You are indeed seeing a social media psy op. HIMARS is no better than any of the other
long range MLRS systems that Kiev regime had
The only part of HIMARS that is better than Smerch is ATCMS, and they are not getting ATCMS but even if they did it is a slightly longer ranged Tochka, or a shorter ranged Iskander... except the latter manouverss to evade interception which ATCMS does not.
Without ATCMS HIMARS isn't even as good as SMERCH which they had in large numbers and lost in large numbers and now only use sparingly to avoid losing the rest all at once.
They wont be able to use any of these artillery weapons or aircraft as support for any counter attack because to use them that would would be to wipe them all out very quickly and without a lot of effect.
What they will have to do is selectively use a single gun or launcher to fire a single rocket or shell and then run... they will be spending more time setting up and running away than firing so the firing will most likely be towards civilian targets to inflict terrorist type damage to the Russian cause because they wont be able to fire on Russian forces who will be totally protected from individual rockets and shells with TOR and Pantsir and other systems.
Instead they will commit warcrimes hitting less well defended civilian targets to create as much bloodshed as they can... I hope the people of the west are proud of their governments.
Ukrainians using school busses for transport:
They will be using school buses and ambulances and civilian trucks and any other trick to try to move around...
anyone else noticed that the Su-35 got more than 10 air kills in the last 5 days?
Which shows you the value of claims by Kiev that if the west just sends them enough weapons and enough ammo that they can turn it around and win on the battlefield.
Ukros are continuing the fight only to ensure they receive western weapons which they can sell to Russian forces for thousands of dollars.
That is OK... buying them is a good use of money...
You must be drunk. Why will they capture antiquated Ukrainian tanks that's worth less than scrap? They are simply blowing these tanks apart with ATGMs.
Some regions that are created will need equipment and weapons, while the north and west needs to be totally demilitarised...
Obviously a fully burnt out vehicle would be scrapped but often vehicles are penetrated and the crew bails but there is nothing actually wrong with the vehicle or the engine breaks down and just needs a replacement part... such vehicles can be recovered and restored and donated to Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan or whomever the Russians want.
They can keep tge best t-80 and give the t-64 to Donbass forces.
They could give them to Syria or Iran or Iraq or Afghanistan if they wanted.
Does anyone know what regions the Russian troops are from? Is there military service in Russia? are they volunteers?
How is the work of Wagner's mercenaries?
These troops will be a mix of VDV and Naval Infantry and conventional forces recon troops that operate ahead of motor rifle and tank divisions to clear the way and find targets and hard points in the enemies defences... and of course Spetsnaz operating behind enemy lines finding targets and shooting certain people and blowing things up etc etc.
They were supposed to all be contract soldiers but a few conscripts were used in the support units perhaps... some officers got into trouble for that slipup... but I suspect going to war for real some perhaps were more patriotic than sensible and didn't object to going till the brown stuff hit the spinning blades of the room cooling device.
Higly likely to happen. Ukrainians fly their su-25 in pairs. One su-35 can down both in one encounter from 80km away.
Normally Su-25s do operate in pairs with one attacking ground targets operating ahead of the other aircraft which is flying at a greater height looking for ground threats firing on the front Frogfoot and warning them when they come under missile attack or gun attack.
I rather suspect in the current situation having two Su-25s up at one time in the same place is more than they can manage or justify.
R-77-1 gives no chance to survive but frankly mig-29, su-25 and mi-24 are easy targets for this missiles. Too bad US didn't send modern f-16 or f-15 to test them against such aircraft.
Not just the quality of AAM, but also the situational awareness provided to the Russian aircraft will give them the location of the target and its direction and height so they can attack from a direction where the target wont even know they are under attack and gives their missiles the best chance for a kill without risking the Russian aircraft.
Dude, I was looking at the map. Russia is said to be on pause, affirming what it has conquered. It seems to me that we are going to see an all-out offensive from several fronts (with kyiv included) when we least expect it.
The vast majority of the Ukrainian forces were located inside the Donbass and Lugansk regions so most of their military is being destroyed there... once they get rolled back the rest of the country is no where near as well dug in or as hotly defended and as more defeats become obvious the readiness of the rest of the conscripts to die for Zelensky will diminish to the point where they might start demanding new leadership that is prepared to negotiate with the Russians... as the Russians have said the longer they leave it the worse deal they are going to get.
all hotspots are fires/heavy detonations.
Snake island seems to get some attention too.
If the map is accurate, seems RF is pressing for Odessa judging by the fire intensity going on there.
Way to many hotspots around novosibirsk and Krasnadar and Russian territory to the right of the Crimea...
They may think that they will have some kind advantage in august as they think they can accumulate enough weapons and men to launch a large offensive. Probably lots of mercenaries. But that wont amount to much.
Conscripts marching towards enemy artillery and air power that know what they are doing.... it would be a total slaughter...
