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The battle of Robotyne is over with a Ukrainian victory. One of the largest battles of the war so far.
On the Ukrainian side you had the following units
47th Mechanized Brigade
65th Mechanized Brigade
116th Territoral Defense Brigade
117th Territoral Defense Brigade
118th…
1 year ago one of the first Ukrainian soldiers was killed manning his post at the border checkpoint. He was mercilessly gunned down. This lone border patrol guard was alone, cut off, in his final moments defending his homeland. His sacrifice was not vain 1 year on Ukraine stands…
Russian telegram is saying this morning Ivan Khurs was attacked by five instead of three kamikaze boats and that two hit the vessel and that she is severely damaged and at risk of sinking. They go on to further state casualties. 1 officer killed 5 enlisted killed. Two of them…
Updated Map of US Navy and Allies in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Warships from the following countries underway or deployed
🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇪🇸🇹🇷🇬🇷🇮🇩🇧🇩🇩🇰
USS Mount Whitney LCC-20
Ford Carrier Strike Group
USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78
USS Thomas Hudner DDG-116
USS Ramage…
One minute before the Baptist Hospital in Gaza was hit, Hamas announced on its own Telegram channel that they were launching their strongest rockets at the northern Israeli city of Haifa. No interceptions or impacts were detected near Haifa.
Reminder 30% of Hamas rockets tend to…
Ukraine is finally starting to target high priority targets holy shit!!!!
Someone wake up
@BruckenRuski
@russianbridges1
If you haven't followed him he has made many maps in great detail highlighting this infrastructure.
Last night, Ukraine conducted long-range OWA-UAV…
First main trench line has been breached from Russian Telegram
"The fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on NATO armored vehicles during the offensive were able to break through to our trenches near Robotyne."
Earlier tonight, Ukrainian drones successfully hit the Russian Novo Bryanskaya 750kv substation in Vygonichi, Bryansk Oblast.
The substation is currently ablaze.
Who wants to tell the Czar that they have lost 40 billion rubles worth of military hardware this week?.
Ukrainians have this week so far
Destroyed Landing Ship Tank Minsk,
Destroyed Improved Kilo Class submarine Rostov-on-Don
Destroyed a S-400 air defence system
3x patrol…
So Russia has spent $25.6 billion on compensation to families of deceased soldiers and $21 billion on compensation to the wounded. Putin has previously signed a decree earlier in the year ordering the payout of $68,800 to the families of deceased and $41,300 to soldiers that are…
A couple hundred meters, that is all that separates NATO from war the width of the Danube is all that separates NATO from being subject to the same terror as Ukraine.
Romanians film Ukrainian air defense shooting down UAV's that air defense net and an invisible line is all that…
We got to know Jordan's participation in tonight's strikes. There's potential for history here. Was this the first combat operation for the women in the Royal Jordanian Air Force.
Princess Salma bint Abdullah is a commissioned first lieutenant in the Royal Jordanian Air Force…
For the people saying today's attack on
#Kostyantynivka
came from Ukraine and claim a HARM missile locked onto a phone store are just wrong.
Today's terrorist attack on the shopping center is in line with the Russian strike doctrine and is in line with Russian strike history…
Fact check Hamas does possess the capability. The R160 rocket has a 331lb warhead.
The R160 has several warhead types:
High Explosive
Anti-Personal
Armor Piercing
R160 range 150-180km
Maximum flight speed mach 4.2-5.2
The R160 is based on the Syrian M302 which is derived…
🚨EXPERT ANALYSIS: WHO BOMBED THE AL AHLI BAPTIST HOSPITAL IN GAZA?
Marine Corps Veteran expert analysis of the recent bombing incident at the hospital reveals critical findings:
- Fuel Explosion Duration: The initial explosion likely lasted 0.5-0.75 seconds, emitting light for…
The only peaceful resolution in the Russo-Ukrainian war and now the 2023 Bilhorod war of independence should demand immediate ceasefire in the BPR and withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine and the Bilhorod Peoples Republic (BPR) and immediate negotiations for this neutral…
I stand with Bilhorod People's Republic anyone who supports a peaceful resolution in the Russo-Ukrainian war should stand up with the people of the BPR demand immediate ceasefire in the BPR and withdrawal of all Russian troops from Ukraine and the BPR and immediate negotiations…
Third 155mm factory to suffer explosion/fire this week.
