Posted on 02/22/2023 7:27:03 AM PST by SpeedyInTexas
Destroyed HIMARS inflatables but not a Single real one!
GMLARS payload is relatively small as shown by how many Hits it took to disable a bridge, even a 250 bomb packs a hell of a lot more punch. A couple of 500 lb bombs or even a 2000 would destroy kirch bridge. If Ukraine gets jdams and can use them in numbers, this could be a game changer
@bayraktar_1love 4h
Breakthrough succeeded
American truck Oshkosh HET (M1070) and captured most modern working Russian tank T-90M
He spoke for less than 5 minutes and then split.
Single digits cold, and no good news to tout.
Another Putin flop.
Failed ICBM launch as well as failed Moldova takeover in a 2 day window. Now according to General SVR, Putin starts new cancer treatments on March 5 and Patrushev is plotting against Putin for not making any transition plans.
And Putin ran out of free sausages and buckwheat for the attendees before the show even started.
No Alfalfa, just Buckwheat.
Here is that photo of the Wagner dead unblurred and larger.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FpkK8uPXwAEnohG?format=jpg&name=large
This link, starting about half way down under "Still Standing" covers some bridge-busting in Iraq with 1,000 and 2,000 lb bombs.
So nice that Wagner is treating their dead so reverently.
Isn’t this photo against the Geneva Convention?
And what is Wagner trying to achieve by publishing it?
Bad RuZZians made Good.
Since it is their own soldiers I don’t know about law, I think the law is probably about enemies exploiting the other sides dead and POWs for propaganda purposes.
The why of it I don’t get either since I would think it demoralizing, perhaps the description that it is to persuade Russian leadership to send the ammo that Wagner needs is accurate.
They are protesting a lack of support and ammo. This the 3rd time they have posted pictures of their own casualties in a couple weeks. The dead are mostly convicts anyway, so I doubt they really care much. Prior to a couple weeks ago, Wagner received far more support than regular military. Now they face shortages like everyone else. MoD Shoigu has his own Private Military Company, PMC Patriot. Maybe they will start getting ammo priority...
The success of our forces has many facets, training, intelligence, independence, communication, and absolute support from air assets and artillery when needed. Smart munitions make the need for thousands of rounds to be accomplished by a relative few. We even started using basically concrete training bombs to reduce collateral damage and kill with simple kinetic energy and related shock wave.
The addition of longer or long range smart weapons will be something the Russian military will not be able to cope with.
Not sure what weapons were used for the recent strike, but if I got those long range munitions I would wait till I could hit every target I had identified as close together as possible to not give the Russians time to move their assets
As it is if the Russian command and logistics have to move back 100 km or more , the Russians are in deep shit
Russians are sadly missing today, wonder why :)
Wow, quite a way to ask for more ammunition. I mean, if you were the commander, would you send more resources to that unit?
Of course the dead don’t care much about it. But photos like this have to lower the enthusiasm for the war back home - especially in the prisons.
Do you know if this was published on the Russian channels?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgOOZJ5cRZk
Just checked in with War in Ukraine, after17 minutes of economics, he began to talk about Tanks.
His point is that unless the Western tanks are used as a system in a larger system, the way they were intended to be used, they will make no difference, and will go the way of all the other tanks in the war: burned & blown up. Ukraine army will use them the same way they have been - a lone tank here or there doing this or that - just as the Soviet army did; its the doctrine.
[To be effective the Ukraine Army needs to be able to conduct assaults using mobile combined arms - command, artillery, ground vehicles, troops, air, EW, missiles in a systematic way - something they may be working on it, but they likely will not prefect it any time soon - let alone become an integrated part of their doctrine.]
The West and Ukraine are setting themselves up for a big disappointment. Its going to be a big Soviet Army with a steady flow of supplies verses a small Soviet Army with some irregular batches of Western weapons, both using the same war-fighting doctrines.
The Russian tanks they may take out, no matter how many, will be replaced in 2-3 months. But not the Leopards, which are few and expensive. When they are used up, they will not be replaced. This batch of tanks are sort of a one off, in the hopes that it will change something, but it will not.
The Russians have a flow of tanks - so many a month, a system. This batch of tanks is not a flow- its no system and will always lose to the system.
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