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@DariuszE10729 @WulfrikFellmane @GrandpaRoy2 8 rockets

@WulfrikFellmane @GrandpaRoy2 To nie śmigłowiec dron ma tylko 4 rakiety

“Madyar” confirms that the purpose of the unguided rockets now carried by Ukrainian FP-1/2 UAVs is to suppress ground fire. “It's the turn of the mobile groups. The task is to eliminate these machine gunners and MANPADS. From now on, UAVs will be equipped with [rockets] to work on different types of targets, as well as on you.” 1/

@moseshessstan @Shishaextrem @torkkolateemu @ukraine_map @Maks_NAFO_FELLA They don’t. That USA who urges Israel to do at least that, they reject every Ukraine request not to spoil relations with Russia. Same with Patriots; they simply don't use them now as the US gave them much better AA

@Shishaextrem @torkkolateemu @ukraine_map @Maks_NAFO_FELLA Setting up field hospitals and Patriot missiles

What do you think? 🤔

@Fefe_no_covfefe @bayraktar_1love Bulava as mentioned in text: united24media.com/latest-news/uk…

@bayraktar_1love Looks like semi-autonomous targeting. The operator chooses a target and the drone tracks it on its own. Interesting development, do we know which drone it was?

Strike by a Bulava loitering munition on a Russian 2S43 “Malva” wheeled self-propelled artillery system. Recent months have seen a noticeable increase in the intensity of loitering munition strikes against Russian targets, a very welcome trend.

@88_vnd @kvistp Wake up, you shit yourself

Those damn Ukrainian housewives

@kriegsforscherD Tanks became mostly useless till effective proactive protection developed and equipped on every tank. There are tasks for tanks but now they mostly suicidal. Same for arty that can’t simply operate within drones range

Drones did not replaced tanks (or artillery). Neither German, American or Soviet ones.

@bayraktar_1love It's common practice to cover radar and satellite antennas under the dome which has cage like structures for panels.

The United States has joined the global trend of installing big anti-drone cages, placing one over a radar on the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.

@tayokun @bayraktar_1love @RALee85 Europe isn't buying russian oil since 2022 except Hungary and Slovakia and declined to buy russian oil even now: brusselstimes.com/2025746/eu-res…

@bayraktar_1love @RALee85 This is exactly what Ukraine shouldn't be doing right now. It's actually putting Europe, which needs Russian oil, in a difficult position.

🔥🛢️A major drone attack on the Russian port of Novorossiysk is underway. Local residents witness a large fire in the port area after the strikes.

@Imhotep333 @mattia_n @RheinmetallAG I’m very grateful for every piece of machinery allies supply or selling, but claiming that ua drone tech based on some western startup just ridicules

@hellvesper @mattia_n @RheinmetallAG Yeah.. you don’t need , but you use it.. As I said, you are the proof of ungratefulness.

Oleksandr Yakovenko, the founder of TAF Industries, one of Ukraine's largest drone makers wrote a good response to @RheinmetallAG's Papperger's irritating statement. I used AI to translate it for you. It is worth reading in full. "Dear Mr. Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, When you called Ukrainian drone manufacturers “Ukrainian housewives with 3D printers in their kitchens,” you demonstrated how deeply the European defense establishment still fails to understand the nature of modern warfare. This is not about emоtions. This is about battlefield reality. Here are the figures your industry refuses to acknowledge: In 2025 alone, Ukrainian drones carried out 819,737 confirmed strikes. They accounted for 90% of all combat losses of the Russian army—more than all other types of weapons combined. A single company, TAF Industries, produces up to 100,000 FPV drones per month. Over any given 90-day period, the products of my company alone have more confirmed hits than your entire fleet of equipment over its entire history of combat use across all conflicts. And most importantly—I built this company and achieved these results in two years, not fifty. Think about that. Our drones achieve greater kinetic effect in three months than your flagship platforms have in half a century. Why? Because the battlefield has changed, while your business model has not. Russian electronic warfare has rendered GPS-guided Western munitions (Excalibur, GMLRS, etc.) almost ineffective. Expensive and complex systems designed for wars with air superiority and conventional “peer-on-peer” conflict have become easy targets for drones costing $500–2,000 that attack them from above. The cost-effectiveness ratio has been turned upside down: one 120mm Rheinmetall shell or one anti-tank missile costs more than a dozen of our drones—yet our drones still prevail. This is not a “Lego game.” This is industrial Darwinism in real time. We iterate weekly. We lose factories to missile strikes and rebuild them within weeks. We print parts in basements and deploy 100,000 strike systems per month, while your engineers still require 3–5 years and hundreds of millions of euros to certify even minor upgrades. The war in Ukraine is not a temporary anomaly. It is the first true drone-industrial war. And it has already proven that outdated European platforms—no matter how expensive or “serious”—are becoming increasingly irrelevant if they do not integrate the very technologies you are mocking. So when you say “this is not innovation,” I hear something else: “We do not want to admit that the future is being written in Ukrainian workshops, not in Düsseldorf offices.” The hashtag #MadeByHousewives is trending for a reason. Because these “housewives” destroy more enemy equipment every month than entire European armies do over full campaigns. And they do so while your industry continues to sell 20th-century solutions at 21st-century prices. The invitation stands, Mr. Papperger. Stop laughing at the kitchen table. Come and learn how the war of tomorrow is actually fought. Because the next time someone asks, “Who needs tanks in the age of drones?”, the answer may be simpler than you think: Those who still believe in 1979 will lose to those who are building in 2026. With respect (but with facts), Oleksandr Yakovenko Founder of TAF Industries One of those “Ukrainian housewives”" pravda.com.ua/columns/2026/0…

