Destroying a bridge is very hard even with direct hits. You need to destroy its feet so that it collapse.
Agree, but you can also use concrete piercing bombs that punch down into the rock and when they explode they undermine the foundations of the bridge support structure and make it unsafe...
The video footage of that drone shows the explosion was near the water surface and the water would have protected the river bed from most of the blast, which would have been reflected up by the water at the spans and nearby legs... not an ideal way to destroy a bridge, but certainly sneaky.
Concrete piercing bomb would just make hole, unless you hit precisely the feet from the top. But even then just one part would be destroy and you could still repair it.
Concrete piercing bomb does punch a small hole in hard materials like concrete or rock but after it penetrates it then explodes and shatters the concrete and rock above it and to the sides making them rather less viable as foundations for anything above them...
IIRC, the big Kherson bridge was under continuous Ukrainian attacks by HIMARS and the like, and they also only managed to disrupt traffic a bit each time.
When trying to destroy hard targets then mass matters... using HIMARS rockets with 50-100kg warheads is a problem... like trying to shoot down a brick and concrete wall with a .22LR... but for the Russians they have air power and decent sized bombs including guided glide bombs...
For example, we have a second day of constant pulverizing of the power generation system. And this time they target the turbines they have spared till now.
They have done a deal with Iran over turbine blades so there is no value in preserving turbines in Ukraine... let the Russian friendly liberated areas get Russian made turbines and let the rest beg to Germany for the blades...
The AFU operational command "South" reported that Russia has struck the island of Zmeiny (Snake)
A front-line bomber Su-24M of the Russian Aerospace Forces dropped 4 bombs, in addition, three Onyx missile strikes were carried out on the coastal infrastructure of Odessa.
Radars, communications, a base for nazi operations in the Black Sea?
Yeah, that's still repairable. Tough fucking beast of Soviet engineering.
Very much so, but not much is going to be travelling along that line for a while... and when it gets fixed they can hit it again.
Perhaps visitors from the "garden" can come and pay to see the "jungle"...
Get out of here Stalker...
Does the missile have deployable wings like Kh-55 series?
The original Iskander-K is just a normal cruise missile but with double the warhead (1,000kgs or more) and reduced fuel to reach about 450km to stay within the INF treaty limits, but now the INF treaty is gone so they could add that fuel back and get better range... I would think the powerful warhead would be useful against some targets.
Bridge destroyed now , means Bridge could have been destroyed earlier . Power station destroyed now , means power station could have been destroyed earlier . Why take half measures ?
They had plenty of other things that they needed to destroy first... fuel and ammo dumps, etc etc.
The point is escalation... if you hit everything at the start then what can you escalate to hit if they don't behave or strike back or escalate things.
Am not suggesting this because what the west have us believe Russia is running out of missiles but rather using up old stock and keeping the better stuff for more important or when precise targeting is needed.
Would be a nice symmetry too... the US is demanding eastern european countries empty their inventories of ex Soviet gear and ammo and promise to replace with modern new production stuff (which will be more expensive and give them another control over these countries if they need it)...
For Russia a lot of their new stuff it not super expensive... the ammo is relatively cheap while being more accurate and therefore more effective too.
If India wants to make its own weapons it should be making Pantsir and TOR missiles in their millions because such weapons are very useful and become more useful when available in larger numbers.
Very interesting private initiative about forming a unit of special forces with top equipment.
Very good idea... and excellent chance for companies to test their new gear in the field and get feedback to upgrade and modify their kit, which of course will provide them with references they can use when submitting their products for contracts with the Russian military... having it tested and being successful in combat is a huge advantage and with your own troops suggesting it be adopted... well...
Of course you need to be careful about corruption obviously... but that can be managed too.
As this guy says in the video, this isn't like Mariupol though. The regime withdrew their elite forces. They are just sending cannon fodder into Bakhmut to fight to the end. If they get encircled, it would still be good to take them off the board.
If it is just cannon fodder then get them to surrender and save some bullets and shells for the nazis doing the Hussein Bolt impressions...
It doesn't matter which ones get killed, what matters is that maximum possible number gets killed
I think the rats withdrawing from the area at high speed via land vehicle and helicopters are worth a bit of extra effort to take down, while the meatshields pushed to the front line are not worth a lot of bullets... if they surrender then they become something they can trade... hell some of them might be motivated enough to want to join a resistance force against Kiev.
If they want to surrender then accept their surrender and treat them with respect... if they don't want to surrender then that is OK too.
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