[Rfneimad]

Originally Posted by ride ↗

GLSDB - in other words, a missile.

It’s all in the marketing.

No its a bomb with a rocket up its ass, and a gps glide package

Cant wait till its a drone with a rocket with bombs with glide kits and stereos that blast neo phonk

[RedactedKaos]

Can anyone confirm this? Been out of the loops for a minute

Yes, the M1 Abrams tank has been used in Ukraine. The first shipment of 31 tanks arrived in late October 2023, and as of today, February 3, 2024, they have reportedly seen some action on the battlefield.

However, the exact details of their deployment and their impact are not publicly available due to operational security concerns. While there have been reports of Abrams tanks being used in specific locations, Ukrainian officials have been tight-lipped about their overall strategy and tactics.

* **Number of tanks:** 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks were delivered to Ukraine as part of a larger military aid package from the United States.
* **Delivery date:** Late October 2023
* **Confirmation of use:** Ukrainian officials have confirmed that the tanks are being used in combat, but haven't provided specifics.
* **Limited information:** Due to operational security, details about the deployment and impact of the Abrams tanks are not widely available.

[WonderMomma]

Originally Posted by RedactedKaos ↗

Can anyone confirm this? Been out of the loops for a minute

I started seeing the Abrams on the front in the beginning of November last year, albeit not very many pieces of media on it. It has it's own hashtag so here are the links to stuff posted starting 6 November.

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...1/#post8104028

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...8/#post8118856

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...ml#post8119366

https://www.documentingreality.com/f...4/#post8151755

[ride]

Originally Posted by Rfneimad ↗

No its a bomb with a rocket up its ass, and a gps glide package

You just described the basic components of a missile. I hope you're just being cheeky cause I think you're an intelligent person.

I do like the speakers and neo-phonk idea.

[kellyhound]

The United States and Britain struck 36 Houthi targets in Yemen on Saturday in a second wave of assaults meant to further disable Iran-backed groups that have relentlessly attacked American and international interests in the wake of the Israel-Hamas war. But Washington once more did not directly target Iran as it tries to find a balance between a forceful response and intensifying the conflict.

The latest strikes against the Houthis were launched by U.S. warships and American and British fighter jets. The strikes follow an air assault in Iraq and Syria on Friday that targeted other Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in retaliation for the drone strike that killed three U.S. troops in Jordan last weekend.

The Houthi targets were in 13 different locations and were struck by U.S. F/A-18 fighter jets from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower aircraft carrier, by British Typhoon FGR4 fighter aircraft and by the Navy destroyers USS Gravely and the USS Carney firing Tomahawk missiles from the Red Sea, according to U.S. officials and the U.K. Defense Ministry. The U.S. officials were not authorized to publicly discuss the military operation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. warned that its response after the soldiers’ deaths at the Tower 22 base in Jordan last Sunday would not be limited to one night, one target or one group. While there has been no suggestion the Houthis were directly responsible, they have been one of the prime U.S. adversaries since Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, killing more than 1,200 people and taking about 250 hostages. The Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said that more than 26,000 people have been killed and more than 64,400 wounded in the Israeli military operation since the war began.

The Houthis have been conducting almost daily missile or drone attacks against commercial and military ships transiting the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden and they have made clear that they have no intention of scaling back their campaign despite pressure from the American and British campaign.

Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a Houthi official, said “military operations against Israel will continue until the crimes of genocide in Gaza are stopped and the siege on its residents is lifted, no matter the sacrifices it costs us.” He wrote online that the “American-British aggression against Yemen will not go unanswered, and we will meet escalation with escalation.”

The Biden administration has indicated that this is likely not the last of its strikes. The U.S. has blamed the Jordan attack on the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a coalition of Iranian-backed militias. Iran has tried to distance itself from the drone strike, saying the militias act independently of its direction.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a statement that the military action, with support from Australia, Bahrain, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, “sends a clear message to the Houthis that they will continue to bear further consequences if they do not end their illegal attacks on international shipping and naval vessels.”

He added: “We will not hesitate to defend lives and the free flow of commerce in one of the world’s most critical waterways.”

The Defense Department said the strikes targeted sites associated with the Houthis’ deeply buried weapons storage facilities, missile systems and launchers, air defense systems, radars and helicopters. The British military said it struck a ground control station west of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, that has been used to control Houthi drones that have launched against vessels in the Red Sea.

President Joe Biden was briefed on the strikes before he left Delaware on Saturday for a West Coast campaign trip, according to an administration official.

