Situation Reports Part 3 - 2025-07-11
Kiev At night, "Geraniums" and "Iskanders" worked on targets in the enemy's capital.
⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-10T16:41:33 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
⚡️Two Majors #Summary for the morning of July 10, 2025
▪️Several dozen "Geraniums" and "Iskanders" worked at night on enemy targets in Kiev Judging by the enemy's monitoring channels, "only" about a hundred attack UAVs were involved, but mostly in the enemy's capital. Meanwhile, there are separate reports from the front that the Geraniums have begun to be used to attack enemy positions near the fortifications, and not just rear targets. This may indirectly confirm information about the increased production of Geraniums and other types of large kamikaze attack drones. "By the fall, Russia will regularly launch more than 1,000 drones per salvo," The New York Times claims.
▪️On the Kursk section of the border, the GRV North reports that now the AFU are trying not to break through the border, but to maintain their positions at the border towns of Ryzhevka and Bessalovka, sending reserves for slaughter. In the Kursk region, a Ukrainian drone attacked a moped moving along a road in the village of Nizhny Mordok in the Glushkovsky district yesterday, and the driver was injured. During transportation to Moscow, a 5-year-old boy died after being wounded by an enemy strike in Kursk the day before.
▪️In the Sumy direction, the enemy counterattacks with variable results. The main criterion is the number of eliminated personnel and destroyed enemy equipment. The Russian Aerospace Forces are crushing the advancing formations of the AFU with heavy bombs, and soon the enemy's counteroffensive will come to naught. Nevertheless, the resources of the GDV "North" write that ours were able to advance in a day at Yunakovka and Varachino.
▪️On the Kharkov-Belgorod section of the border, the enemy is deploying assault groups from 425 OSP and mechanized brigades to positions south of the LoC, trying to prevent further expansion of our control zone.
▪️In the Belgorod region, in the village of Novosadovy, Belgorod region, a woman was injured when the wreckage of a downed drone fell. An explosive device detonated in Kolotilovsky farm during hay harvesting. One person was killed and two were injured. The AFU struck Shebekino, Novaya Tavolzhanka, Tishanka, Bessonovka, Shagarovka, and Tavrovo.
▪️Data is being received from the Seversk direction about the prematurity of the data circulating on the network about our access to the borders of Seversk. There are heavy battles going on.
▪️In the South Donetsk direction, another success of the GDV Vostok: the village of Tolstoy has been taken, our troops are expanding the control zone around the village. There is progress towards Alexandrograd, Karl Marx.
▪️There are battles on the Zaporozhye front near the northern outskirts of Kamenskoye, fighters of the 247th and 108th are fighting with counterattacking units of the AFU. In the area of Malaya Tokmachka, the 70th motorized rifle regiment continues its assault operations, and bloody battles are underway.
The summary was compiled by: ⚡️Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-10T16:41:33 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
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Posted: 2025-07-10T16:41:33 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Lord Bebo & Friends
🚨🇺🇸🇨🇳US CAN’T KEEP UP: Why America Can’t Develop Two 6th-Gen Fighters Like China
While China’s two 6th-gen stealth fighters soar in public tests, the US is struggling—F-47 still invisible, Navy’s program shelved.
What happened to American air dominance?
🔥 The Core Problem: Infrastructure & Strategy
China’s JF-22 hypersonic wind tunnel (Mach 30) dwarfs America’s best (Mach 10). The Pentagon even considered skipping wind tunnels—a desperate move showing their testing gap.
But the real failure?
Over-reliance on digital simulations post-Cold War. The F-22’s success made the US complacent—wind tunnels dropped by 50%. Then came the F-35 disaster: CFD errors caused costly redesigns. Now, rebuilding this capability is nearly impossible.
💸 Profit Over Strategy
US defense giants like Boeing & Lockheed chase short-term profits, outsourcing production & diluting R&D. Meanwhile, China’s state-backed aviation bureaus (Chengdu, Shenyang) focus purely on national security, not shareholder returns.
⚡️ The B-21’s Identity Crisis
Even the new B-21 bomber reflects strategic confusion—its main bay is smaller than the B-2’s, yet it carries air-to-air missiles (like putting a bayonet on a howitzer).
