You All Saw ...

 ... by now Kaja Kallas' X-Rays. I merely remind you. 

But on a more serious note. Here are HQs and Command Post of one of the brigades (36th) of the Russian Army. 

Brigade is a highest tactical level and is before operational-tactical one, which starts with the division. One of the astonishing achievements of SMO was what could only be described a Dynamic Form of Organization Of Troops (Command and Control structure) where suddenly a traditional TOE of the units doesn't matter, since it becomes very fluid and could transform itself in real time depending on combat tasks. In other words classic field/combat manuals change on the fly and, as experience of SMO tells--there could be companies which can grow in strength to a battalion size/firepower, or brigades literally disassemble and reassemble into something else altogether on the fly. Russian military thinkers have been writing about it for years. The latest one from January, 2026 issue of Voennaya Mysl' (Military Thought). 

To the greatest credit to authors, they immediately issue a caveat that Artificial Intelligence (AI) term DOES NOT denote AI, but merely highly developed algorithms and massive processing power. It is happening as I type this. 

I Don't Have A Cat ...

... but that is what "peace and calm" look today for anyone in the line of military-political analysis)) Global events being played by the cat. 

He Also Promised $2,000 ...

 ... to all working families in the US. He also forgot about it. 

Trump can't remember whether he 'obliterated' Iran's nukes. President Donald Trump has been warning Iran for weeks that an American "armada" of warships was on the way, trying to leverage the threat of military strikes into a deal for Iran to abandon its quest for nuclear weapons. Trump casts the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran as a threat to the Middle East. He's probably right about that. But Trump also insists that his last military strikes on Iran, eight months ago, "obliterated" the country's nuclear program. And his White House team denounced as "fake news" reports that the June strikes on three sites only set back Iran's nuclear program "by a few months." Just this past week, Trump twice spoke of Iran's nuclear program as a thing of the past, while also threatening new military strikes to destroy what he claims to have already destroyed. Which Trump are we supposed to believe here? And – yes – I think not believing either version is an option. The president used his Feb. 19 introductory speech at the first meeting of his ironically named new "Board of Peace" to brag about America's "magnificent" B-2 bombers, which were used in the June 21 strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities. "It went into Iran and it totally decimated the nuclear potential," Trump said of the bombers. "When it decimated that, all of a sudden, we had peace in the Middle East."

Correct, as much as I abhor US MSM, the claim here is correct--DJT boasted about "obliterating" Iran's "nuclear program". So, what is it then? Well, it doesn't matter--Donnie is Israel's puppet and will do as his donors tell him. He probably is in the last stages of convulsions akin to a caught fish fresh out of the water before being gutted and thrown into the fish soup, but he has no choice in the matter. 

So, the die is cast, it seems and the algorithm of the whole clusterfuck there is the same--EW, hurling every stand-off weapon at US disposal in the area at Iran and, traditionally, activating US useful idiots in the area (such as Kurds and fifth column) in an effort to topple "regime". BTDT, many times. Now, back to actual events, June, 2025. Vladimir Putin verbatim. 

"You know, we once offered our Iranian friends to work in the field of air defense systems. The partners did not show much interest then, and that's all. As for the agreement you mentioned, on the strategic partnership [between the Russian Federation and Iran], there are no articles related to the defense sector. This is the second point. And thirdly, our Iranian friends are not asking for this. Because there is practically nothing to discuss," Putin said.

Correct, Tehran liberal "elite" is a mirror image of any pro-Western factions anywhere, in terms of their foreign interests and "belief" that one can "negotiate". It is a long story, but Russia and China have been delivering things to Iran, ranging from combat aircraft to radar, but the only thing which is left for all of us is to wait and see. Per this:

If this is 40-50% of all US air power, I have bad news for fanboys--not enough for any REAL action other than, indeed, hurling everything at whatever the reconned Iranian AD is and hoping for effect. US never conducted real SEAD other than bombing the crap out of mighty Iraqi AD. In Vietnam, that didn't work out that well. To put it mildly. Hoping, of course, against all hope, that DJT will find at least a rudimentary backbone, but with Epstein Files dominating alternative media agenda and his Israeli masters having him cornered--he will perform TACO and will strike Iran. In related news, I heard Mexico offers great discounts for her resorts. Hm ... 

"Peaceful" Ground Troops And ...

 ... projecting. Why helicopters now are part of the front-line air defense in SMO--because they are very effective. Iran's Mi-28s. Bortnikov about UK. 

Air Defense Drone Yolka ...

 ... in action over Belgorod. Destroying one of the 404 drones. 

Yolka (Елка) in Russian is a pine tree. The time between development and tests of the new weapon systems and their introduction to the units has been compressed tremendously. This is one of the demonstrations with Yolka. 

About Starlink.

In SMO. A reminder. In order for you to enter the radio-communications room either on the ship or say command post of battalion level, you have to have Top Secret and even Special Significance clearance to even enter there. 

This, of course, is unknown to most YouTube "military experts", who never have been around any serious C2 structures and whose technical and command horizon is, at best, that of a grunt. That is why they didn't understand that C4 is an extremely complex elaborate system of communications networks NONE of which has anything to do with Starlink. Here is one such element, among very many others, of satcomms of Russian military, but do not try to explain it to a crowd of military shysters who never "graduated" beyond the visuals of R-187 Azart (excellent radio for lower tactical level--squad, platoon) without even knowing its full potential. 

In terms of higher tactical-operational level comms these info-shysters have no clue, including a variety of systems, from satellites' based to an elaborate system of retranslators, including based on drones, to a system of comms based on such satellite constellation as Kupol of SPRN capable of controlling Russia's nuclear forces. Not to mention communication networks for strategic missile submarines on patrol. That is why these creeps couldn't wrap their brains around the fact that Russian military is NOT dependent on any Starlink. 

For Those Who ...

 ... "buried" tanks after watching too many videos with drones. Here is a work by Russian tank platoon (T-80 and T-72B3). 

ROK (Recon-Fire Complex) at work: 404 armored column tries to "attack", it is detected (naturally), identified and targeting is provided, tank platoon (3 tanks usually, + 1 could be a platoon CO tank) rolls out. First hit at the leading vehicle, stopping of the column, after that just regular combat work. All while correcting fire from different vantage points by UAVs. Keep in mind what tank IS? It is essentially a self-propelled gun with better protection than usual ... self-propelled guns. To demonstrate--recently one of the Russian T-90Ms sustained ... 43 (forty three!!) strikes by 404 drones, it stopped ONLY after rolling over anti-tank mine. Later it was evacuated by BREM. 

Now to this: 

The Western media has abandoned the principles of fair journalism when covering the Ukraine conflict, Russia said during an informal meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday. Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Anna Evstigneeva said foreign reporters created “a positive and even romanticized image” of the 2014 Western-backed coup in Kiev, a series of events that Moscow says laid the groundwork for the current conflict.

They didn't abandon anything--they never had those principles in the first place. Western legacy media are a collection of war criminals, war mongers, a cover up for pedophiles and other Satanists among "elites". That's who they are, top-bottom. Today it is up to alternative media to expose what has been done to modern West and who rules it. Here is an example. 

An open Zionist who serves Israel under the guise of the US "ambassador" pretends that he is a diplomat--he is not. He is a brainwashed by the heresy of Scofield so called Bible fanatic and Tucker exposed him. 

Now, I am very busy today, so it is an Open Thread of sorts. Go at it.