2 in the United States
1 in the UK
2 Russian saboteurs were arrested in Germany.
Russia has a long track record of this
Since 2014 they have blown up
6 in Ukraine
2 in the Czech Republic
1 in Bulgaria
UK's only 155-mm shells plant reports a blast (no serious damage for the factory) tonight. Two days ago, fire started at a US ammo facility in Scranton, producing shells for Ukraine. Today, in Germany, two Russian saboteurs have been arrested. /1
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According to Russian Telegram a Project 03160 Raptor-class patrol boat split in half and sunk off the coast of Sevastopol. If confirmed this will be the 5th Raptor boat to sink since the start of the Russo-Ukraine War. This would equal 30% of all raptor class patrol boats in…
The answer is yes the Biden administration fell for Russian Nuclear Propaganda and Jake Sullivan and the NSC are at the helm.
Delaying ATACMS,
Delaying Abrams,
Delaying HIMARS,
Delaying F-16's and training,
Delaying transfer of several ships,
Dictating what Ukraine can target,…
My assessment of area likely damaged yesterday by 🇺🇦 kamikaze USV on the Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship Project 18280 Ivan Khurs. The 🇺🇦 kamikaze USV are assessed to be capable of carrying 400lbs of explosives. This is a similar amount of explosives used against the USS Cole…
I'll try to make a more accurate chart of Russia's order of battle for the Black Sea Fleet at the start of the Russo-Ukraine War and I'll do red and yellow X's to denote ships that are damaged or destroyed. I know I'm missing a couple below but we're getting close to the Black…
Look at how accurately this Ukrainian Kamikaze Drone hit a Russian oil refinery, it’s some of the best accuracy possible to do with a long-range kamikaze drone
There are those that may call this man a coward for this image makes it appear as if he's running away. This is anything but the truth. This border guard did his duty honorably. He denied for as long as he could illegal and unauthorized access into the borders of his nation, one…
46 Surface Combatants Currently in the Eastern Mediterranean or Enroute from the United States and Allies
Including
2x Aircraft Carriers
2x Amphibious Assault Ships
2x Amphibious Transport Dock's
1x Dock Landing Ship
1x Command and Control ship
10x Destroys
16x Frigates
2x…
So yea Russia now admits Project K which was recruitment of former prisoners to join Wagner started off with 49,000 volunteers. Out of those 49,000 members of Project K they have suffered the following casualties.
31% KIA (15,000)
51% WIA (25,000)
Total casualty rate of 82%…
WTF?????
this is just a small sampling... but wow!!! and yes i know its K troops, but 1st and 2nd corps are used the same way.. so are many paratrooper units..
telegram saying that out of 49,000 troops 15,000 died, and 25000 were WIA.. this is russian official news!!!!
now…
How do we know shit is about to get real in the Middle East.
RUMINT is the crew of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) has been served Steak & Lobster tonight for dinner which is never a good sign.
👀👀👀👀
Don't panic DOD just casually throwing out that the Army/Space Force has tactical space control technology that can provide ground forces tactical close air support.
This is a war crime, especially when Ukraine has established SOPs on accepting surrenders via drone as showcased three months ago. The man clearly has surrendered and is attempting to communicate as such to the drone operator and then after getting injured making him combat de…
Kerch Bridge used to have 46-48 of these trains cross into Crimea every single day now it is 0 and these trains traverse by land to Mariupol and Bilmak
In the last 48 hours, three Russian warships have been attacked
Thanks to
@MT_Anderson
and
@tom_bike
for picking up the satellite imagery.
Ivanovets sunk by at least 3x Ukrainian USV's
A second vessel 50 meters in length smoking roughly 2.5 km offshore Crimea´s Cape…
⚡️ The moment the Russian reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs was hit by a Ukrainian naval drone in the Black Sea.
The video was provided to Ukrainska Pravda by sources in military environment
So Russian Propaganda for 2 years has been telling everyone that Ukrainians are Nazis and now they are saying Ukrainians are not Nazis but instead Jihadists
The following countries have urged their citizens to leave 🇷🇺 will update if other governments make similar statements.
#UkraineRussiaWar
#AnnexationofUkraine
#NAFO
Poland 🇵🇱
Estonia 🇪🇪
Latvia 🇱🇻
Italy 🇮🇹
United States 🇺🇲
Bulgaria 🇧🇬
Romania 🇷🇴
Taiwan 🇹🇼
Canada 🇨🇦
Portugal 🇵🇹
Iran-Pakistan relations
In wake of 🇮🇷 ballistic missile strike
in Balochistan 🇵🇰 that killed 2 children and wounded 3 children.
