Posted on 11/24/2023 7:31:29 PM PST by canuck_conservative
For all its supposed modernization, Moscow's military doctrine has retained the historical Russian focus on artillery.
Russian gunners proved more numerous and well-supplied than their Ukrainian enemies in the early stages of the conflict. But as Kyiv's arsenal has been bolstered by NATO systems, Russia's "god of war" has been somewhat muted...
Kyiv's claimed tally of Russian equipment losses demonstrates the enthusiasm with which Ukrainian artillery and drone teams have hunted Russian big guns, as well as multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS) that perform a similar function at shorter ranges.
From September to November 2023, Ukraine claimed to have destroyed 2,272 artillery pieces, and another 167 MLRS. In the same period in 2022, the figure was 789 artillery pieces and 108 MLRS....
"For the last five months or so, Russia has very actively been using old-style artillery. Not late-Soviet era, but mid-50s and mid-60s—D30 and the D20-type of towed artillery, with a maximum range of around 9 to 11 miles," Stupak said.
President Vladimir Putin is shifting the Russian economy onto war footing, but ramping up replacement parts production for artillery is a complex task, and partially reliant on Western technology to which Moscow now has limited access. The pressure of worn-out barrels is a particularly big issue, Stupak said....
The Kremlin's problem is only becoming more pressing as advanced NATO munitions arrive in Ukraine. The summer-into-fall uptick in claimed destroyed Russian guns coincided with the arrival of cluster munitions, which spread hundreds of bomblets over a target area rather than relying on a single shell.
Now, HIMARS-fired cluster munition variants of the long-range MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System—known as the ATACMS—are also in Ukrainian hands. Ukraine's gunners have been assisted by increasingly sophisticated counter-battery radars, used to quickly locate firing Russian guns...
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
No wonder Putin wants "peace talks"
Earlier today I caught a report that the North Korean artillery ammunition explodes when it’s fired and several Russian artilley troops have been killed. Funny that the ammunition is killing more Russians than Ukrainians.
21 months today
1/4 of a Seven-Year War!
only 5+ years of sanctions to go!!
Putin's peace talks will consist of, "We're going to keep the Donbas, Crimea, and demand sanctions be lifted."
And he's going to get it.
In return for what?
5 years to flatten the curve.
Wonder what the death toll on the Russian side is.
“Russia’s Likely Death Toll in Ukraine Revealed in Government Filing” [103,000]
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4189476/posts
They should pay for Crimea by the square foot. It actually belongs to the Crimeans
(Germanic Goths, then turkic tribes, IIRC)
Well isn’t that nice of him /sarc. Shouldn’t have a problem when parts of Russia are carved off too. Good for the goose...
The handful of surviving Ukies will get a bag of warm dogsqueeze and the back of Lavrov's hand across their faces.
Which of these mobile artillery looks “superior” to you ?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/f58XCQ323DI7/
Much like we leave Afghanistan and you get to keep our weapons and we will give you billions as a good faith gesture.
If Russia had to choose Afghan do-over or Let’s take Ukraine back, which would they pick?
They can defend the hell out. of their republic from urals to the atlantic but foreign wars of comquest are studip and sad.
Lavrov is hamas loving, mullah loving scumbag, and you have no business butching him up. No more than doing it with Ribbentrop or Togo. I doubt you would laud them for slapping up subdued Poles or Filipinos
Your ignorance of geopolitics is fully on display.
The last time I was in Sevastopal (2013), the inhabitants were pretty much exclusively Russians.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.