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A Russian mobile air defense team training with a YakB-12.7 machine gun ended in chaos when the gunner almost killed his own instructor.
The reason is surprisingly simple. Someone thought it was a good idea to mount the YakB-12.7 — a machine gun producing roughly 1,400 kgf (about 1.4 tonnes) of recoil force — on a rotating turret where the barrel’s axis is offset from the turret’s axis of rotation.
The YakB-12.7 is the primary weapon of the USPU-24 used on the Mi-24 attack helicopter.
23/06/2026
Yesterday’s satellite imagery of Kerch and the bridge across the Kerch Strait, provided by Vantor.
The black smoke visible in the images comes from an oil depot burning near the railway ferry terminal in Kerch.
The white smoke is generated by smoke-screen systems deployed in an attempt to conceal critical sections of the bridge from drone surveillance and potential attacks.
The post also includes satellite imagery of other bridges connecting the occupied Crimean Peninsula that have been damaged or destroyed.
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