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To: blitz128; PIF; BeauBo; All
On second thought...

It might be good to track RuZZian artillery loses.

So I tracked down how to see old website pages. (https://web.archive.org) and tabulated artillery loses. I'll post each day along with tank loses.

Todays artillery numbers for RuZZia:

Artillery (Towed + Self-Propelled) Kills per Month
August 2022 – 17, Running Total: 238
July 2022 – 21, Running Total: 221
June 2022 – 18, Running Total: 200
May 2022 – 20, Running Total: 182
April 2022 – 52, Running Total: 162
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110, Running Total: 110

RuZZia has been losing about 20 per month for four straight months. So UA has not made great progress with counter-battery.
45 posted on 08/25/2022 11:57:09 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas (The Only Good RuZZian is a Dead RuZZian)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

“It might be good to track RuZZian artillery loses.”

It might be helpful to know how many tubes they have firing, and how many rounds they have fired, to assess wear on their total fleet.

After about 2,000 rounds, accuracy declines, and safety worsens. Eventually they blow up on firing, if too many rounds are put through a barrel.

They might lose more to maintenance than combat.

Some new weapons to the Ukrainians, or tactical changes could occur, that might increase their combat losses, so that is something interesting to watch for.


47 posted on 08/25/2022 12:21:14 PM PDT by BeauBo ( )
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Not total arty pieces since they started with over 3,000 - almost all of them are old Soviet 122mm short range tubes.

Concentrate on the 152mm tubes and especially on the self-propelled pieces which are the biggest threat, since they cover all the other pieces. Eliminate them and the rest fall to UA’s Western SPGs.

238 is not even a dent.


48 posted on 08/25/2022 12:44:05 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: SpeedyInTexas

Yes I noticed that on average it looks like 20 or more pieces per day and if they are verifying them they should be able to provide the links to the latest losses rather than going through each category and items. To me things like arty, sp arty, air defense, radar units, aircraft, trains and even trucks …. At this point are more important than tanks or bmps


52 posted on 08/25/2022 5:28:05 PM PDT by blitz128
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