroende på hur pass kompetent luftvärn fienden besitter. Laserstyrda tillsatser, som APKWS eller motsvarande för den tyngre 127/130mm raketen Zuni, ökar förstås träffsäkerheten avsevärt, även om de kräver att målet laserbelyses (semi-aktiv laserstyrning). Helt ostyrda raketer är typiska salvpjäser, där vissa vapenkassetter kan rymma upp till 19 raketer. Bristen på träffsäkerhet gör att de flesta krigsmakter antingen avskaffar eller uppdaterar sina raketer enl. ovan.

Ukraina har tidigare fått en del donationer av både Hydra (som fortfarande tillverkas) och Zuni, men det är tveksamt om dessa används utan uppgradering enl ovan, eller ens hur. Ukrainas brist på flygande vapenbärare sätter också gränser för hur den här typen av vapen kan användas (Hydra med APKWS används också i Ukraina som luftvärnsmissil, t.ex. i L3Harris Vampire-system).

På samma sätt som för ATACMS finns det anledning att sätta frågetecken för hur många operationella raketer det kan finnas, med tanke på deras ålder.

Den lika idelige som opålitlige Boyko Nikolov i BulgarianMilitary har skrivit en näst intill hysterisk hyllningsartikel till vapensystemet, som alltså i grunden inte är märkvärdigare än Hydra, även om det påstås ha bättre verkan mot fientligt pansar: Canada ‘offers 83,300 CRV7 air-to-surface missiles’ to Ukraine

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Czechs want EU to shop abroad for Ukraine shells

Frustrated by this shortfall, Prague is pushing EU countries to finance the purchase of what it estimates are 450,000 rounds of artillery available outside the bloc, four diplomats and a person familiar with the talks told POLITICO.

When the EU was calibrating its military aid commitments in early 2023, France — the bloc’s defense industry leader — had been pushing to make sure that subsidies were focused only on local production, rather than being funnelled abroad.

But the Czech call raises the prospect that Europe would turn instead to arms companies in South Korea, Turkey and South Africa. The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell specifically mentioned that Korea — a major weapons producer — could be tapped for extra shells, according to the official.

EU väntas ge Ukraina över en miljon artillerigranater i år. Tjeckien nöjer sig ändå inte! Enligt uppgift finns nästan en halv miljon artillerigranater till salu.

450.000 granater till salu? För omgående leverans? Låter sensationellt.

I Sydafrika finns Rheinmetall Denel,som stor tillverkare, men de verkar ha händerna fulla ändå: Rheinmetall Denel Munition is expanding to meet global demand for artillery ammunition

Sydkorea har en omfattande försvarsindustri, men här kan det förstås finnas legala hinder mot en utvidgning av denna ringhandel: S. Korea indirectly supplied more 155-mm shells for Ukraine than all European countries combined

Erdogan och Turkiet är som de är. De vet man aldrig var man har. Ena dagen säljer de, andra dagen inte. Rena basaren, faktiskt.

[Enceladus]

Ja, ryssarna har väl inte råd att använda sitt eget Glonass, tydligen. Eller ens lita på det. Snacka om lågprislösning.

Russia’s Alternative to GPS Satellites Is Outdated and Outnumbered

While Ukraine has successfully deployed precision rockets guided by orbiting US spacecraft to hit targets deep behind the front lines – and has also used Elon Musk’s cutting-edge Starlink satellite constellation to stay connected to the internet — Russia is stuck with an aging network that has hindered its ability to use smart weapons.

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Glonass satellites, about 19,000 km (11,800 miles) above the Earth, aren’t as good as competitors, according to Craig Roberts, a senior lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, whose research compares Glonass with GPS and two newer networks, China’s BeiDou and the European Union’s Galileo.

The Russian network has poorer quality of both control stations on the ground and atomic clocks in space, he said, making their measurements less precise.

“Everyone knows that Glonass is the worst,” he said. “If I’m measuring a position and use all four constellations to process the same data, Glonass is at the bottom of the pile.”

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With the US having unlocked its satellites for Ukraine, the country’s army has taken advantage of GPS-guided weapons such as Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Himars rocket launchers to attack Russian positions in occupied territory. The US has also provided the Ukrainian military with long-range GPS-guided bombs made by Boeing Co. capable of hitting targets 45 miles away.

Tydligen kan ryska Glonass inte mäta sig med konkurrenterna GPS, Galileo och Beidou. Därmed kan Ryssland inte utveckla ett undervapen som Himars!

