Ukrainan konflikti/sota

[Subsonic]

Oli jo...

 

[OXPAHA]

Venäjä otti sotadelfiinit käyttöön Mustallamerellä

Delfiinejä on koulutettu muun muassa suojelemaan Venäjän laivaston aluksia.

www.iltalehti.fi

Hylkeet onkin muuttuneet delfiineiksi. Mutta en itse ainakaan sukeltelisi noiden kanssa. Joku sukeltaja varmaan osaa kertoa mitä tuollainen parisataakiloinen vesielävä voi tehdä sukeltavalle ihmiselle?

En ole sukeltanut delfiinien kanssa mutta isot kilpikonnat ja hylkeet pystyvät helposti nappaamaan kiinni sukeltajasta tai varusteista ja viemään mukanaan parikymmentä metriä liian syvälle. Antarktiksella leopardihylje veti yllättäen snorklaajan mukanaan ja hukkuihan se. Jos delfiini pystyy karkottamaan hain, kyllä se pullonokallaan vie ihmistäkin kuin märkää rättiä.

 

[Satchel]

Vastaavia muutoksia on ollut aikaisemminkin, tankeissa pari päivää sitten ja APC kohdalla useasti viimeisten viikojen aikana.
Edellisessä asiaan liittyvässä viestissäni tiistaina

https://maanpuolustus.net/threads/ukrainan-konflikti-sota.2939/post-1144262

totesin jo kulmakertoimen lähteneen nousuun kaluston suhteen, mutta silloin vielä miehistötappiot meni 100-200 per päivä.

edit. 26.4 nousua edellisistä luvuista oli
APC 50
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Noh, käsi ylös ainakin osittaisen virheen merkiksi, oli jäänyt huomaamatta henkilöstön osalta yksi aiempi 300 ja yksi 400 päivä, molempia seurasi tasaantuminen.

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Uncle Sam will dole out up to $10 million for vital information on each of six Russian GRU officers linked to the Kremlin-backed Sandworm gang, who, according to the Feds, have plotted to carry out destructive cyber-attacks against American critical infrastructure.

It's hoped the money, offered via the US Department of State's Rewards for Justice program, will lead to the snaring of the following men said to be Russian intelligence officers: Yuriy Sergeyevich Andrienko (Юрий Сергеевич Андриенко), Sergey Vladimirovich Detistov (Сергей Владимирович Детистов), Pavel Valeryevich Frolov (Павел Валерьевич Фролов), Anatoliy Sergeyevich Kovalev (Анатолий Сергеевич Ковалев), Artem Valeryevich Ochichenko (Артем Валерьевич Очиченко), and Petr Nikolayevich Pliskin (Петр Николаевич Плискин).

According to the US government, these are all members of the GRU's Unit 74455, also known as Sandworm, and they "deployed destructive malware and took other disruptive actions for the strategic benefit of Russia through unauthorized access to victim computers," according to the State Department.

US govt offers rewards for info on suspected GRU officers

A different type of bug bounty

www.theregister.com

Index – Rewards For Justice

rewardsforjustice.net

 

[ctg]

Schneider Electric has signed a letter of intent to offload its Russian division to local management, writing off up to €300 million ($315 million) in net book value as a result.

Jean Pascal Tricoire, CEO at the France-based UPS manufacturer, said it suspended all new investments in Russia after the invasion of Ukraine on February 24 and had concluded the best option was to sell country operations.

He said Schneider Electric decided "from the beginning that the best owners of our business would be the local leadership team."

"At this stage, we signed the LOI defining the specs on the main conditions of that transfer, we still have to go to a closing and that will go through the regulatory approvals in Russia."

Schneider Electric has 3,500 employees in Russia and its puppet state Belarus, and the countries accounted for 2 percent of the €28.9 billion in sales turned over in 2021. Three factories and two distribution centres are run in Russia as well, Tricoire confirmed.

"There is close to no export or supply chain sourcing from Russia, and certainly no critical components coming from from Russia," the CEO said.

CFO Hilary Maxson, also on the same conference call to discuss Schneider's calendar Q1 financial results, said the target is to get the sale done by June but said that with local approval required by authorities predictions are difficult.

Schneider Electric to sell Russian country operations

UPS giant finds a more permanent solution to a Putin shaped problem, writes off $315m book value

www.theregister.com

 

[weasel]

Kannattaa aina välillä käydä kurkkaamassa tuota linkkiä alla. Lee Drake koostaa helppolukuisia graafeja tuosta Oryxin datasta. Niissä näkyy venäläisten kalustotappiot nousujohteisina. Huomatkaa myös, että Oryxin lista on heidän oman ilmoituksensa mukaan laahannut koko ajan 100-300kpl perässä, eli saattaa lähipäivinä nousta käyrät vielä lisää.

GitHub - leedrake5/Russia-Ukraine: Equipment Loss Tracking

Equipment Loss Tracking. Contribute to leedrake5/Russia-Ukraine development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

 

[ctg]

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has called upon organizations to give Ukraine's tech consultancies serious consideration when tendering for contracts.