@Imhotep333 @mattia_n @RheinmetallAG Ukraine had drone industry years before quantum systems even existed, and many more new companies founded since 2014. With 80 years experience in aerospace industry that produce all Soviet/Russia Satan rockets why the hell it needed some German startup technology to make drones?

@hellvesper @mattia_n @RheinmetallAG I see you are ukrainian : search quantum systems , these are not all loud shouted by Germany , but you should know as ukrainian..a lot of expertise in production and technology for your drones comes from Germany and especially now that the game changed in your favor

@Imhotep333 @mattia_n @RheinmetallAG There are very few Gepard's in Ukraine for any impact on statistics, most shaheds downed by large calibre machine guns like 50cal browning etc, by mobile anti-drone groups. Interceptor drones became second, Gepard's not even in top 10 list I'm afraid

@hellvesper @mattia_n @RheinmetallAG And the most antidrones you used eficiently on shahed drones are modified gepards ..

@deaidua @TacitusScriptor They still useful but not dominate for sure. Instead of complaining Rheinmetall can focus on how to effectively protect this type of equipment from drones

@TacitusScriptor I don't have the numbers on hand, but it is absolutely correct that artillery, tanks and more will still have a future in modern combat, especially during a possible war between Russia and NATO, which will very likely fought differently than the Russian war against Ukraine,

My latest piece → Following the heavy criticism Rheinmetall has faced in recent days following controversial statements by CEO Armin Papperger, I spoke today with Rheinmetall’s Head of Press and Public Relations. deaidua.org/news/2026/03/3…

@Imhotep333 @mattia_n @RheinmetallAG Which what exactly? Ukrainians innovate in drones since 2014. Germany didn’t helped in any piece on this field

@mattia_n @RheinmetallAG Maybe he didn’t have to speak the truth in a time of war, but Germany helped you with all the technology and inovation in drones , the thing that you assume all merits now.. to me, as a romanian, proofs that you are more russian than you think of yourself as not.

@dupays @Alex_FS31 @The_Banned_Vids You very wrong on this mate, initiator devices used in drones usually has self destruct on power loss, not a booby traps, its just common case behaviour

@Alex_FS31 @The_Banned_Vids Of course you can booby trap anything but I don't think functioning weapons that are in use are booby trapped. Too dangerous for the operator. Of course this could have been a booby trap and it would've been pretty successful too. Just cut the red wire.

@SergiyYunak @sinicynr Нестача дронів через брак коштів, а не виробництва. Експорт якраз дозволить знизити ціну для внутрішнього ринку та інвестувати у подальші розробки

@sinicynr Це пусте бла-бла! Який може бути експорт озброєнь у воюючій країні? На будь-якій ділянці - нестача дронів! А ми такі: дайте нам з Сомалі поторгувати! Кому така дурня могла в голову прийти?