How many Russian soldiers lives later? 15k? 20k? 30k? 50k?
They will keep the number of their own loses to a minimum by taking their time and being methodical and careful... they don't have a timetable, no deadlines to meet... that is what costs soldiers.
How many Months /years take for Russian airforce to smash Ukraine artillery ?
How many months or years for Russian airforce to achieve air superiority for real?
and smash Ukraine artillery ?
Ukrainian artillery is individual gun vehicles and small groups of towed guns... when using a self propelled gun it is safer to operate alone because you are a less obvious target than a big group of heavy vehicles... fire a couple of shots and then move and hide.
For towed guns especially the M777 which is slow to take down you sneak to a position and set up and probably fire one round per gun and then take down the guns and run before the return fire starts to arrive. In that situation it makes sense to have as many guns as you can together to make the brief volley of shells more useful, which is why we see towed guns being chased into forest blocks to hide from return artillery... yet with drone observation there is no where to run and hide...
Does people in this forum aware ,that ukraine artillery can only fight . IF the airspace above them is safe?
Aircraft move and most aircraft will be watching for air defence threats first... to get an aircraft near an artillery unit before it fires is unlikely because it is when it fires that it reveals itself to Russian radar... firing positions are calculated and any nearby drones and aircaft will be directed to the source area of the weapons.
Out in flat open grassy plains with nowhere to hide you then find the guns and orbit around them as you call in attack aircraft or friendly artillery to deal with them.
In the real world of course the enemy are not that stupid as we have already seen Grad rocket launchers stored in Shopping Malls... rolled out to launch rocket attacks and then rolled back into the Mall to protect and hide them from air attack or return artillery fire.
When Russian drones and aircraft arrive to the location the shells were fired from there might be no targets at all... all the guns and the rocket launchers rolled into garages or buildings... so the drones need to remain and keep looking and hopefully be nearby when they try to fire again and catch them in the act... watch what buildings they drive in to and level those buildings along with presumably their ammo stores as well.
It might take a week to get a gun in the mean time other weapons are firing from other locations... the Russians don't have an unlimited number of drones or aircraft and they can't be everywhere at once.
HATO can be monitoring Russian flights and battlefield radar to determine the best times to fire and from where.
The Orcs are not idiots... they are bastards but they are not idiots.
1) Chemical war.. with lots of civilians killed in donbass.. and maybe Russian cities too..
that could explain why NATO provide chemical equipment to Ukie Troops.
That would escalate the war to the point where WMDS had been used by Kiev so Russia would be free to use them to prevent the Orcs from continuing to use them.... other US bio labs in the country would be destroyed and any building associated with chem or bio weapons would also be leveled and I rather suspect Zelensky would be targeted and killed along with their Rada and other branches of their government.
2) The recruit of 50,000 ISIS fighters from middle east ,to help ukraine Nazis to win , with dozens of thousands of suicide bombers.
Even skilled fighters can't fight artillery and air power.... shoot down the planes they arrive in or destroy the border points they cross into Ukraine...
3) mass scale drone war , with thousands of mini suicide drones in mass guided by artificial intelligence..
If they could they would have already... HATO does not have that and therefore cannot give that to Kiev...
NATO is perfectly capable to neutralize the Russian slow advancing army with superior tactics and weapons , specially if Russia military don't have an airforce that could really support them.
Actually it is the rapidly advancing Russian force that needs to be careful... moving slow means not making yourself a target for flanking attacks and ambushes that fast moving forces are terribly vulnerable to.
Hopefully the fool president , Vladimir Putin and his outdated generals ,would not be caught with pants down again by surprise and prepare for such things..
You say that but your advice to them to pull their own pants down by speeding up the operation for no other reason than you are getting bored with this is the worst thing they could do.
A good rule of thumb is never do what your enemy suggests.
So Tochka U will certainly increase the density of fire on Ukrainians
Accurately placing a 550kg payload on target 120-150km away.... very handy really and also a good way of counterbattery defending against HIMARS and M777 especially with a cluster munition warhead with HE FRAG munitions shredding troops in the open operating guns and the guns and trucks themselves.
Gas supplies via Nord Stream stopped from 0700 Moscow time on Monday - data from the pipeline operator
Ouch!!!
Nord stream 2 anyone ?
They close the line down for 10 days every year for maintenance.
Canada caved and sent the turbines to Germany to bypass their sanctions preventing them sending them to Russia.
Look at this from another perspective.
That would mean, that Russkies fight 5:1 ratio and winning
Would be like remembering the Alamo... Alamo....
Is anyone aware , that artillery can't fight , when the enemy fly their strike drones or combat planes above them ? and strike at them? Where the hell is russian airforce ? where are the amazing russian air defenses ? can't intercept himars?
HIMARS are most effective in the movies... and propaganda.... I would say that source is a 5th columnist and is paid in US dollars for his services.
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