⚡️🇷🇺🇮🇷🎯 @Rybar about Iranian Kamikaze Drones⚡️

We recently wrote, see 👉 "HERE", about the planned shipment of ballistic missiles to Russia. Now the Western media reports that the Russian Arash-2 and Meraj-521 bomber munitions may also be received by the Russian Armed Forces.

According to media reports, Russia is interested in two more types of UAVs: "Arash-2" and "Meraj-521".

▪️"Arash-2"

This type is a relatively new Iranian development. Compared to the Shahed-136, they have a more powerful warhead and a claimed range of up to 1,700 km.

The drone is a long-range precision-guided weapon that can be launched from both land and sea platforms.

Newer models have infrared or optical homing heads. This allows the drone to stay in a given area to find and destroy the target.

At the exercises of the IRGC and the Iranian Army, the Arash has been used effectively as an anti-radar munition, which will be relevant for suppressing Ukrainian air defences.

▪️"Meraj-521"

This is the latest example of a small-sized UAV designed to engage personnel and light equipment.

It was first tested by the IRGC's Ground Forces Quick Reaction Force during a recent exercise near the Azerbayjan border.

The drone is the counterpart to the US Switchblade 300. It is launched by mortar from a pneumatic catapult.

Low weight and dimensions allow carrying the drone in a rucksack. The flight range is 5 km, autonomy 15 minutes.

🩸 There has been no real confirmation of the Arash and Meraj being sent to Russia so far. However, it would look logical against the backdrop of an expanding range of Iranian arms supplies to the Russian Armed Forces.

Moreover, both sides are interested in such cooperation: the Russian army improves its combat capabilities, while the Islamic Republic gets an ideal test range to confirm the performance of its missiles and UAVs against Western-made weapons.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦💥 A strike on a High Precision Weapons Production Facility in #Kharkov⚡️

The Military Chronicle channel reported that at midnight Russian troops struck the workshops of the Kommunar plant, where HIMARS rocket launchers were produced.

🔎 The @Rybar team managed to geolocate the building targeted by the Russian troops and confirm the information of Military Chronicle.

🔻 This is the former Tesla factory, which produced electric cars during peacetime.

▪️ With the outbreak of hostilities, the normal functioning of the plant has been suspended, staff removed and production facilities adapted to the needs of the Ukrainian military industry.

▪️ The three-storey building, over 100 metres long, was used to produce a wide range of control boards and circuits for communications equipment, missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and rockets.

▪️ On 25 October, we wrote that the first batch of modified R-29 missiles and rockets had been delivered to the Ukrainian army, which, with the help of US specialists, managed to bring the accuracy of the HIMARS to an "artisanal" level.

Subsequently, the same base began to produce components for the GLMRS themselves.

🩸 According to our information, over the past months, the production facilities in the Tesla building became the main centre for the manufacture of electronic components and control units for missiles and rockets.

Because of the general convenience of the Kommunar location, US handlers made a big bet on adapting the available high-tech equipment for production of high-precision weapons. Necessary documentation was supplied, equipment delivered and personnel trained.

Acceptance of production and handing over to the troops was carried out every Friday.

So far it is difficult to assess the extent of the destruction of the workshops but we can say with certainty that if the shelling proves to be effective then the production capacity of the AFU to produce precision weapons and ammunition will be significantly reduced.

Workshop coordinates: 50.033917, 36.283450

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦📜 @Rybar on "Probing" Crimea's Defences⚡️

Almost immediately after the RF Armed Forces withdrew to the left bank of the Dnipro River and abandoned #Kherson, Ukrainian formations focused their efforts on conducting reconnaissance and assessing the state of defence on the Crimean peninsula.

♦️ What are we talking about?

▪️ Almost daily from early November to the second decade of December, commercial UAVs (such as the Mugin-5), "artificially" equipped with grenades, flew from the #Odessa region in the direction of #Crimea and #Sevastopol.

The reason for choosing these drones is obvious: they are cheap, accessible and can fly at predetermined coordinates at relatively low altitudes.

