Actually guided rounds like the guided smerch or tornado S would be very useful in large numbers in places like Bakhmut where Ukraine is using fixed fortifications. I'm not sure why this continues to elude Garry. Mark positions with UAS, destroy then simultaneously with guided rounds, then magically take way fewer losses in infantry and vehicles.
They have guided rounds and the Orcs lack the IADS to shoot guided rounds down like the Russian Army has been doing with HIMARS rockets aimed at Russian military targets.
They also have guided 203mm and 240mm rounds which they use against fortified targets where 110kg 203mm and 130kg 240mm rounds have rather more effect than the 90kg warheads of the HIMARs...
Laser guided artillery shells with drones marking the targets can also hit moving targets as well as the fixed coordinate targets HIMARS doesn't reach when it is shot down midair.
But surely you appreciate if there are fortified positions anywhere in the Ukraine that the 650kg warhead of an Iskander would be more effective than any light artillery rocket...
Not sure why Russia continues to launch cruise missiles in daylight. It would make it basically impossible for Manpad operators to even fire at them if they were launched at night.
Pretty clear Orc air defence is not working otherwise they would. I would add that many targets like HQs or hotel rooms would need to be hit at a specific time to get certain targets that don't remain in places 24/7.
Daylight attacks would have more effect on civilians watching the show.
That hotel destruction is very weired. It seems like it fall under its own weight. It is clearly not a missile attack.
The destruction is very clean. Engineering work. Either it was very badly build and just fell under its own weight or someone destroyed it from the inside.
I am no expert but I would say that level of damage is more likely from the 40-50kg warhead of a heavy SAM than from a 400kg plus warhead of a cruise missile... I would say it exploded on the front of the building and blew out the front floors of the building and the upper floors collapsed down leaving the roof intact.
Then wait a few hours until it's light for confirmation.
There is more footage of Orc SAMs missing missiles than hitting missiles... I would say the damage done by SAMs launched at incoming cruise missiles just adds to the damage being done.
And I'm basing what i said off the lack of any evidence of such usage, and the advocacy of certain people here about the superiority of unguided weapons
The problem with guided weapons is that you have to have a target coordinate to aim them at... I am sure if you have a complete list of coordinates where all the Ukrainian fortifications are in those contested areas you can forward them to the Russian command and they will deal with them... of course assuming you highlight areas where civilians are located.
The Germans started their attack on Stalingrad by flattening the place with a massive air bombardment. If anything the rubble was harder for them to move armour and troops through and created more hiding places for the Soviet soldiers resisting their advance, but you are the military expert because obviously every war the US has fought has been won by precision HIMARS fire.
I suspect the main reason they go apeshit about HIMARS is the power of the western MIC who promote air delivered weapons... in comparison US Army artillery are second class citizens, so they are probably loving their time in the sun... much like they oversold the performance of their air defence capacity during operation Desert Storm... the Patriot was on everyones lips as the solution to Scuds... except it wasn't... just more hype.
What certain people have defended here is that in saturation attacks, unguided munitions can do the same job as guided munitions at a much lower cost, when you have a front area of hundreds of square meters or several square kilometers, full of infantry (soft targets), what you need is to saturate the area with explosions, here the accuracy of the guided ammunition is irrelevant as your target is an area of hundreds of square meters or several square kilometers.
Any military force moving forward in combat are told not to bunch together to avoid creating a target where lots can be killed with one shell... most attacks are spread over an area so one 500kg bomb can't completely stop the attack... but no matter how well spread out a salvo from a TOS battery will stop most attacks dead in their tracks because the rockets spread over a wide area and each rocket kills over a large area... if TOS rockets were guided and all landed in the same place it would be useless... as useless as a 100 round machine gun burst where all 100 rounds go through the chest of one man in the middle of the attacking group.
Great accuracy but bloody useless.
Cue the videos of Lancet use vs pickup trucks and ladas...
Lancets are cheap disposable weapons designed to hit enemy troops in the field.
That was a big one ...
Impact at 21 seconds, sound heard at 14 seconds... which is 7 seconds, so at 320m/s that is about 2.3km away from the camera... big fireball from that distance.
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