You would have better threads if you would just post an article and let some discussion develop.
You turn your threads into bulky, unreadable messes with a huge collection of new topics with long excerpts, large photos, religious themes and photos, you turn it into an unusable mess before any of us can get interested, or involved.
Pretty good. There's an excellent chance I'm going to steal this.
Read this interesting piece on another site. I have no idea as to its validity, but it is interesting nontheless:
“A few weeks ago the Russian military started a systematic counter artillery campaign which has since made great progress. The typical western way of detecting enemy artillery units is by radar. The flight path of the projectile is measured and the coordinates of its source are calculated enabling ones own artillery to respond. But counter-artillery radar itself depends on radiating. It is thereby easily detectable and vulnerable to fire. Over the last months Russia deployed a very different counter-artillery detection systems with the rather ironic name of Penicillin:
Penicillin or 1B75 Penicillin is an acoustic-thermal artillery-reconnaissance system developed by Ruselectronics for the Russian Armed Forces. The system aims to detect and locate enemy artillery, mortars, MLRs, anti-aircraft or tactical-missile firing positions with seismic and acoustic sensors, without emitting any radio waves. It locates enemy fire within 5 seconds at a range of 25 km (16 mi; 13 nmi). Penicillin completed state trials in December 2018 and entered combat duty in 2020.
The Penicillin is mounted on the 8x8 Kamaz-6350 chassis and consists of a 1B75 sensor suite placed on a telescopic boom for the infrared and visible spectrum as well as of several ground-installed seismic and acoustic receivers as a part of the 1B76 sensor suite. It has an effective range for communication with other military assets up to 40 kilometres (25 mi) and is capable to operate even in a fully automatic mode, without any crew. One system can reportedly cover an entire division against an enemy fire. Besides that, it co-ordinates and corrects a friendly artillery fire.
The Penicillin system can hide in the woods and stick up its telescopic boom to look at and listen to the battlefield. As it does not radiate itself there is no good way for an enemy to detect it.
The system pinpoints Ukrainian guns as they fire. They are then eliminated by immediate precise counter-fire. As the artillery relevant part of today’s ‘clobber’ list provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense claims:...”
“better threads”
Typically, I post the article and develop topic with a variety of comments to develop a current discussion regarding the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This creates a log of daily events for both the Ukrainian and Russian citizens victimized by this Putin invasion.
Also, these multiple comments are not only reflective of current events encountered by the people. The multiple comments provide an immediate barrier from totally irrelevant ‘Pro-Putin Pushers’ snarky comments. :)
Works for me: provides sourced info while warding off abuse.