Russia has displayed NATO “war trophies” captured from the battlefield in Ukraine at a military expo this week in Moscow, Army International Military-Technical Forum. The expo features Russia’s cutting edge military hardware of all kinds, ZeroHedge reported.
Unlike years past Russia displayed some of the captured military hardware, artillery, and vehicles supplied by the United States and NATO, some of which is in ‘mint condition.’
Reuters reported:
In the Moscow region’s Patriot Park, dedicated to the achievements of the Russian army, an officer wearing a green cap stood in front of a captured US MaxxPro armored vehicle. “It was abandoned on a battlefield because it stopped working,” the serviceman told Russian state-run agency TASS.
He then turned to a British Husky vehicle, whose windshield was riddled with what seemed to be bullet holes. Around him, more Western military equipment was on display, an opportunity for the Russian army to flaunt its achievements and mock the counteroffensive that Ukraine launched in June.
A few meters away, another Russian officer was showing off a French AMX-10 RC and its famously long anti-tank gun. The collection of “trophies” that AFP journalists saw Tuesday also included an Australian Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle, a US M113 personnel carrier and a Swedish CV90 combat vehicle.
According Tass, the Russian military showcased other new technologies and weapons there, such as an AI-powered combat drone.
The Aqua-22 modular quadcopter is furnished with a video camera based on the domestic motherboard to work with artificial intelligence to accomplish objectives autonomously. This video camera enables the drone to autonomously identify enemy hardware and manpower and other objects.
We have not seen similar drones in Russia as of now. The drone was engineered jointly with the Era technological park and together with it we are developing and training the neural network. Specialists from Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Rostov-on-Don took part in creating the drone.
We expect the drone to be further practically employed in the interests of the Russian Armed Forces. An understanding has been reached on conducting large-scale tests jointly with the Russian Defense Ministry’s Main Innovative Development Department.
Possibly, it will be more difficult for the drone to correctly identify a target upon an object’s certain deformation or camouflaging. However, in instances when a human eye may miss some casual objects, a neural network will certainly not skip it.
The aerial vehicle is outfitted with a module for dropping a guided munition that continues to be guided after its dropping to adjust its flight path all the way down to the target. This, of course, boosts the safety of munition-dropping that can take place at a high altitude and its accuracy several-fold. As for the combat payload, it can use the core of the VOG grenade launcher fragmentation shell.
As its other advantage, the drone carries a quickly detachable payload. The drone features a special fixture to quickly replace or remove the camera for repairs and attach modules depending on objectives.
A representative of the Inventors for the Front volunteer project told Tass
Other things like a “flying binoculars” reconnaissance drone, or things like a new high-powered, semiautomatic sniper rifle were displayed.
During our first tests this rifle showed groups of five shots that hit a tiny area of 1.5 square centimeters. From a distance of 100 meters. This is unique. The bullet’s caliber is 12.7 millimeters. In other words, it’s like all bullets flew into one tiny hole. One after another.
The rifle is semi-automatic, but at the same time it boasts high accuracy. The Barrett rifle showed an average shot grouping of 6 centimeters. That is, we have surpassed the Americans many times over.
Vitaly Bulgakov, the deputy managing director of KBP JSC (part of Rostec’s High-Precision Systems), said
Lukashenko Says Russia Has Achieved Its Goals
At the same time, Belarus President Aleksander Lukashenko told an Ukrainian journalist that Russia has achieved its main goals in Ukraine, which will cause the U.S. to eventually dump Ukraine. He said in the interview:
The goals of the Russian special military operation have already been fulfilled and the future [of] Ukraine will not dance to the tune of the United States.
You know, we did not discuss the topic with him in this spirit, but I dare to express my position. The goals of the SMO have already been fulfilled.
Ukraine will never be as aggressive towards Russia after the end of this war as it was before the war. Ukraine will be different.
First, there will be people in power who are more cautious, smarter, more cunning, if you like. Intelligent people. Who will understand that the neighbors are given by God and that you need to build relations with them.
I’m sure of it. The future Ukraine will not dance to the tune of the United States. This is my understanding. I am absolutely convinced that Putin thinks so too. I think that’s how he understands the process. This is a big lesson not only for Ukraine but also for Russia. For us, for the whole world. That’s a great lesson. We will learn from it. Russia will too.
If you want a lasting, just peace, then military support for Ukraine is the way to get there. There is no doubt about that.
It is Ukraine, and only Ukraine, that can decide when the prerequisites for negotiations are present. And who can decide, around a negotiating table, what is an acceptable solution. Our task is to support them.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
Isaiah 9:5
If you have been following the infrequent reports on this war, it is clear, from what we are allowed to see and gather (and I am not referring to Western media, as they always lie), that Ukraine is near defeat. They have effectively run out of manpower and a lot of their gifted war toys have been destroyed or abandoned.
So unless America and NATO sends troops over there, or drops a tactical nuke, then this will be wrapped up soon, or Russia will continue to press on and takeover more of Ukraine.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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