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1.) The first is related to the Russian bridgehead at Bilohorivka, in regards of which somebody released this story: What I did to destroy Russian Pontoon Bridge over Siversky Donets.
Provided this is genuine, it’s a very good treatment against my ‘Russian Bridgehead Syndrome’.
BTW, it seems it was the artillery battalion of the 17th Tank Brigade that was involved in this counter-strike: if truth, must stop calling that unit ‘unlucky’.
2.) Another thingy I found interesting to read yesterday is, to a certain degree, ‘bridges related’, too. As widely reported and thus well-known, over the last month, and in reaction to the NATO’s deliveries of heavy weapons and associated ammunition, the Russians are running an intensive campaign of interdicting the work of the Ukrainian railway system.
Initially, such operations were run with help of cruise missiles like Kh-101 and Kh-555 (ASCC/NATO-codename ‘AS-15 Kent’). These were launched exclusively from strategic bombers like Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-160. Quite often, the Russians deployed ship- and submarine-launched 3M-54 Kalibr (‘SS-N-27 Sizzler’), too.
As the stocks of these decreased, they began deploying P-600 Onix/Yakhont missiles of the K-300P Bastion-P coastal-defence system (‘SS-C-5 Stooge’), from sites on the occupied Crimean Peninsula.
…and, of course, they are all the time deploying ballistic missiles, like 9K720 Iskander (‘SS-26 Stone’):
About two weeks ago (if not earlier), the Russians depleted their stocks of ballistic- and cruise missiles to the degree where they began deploying their old Kh-59s (‘AS-13 Kingbolt’): these are actually tactical, electro-optically guided missiles with a range of about 100–150km (the Russians claim much more; but Russian advertisements and reality are two entirely different things). They are released from Sukhoi Su-34 fighter-bombers, but the mass of examples ‘still in service’ with the VKS is so old (made in the late 1980s, early 1990s), RUMINT has it that up to 60% are malfunctioning upon release (definitely: before getting anywhere near their target). Moreover, guiding a missile like Kh-59 under combat conditions is anything else than ‘fun’….
Point is: yesterday, a video surfaced purportedly shown the release of two Kh-22 (‘AS-4 Kitchen’) missiles from a Tu-22M-3 bomber.
