I know Injust posted a whole bunch of these, but this new one is still pretty notable.
In short, Sniper laser targeting system. While laser guided rockets have plenty of other uses, one really significant one is a massive increase in drone interception potential.
For context: the current record for drones intercepted in Ukraine in one sortie is I believe six, four by missiles and two by gun when the missiles ran out.
A single laser guided rocket pod holds 7 rockets, and one F-16 can theoretically carry 6 pods. Those rockets also only cost about 27k per shot. This is about the same or less than the cost of a Shaheed drone, and a massive improvement from using for example AIM-missiles that cost about 400k per.
This has the potential to make F-16:s much more relevant in the fight against Russian drone swarm attacks.
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Today my wife's friend in Kyiv said the situation is getting pretty bad with the power grid. The city only gets 5 hours of power most days; between the hours of 3am-5am, and 3 random hours after that. As well she also mentioned the cost to purchase food and supplies has gone up substantially over the past few months. Could be related to storage costs requiring power and whatnot. Luckily the city isn't that super cold yet.
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SBU drones again hit oil production platforms in the Caspian Sea
Drones attacked the Filanovsky oil production platform for the second time in a week. In addition, another platform was hit https://twitter.com/user/status/1999546812957442409
Kaja Kallas: The EU just decided to indefinitely immobilise Russian assets. This ensures that up to €210 billion in Russian funds stay on EU soil, unless Russia fully pays reparations to Ukraine for the damage it has caused. https://twitter.com/user/status/1999549185071161733
The enemy is looking for options for installing radio repeaters for Shaheds on the territory of Ukraine, - Flash For this, they plan to choose private homes and, probably, elderly people. Please warn your elderly parents and neighbors to pay attention to such requests from strangers. https://twitter.com/user/status/1999493345882616242
Zelensky: Today is the Kupyansk direction, our soldiers who are achieving results for Ukraine here. Many Russians have talked about Kupyansk – we see. I was there, I congratulated the guys. Thank you to every unit, everyone who is fighting here, everyone who is destroying the occupier. https://twitter.com/user/status/1999459821955788999
A fire is burning at a mechanical plant in Orsk that produces artillery shells, - ASTRA. The plant produces over 50% of the artillery shells of certain calibers produced in Russia. https://twitter.com/user/status/1999433051395502498
More than two hundred Russians surrounded in Kupyansk - NGU "Khartiya" From the beginning of the operation from September 22 to December 12, 1,027 occupiers were killed, 291 were wounded, and 13 were captured. https://twitter.com/user/status/1999431034430267459
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