Secret Russian electronic warfare weapon endangering GPS for ships and air traffic in Europe

Western intelligence suggests Russia has deployed a large, fixed jamming system named Tobol to its military exclave Kaliningrad, which is nestled between Lithuania and Poland.

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But rather than blocking munitions fired by Nato, it is causing havoc amongst civilian use of satellite navigation systems.

There have been reports of commercial airliners suddenly dropping off tracking sites, as well as warnings that ships could collide if they lose connection to the satellites.

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“The good news is that aircraft and ships have other means of navigation,” he added.

Ryssland misstänks ligga bakom de senaste störningarna mot GPS-systemet i Europa. Både Säkerhetspolisen och Must hanterar ärendet i Sverige.

(För övrigt erbjuder den nämnda signaturen "Markus Jonsson" - förmodligen en pseudonym - en hel del innehållsrika inlägg på Twitter. Finns det en agenda?)

Precisionen verkar i alla fall vara tillräcklig för Shahed/Geran-UAV-errna. ISW återger i sin lägesrapport 1/10:

Galileo, now fit for aviation

Galileo, already the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, now meets international standards to guide civil aviation from take-off to landing, complementing Europe’s EGNOS for the most critical operations. Galileo was not designed to comply with these strict safety requirements, so how did engineers at ESA achieve this feat? This is a tale of engineering excellence.

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In practical terms, this means that aircraft manufacturers can now build receivers which autonomously monitor Galileo (together with GPS) signal integrity without the need for external corrections or fault detection to support non-critical phases of flight, including parts of the ascent, descent and enroute. In addition, Galileo is now ready to be augmented by the new version of EGNOS to support critical operations like landing, where satellite navigation systems like Galileo or GPS alone cannot offer enough reliability.

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Galileo is currently the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, serving close to four billion users around the globe since entering Open Service in 2017. All smartphones sold in the European Single Market are now guaranteed Galileo-enabled. In addition, Galileo is making a difference across the fields of rail, maritime, agriculture, financial timing services and rescue operations.

Galileo sägs vara världens precisaste satellitnavigationssystem. Snart kan det användas inom den civila luftfarten. Hur är det med den militära luftfarten?

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Ja, här citatförfalskas det friskt och mina kommentarer klipps in i helt andra sammanhang. Beklagar att jag måste återupprepa så mycket, men Enceladus-kollektivet sk ainte få koka ihop vad som helst:

Ryssarna använder väl inte GPS?

Another Russian Fighter Jet Found With GPS Taped To Its Dashboard; IAF Pilot Says India Has Done It Too

Two months after EurAsian Times reported a Russian Sukhoi Su-34 ground attack/bomber aircraft having civilian US-made satellite navigation receivers taped to their dashboards, another video has surfaced showing a similar satellite navigation receiver that relies on US’ Global Positioning System’s (GPS) services attached inside the cockpit of a Su-24 jet.

Experts believe this is due to massive unreliability with Russia’s GLONASS satellite navigation systems, forcing them to rely on US-origin hardware.

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IAF fighter pilot Squadron Leader Vijainder K Thakur said the report appears “credible.” “The Su-24 M2 is equipped with an inertial navigation system (INS) that computes the aircraft’s position by measuring acceleration in each of the three dimensions.

INS is prone to drift and needs to be periodically fixed either manually, by flying over a recognizable point on the ground, or through GPS/Glonass. Using a commercial GPS to update the INS manually is a smart and low-cost solution,” he said.

Thakur also recounted Indian Air Force (IAF) having used commercially available GPS systems during Kargil operations to pinpoint their position over the ground accurately.

Ja, ryssarna använder GPS. Tydligen gör de neutrala indierna också det!

Ja, ryssarna har väl inte råd att använda sitt eget Glonass, tydligen. Eller ens lita på det. Snacka om lågprislösning.

Garmin says that with its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver, eTrex Legend locates position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons. There have been documented concerns about the Russian GLONASS system’s accuracy compared to the US’s GPS navigation system.

Reports suggest that the GLONASS satellite constellation has been underfunded for years and could not ensure sufficient accuracy. During its operations in Syria, Russia had to build differential correction stations across Syria to enhance GLONASS’s accuracy by 30 to 40%.

There have also been suggestions from Ukraine that Russia must be cut off from the US GPS to make strike missions by Russian forces more difficult. Experts interviewed by Ukraine’s premier defense magazine, Defense Express, have suggested that the US could disable GPS systems in certain areas for a specific time in coordination with the Ukrainian side and the actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

It is supposed to make it more difficult for the Russian fighter pilots to conduct strike missions as they will not be able to navigate their precision-guided munitions toward Ukrainian military targets accurately.