▪️ In addition, the Ukrainian command has adapted conventional aerostats to monitor Russian military activity on the peninsula by equipping them with cameras.

The main advantage of these devices is their low price as compared with any other drones. The main disadvantage is their dependence on weather conditions - a blimp can be launched only when there is a strong tailwind.

▪️ There is another pattern.

On the days of aerial reconnaissance and attempted strikes against Russian targets south of #Crimea, there was always a strategic RQ-4B/D UAV in the air. The drone monitored the location and nature of Russian air defence assets.

▪️ And a few more days before such "probes", Western commercial and military space systems were surveying the ground and land, transmitting the most important coordinates for strikes to the AFU.

♦️What are the AFU's tactics?

➖ Over several days/weeks, one or more UAV/aerostat sorties are conducted to "probe" #Crimea's anti-aircraft system and incite panic. Alongside this, there is a massive furore on social media about the bombings and arrivals.

➖ Within a day or two, Ukrainian formations receive data from satellites on the targets and re-flash the drones.

➖ At night, close to midnight, several drones are flown in, whose task is to detect the response of anti-aircraft missile systems to targets.

➖ The second and third wave of drones, equipped with improvised projectiles to hit military and industrial targets, follow the identified coordinates towards morning.

♦️What is the Point?

The Ukrainian leadership has made no secret of their intentions to seize the Crimean peninsula. However, at the moment, all their statements are only meant to create panic and discord in the Russian society.

The AFU's efforts are now focused on more strategically important tasks, namely reaching #Svatovo and #Kremennaya, holding #Bakhmut and breaking through to the Sea of Azov in Zaporozhye region.

Regular attempts to attack the peninsula using aerial and maritime drones, a terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge, sabotage and information campaigns are needed to inflame the situation and once again demonstrate the Russian army's inability to defend its territories.

Activity has decreased in recent days due to unfavourable weather conditions. In the near future, the Ukrainian Armed Forces will resume attempting strikes in #Crimea. A new batch of drones has been delivered to #Odessa and #Nikolaev regions, and at least one Bairaktar is operating along the Black Sea coastline.

Western intelligence continues to work off Russian shores, while military and commercial satellites actively monitor the highest-priority targets for strikes, which include the Crimean bridge, industrial facilities in #Feodosia and military bases in #Sevastopol.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚰️ AFU lost more than 250 officers in #Bakhmut in a Month due to NATO Tactics, Details⚡️

☠️ There has been an explosive increase in the deaths of junior and senior officers in AFU units deployed to #Bakhmut since late November.

♦️According to Military Chronicle, large losses among platoon and company commanders have been recorded in the 57th Motorized Infantry Brigade, 60th Infantry, 46th Airmobile and 59th Motorized Infantry Brigades of the Ukrainian Army, which arrived in #Bakhmut to reinforce the defense and strengthen the front.

🔹These units are considered the most combat ready in the Ukrainian army. Officers and privates from these brigades were trained at the Yavoriv training ground and also trained in Germany as part of the JMTG-U mission before the start of the Special Military Operation. The training was conducted by officers from US Army and National Guard formations and instructors from a number of NATO countries.

🔹The US instructors taught the AFU long-range combat and how to operate in an assault formation in a city. In #Bakhmut, it is practically impossible to conduct attacks, 95% of the time it takes to organise defences. The Ukrainian army cannot offer its own tactical solutions, and as a result unit commanders make mistakes and send people to certain death.

🔹Due to a wrong assessment of the potential enemy, in less than a month the losses of officers in all units of the Ukrainian army in #Bakhmut exceeded 250 people. Because of tactical errors, units trained to NATO standards in Germany were repeatedly ambushed and tried to take cover in buildings previously sheltered by the 152 mm Giatcint-S and Msta-B guns.

🔹Another reason for the deaths from fleeing artillery fire in open terrain was the shortage of armoured vehicles. Most attempts to counterattack "banded" positions in the suburbs of #Bakhmut were conducted without the cover of tanks and APCs, and infantry units were transported to the battlefield mainly in pick-up trucks without armour.

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