on the way should remain unnoticed by the uav, therefore the situation in the air is always under control, we see that the sky is clear, we can charge, it is strange for this time, that the weather is good, the sky is clear, they should have flown, but now we see that there is no one nearby , there is in the direction of nadia, there is a pokachestvo near new york. together with the mortars of the 100th separate mechanized brigade, we are heading to toretsk, this is one of those areas of the front where the situation is very dynamic and changes from day to day, the russian occupation forces on this direction they are trying to press, they are concentrating both manpower, artillery fire and air strikes here.

it doesn't matter, it happens differently, it happens more at night, it happens more during the day, depending on how the releases go, they often climb, they often climb, they would drink a lot, but we manage, a lot of mines have already been thrown in this direction here, a lot, a lot , it happened that in three days. up 150, as we drove in already, how much has passed, 10 days, we have not changed positions, we are repelling everything, we are repelling mortar fire, artillery and our infantry on the front is also being fired at normally, that is , we haven’t changed the position yet during our stay here, and this is just an indicator , you know, for civilians it may not be an indicator, well, it’s... like for the direction where the enemy is conducting

assault actions, well, i think this is an indicator. roman is constantly distracted by the tablet, through which he monitors the situation, the night sky on the front line is full of drones. a crowded area, a lot, scouting constantly, you see, it's all thermals, mavik thermals, it takes a lot if maviks to provide enough scouting to destroy in time the enemy, who is trying to find some kind of slips somewhere. vapors in our defense, and it is all hot, everything is warm, it is difficult to detect, even with a thermal imaging drone, but the movements, they are still recorded, and where the enemy accumulates his manpower during the night, we work there in a certain period of time, when there is accumulation, what charge? the fourth, yok accepted, report on

readiness for work, as accepted, look, he is going, now he will shoot him down, a shot, in the end, the mines are released precisely according to the coordinates that show the place of concentration of manpower the enemy, a shot, after the first mine , the second mine was immediately thrown quickly, because there was a gap. directly in the area of ​​the target there 15 m on the same installations, the second ammunition was recovered, of course, it is nice when you clearly hit the target, and you simply destroy them, i changed the spatula to a mortar, and that’s it, nothing to worry about, a soldier with the call sign sledge in civilian clothes he was a construction worker all his life, but he has been a mortar operator for a year now. already lost count

of the ammunition fired, oh, i don't know, guys, so many, many tons, literally tons, literally tons, hands don't hurt, well, it happens in everything, hands, back, legs, but you get used to everything, getting used to it is a completely different matter. but to roman , when calculating the coordinates of the target , the country of manufacture must also be taken into account, because mines of different manufactures fly differently, the forward one needs accuracy, some more precision, some greater distribution, let's say this, a lot, even you know, i don't even know where they are from, we are learning shoot, eh, what the map gives, we shoot, what doesn't give, eh, then we ourselves see how we work, and then we know how these mines work, how they... fly, what

they have ballistics, well, it also depends on the charges, well, of course, the mines of the united states, they are the most accurate, and i will mark in second place. our domestic mines also fly very well. in response to a request from donbas-reality , ukroboronprom reported that the priority is now the production of all calibers of min - 60, 82 and 120 mm, as well as soviet-style artillery ammunition - 122 and 152 mm, as well as western 155 mm. according to the commander-in-chief of the ukrainian armed forces oleksandr syrskyi, today the ratio in the use of art projectiles at the front is 3:1 in favor of russia. for example, 45 to 15 00 in july-august. at the same time, he did not specify the calibers in question. the troops say that the intensity of fire is constantly changing, but they are ready to fire ten times more. for august of the 22nd year, i counted only for, i

remember then, only for the operation, which, more precisely, for the combat tasks that we performed in sumy region, kharkiv region and izyum. well, it was somewhere around 20 thousand shells. your intensity must have increased after that, no, it decreased, then we worked much harder, now it's just not of such a possibility, we usually count it in ammunition, so if we are currently using an oak tree, for example, there is 0.1 ammunition, but we would need at least 0.7 0.8 ammunition there, it would be for a day, this would be noticeable to the enemy. very noticeable. denys began serving in the 93rd separate mechanized brigade, kholodny yar, even before the start of the full-scale war. during this time , he managed many systems, soviet from different countries, trophies left by the russian army, as well as the west.