Tech in the Russia-invaded country is back to near-normal levels of efficiency, according to BCS and the IT Ukraine Association.

Particular praise was lavished on Starlink terminals, although the units were described as "a reserve alternative for network connections." Konstantin Vasyuk, executive director of the IT Ukraine Association, added: "It helps for the regions which temporarily have problems with internet connection."

Large tech companies that have subsidiaries or R&D centers in the country include Samsung (R&D), Microsoft, Amazon's Ring (R&D), Snap, Boeing, and Google.

Ukraine's IT industry was popular with outsourcers in the years before the conflict. According to reports, IT services represented the second biggest export from the country, raking in billions of dollars.

This abruptly changed when Russia invaded, although Vasyuk told the BCS: "We have been in the state of war with Russia since 2014." That said, the scale of aggression has taken both customers and suppliers by surprise.

"Business continuity planning has been tested to another level," said the BCS.

BCS: Ukraine IT is open for business

Images of bombed streets belie the fact that consultancies are still operating and need income

www.theregister.com

 

[Rannari]

En ole sukeltanut delfiinien kanssa mutta isot kilpikonnat ja hylkeet pystyvät helposti nappaamaan kiinni sukeltajasta tai varusteista ja viemään mukanaan parikymmentä metriä liian syvälle. Antarktiksella leopardihylje veti yllättäen snorklaajan mukanaan ja hukkuihan se. Jos delfiini pystyy karkottamaan hain, kyllä se pullonokallaan vie ihmistäkin kuin märkää rättiä.

Eiköhän ihmiselle käy vedessä suunnilleen yhtä huonosti kuin delfiinille kävisi kuivalla maalla. Toinen on elementissään ja toinen ei. Jos ei ehdi ampua jollakin niin se on menoa.

 

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The orders are issued like clockwork. Every day, often at around 5 am local time, the Telegram channel housing Ukraine’s unprecedented “IT Army” of hackers buzzes with a new list of targets. The volunteer group has been knocking Russian websites offline using wave after wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which flood websites with traffic requests and make them inaccessible, since the war started.

Russian online payment services, government departments, aviation companies, and food delivery firms have all been targeted by the IT Army as it aims to disrupt everyday life in Russia. “Russians have noticed regular hitches in the work of TV streaming services today,” the government-backed operators of the Telegram channel posted following one claimed operation in mid-April.

The IT Army’s actions were just the start. Since Russia invaded Ukraine at the end of February, the country has faced an unprecedented barrage of hacking activity. Hacktivists, Ukrainian forces, and outsiders from all around the world who are taking part in the IT Army have targeted Russia and its business. DDoS attacks make up the bulk of the action, but researchers have spotted ransomware that’s designed to target Russia and have been hunting for bugs in Russian systems, which could lead to more sophisticated attacks.

Russia Is Being Hacked at an Unprecedented Scale

From “IT Army” DDoS attacks to custom malware, the country has become a target like never before.

www.wired.co.uk

 

[AMC]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519607536848146433

 

[Heikkiv]

..ja kohta uutisoidaan, että tämä tarvitsee vielä "yhden miehen enemmistön", eli (homeisen kommunistin) liittokansleri Scholtzin puoltamisen?

Saksa on Saksa vaikka sen voissa paistais.

Mutta kyllä tuo homeinen kommunistikin (Scholtz) joutuu nyt kuuntelemaan hieman, tuo enemmistö luo painetta. Eli ihan kaikkea ei enää pysty torppaamaan, todellisen rakkautensa, Venäjän hyväksi.

 

[AMC]

Tässä niille, jotka ei jaksa laskea päiväkohtaista erotusta.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519614129610313729

 

[Herman30]

Jos delfiini pystyy karkottamaan hain, kyllä se pullonokallaan vie ihmistäkin kuin märkää rättiä.

Hyvin moni eläin maan päälläkin vie ihmistä kuin märkää rättiä jos ihminen on aseistamaton ja tyhjillä käsillä.

 

[AMC]

” Tänään Akimovkassa Melitopolin lähellä räjäytettiin rautatiesilta, jonka kautta hyökkääjät toimittivat aseita ja polttoainetta Krimiltä, On raportoitu, että örkit alkoivat panikoida. Silta eristettiin.”

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519602987106283520

 

[e7i]

Kuvaa myös korruption syvyyttä maassa. Lahjomalla sotaan. Ei silti, hattu päästä. Vapaaehtoisia täytyy kunnioittaa.

Aseista on pulaa ja siksi kaikkia halukkaita ei saada riveihin.

Jep. Ja vihan syvyyttä meidän on vaikea edes kuvitella tällä hetkellä. Siellä on monta joiden ainoa toive on kostaa isoin kirjaimin omasta hengestä piittaamatta.

