152mm Airburst shells can erase a radius of ~100m. They can be used on noncovered trenches. Most ukrainian trenches are non-covered.
Trench lines that are open and constantly manned would be very vulnerable but not as vulnerable as you suggest... there is a point to standing in a trench during an artillery barrage... you do understand that don't you?
Of course tanks can easily destroy fortifications. the 125mm HE shell has a range of 12km in direct fire, much higher than any ATGM. The russians also have thermobaric ATGMs which can destroy very heavy bunkers.
Easily is the wrong word... the amount of HE rounds a tank force would need to carry would be enormous and a total waste of resources to use them that way considering two 250 kg bombs delivered by an Su-25 or Su-24 would be rather more effective and efficient but perhaps even then not good enough to destroy extensive prepared defences.
Also Im frustrated that there are no advances from the south when that area isnt fortified.
This is what it is all about... and it is perfectly understandable that you are frustrated... but slowly grinding the enemy down is resulting in very high casualties in the enemy forces, very low casualties in friendly forces and surrenders of enemy forces too... so why change the tactics now?
Would more dead Russian soldiers shortening the conflict make you feel better?
I hope not.
Grad-P with messed up ammunition? Several of those don't even fly straight.
The relatively small explosions I would guess an 80mm or 57mm rocket pod on the back of a light vehicle is being used to launch rockets and perhaps the mount is not stabilised or they are moving it to get a better spread of hits on target.
There were also news that Ukraine successfully attacked command center near Izyum and eliminated big number of Russian officers - we already know that Ukraine is above average successful in doing that (8 Russian generals were sent in black bags back to Russia from 20 originally that came there at the start).
We know Kiev excels at making all sorts of claims, but reality often proves them to be fake.
The more hardware the west sends to the Ukraine to more orcs will be killed trying to use it.... assuming it gets to the front line at all because the resale value of some of it is probably just too hard to a chance to give up.
In fact I suspect Orcs themselves are telling Russian intel where their HATO supplied ammo caches are so the Russians hit them with cruise missiles so HATO inspectors can't tell that half the stuff that is supposed to be there is already on its way to the Middle East...
If Ukraine will survive the push from Russia, then it will all go to a standstill I don't see how Ukraine will be able to go on the offensive. They will face even more problems than Russians.
Kiev trying to go on offensives would be wonderful... they would get out of their cities and their bunkers and get slaughtered in open fields very quickly and very easily by much smaller forces with air and artillery support.
In short, Yuri said in his last video address that Ukraine will cease to exist as a state during this decade. According to Yuri, Moscow will integrate all the conquered territories into Russia.
Russia does not want more land, it just wants to secure its borders... South Ossetia and Abkhazia are not part of the Russian Federation and the Donbass and Lugansk are not either... they are opening embassies in Moscow which makes no sense if they join the RF.
They probably want to join the RF because of the danger of Kiev and HATO against small new republics, but I think Russia will want them to group together with other regions freed from nazi rule and work together to make a decent Ukrainian state that does speak Russian and trades with Russia and is successful and perhaps in 5 or 10 years let them decide what they want to do going forward.
Obviously the MoD is tracking those too but for some reason they're not releasing updated tallies...
Getting a bit high perhaps?
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