shot. our task is defense. and no wonder because i'm telling you, we saw much worse when we fought with wagner, and when they made up the personnel in packs, we in a day, i calculated like this, killed somewhere, that's in a day only our brigade killed 40-50 people , this is in the lines of our brigade, every day, and this is for nine months, you can roughly calculate how many losses they have, but in principle they coped with the task, i i say that there is ammunition, the artillery will perform the task in any weather, the main thing is that there are shells. sub-teams shoot more western shells than soviet ones, a ratio of 10 to one. this crew moved to the western installation about a year ago from a soviet acacia, maybe the diesel oil will leak, this oil is always dirty, then you see it clean, you already

know how to compare a kamaz with a mercedes, something like this is used on many cars, so it’s just a wheelbarrow , there are signs of repair on the car, it just... got into a lancet, the car was extinguished, it was on fire, if the car is tricked, the starter will be tricked and so that it starts, this is to open the hood, disconnect the outlet there, as the americans then i remember, still they said, there are letters there for meanings, and they said, bacon, eggs, that is, they have it, i

remembered it, and you close this bacon, eggs, and that's it, and then the car starts, the car started , and then we lowered the barrel and there were all the steams that you can gas shot, tourists fired at the target with a 109 by 6 gun, its famous name is the holadi, an american self-propelled gun. it is necessary to wipe the wedge after each shot, if it, roughly speaking, gets clogged, then it will not close, it will have to be serviced quickly. you asked before, is there such a thing? to gunpowder, something better, something worse, at one time they carried gunpowder, everything is black from them there, you

can wash off the crap later, as i talked to the commanders, some fly normally, lie down, some badly, simply because the shells are somehow incomprehensible, those shells , for the most part, what it is... accordingly, we will have more time for if these batches of projectiles are different, then the adjustment of these projectiles may not even be a qualitatively completed task, perhaps it will be completed by 50%, for example, elementary charges differ, there are 100 there 100 g of gunpowder means that the projectile is not far away. a certain number of kilometers, one will fly where it is needed, and the other will not fly, and that's all, the fact that we do not take into account

all the physical qualities of the ballistics of these projectiles, well , it also has a certain ellipse-scattering, let's say, the scattering of these projectiles in the area of ​​the target, that is, projectiles from from different manufacturers and even from different batches, each flies in its own way, looking at the conditional uniform standard and scheme of ammunition, case, detonator, explosive and powder. charge. in fact, the shells are from different countries are very different. conventional french, swedish or british installation most effectively shoots native ammunition. 155 mm projectiles are one of the main requests from ukraine to western partners. if we look at the industry as a whole, it is already catching up with the need for ammunition production, but it is worth examining whose needs western industry is filling. the production of projectiles for ukraine is important and it is a priority for many companies, but they are

also focused on the need to replenish national stocks, because some countries gave all they had, and then they bought some more and gave it all away. so there is a kind of competing demand that results from years of maintaining minimum inventories. if all-western production was focused on the needs of ukraine, the ukrainian army would be less hungry for ammunition. and that's why i think it's really great to read that ukraine has begun to rebuild its own defense industry so that it can also produce its own ammunition. in europe , let's say, the three largest centers, which work in the production of ammunition, this is a german, let's conventionally say the center, this is rainmetal. uh, it's uh, the french center, it's nexter and yurenko, uh, and it's the norwegian-finnish

company namo. i am not talking about czech companies, for example, the czech republic is also making progress in this, there is bulgarian ammunition, and ukraine has already established production, but it still needs components, and it gets them from... from outside, and that's all about ukraine's mastery of certain technologies, and not actually components, not the production of components, that's why we will say so that as the namo company said at the beginning of this year, the physical expansion of production facilities does not mean that there will be cuts. a sharp increase in the production of ammunition in general. the factor that most

affects the production of ammunition now is the lack of gunpowder or nitrocellulose. these are special cotton varieties treated with sulfuric and nitric acid. there were companies that used to do this in many european countries in the 90s, but the factories were closed because then the demand for gunpowder fell. and today the production is very much to resume difficult, because it greatly harms the environment. for europeans, this is... an important argument. in recent years, western countries have mainly relied on suppliers of nitrocellulose from other countries. the pulp part of nitrocellulose for european enterprises was supplied by china. but as we know, as we know, there was a huge problem earlier this year, just earlier this year with china. and what was it connected with? it was related in fact. with the beginning of the trade war between the western world and china, it

began in december somewhere when the respective officials of the united states and japan agreed to limit china to the very micro in microelectronics components, then very powerful companies left the chinese market, including the netherlands, a company that dominates printing. e-e of the most powerful chips china stopped almost completely the supply of nitrocellulose, and against this background increased the supply to russia e. and russia in this matter is in a more advantageous situation, it receives it from china, and also a lot from uzbekistan, 90% of uzbek exports cotton fell on russia. you can see some problems

