Posted on 07/17/2023 5:03:03 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
The comments just crack me up. People are so creative.
Comments to post 40.
“The story had a happy ending after all”
“Good to hear it, I was worried when I heard he ejected.”
No safe haven for the invaders. Even in RuZZia...
“Well it’s gone public now that this was in Belgorod.
I can confirm that this was not the first nor the last time that the GUR has sent the Ichkerians into Russian territory- interesting implications.”:
“An Ichkerian DRG team from the GUR providing some new air conditioning holes to an isolated Russian Ural-4320 truck, feat. SIG 516 with Romeo4T and PK”
https://twitter.com/CalibreObscura/status/1680911846113529857
I heard an American commentator say that there was a period in which the ukes were flying planes in rus heartland and doing a little invading up near belgorad. That was followed by a period in which the ukes were doing their southern offensive—but all the attacks looked like they were groping around. The ukes didn’t seem to know where the rus were. Then a couple weeks ago the ukes started precision bombing russian positions in the south. they cut back their attacks. the thinking was that they were interested in attriting the rus.
What an american youtuber said was the reason for this behavior was that the US military did not like that the Ukes had violated their agreement with the US not to use american weapons on russian lands. So the US pulled intelligence. The ukes were mostly flying blind for a couple weeks and taking heavy casualties. Then there was some kind of reconciliation that restored western intelligence. And we started seeing a lot of precision targeting in southern ukraine but no hits on Rus land.
imho there is a limited amount of time left before the rains return and a limited amount of time for the ukes to get battle field success.
one simple strategy—if the ukes had chinooks would be lodge the chinooks in poland and then on an evening fly them to the north shore of the old dneiper lake. Maybe 10 chinooks. Each chinook can carry up to 55 men or ten tons of material. So 10 chinooks with a flight time of 10 minutes could carry 550 men from one side of the old dneiper lake to the other. All the uke troops would be also be assembled from disparate places so russian spy sattelites could not see the ukes concentrating. As well all the equipment and ammunition and fuel would be driven in to the jump off point on an evening from all over ukraine —so again the rus spy sattelites could not see any concentrations of supplies. Say it takes 1 hour for each chinook to make the complete round trip. (To do this correctly would take a lot of uke training.) So eight hours of darkness would get the ukes 4*550=2200 men plus 4*10=40 tons of equipment fuel and ammo.
That small uke army could then drive up the south shore of the old lake and take the rus lines from the rear as uke attacked the rus lines from the front.
That would open up a corridor to the south from which the ukes could fan out behind the rus fortifications.
Nice idea. but the ukes would need a lot of air cover to make the plan work. —but just in the narrow area around the crossing—something equivalent to what they currently have around Kiev. further it doesn’t have to be chinooks. Here’s a complete list of heavy lift helicopters.
https://www.fairlifts.com/helicopters/the-top-10-heavy-lift-helicopters-for-2023/#:~:text=The%20Mil%20Mi%2D26%20has,in%20terms%20of%20lifting%20capacity.
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JR
While you have been gone, Ukrainian forces continued to grind forward slowly.
It seems that the Artillery counter-battery battle is going quite badly for the Russians. One Russian General on the Zaporizhzhia front (MG Ivan Popov) fell on his sword to raise the issue to the Ministry of Defense, and got relieved within a day (since reassigned to the boondocks in Syria). It many be more than a tactic - Ukraine may be deliberately focusing on attritting Russian Artillery systems. Close Air Support is forced to try to fill the huge capability gap, but it is a temporary bandage, as they take losses trying.
Ukraine seems to be making less constrained use of their Artillery tactically, conserving their assault forces, as they continue pretty aggressive storming and clearing of trench lines.
Big news is that the USA is now proving cluster munitions (155mm DPICM Artillery shells, and likely GMLRS rockets for HIMARS). We have millions of those DPICM rounds, and hundreds of thousands of those non-unitary GMLRS rockets, loaded with sub-munitions. That is potentially enough firepower to get through this year and next at these rates of combat operations, just on their own, while Western Artillery shell production increases. Not only is it more, it is more effective.
Ukrainian forces advanced on the Southern flank of Bakhmut to the settlement of Klishevka, where they captured commanding high ground.
Russian forces and Commanders seem to still be in turmoil with senior leadership, and the status of Wagner is still in the air somewhat. Wagner is reported to have turned 2,000 very heavy weapon systems back over to MoD, but they are trying to keep their overseas rackets running, and Prigozhin remains free and rich, able to travel to St. Petersburg and Moscow.
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JR
That is beyond bad taste, when speaking to a lady.
Please mind your manners, and forum rules.
I know but at first, you were still posting the thread with the usual expressions about the difficulties of travel and posting preparing us for interruptions, and then it stopped dead.
Speedy’s back to spread more lies and Biden regime/neocon propaganda!
... then it stopped dead.
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it did not stop dead. Myself, FtrPilot and a few others kept the thread going.
You can review it here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/4166306/posts?page=1
Kazan is the name of a city in RuZZia.
Is that where you live?
I know that, I was there, we all kept posting but it was continuing an old thread without the star.
“then it stopped dead.”
I usually post when I’m overseas but couldn’t this last trip.
Travelling again in Sept and unlikely to post.
In Dec, I’ll be in Prague and Zermatt and can post that trip.
“Clean break for both lanes of vehicle traffic. Rail line (seen on right) appears to be intact.”
https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1680985289072713730
That’ll buff right out.
I think Indicted War Criminal Little Pukin had his feelings hurt.
“’”There will be a response from Russia to the terrorist attack on the Crimean bridge. The Ministry of Defense is preparing relevant proposals. What happened was another terrorist attack by the Kyiv regime, which had no logic from a military point of view,” Putin said.”
https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1680986951481012224
Time for Storm to cast a Shadow over the Bridge rail link.
Kerch Bridge update:
Road bridge closed in both directions
Full repairs by mid-November (TASS)
Partial repair by mid-September (TASS)
Railroad bridge operational but still in “light train” format after October 2022 attack
Support 145 likely damaged (despite denials)
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