The Pakistan Navy has recalled both its ships PNS Madagar & PNS Zhob from Iran and cancelled its planned joint naval exercise with Iran. Both ships…
We should be sending those f-16s and f-15s that are being retired to Ukraine. No longer meet the needs of the Air Force and will not hurt combat readiness
Did you know Hamas retrieved naval munitions from WW1 shipwrecks.
In 2020 Hamas published video in a segment titled "What hidden is greater” which was broadcast by Al-Jazeera, showed that Al-Qassam Brigades successful dives on the wrecks of HMS M15 & HMS Staunch some 800 meters…
Total Houthi Missiles and Drones intercepted by ship as of 12/31/2023.
USS Thomas Hudner (DDG-116) x5 drones
USS Carney (DDG-64) x18 drones
HMS Diamond D-34 x1 drone
FS Languedoc (F-653) x1 drone
USS Laboon (DDG-58) x10 drones X3 ASBM X2 LACM
USS Eisenhower…
18DEC2023 updated map of warships operating in Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea.
Updates:
USS Indianapolis transited the Straight of Hormuz now in the Gulf of Oman.
ESPS Victoria (F-82) is continuing to follow the hijacked MV Ruen yet to be…
Reminder 86% of Russian freight rail is moved along electrified rail. No electricity, no train movement, which means no supplies going to the front.
About time Ukraine starts attacking Russian Rail and going after the ZHV.
Short thread on new Russian rail developments
As of March 28, 2024
Telmanovskoye district Ukraine IVO
47.439786,37.921376 status of new Russian Rail being built.
Rail bed is complete and track laying has started.
Wonder if they will make this double track.
#UkraineWar
…
16DEC2023 updated map of warships operating in Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea.
New set up let me know if this is something you guys like.
INS Trishul (F-43) likely and
ESPS Victoria (F-82) are enroute to ships hijacked by Somali pirates in…
Mine thread 🧵
The Main Intelligence Directorate of the UA Ministry of Defense assesses the threat of Russia's use of tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine as
"very high"
This was reported by the representative of the GUR Vadim Skibitsky:
Imagine being the vehicle maintenance guy that's now going to have to repaint all of the army vehicles from woodland green back to desert tan, after they just got done painting everything green.
Big Paint Industry is going to be eating well for the foreseeable future.
Yemen’s Houthi rebel leader Abdel Malek al-Houthi declare US Navy ships as targets. They have effectively declared war. Stating that the position of the Houthis is to engage in Hostile actions against the United States with force. Permission to fire back would be nice.
Similar…
Currently the minimum wage in Russia is 16,242 Rubles per month ($162.43 USD) If you break this down into a 40 hour week that is 101.5 Rubles per hour. Bread in Russia now costs 143.75 Rubles or 1.5 hours of work or you can take the bread on credit and pay 11.99 Rubles (0.12 USD)…
With this second video showing an explosion gotta say that there is likely a hole 1/5 the size of the ship on top of the tail shaft, propeller destroyed very hard time to keep this ship afloat.
Solution for 🇵🇸 refugees. There is an
2,060 km2 (795.4 sq mi) area of land (7x the size of Gaza Strip) on the border between 🇪🇬/🇸🇩 which is uninhabited and unwanted by either country called Bir Tawil. It is the only place on Earth that is habitable (though does have a harsh…
13NOV2023 updated map of Warships in Eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf
As always work in progress.
Trying new layout adding ships deployed under routine operations across the middle east let me know what you think.
Does not include ships…
More updates on the Patriot. US inspectors arrived in Ukraine and inspected the damaged Patriot. The assessment the damage is minimal.
The system itself is still operational, the officials said, and the radar component of the Patriot, one of its most important elements, was not…
UPDATED Infographic highlighting Land, Sea, Air assets used by Coalition forces on 12JAN2024 strikes on Houthi targets.
Total of 22 fixed winged aircraft from the USS Eisenhower CVN-69
Updated missile interception chart will come at the end of the day.
#RedSea
#Houthi
#Navy
…
See my tweet last night. In terms of damage from the one drone that we have confirmation of hitting the vessel, I have no idea if a second drone hit not were along the vessel so preliminary damage.
