Take a look at missile trajectory - all of them make a course correction after leaving the tube. Never heard that it is corrected missile system, so kind of surprised.
They would want mine rockets to follow specific paths rather than random distribution so for instance they could concentrate mines down a road and cluster them either side of the road too.
The first Smerch rockets had a gyro system... not to improve accuracy to point of aim but to keep the rockets closer together so they land closer together and give a better grouping of munitions or explosives.
Our source in the Ukrainian President’s Office said that Tarnavsky reported to Zelensky about the loss of 30% of Western equipment in the first stage of the counteroffensive.
Quite serious considering the small amount of forces they committed to each attack... they probably expected them to be more effective and for the Russians to be less effective.
Real problem when you believe your own propaganda.
The paranoid will think that this is Kiev sending in the cannon fodder and next will be the body of the properly trained troops in volumes to overwhelm the available fire power of the Russian forces present.
Which would simply mean sending more bodies than the enemy has ready to fire ammo to achieve a breakthrough... desperate stuff.
The Ka-52 like any Russian Attack Helicopter is unable to launch ATGMs or fit any APU (Launching Pad System) from the inner pylon. The reason is historically gathered experience from catastrophic launches of ATGMs colliding with the helicopter.
Actually it has more to do with the angled rocket motors of ATGMs, otherwise rocket pods on the inner pylons would be worse.
There have been issues with ATGMs launched from inner wing pylons causing engine surges as the gasses get sucked into the engines and cause engine stalls or surges, I have read of similar problems with Apaches with Hellfires on the inner wing pylons too, but AFAIK this has been dealt with in the new model Russian helicopters with their digital engine control systems...
Mi-28 can use LMURs to hot targets BVR.
LMUR uses thermal optics but is not a heat seeker... we have seen footage of a LMUR being fired at a pontoon bridge but as the missile approached the target a BMP-2 was crossing the bridge and the operator shifted the target from the pontoon section to the vehicle crossing the pontoon bridge. We know because the same aircraft launched a second missile and the burning BMP-2 was visible on the bridge in the view of the second missile which hit a bridge section.
Maybe AH64 apache will be a better aid to Ukraine than F16, although they will need fighters and air defense to protect those helicopters from RU aviation
Apaches would not last very long at all... remember Kornet has a backup anti aircraft capacity that DIRCMS wont stop.... not to mention TOR and Pantsir and soon Sosna and even S-350 and late model BUK.
Are you serious? lol. Maybe the Russians should use rockets with dirty water instead of themobarics lol.
Apaches are a mature system that is capable, but it is very well known to be a hangar queen.
In Desert Storm they got high availability rates by quadrupling the support hours and budget...
Against old model MANPADS they are not bad, against a modern Russian air defence network they wont even bother.
So far Russia has been quite effective at detecting marshalling points and hitting them. Perhaps this is why the attack has been so shambolic.
Indeed and massive explosions earlier in cities across Ukraine suggest quite a few ammo and fuel dumps have been taken out... destroying a large warehouse with hundreds of vehicles takes a lot of bombs and missiles, but warehouses with fuel and ammo destroy themselves and are much easier.
My only criticism is the are being a bit stingy with the number of bombs they drop when they have a juicy target. Only taking out 40-50% of the target vs eviscerating it completely. Maybe they are constrained in glide bombs or maybe its an error in target classsification, or maybe they do a second strike later. Not sure.
Keep in mind that the Orcs have accurate long range artillery too... they just have no way of massing it up the way the Russians can... but groups of Russian forces can be targeted too, so they have to be aware as well.
Like Regular already mentioned, currently the Mi-28N isn't a frontline ass kicker like Ka-52 and Mi-24 but a long range LMUR trebucheting all the stuff the front soldier can mark with a drone.
The core advantage of the Mi-28 is it has serious armour... most attack helicopters the front glass is armoured... sometimes up to 23mm HE rounds, but side and top glass is not armoured at all... the Mi-28 cockpit glass will stop a 14.5mm HMG round fired from a distance of about 5 metres... don't know of any other helicopter that well armoured against such ammo.... there will be no Iraqi farmers shooting down Mi-28s with 303 rifles...
This was only partly dealt with to keep the local critics happy, but these vehicles are still extremely vulnerable.