 

[Tervastentonkija]

Kysymys venäläisten tappioista: kahinan alussa oli kovasti esillä mielipidettä että venäjä ei laske wagnereita tai 'uusien tasavaltojen' joukkoja omiin lukuihinsa. Onko näistä ollut muuten mitään päivitystä, esim. miten tappiot jakaantuvat? Ukraina ei kursaile tietenkään vaan kaikki samaan nippuun.

Laskeeko Venäjä tappioitaan ylipäätään. Ja jos laskeekin, ei tietenkään raportoi julkisesti, joten meille ei Venäjän laskelmilla ole oikeastaan edes kuriostettiarvoa?

 

[ctg]

Laskeeko Venäjä tappioitaan ylipäätään. Ja jos laskeekin, ei tietenkään raportoi julkisesti, joten meille ei Venäjän laskelmilla ole oikeastaan edes kuriostettiarvoa?

Jos Putlerilta kysyy niin todistetusti hän ei välitä.

 

[Subsonic]

Hyvin moni eläin maan päälläkin vie ihmistä kuin märkää rättiä jos ihminen on aseistamaton ja tyhjillä käsillä.

Kuten vaikka orava. Sissitaktiikalla sekin pärjää

 

[rty19]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1519630151876849666

 

[ctg]

Harmaan alueen asiantuntija kirjoittaa mielenkiintoisia artikkeleita. Jenkeillä on samoja ajatuksia drone kuskin suhteen, miten he ratkaisevat kantaman on toinen asia.

U.S. special operators are taking at least two lessons from Russia’s two-month-old war in Ukraine. First, the international partnerships the U.S. has been fostering for the past 20 years are playing a huge role. And drones are playing an even bigger one.

The leaders of the Air Force, Army, Navy, and Marine Corps special operations commands all testified before the Senate Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities on Wednesday. While the focus of the hearing was on general readiness and the shortfalls of the 2023 budget request, many of the questions focused on Ukraine.

“What are the follow-on risks of the invasion?” asked Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa. “Where do we need to expand our footprint and presence in EUCOM”—that is, U.S. European Command.

The Army’s Lt. Gen. Jonathan Braga said Russia’s invasion has “added emphasis” to the need to continue to expand “longstanding generational relationships” across eastern Europe.

“With the scale and scope of the threat of Russia and China, we won't be able to do this alone,” Braga said. “That's why I talked about our international partners and how increasing their capacities and their capabilities is so critical.”

The impact of international partnerships with special operations forces of a “multitude of different countries” in Ukraine is an “untold story,” he said.

“I won’t name the number right now, but they have absolutely banded together…And I think that really bore out from the last 20 years of working together, sweating together, bleeding together on different battlefields, on different continents,” Braga said.

On the homefront, U.S. special operations is at an “inflection point,” Naval Special Warfare Commander Rear Adm. Hugh Howard said.

Ukraine represents a “fifth modern era for special operations,” Howard said, one that shifts away from the counterterrorism capabilities that U.S. special operations have so heavily focused on for the past two decades.

“We over-rotated on counterterrorism. Clearly,” Howard said. “And we have lost some ground in the distinctive things that only we can do and we are moving with urgency to make the main thing the things that only we can do in the maritime domain.”

The Marine Corps’ special operations commander, Maj. Gen. James Glynn, agreed.

“The choices that we're having to determine right now is what of the counterterrorism skill set, the stuff that we've invested in and developed very well over the last 20 years, how much of it translates? How well does it translate? And what else do we need to be able to do?” Glynn said.

Special operators are learning in Ukraine what this future, non-counterterrorism battleground will look like—and a lot of it isn’t on the ground.

“It’s impressive to see the impact that manned and unmanned drones are having,” the Army’s Braga said. While drones were already part of the Army’s modernization effort, he said, their impact in Ukraine have led USASOC to consider creating a military occupational speciality or branch within special operations dedicated to manned and unmanned drones so that it’s “not just an additional duty, it’s an actual specialty.”

“I cannot envision a future battlefield without ever-increasing manned and unmanned robotics and the application of AI to maximize their effect and impact across all warfighting functions,” Braga told lawmakers on Wednesday.

And, of course, like the rest of the Defense Department, special operations needs to do all this with a flat budget.

“The topline request for SOCOM is the same as it was last year, despite a significant increase in threats,” Ernst said. “As we all know, a flat budget request equals a budget cut. This reality is only exacerbated by the rising inflation.”

The f2023 budget request for SOCOM is $1.3 billion less than its fiscal year 2020 budget in real terms, Ernst said. SOCOM also provided a list of $650 million in unfunded priorities.

“Each year, we find ourselves trying to balance our budgeting recommendations among modernization, readiness, personnel programs…and every year we come up short,” Air Force Special Operations Commander Lt. Gen. James Slife said. “The budget that was submitted…represents a balance of risk among those areas.”

What Have US Special Operators Learned from the Ukraine War?

The Army, for one, is considering creating a special-operations drone specialty.

www.defenseone.com