The latest strikes marked the third time the U.S. and Britain had conducted a large joint operation to strike Houthi weapon launchers, radar sites and drones. The strikes in Yemen are meant to underscore the broader message to Iran that Washington holds Tehran responsible for arming, funding and training the array of militias — from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and the Houthis in Yemen — who are behind attacks across the Mideast against U.S. and international interests.

Video shared online by people in Sanaa included the sound of explosions and at least one blast was seen lighting up the night sky. Residents described the blasts as happening around buildings associated with the Yemeni presidential compound. The Houthi-controlled state-run news agency, SABA, reported strikes in al-Bayda, Dhamar, Hajjah, Hodeida, Taiz and Sanaa provinces.

Hours before the latest joint operation, the U.S. took another self-defense strike on a site in Yemen, destroying six anti-ship cruise missiles, as it has repeatedly when it has detected a missile or drone ready to launch. The day before the strikes the U.S. destroyer Laboon and F/A-18s from the Eisenhower shot down seven drones fired from Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen into the Red Sea and the destroyer Carney shot down a drone fired in the Gulf of Aden and U.S. forces took out four more drones that were prepared to launch.

The Houthis’ attacks have led shipping companies to reroute their vessels from the Red Sea, sending them around Africa through the Cape of Good Hope — a much longer, costlier and less efficient passage. The threats also have led the U.S. and its allies to set up a joint mission where warships from participating nations provide a protective umbrella of air defense for ships as they travel the critical waterway that runs from the Suez Canal down to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

During normal operations about 400 commercial vessels transit the southern Red Sea at any given time.

In the wake of the strikes Friday in Iraq and Syria, Hussein al-Mosawi, spokesperson for Harakat al-Nujaba, one of the main Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, said Washington “must understand that every action elicits a reaction.” But in an AP interview in Baghdad, he also struck a more conciliatory tone. “We do not wish to escalate or widen regional tensions,” he said.

Iraqi officials have attempted to rein in the militias, while also condemning U.S. retaliatory strikes as a violation of Iraqi sovereignty and calling for an exit of the 2,500 U.S. troops who are in the country as part of an international coalition to fight the Islamic State group. Last month, Iraqi and U.S. military officials launched formal talks to wind down the coalition’s presence, a process that will likely take years.

[kellyhound]

In occupied Luhansk where occupiers now say 28 people died "in an attack on a bakery" in Lyschansk.

However, the building was also a restaurant "Adriatic" and on social networks some say a well known gathering/eating place for Russia's military.

[kellyhound]

In the Sumy direction, the Ukrainian Armed Forces liquidated the Russian DRG.

Soldiers of the Terror Defense Forces yesterday at 18.20 on the approaches to the Glukhiv community noticed the movement of an armed group of ten people. The DRG was going to cross the state border of Ukraine, said the commander of the Joint Forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Sergei Naev.

Ukrainian fighters began a shooting battle. Within a few minutes, mortars joined the battle, tightly covering the area where enemy forces were concentrated with fire.

Having suffered losses, the enemy changed tactics, dividing into two groups. One of which, under the cover of its artillery, evacuated the bodies of the dead and wounded.

The second group attempted to bypass the strong point from the side flank. But the skillful actions of the defenders of the Northern direction threw the Rashists far beyond the Ukrainian border.

[Rfneimad]

Originally Posted by ride ↗

You just described the basic components of a missile. I hope you're just being cheeky cause I think you're an intelligent person.

I do like the speakers and neo-phonk idea.

I think we need to go back to:

Rockets are fired with no guidance

Missles are fired with guidance

And bombs are dropped with or without guidance.

[RedactedKaos]

Ukrainian developers have created a tactical strike drone "shoolika mk6", - head of míncifri
������10 km radius of action,
������Load 6 kg
������Good resistance to radio-electronic struggle
The UAV has received positive feedback from fighters for its tactical importance, especially during night operations. UAV is undergoing NATO codification, plans to improve its artificial intelligence system and cameras for better target identification and course adjustment

[kellyhound]

The Cabinet of Ministers, at a meeting on Saturday, dismissed Oleksandr Pavliuk from the post of First Deputy Minister of Defense.
The government envoy in the Verkhovna Rada, Taras Melnychuk, reported this via Telegram, Ukrinform saw.

"Oleksandr Pavliuk was dismissed from the post of First Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine in connection with his transfer to another position," Melnychuk said.

According to some media reports, Pavliuk may become a new commander of Ukraine’s Ground Forces to replace Oleksandr Syrskyi, recently appointed Commander-in-Chief.