Yeah, it is common sense.... take big vehicle with not very heavy armour and fill with ammo and fuel and troops and expose to enemy fire = barbecue special...
But then it is the same for most BMP types that don't weight what tanks weigh.
A whole platoon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine surrendered in the Avdiivka direction. The platoon commander of one of the 110th mechanized brigade units got in touch with the Russians. He wanted to save his personnel, since they had a lot of wounded, and their command refused to evacuate.
After negotiations, the full unit of the AFU drove on IFVs to the Russian troops. Help was provided to the wounded.
And when they get treated with respect they might start to think they are fighting for the wrong side...
Keep watching and you will be rewarded. More than a Buk I suspect
They mentioned hitting an S-300 battery... two hits on radar and command vehicles and then two hits on missile vehicles with secondary explosions... makes sense.
Hell even the 25mm bushmaster cannon could stop a T-72 if they hit it in the right place.
Within 1,000m from the side a 25mm bushmaster would be dangerous... but nothing like the dangerous a 125mm smoothbore is at any range to a Bradley.
I remember the change in western publications.... in the 1980s a British magazine called Combat and Survival showed a picture of a Bradley launching a TOW and it said lethal to Soviet tanks to almost 4km. The same image in a French Raid magazine (excellent photos BTW) in the 1990s mentioned that the TOW was a capable missile but firing the subsonic wire dragging missile at a target firing back 125mm APFSDS at five times the speed of sound while having to remain stationary while guiding the missile would be risky.
Before the start of SMO, the West wrote that Ukroshitstan has enough ATGMs to destroy EVERY SINGLE Russian tank.
Yes, Javelin was a super missile with no Russian equivalent that was going to render Russian armour obsolete.
Just shows how important tactics really are... and of course air control and artillery.
The Leopard is just like the Tiger at Kursk. The wonderwaff that died.
I would not make that comparison because the Tiger at Kursk was a serious problem and broke through defense lines the way the Leopard has not.
Without the 152mm ISU vehicles and artillery the Tiger would have been a serious problem.... I seem to recall more broke down than were destroyed... they were seriously dangerous and really spurred development of the IS series and the T-34 with the 85mm gun...
In comparison the Leopards are not even getting to the first lines of defence and are being designed in the spotting zone in front of their lines.
This link was published by a German on the 9GAG network in March.
Typically western, arrogant and rude, as if on the other side of the front are Neanderthals with stone tools.
Underestimation seems to be innate...
Even more so considering there are no Leopards that are native to Germany...
Why were there restraints the begin with?
Hearts and Minds...
Winning the war means nothing if you lose the peace afterwards.
The Ukrainen tank and ifv looses is mostly to mines and artillery by the looks of it. They Russian dont dare attacking with thier own it seems.
Yeah, like the US forces in Desert Storm bravely fought Iraqi tanks from 20K ft with B-52s.
In many ways it would be logical for the Russians to drop back towards what are presumably the optimum defence lines rather than fight in the superficially ad hoc way they are doing now. Which would also suck in more Ukrainians as they were 'winning' or 'got them on the run'.
The depth defence is to absorb powerful attacks from very large forces that are concentrated into very small areas.
These pin prick attacks should be dealt with using light mobile forces and air power and also drones and artillery to blunt their attacks and probes and wait for the real attacks if they ever come.
Enemy forces wanting to surrender should be given every chance to do so as that saves ammo for use against the hard core nazis.
Instead the Russian commanders seem to have decided (this may have been the actual plan all along, the defence lines being insurance/backup/feint) to not give the Ukrainians even a sniff of success and to destroy them both on the front lines and the marshaling areas behind it
Or is it a challenge to say if you want to advance you need to commit all of your forces or you wont get the propaganda push you crave for your masters... and when they do mass up then they can be hammered by rocket artillery and air power and the Russian forces in position waiting for their attack.
I know Franco, I know, but when a person obviously does not want to accept everything that is obvious, such as the causes of the conflict and the history of Ukroshitstan
,and still writes "I support Ukroshitstan in this fight" - then you cannot remain indifferent.
Yes, it changes the description of the animal from dumb (perhaps viewed as naive or innocent) to calculated and evil supporter of nazis... in Kiev and the west.
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