[MRCA] NYT video on russian army ham radio intercepts

[MICHAEL ST ANGELO]

Use of commercial communications when military equipment is not available has been used in the past. Remember when Navy SEALS used the phone to contact the SEAL command when the batteries died on their radio:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_operations_conducted_by_SEAL_Team_Six#Governor-General's_mansion>

Mike N2MS


> On 03/24/2022 2:02 PM W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:
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> Adding the army-radios list. I think this is a very interesting article you sent, Mike. Thanks for sharing it.
> https://defence-blog.com/russian-soldiers-uses-chinese-portable-radios-during-kremlins-invasion-of-ukraine/
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> 73 Eugene W2HX
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> Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 1:56 PM
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> Subject: Re: [MRCA] NYT video on russian army ham radio intercepts
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> They don't even bother getting mil clones:
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> <https://defence-blog.com/russian-soldiers-uses-chinese-portable-radios-during-kremlins-invasion-of-ukraine/>
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> Mike N2MS
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> > On 03/24/2022 1:00 PM W2HX <w2hx at w2hx.com> wrote:
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> > I recently watched a great video on youtube about the Russian army and why, despite its massive investments in equipment and technology, is not well-suited for an invasion like Ukraine. But in that video they explained that the Azart apparently was a disaster of a program and that they only recently got deployment started and therefore in very limited numbers. Baofeng has been selling radios to the Russian miliary. It would be funny if the Russians thought they were buying real Harris PRC-152s and never realized they were TCA/TRI models! haha
> > 
> > 73 Eugene W2HX