related to attempts to increase the availability of this material. so, the seed has to be planted and germinated, which takes two to three weeks, then it has to grow and develop into a full-fledged plant, which is four to six months. it has to ripen to grow cotton fibers, this may take several more weeks. harvesting can take weeks, depending on the size of the crop, and then the fibers must be separated from the seeds on a cotton gin. this process does not take much time, it can be days, as it is a big harvest, but you can understand that there's not really a lot of room to speed up cotton production throughout this life cycle, so you can only really increase the amount of cotton grown as a way to increase supply in the supply chain. due to the lack of raw materials for the production of ammunition and empty warehouses in the west,

ukraine is forced to use literally a zoo of shells so that its artillery always fires. from where they are officially not... voiced, but for example, the telegram channel of spj vodogray tracks their geography and at the same time with ammunition from the west on the front there are shells from india, pakistan, turkey, iran and other countries. the origin of some ammunition cannot be determined by their appearance. the variety refers to literally the entire line, mortar mines, tank and artillery shells, both western and soviet copies that were made abroad. maybe so somewhere. the quality is bad, very bad, there are countries that supply, the quality is very bad, and we have problems, for example, with the separation of barrels, with the detonation of shells in the barrel, separation of muzzle brakes, i i must say that we have no choice, we, we

cannot afford to say there, our main task is to prevent it from bursting in the barrel, so that equipment and personnel are not injured. composition, and we have no choice, that we, we work with everything that is given to us. in such a situation, it is difficult to trace the quality of the supplied ammunition, for example, how they were manufactured, if the shells are old, how long they were stored and under what conditions, how they were transported, whether the gunpowder was new or a working detonator, it is not always possible to answer such questions find an answer, but gunners need not just to shoot, but also to understand how the projectile flies and what... well, i won't name the projectiles themselves, batches and so on and the like, but we faced such a problem, if we came across low-quality ammunition, they did not cause losses the enemy, then the projectile could explode near the enemy and inflict no damage at all, just contusion

him there and that's all, and that was unlikely if he lay down a. ah, well, for example, there were such cases when we fired, and the projectile fell right next to the enemy, and it did not hit him losses, and there were cases when a projectile fell 30 m from a soviet system, for example, akatsia, and the enemy lost limbs, even the ammunition that the defense forces receive on the czech initiative, then i... predict that they are not checked and there is no work done to restore them or at least test them and that is why these cases that you mentioned happen, by and large the ammunition if obtained from third parties countries, especially if they are african countries, which if this, well, that is, we

cannot guarantee that they were kept exactly. in such conditions, which require the storage of ammunition, that is why this issue is very difficult. i would say that projectiles are not inherently difficult to manufacture because the science and manufacturing processes for ammunition are very well understood, they were started a long time ago and repeated hundreds of millions of times. i would say that there are ways in which quality can be improved, such as quality assessment processes. which occur throughout the service life of the projectiles. if we look at the projectile itself, we will see what exists several different ways to assess its quality. for example, take the american 150. five millimeter shell, the cases are usually x-rayed to check them for manufacturing defects, and they are also physically inspected by people

on the assembly line. if the wall thickness of the projectile is uneven, too thick or too thin, then this can cause problems. the projectile does not fly properly out of the barrel, or may break when fired from the barrel if the casing is too thin, so that the x-ray the process helps to ensure that all... puses are of consistent quality. a physical inspection by a human on the assembly line helps to check anything that might be more difficult to identify in the machine. cases of ammunition misfiring or not firing are a small part of the thousands of shells that are fired daily on the battlefield in ukraine, because mass production often impairs quality. for russia, the situation with shells that burst in the barrels, do not hit or do not work, is even more critical because of supply. ammunition from taxed sanctions of north korea and iran, but nevertheless, even low-quality ammunition gives russia massiveness and an advantage in the use

of artillery. we know the russians have quality control issues. ammo that had been stored in a crate on the ground since the 1970s or something . there are other issues where some cases are not filled properly. if you place half as many explosives. substance , the explosion will not pass through the projectile case properly . ideally, you would expect the projectile to break into tiny fragments that are almost impossible to see after detonation, and these the fragments will fly very, very fast. what if you don't have the right amount of explosives. in one case i saw a shell split into three pieces. if you're in the path of these three pieces of debris, that's too bad. yes, but the probability is very small. they can fly in any direction from the shell rupture. they restore shells that should have been scrapped. so you can imagine that all those quality control issues that we've been discussing just for western ammunition, in fact, in all of these countries i

would multiply them by 10, solving that would be a huge challenge. fpv drones have been balancing the shortage of artillery ammunition for the ukrainian army for a long time. now it's an entire industry. and most ukrainian units. they have small laboratories where drones are prepared for battle out of the box, and you take each of them, or the first, second, or third drone, and they can be different, and it is precisely with this type that the running begins, the fact that you cannot sit down and start like monotonously doing things that they start to differ and you need to find out what is in one place to be afraid, there on the second one, there it is necessary to completely redo something that was done incorrectly, well, like... so in terms of time, how much it takes for one drone, well, no one can say that, because drones are different, that’s if the party is already stupid for a copy, well, in fact