Останнім часом дуже сумно від публічних новин по контрактам та закупівлям високотехнологічної оборонки в Європі та не тільки. На фото ви бачите польського військового з дроном-перехоплювачем AS-3 MEROPS. Польша, Румунія, США, Данія та інші країни НАТО уже взяли його на озброєння або в процесі, навчаються екіпажі, розгортаються сервісні центри. Це контракти на мільярди доларів. Меропс - чудовий, насправді, продукт. З "combat proven in Ukraine", бо без цієї приписки зараз ти нічого високотехнологічного і "дронового" у Світі не продаси. Цей дрон успішно застосовується в Україні і ним збивають десятки і сотні шахедів. АЛЕ Цей дрон - американської компанії. Виробляється на Заході, з українського там невелика частина R&D, тактика застосування і сотні кейсів успішних збиттів нашими операторами. До чого я веду? Гроші лишаються на заході. Ми лишаємось ні з чим. Таких кейсів більш ніж вдосталь: кейси Helsing, Anduril, Quantum Systems... Які роблять хороші продукти, відкатують тут технології і успішно виробляються та продаються на заході, маючи доступ до глобальних ринків та глобальних грошей. А що ж українські компанії, запитаєте Ви? На прикладі тих же перехоплювавчів - у нас є 5-7 компаній, котрі випускають продукцію не гіршу а десь і кращу за ті ж Меропси. Які теж збивають шахеди сотнями. Які подекуди дешевші за західні аналоги. Але поставляти на Захід вони нічого не можуть, бо... їм не дають цього робити влада та зарегульованість процедур. Але ж "експорт оборонки" відкрили, скажете ви! По факту - це брехня, було укладено всього декілька спільних контрактів, це крапля в морі можливостей які лежать перед українським оборонним сектором. В цей же час основний дозвільний орган (Міжвідомча комісія з політики військово-технічного співробітництва та експортного контролю) який видає дозволи на прямий експорт в разі ПОКРИТТЯ ВНУТРІШНІХ ПОТРЕБ місяцями блокує або штампує відмови виробникам по контрактам в країни НАТО, навіть не Африку чи Близький схід (який ми теж по факту уже про#бали). Це не тільки про перехоплювачі. Це про НРК, розвідувальні та ударні дрони, софт, АІ, бойові алгоритми, засоби РЕР та РЕБ, навіть компонентну базу частково. Усе те, що народилося і відшліфувалося на цій війні, нашою кров'ю по суті. По суті Україна зараз робить для світу те, що колись робила нафта для нафтових монархій - створює нове стратегічне багатство. Бо схема тут дуже проста: ми створюємо середовище, де технологія стає ефективною; ми даємо фронт, дані, досвід, операторів, інженерний цикл; а монетизують це часто інші. Це не просто про бізнес. Це про гроші, які не зайшли в Україну. Про податки, які не заплатилися тут. Про заводи, які не масштабувалися тут. Про інженерів, які завтра поїдуть туди, де є ринок, де є більше грошей і зрозумілі правила. Найгірший сценарій для країни — не програти війну. Найгірший сценарій — виграти війну, але програти ринок, який ця війна створила. Високотехнологічний defense-ринок не чекає і не буде чекати. Контракти підписуються на роки вперед. Ну або блокуються купкою чиновників в якійсь там комісії. Якщо сьогодні не зайшов - завтра вже пізно, заробить хтось інший, але не Україна. Михайло Федоров, ви думаєте щось з цим робити?

@GrandpaRoy2 Battery and radiation isn’t a problem. This things is just not flexible, frequency changing all time, those guns can jamming some common range mostly commercial drones. Car jammers carry dozens of jammers for multiple rf ranges

Whatever happened to EW jamming rifles? Very popular in 2023, they have vanished mostly because they are too small to hold enough battery power to be effective against FPVs. And if the battery power is greatly increased, the operator irradiates himself.

@Archer83Able The only country who has ever used Article 5 is the U.S.

US President Trump on other countries' involvement in the Strait of Hormuz mission: "Numerous countries have told me they're on the way. Some are very enthusiastic about it, and some aren't... We have some countries where we have 45,000 soldiers, great soldiers, protecting them from harm's way. And we have done a great job. And we want to know, do you have any minesweepers? 'Well, we'd rather not get involved, sir.' I said, you mean for 40 years we're protecting you and you don't want to get involved in something that is very minor? Very few shots going to be taken because they don't have many shots left."

@xMightOfMjolnir @AsenStoev @kvistp it was Bulgaria who developed Cyrillic, almost millennia before Peter the great

@AsenStoev @kvistp en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_… no, I just have too much shit rattling around in my filing cabinets to remember every little fucking detail of every little thing... sorry it was MODIFIED by Peter the Great! unlike most people though I welcome corrections.

Wow...

@AniasFinds @HumansNoContext prop cage probably

@HumansNoContext How does it avoid touching the propellers?

Best use of a drone I’ve ever seen

@420ppunk @poker_dio @Archer83Able question was about smart shells, there is no any. so yeah good aiming is key here with help of FCR or without

@hellvesper @poker_dio @Archer83Able Lithuania donated Bofors with FCR, but the dude saying 'aim more right' kinda suggests just plain good aiming

Ukrainian servicemen intercept Russian Shahed/Geran-type long-range OWA-UAVs with Swedish-made Bofors L70 40mm anti-aircraft gun in Ukraine’s Kharkiv Oblast.

@MonkehPutler @Archer83Able Yeah, and where have all those systems been? They had half a year to deploy them.

@Archer83Able Because the US Army and USMC have literally hundreds of their own C-UAS/VSHORAD systems!

At a closed-door White House meeting on August 18, 2025, Ukrainian officials offered to provide the US with interceptor drones, but were dismissed by the Trump administration. "If there's a tactical error or a mistake we made leading up to this [war in Iran], this was it," a U.S. official acknowledged. A U.S. official who saw the the PowerPoint presentation about interceptor drones shown by the Ukrainians theorized that Ukrainian President Zelensky is seen by some in the Trump administration as too much of a self-promoter of a client state that doesn't command enough respect. axios.com/2026/03/10/us-…