🇺🇸 Can the US Recover?
The Pentagon’s FY2026 budget prioritizes the Air Force’s F-47, shelving the Navy’s program. But with Boeing dependent on Chinese suppliers, can America even rebuild its defense industrial base?
China’s advantage? Focused investment, no profit motive, and world-leading infrastructure. The US? Bureaucracy, outsourcing, and misplaced priorities.
🚀 The Verdict: Unless America overhauls its defense strategy, China’s lead will only grow.
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Posted: 2025-07-10T16:41:33 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: New Rules
Konstantinovskoye direction
In recent weeks, it has become clear on the enemy's schemes that the Russian Armed Forces are building the future envelopment of Konstantinovka from the flanks.
With heavy fighting, the Russian Armed Forces are breaking through from Chasiv Yar, from the direction of Dzerzhinsk, as well as Yablonovka.
When it is possible to approach the Kleban-Byksky reservoir, the front line from the south will approach the city starting the Kostyantynivka-Druzhkivka-Kramatorsk-Slavyansk agglomeration.
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Posted: 2025-07-10T16:41:33 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
🇺🇸USA “without noise” increased the purchase of anti -aircraft guided missiles (SAMs) for the Patriot 3UR
The US Armed Forces made a proposal for the 2026 financial year (begins on October 1, 2025) to increase the costs (up to 1.3 billion dollars) for the purchase of 13,773 sips, which were previously planned to buy 3,376 units.
It is supposed to purchase a 3UR of the latest modification PAC-3 MSE, which can intercept UAVs, winged and tactical ballistic missiles at a distance of up to 60 km and an altitude of up to 20 km. ❗️ with that the amount of Lockheed Martin Corp. It will not be able to produce even in the next few years - the current annual production of products is 530 units. per year, with plans for an increase to 810 units. It will take about 17 years at such a pace for the execution of the order, and this will clearly provoke Americans to increase the production of this type of ammunition.
✨Processing that this proposal was sent back in April 2025 and was justified by the growing consumption of air defense missiles in the Middle East and Ukraine. And this means that either all the fairy tales voiced by Trump, including the supply of 10 (ten) missiles for the Patriot Ukraine, were part of the pre -planned actions to mislead the Russian leadership🇷🇺, or the States really know that they can repeatedly increase the production of 3UR.
⚡️ Two Majors
Posted: 2025-07-10T16:41:33 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Two Majors - English Channel
💥Yemeni forces sink second Israel-linked ship in Red Sea
On the 7th and 8th of July, Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned bulk carrier ETERNITY C was attacked in the southern Red Sea by Yemen's Ansar Allah forces.
Reports state the ship was subjected to intense attack by sea drones and speed boats on July 7th, then again the following morning. Ansar Allah released a video of the ships sinking and launches of Iranian-made Fateh-110 anti-ship ballistic missiles they claim to have used to strike the vessel. At least one photo released shows large hole above the vessels cargo hold purporting to be a missile strike, and the video released shows an explosion, however there is no clear video of a missile strike, nor have there been any statements from crew members which differ from the reports that the ship was attacked by sea drones and militants in speed boats.
It's currently not possible to say with certainty how exactly the vessel was attacked, however out of 25 crew members, 4 are confirmed to have been killed, 7 were rescued and the remaining 14 crew members are still missing. US sources claim the missing crew members may have been "kidnapped" by Yemeni forces.
This attack came 1 day after Ansar Allah attacked and sank the (also Liberian-flagged & Greek-owned) ship MAGIC SEAS in the same area. This latest anti-shipping campaign by the Yemeni militia is said to be aimed at ships it identifies have being linked to Israel, as part of ongoing resistance against Israel for its genocide in Gaza, and in retaliation for recent IDF air strikes and missile attacks against Yemen.
Additional information and sources will be added to comments as they emerge
Author: Subaru S# 🤜 @Slavyangrad
Posted: 2025-07-10T16:43:36 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Slavyangrad
You remember that huge high-quality lithium deposit in the Donbass, just outside the village of Shevchenko in the DPR? The one Zelensky promised to Trump? The one American investors were already salivating over?
Posted: 2025-07-10T16:43:36 - Sources: A Skeptic - Forwarded From: Russians With Attitude
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