Captured 🇷🇺#Russian T-62M in #Kherson oblast.

Column of 🇺🇦#Ukrainian M113 APC's

Originally 🇦🇫#Afghan Mi-17V-5 helicopters in the service of 🇺🇦#UAF (#ZSU). The 🇺🇸#US has delivered 20 of these machines to 🇺🇦#Ukraine.

🇹🇷#Turkish #Bayraktar #Akinci drone in northern 🇸🇾#Syria

🇺🇦#Ukrainian M270 MLRS🔥

For the 1st time the AFU deployed an ancient but powerful M-240 240mm mortar, which was adopted by the USSR in 1950.

Interestingly, the M-240 was not previously known to be in Ukrainian long-term storage, however a mortar of this type was displayed in a museum in Kyiv.

We have some news to break in this installment of The Downlink. Russia has closed off Sevastopol harbor, home of its Black Sea Fleet. Likely a response to the existence of 'suicide' drone boats & other threats as Ukraine spins-up its campaign against Russian assets in Crimea:

In this Downlink, we return to China's gargantuan hangar located in a remote desert testing area. Major construction is underway that could see the facility grow even larger.