Russo-Ukrainian War - 2022 Edition - Part 4

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In a video published yesterday on social media by Matthew Luxmoore, The Wall Street Journal’s reporter in Ukraine, we can see dramatic footage purportedly from one such aerial engagement, including the very rare sight of a modern fighter jet firing air-to-air missiles in a genuine combat situation.
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The War Zone spoke to former fighter pilot Paul Tremelling, who has flown British Harriers in combat, as well as U.S. Navy F/A-18Es as an exchange pilot, and who has fired both AIM-9M Sidewinder and AIM-120 AMRAAM missiles on exercises. He provided his initial impressions of the video, noting that the poor quality of the footage made it hard to come to any definitive conclusions about what we can see happening.
“Whatever is fired I think we can safely say there are two of them,” Tremelling explained. “That’s perfectly reasonable in that you could fire two weapons for a couple of reasons: Pk [to increase the probability of a kill], two targets, fun… but the launch interval is incredibly small or simultaneous which is noteworthy.”
Tremelling also noted that the two missiles appear to travel at different speeds. “This might be just their direction of travel — backing up the [two] different targets theory — or a malfunction. The final view we get shows the smoke trails are different — one is noticeably more of a hockey stick and shorter than the other, potentially indicating different amounts of lead being taken. In (woolly) conclusion I’d go for a simultaneous launch of two weapons, probably at different targets, and then either (a) different weapon speed demonstrating a ‘cocktail’ of two weapon types launched (AA-10 plus AA-11?) or (b) potentially a failure of some sort.”
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Would be interesting to see the volume of munitions Russia are losing to these sorts of events versus actually being used in the field.
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For me it is mindblowing how much ammunition they still have left so that they can afford losing ammo depots like that. Since the 20th century they must have probably made a it a full time job to make sure they have an oversupply of ammo.
 
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Matata said:
For me it is mindblowing how much ammunition they still have left so that they can afford losing ammo depots like that. Since the 20th century they must have probably made a it a full time job make sure they have an oversupply of ammo.
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Nah, from what I've read Russia have always made sure that they are very well stocked with Ammo, even if that Ammo is 30 or 40 years old...
 
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Russia sends forcibly mobilized Ukrainians from occupied Donbas to die as ‘live bait’ at the frontline

Russia does not need to keep any record of how many Ukrainian men, forcibly mobilized from occupied Donbas, are killed in the fighting, nor pay compensation to the men’s families
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Russia does not need to keep any record of how many Ukrainian men, forcibly mobilized from occupied Donbas, are killed in the fighting, nor pay compensation to the men’s families. According to Serhiy Haidai, Governor of the Luhansk oblast, the Russians do not simply view these men as cannon fodder, but actively send them onto the frontline “as bait, to calculate where the fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces is coming from.” Anybody is sent, regardless of their state of health.


The Luhansk Regional Administration posted a video from the self-proclaimed and Russian-controlled ‘Luhansk people’s republic’ [‘LPR’] on 21 August showing virtually only women and pensioners working at the Dovzhanska-Kapitalna coalmine.
 
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