My assessment of area likely damaged yesterday by 🇺🇦 kamikaze USV on the Yury Ivanov-class intelligence ship Project 18280 Ivan Khurs. The 🇺🇦 kamikaze USV are assessed to be capable of carrying 400lbs of explosives. This is a similar amount of explosives used against the USS Cole…
Updated Map of US Navy and Allies in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Warships from the following countries underway or deployed
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USS Mount Whitney LCC-20
Ford Carrier Strike Group
USS Gerald R. Ford CVN-78
USS Thomas Hudner DDG-116
USS Ramage…
Per NYT Two Israeli officials say Iran launched a total of 331 Missiles and Drones in tonights attacks. Most of the launches came from Iran, and a small portion came from Iraq and Yemen.
The breakdown of the 331 Missiles and Drones
185x OWA-UAV's
36x Cruise Missiles
110x…
Updated once again pretty sure I've got every single vessel but once again I will say still work in progress of US Navy and Allies in Eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea
USS Mount Whitney LCC-20
Ford Carrier Strike Group
USS…
It would be great if you guys stopped sharing footage from 2020 and 2021 of the ship entering port in Istanbul and Sevastopol. Thank you. Also I would like to know from the Russian propagandist when did the vessel enter port? Because you told me it entered port yesterday with no…
Like the Ottoman Empire Russia is critically over-reliant on railroads.
Ottoman Hejaz Railway was attacked and degraded by Lawrence of Arabia hopefully Ukraine takes his raids as a lesson and starts something similar.
Cool fact over 100 years later Ottoman trains ambushed by…
If it is accurate that two of these kamikaze USV's hit Ivan Khurs he's in for a very bad day. 880lbs of high explosives against a 4000 ton vessel. Ouch! Then you add the tail shaft being destroyed. It's literally going to be pumping water into the ship across multiple…
14NOV2023 updated map of Warships in Eastern Mediterranean, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf.
Had to increase the overall size of the image let me know if the font is to small.
Deleted tracking of 45th Chinese Naval Escort Task Force from Map.
Changes since…
Found another clipped section of the video a few seconds later showing the border guard with a rifle, presumably getting ready to fire at the oncoming Russians.
So who wants to tell delve into the bunker and tell the Czar that in the last 72 hours he has had
$605,547,000.00~ USD or
₽57,829,738,500.00~ RUB worth of military equipment damaged/destroyed.
#NAFO
#Ukraine
#RussiaIsLosing
#Russia
29OCT2023 Updated Map of US Navy and Allies in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Corrections:
Added specific location of USS Mesa Verde as it is doing disaggregated ops in Eastern Mediterranean.
USS Laboon did not cross the straight of Gibraltar yesterday tracker code was for USS…
Updated timeline of who was notified when of SECDEF Hospitalization.
Chairman of JCS was notified on 02JAN2024 doesn't notify anybody else.
POTUS not notified till 04JAN2024
National Security Advisor not notified till 04JAN2024
NSC not notified till 04JAN2024
Deputy…
Damage to Novoivanivka Airbase Munitions Depot in
#Crimea
after a successful Ukrainian missile strike.
Image 1 Sentinel 2 June 25, 2023
Image 2 Sentinel 2 July 22, 2023 while base is still on fire
Image 3 Sentinel 2 July 25, 2023
Image 4 highlight of area damaged using July 25…
Kozacha Bay fuel terminal totally not used for the military and definitely not located on mil property and totally doesn't fuel Sevastopol Kozachya Bay Aerodrome / Khersones Air Base and motor pools and black sea fleet. Also, didn't the official say civilian supply not affected?
With the looming imminent airstrikes on the Houthis tonight, here's a quick recap of which ships in the region are part of Operation Prosperity Guardian and other ships in the region and their respected operations.
#RedSea
#Houthi
#Navy
#RoyalNavy
#USNavy
#prosperityguardian
…
Updated infographic of Houthi Missile, USV, UAV, Manned boats launched vs intercepted from Coalition warships. Note only total interceptions and total launched figures updated at this time awaiting further clarity of which ships shot down how much from tonight's attack.
Total…
~415km from strike location to Sevastopol. This class of ship can do a bit less than 40km/h at it's absolute best... so, Ivan Khurs docking less than 11 hours from it's return trip start is physically impossible. And yesterday they acknowledge that the ship was damaged and…
If you had told me on Jan 20, 2021 that members of Congress still don't understand basic US Civics on powers of the Executive under the War Powers Act in response to direct attacks on US Armed Forces and US Merchant Ships, I would have believed it.
