Episode with the evacuation of a Ukrainian 1A3 "Marder" BMP of German manufacture by a Russian BREM-1 repair and recovery vehicle. The video was presumably filmed in the Kursk region of Russia. The 1A3 "Marder" BMP is equipped with a homemade protection against drones, in the form of a small "barbecue" on the turret.
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A powerful fire and explosions have broken out at the Russian 107th arsenal of the Main Missile and Artillery Directorate in the Tver Region. The video shows what is believed to be footage of a fire, although this has not yet been officially confirmed. Recently, the ammunition depot in Toropets has been the target of attacks by Ukrainian drones several times. Unofficially, the fire was caused by fallen debris from a Ukrainian drone. The 107th arsenal was used to store various ammunition, including 122-mm rockets for the Grad MLRS and 82-mm artillery mines, and there may have been missiles as well. It is worth noting that the construction of the 107th arsenal in 2018 was overseen by Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov. At that time, Dmitry Bulgakov said that an arsenal for storing missiles and ammunition that meets the highest world standards would be put into operation in Toropets. Currently, General of the Army Dmitry Bulgakov has been detained in a criminal case of corruption. According to the latest information, the Governor of the Tver Region Igor Rudenya has decided to partially evacuate the population from the city of Toropets, where work is underway to extinguish a fire and repel an attack by drones. The administration of the Toropets Municipal District announced an evacuation to the city of Zapadnaya Dvina by bus. A hotline for local residents on evacuation issues has been opened.
Ukrainian media reported on the use of the Admiral-Avianosets UAV, a carrier of FPV drones, by the Russian army, this was confirmed by Russian sources. The Admiral UAV delivers an FPV drone to the combat zone, the UAV also functions as a communications repeater. The use of UAV carriers allows increasing the range of FPV drones from 15 to 40 km, in addition, the patrol time of the territory increases and the effectiveness of electronic warfare decreases.
An episode of the battle of the Ukrainian column of armored vehicles, which tried to enter the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region of Russia. The column, consisting of two Ukrainian BMP CV9040C, a Strv 122 tank and two BMP Marder 1A3, was moving towards the village of Vesyoliy. The column came under attack from Russian 152-mm howitzers D-20 and FPV drones one and a half kilometers from the border. As a result of the attack on the column, the Ukrainian equipment dispersed and was destroyed mainly by drones. In the battle, the Ukrainian army used Swedish and German military equipment, technical data about it is on the channel.
Footage of the use of the Russian ATGM "Kornet" against the Ukrainian infantry fighting vehicle Bradley M2A2, American-made. The video was filmed in the Pokrovsky direction. Presumably, two ATGM 9M133M-2 with a tandem-cumulative warhead and a range of up to 8,000 meters were used for firing. The firing range of the ATGM "Kornet" is up to 10,000 meters. The Bradley M2A2 IFV was attacked by two ATGMs, the first exploded in front of the tracks, the second immobilized the IFV. The BRAT add-on protection and the engine softened the effects of the ATGM strike, the crew left the combat vehicle, after which mortars began to operate in the area.
Footage of the strike of the Russian kamikaze drone "Lancet-51" on the 122-mm Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika", made in the Soviet Union. The self-propelled howitzer 2S1 "Gvozdika" was developed in 1968 and is also used by the Russian army, the firing range of the self-propelled howitzer is up to 22,000 meters with an active-reactive projectile. The self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika" is characterized by simplicity and reliability, the self-propelled howitzer 2S1 is used by about 40 countries. The drone strike was filmed in the Sumy region of Ukraine, as a result of the strike of the drone "Lancet", a fire started in the Ukrainian self-propelled howitzer "Gvozdika" and the ammunition exploded.
Footage of the strike by the Russian kamikaze drone "Lancet-51" on the Ukrainian radar P-19 "Dunai" near Novoukrainka. The Soviet mobile two-coordinate radar P-19 was adopted into service in 1974 and is designed to detect airborne objects at a range of up to 160 kilometers and an altitude of up to 6,000 meters. As a result of the strike by the drone "Lancet", the radar P-19 was destroyed, the crew servicing the radar was not harmed.
Episode of a recording of a Ukrainian soldier talking about the situation in the Kurakhovsky direction and a trip on a Ukrainian-made Kozak-7 armored vehicle. The group was hit by drones, the Kozak-7 armored vehicle was damaged, they tried to evacuate it at night using a BTS-4 tracked armored tractor, a Soviet-made vehicle developed in 1965. The soldier died in the Kurakhovsky direction during the assault. The General Staff of Ukraine called the Kurakhovsky direction the "hottest".
An episode of a battle in the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region of Russia. The video shows an attack by FPV drones, models unknown, of the 106th Tula Airborne Division of Russia, on a column of the Ukrainian army. The column consists of an American-made Stryker armored personnel carrier, two BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles and a Soviet-made BREM-1 armored recovery vehicle. The mechanized unit of the Ukrainian army was moving towards the village of Vesyoloye. The video is shortened, the dead servicemen are cut out
Footage of the attack of the Russian FPV drone "Prince Vandal Novgorodsky" on the Ukrainian tank "Leopard-2A6" of German production. The drone is controlled by the fiber-optic system "Groza-Leska", which allows it to remain invulnerable to electronic warfare. The consequences of the drone's strike on the tank are not shown, the tank itself has a protective canopy, the so-called barbecue, made of mesh. The FPV drone "Vandal" can carry a payload of 3.5 kg. The drone is controlled by a fiber-optic cable at a range of up to 20 km. The video was filmed in the Kursk region of Russia.
Footage has been published of a Russian Su-34 fighter bomber attack, presumably with an ODAB-1500 vacuum bomb. The video was filmed in Vovchansk, Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine. There is no official ODAB-1500 bomb, but the presence of the bomb was confirmed by Colonel General Alexei Kim in March 2024, reporting at a meeting to Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu on the use of such an aerial bomb. It is possible that the ODAB-1500 bomb was created in Russia in the 2000s. The first ODAB-500 bombs were produced in the 1970s by the Bazalt Federal State Unitary Enterprise, a development of the GSKB-47 design bureau. The ODAB-1500 aerial bomb is activated sequentially during combat use: first, the active substance is sprayed, and then it oxidizes in the air with ignition and subsequent detonation. Based on the data on ODAB-500, the radius of destruction of the thermobaric charge of the ODAB-1500 bomb is not less than 500 meters, with a pressure of 120 atmospheres at the epicenter of the explosion. The damaging factor of the ODAB-1500 bomb is thermal radiation and a jump in atmospheric pressure. A large area of destruction allows to reduce the cost of the ammunition by reducing the requirements for accuracy of impact.