According to these experts, the Russian GLONASS system cannot compete with GPS in positional accuracy. Disabling the GPS for use by Russian fighters will worsen the positional accuracy of Russian missiles by 700 to 1,200 meters.

Och titta vem som refereras här ovan, om inte vår gamle bekanting putinisten Vijainder K Thakur, ibland skribent i putinisten Prakash Nandas flaggskepp EurAsian Times. Den gubben tog jag itu med redan här: viewtopic.php?p=411644#p411644

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

Ja, ryssarna har väl inte råd att använda sitt eget Glonass, tydligen. Eller ens lita på det. Snacka om lågprislösning.

Russia’s Alternative to GPS Satellites Is Outdated and Outnumbered

While Ukraine has successfully deployed precision rockets guided by orbiting US spacecraft to hit targets deep behind the front lines – and has also used Elon Musk’s cutting-edge Starlink satellite constellation to stay connected to the internet — Russia is stuck with an aging network that has hindered its ability to use smart weapons.

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Glonass satellites, about 19,000 km (11,800 miles) above the Earth, aren’t as good as competitors, according to Craig Roberts, a senior lecturer in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, whose research compares Glonass with GPS and two newer networks, China’s BeiDou and the European Union’s Galileo.

The Russian network has poorer quality of both control stations on the ground and atomic clocks in space, he said, making their measurements less precise.

“Everyone knows that Glonass is the worst,” he said. “If I’m measuring a position and use all four constellations to process the same data, Glonass is at the bottom of the pile.”

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With the US having unlocked its satellites for Ukraine, the country’s army has taken advantage of GPS-guided weapons such as Lockheed Martin Corp.’s Himars rocket launchers to attack Russian positions in occupied territory. The US has also provided the Ukrainian military with long-range GPS-guided bombs made by Boeing Co. capable of hitting targets 45 miles away.

Tydligen kan ryska Glonass inte mäta sig med konkurrenterna GPS, Galileo och Beidou. Därmed kan Ryssland inte utveckla ett undervapen som Himars!

Det där snacket tog jag hand om redan här: viewtopic.php?p=416034#p416034
och här: viewtopic.php?p=410062#p410062

Vore väl kul med något nytt!

[dr Cassandra Nojdh]

[Secret Russian electronic warfare weapon endangering GPS for ships and air traffic in Europe

Western intelligence suggests Russia has deployed a large, fixed jamming system named Tobol to its military exclave Kaliningrad, which is nestled between Lithuania and Poland.

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But rather than blocking munitions fired by Nato, it is causing havoc amongst civilian use of satellite navigation systems.

There have been reports of commercial airliners suddenly dropping off tracking sites, as well as warnings that ships could collide if they lose connection to the satellites.

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“The good news is that aircraft and ships have other means of navigation,” he added.

Ryssland misstänks ligga bakom[de senaste störningarna mot GPS-systemet i Europa. Både Säkerhetspolisen och Must hanterar ärendet i Sverige.

Ja, intressant detta med störsändningar, både taktiskt och strategiskt. Man kan teoretisera mycket över avsikten med de störningar som förekommit över Östersjön. Att det är ryssarna som ligger bakom är ju ingen allt för långsökt tanke. Sjöfart och luftfart har en del andra navigeringsmetoder, dock inte så exakta som satellitnavigering.

Beträffande störsändaren Tobol, som nämns i The Telegraph-artikel, har den indiske putinisten Prakash Nandas flaggskepp EurAsian Times vissa åsikter: Russia’s TOBOL EW System “Cuts Off” Starlink From It’s Ground Terminals; How Did Moscow Delink The Starlink

Ett annat ryskt störsändarsystem är R-330Zh Zhitel, som tros användas i Ukraina för att förstöra precisionen för ukrainska GPS-styrda vapen. Jag har skrivit om taktisk användning av störsändare åtskilliga gånger, bl.a. här: viewtopic.php?p=415040#p415040

Fordes idelige militärskribent David Axe tror inte på detta: Russia Deploys Radio-Jammers To Ground Ukraine’s Drones. Just One Problem: The Jammers Don’t Work.

Den indiske putinisten Prakash Nandas flaggskepp EurAsian Times är föga förvånande av en annan åsikt: Unable To ‘Destroy’ Even A Single HIMARS, Russia Is Jamming Its Missiles With ‘Pole Attacks’

Möjligen talar man här om att störa ut olika typer av radiosignaler, i synnerhet om de aktuella vapnen är helt autonoma efter avfyrandet, eller om de i någon mening är beroende av andra, yttre styrsignaler också.