If you had told me on Jan 20, 2021 that Biden would be ordering military strikes on the Houthis without Congressional approval while the Saudis would be calling for restraint and de-escalation in Yemen, I would never have believed it.
The Titan submersible now has less than 21 hours of oxygen left. 😔
#Titansubmersible
#Titanic
Realistically they have 13 hours left a roundtrip from surface to Titanic and back is up to 8 hours. The submersible must be found and rescue equipment lowered on site and ascension…
While looking for more info on the explosion in Taganrog was on NASA FIRMS a whole barracks and depot area presumably on fire. Coords
47.419020, 39.262500 about 45km north and east of Taganrog.
08NOV2023 update of US Navy and Allies in the Mediterranean Sea
Changes since yesterday
Trying new layout as more ships are in red sea let me know what you think.
USN announced USS florida has entered CENTCOM AOR.
Ike CSG continues sailing south in the Red Sea
Bataan ARG has…
Imagery from Planet Labs confirming the Soviet era storage site of SS-19 fuel/parts and aviation munitions from 1949 where destroyed yesterday
This was not a new ammo depot this was another target of little military value like Pavlohrad Chemical Plant.
The explosion in Khmelnytskyi this morning appears the Russians have struck another Soviet area storage site
of old rockets waiting to be disposed of. The Khmelnytskyi garrison, as well as the Pervomayskyi district, were part of the 43rd Missile Army.
01NOV2023 updated map of US Navy and Allies in the Mediterranean and Red Sea.
Trying some different layouts let me know what you think.
Corrections:
Removed TCG Yavuz (F240) and TCG Heybeliada (F-511) from map due to departure from respectie groups for 100 ships parade will…
06NOV2023 update of US Navy and Allies in the Mediterranean Sea
Ike CSG transited the Suez and is now operating in the Red Sea.
Corrections:
Changes to Ford CSG
USS Paul Ignatius (DDG-117)
USS Bulkeley (DDG-84)
Have officially been attached to DESRON-2. Ford CSG now has…
27DEC2023 Updated map of warships operating in Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea.
Updates:
Updated positions of warships
Added the following
PNS Saif (F-253) was deployed in the Arabian Sea and have not seen any reporting that it has returned…
Ukraine received 31 Abrams tanks, while about 3,700 Abrams machines of the earliest modifications are aging in long-term storage sites and are unlikely to ever be used.
Couple Possibilities of tonight's strike based off early geolocation it is Highly likely to be the fairly new radio engineering station with a radio-transparent dome with a diameter of about 30 meters. Also here is the RAL 5N84A Oborona-14. Located at 45.201628,33.320632.
Option…
The specific rocket that Hamas said that they were launching was the r160 which is one of the larger missiles in Hamas inventory.
The R160 is the Palestinian name for the Khaibar-1 also known as the Khyber-1, M-302 which is a Syrian-made 302mm unguided artillery rocket. It is…
A T-90A was spotted at Peto’s I-10 truckstop in Roanoke Louisiana.
This T-90A was attached to the 27th Separate Motor Rifle Brigade part of the 1st Guards Tank Army captured IVO Kurylivka, Kupiansk region Kharkiv Oblast on 9/25/2022 by the 92nd Separate Mechanised Brigade.
So the Ryazan Oil Refinery that Ukraine hit last night deep within Russia they passed by half a dozen munition depots, dozens of large transformers and substations and multiple rail yards and several military airfields, this is not including any military infrastructure within…
18DEC2023 Mid-day updated map of warships operating in Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea.
Midday updates:
USS Laboon (DDG-58) has entered the Red Sea.
Ike CSG is now within 20 nautical miles of the BAM.
45th Chinese Naval Escort Task Force is in…
19DEC2023 correctional updated map of warships operating in Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea.
Corrections: Per Indian Navy INS Kochi (D-64) is following MV Ruen not INS Mormugao (D-67)
FS Champlain (A-623) and FS Floreal Class Frigate are operating…
Remember that Forbes Ukraine article from last year that found Russia had spent $25.6 billion on compensation to families of deceased soldiers and $21 billion on compensation to the wounded. Putin has previously signed a decree earlier in 2023 ordering the payout of $68,800 to…
From Meduza...Russia added 507,000 disabled men between 31 and 59 to its pension and insurance rolls in 2023. Huge jump reflects mobilized men wounded in Russia's war on Ukraine.