, some kind of mass production, where thousands of identical pilots were purchased there, then yes, we can talk about something like that. taras and his brother solder and configure drones to perform tasks in the temporal ravine area, so the amount of work they have is considerable, this is one of the... in donbas, where russian troops are trying advance, if there are a lot of assaults , then you have to prepare a lot, then the working day immediately increases, as much as necessary, then it goes, if, for example, it is more calm, then it is still like preparing with a reserve, well, just in case, because again , no one canceled the assaults, and it is better to be prepared in advance than... then in a hurry to try to launch something, but fpv or a quadcopter is only a platform that still needs ammunition, their production is also

set up on site, igor for several months makes munitions for drones, i have already, as i said, got my hands on the tricks, well, it was difficult the first few times there, it didn't work out, and then over time, well, as in every job... you choose the tool and that's it. he says that it takes about 20 minutes to prepare the most popular ammunition for fpv - the pg-7 grenade launcher shot, but now it is much more common to use a case printed on 3d printers, both as an independent ammunition and to strengthen an existing one. we add damage power, it's fragmentation, we add fragmentation, that's it it turns out, she flies. and during the explosion , it turns out that these metal particles heat up and they fly in different directions, well, i don't know, they told me what

was there, what struck them. at once to four opponents with such a projectile, the case of different shapes for a larger or smaller charge, in addition to fragments, it is necessary to fill it with explosives, and here they use literally everything possible: plastids from a demining installation, tnt rounds, american c4, you can see that it is very easy to work in the hands , different capacities are filled in the same way and according to... the power of the explosion it is much stronger than the soviet prototypes of explosives, we also sometimes disassemble such anti-tank cartridges, well, the substance is weak here, well, for fpv it is weaker, it is like a tame checker, we also disassemble its cap in order to take the explosives, it is also plastic enough, it is convenient

to work and... it is quite powerful, it is just as easy to form and fill the tubes that we have. engineers are waiting for more industrial ammunition for drones, this is first and foremost about the safety of people. such shells are appearing, but so far not enough quantity meanwhile , even scarce artillery ammunition is used for drones. engineers already have experience in analyzing cluster shells. there are simply things that are not available in this way. for the brigade to give us such and such elements or explosives, such so-called lighters, that is, from ammunition of the cartridge incendiary type, it is easily enough for 15 fpv, or even more, that is, it is used much more effectively, but it is a danger, it is time, it is not so

they give it a lot. well, so that they also work with them, then there is an exchange, we give them something, they give us something, and in this way we help each other destroy the enemy, he flew, but the production of ammunition for small drones is a priority only for the ukrainian industry, experts say, while the event is focused on the production of 155 mm caliber ammunition, if before the great... war of russia against ukraine, a shot cost about a thousand euros, now one of the european concerns, taking into account the significant demand, offers the same product already for 800 €. that is why it is necessary to have your own opportunity to release western-style projectiles. not so long ago , the license for their production in ukraine was sold by the norwegian-finnish concern namo, but even larger capacities are needed to develop a closed production cycle in ukraine. we are talking about building up.

of the technological process, about increasing technological capabilities, but this will in no way protect us from the shortage of these critical components, once again the critical components are nitrocellulose and rocket fuel, let's say motal came to lithuania or came to south africa, bought production capacity there, yes it is the same regional metal in ukraine itself... it is ready to organize production in exactly this way, together with european partners, because now we know that the trend of creating european defense sufficiency is gaining features, or momentum, and ukraine can and should integrate here the whole system. at the beginning of september, the pentagon published an indicative report with data on the production of ammunition in the united states.

now the industry produces 40,000 shells in 155 mm caliber per month, although in the plans by the fall of this year, representatives of the us army wanted to reach the figure of 80,000 ammunition, but even for those ammunition that have already been produced, there are not enough projectile charges, in simple words, gunpowder. a little less than 14,500 shots are produced per month in the states. russia aims to produce more than 1 million artillery shells. the us and europe tentatively also set themselves the goal of producing about a million shells this year, and this is only for artillery, primarily in 155 mm caliber, for russia it is 152 mm. they are projected to produce over a million shots as well about 800 122mm shells. not to mention the tank ammunition, small arms ammunition and mortars that all these countries are also planning.

chop, not to mention the civilian sphere.