2: The attrition ratio became worse once Russia seized the northern flank in mid/late-Feb
3: The attrition ratio in Bakhmut is worse than elsewhere
4: The % of Russian casualties from elite units is higher elsewhere
Posted on 03/12/2023 6:17:24 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
This list only includes destroyed vehicles and equipment of which photo or videographic evidence is available. Therefore, the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here. Small arms, ATGMs, MANPADS, loitering munitions, drones used as unmanned bait, civilian vehicles, trailers and derelict equipment are not included in this list. All possible effort has gone into avoiding duplicate entries and discerning the status of equipment between captured or abandoned. Many of the entries listed as 'abandoned' will likely end up captured or destroyed. Similarly, some of the captured equipment might be destroyed if it can't be recovered. When the origin of a piece of equipment can't be established, it is not included in the list. The Soviet flag is used when the equipment in question was produced prior to 1991. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.
(Excerpt) Read more at oryxspioenkop.com ...
Ukrainian Artillery losses Running Total: 233
RuZZian Tank losses Running Total: 1825
March 2023 - 46
February 2023 – 118
January 2023 – 61
December 2022 – 76
November 2022 – 105
October 2022 – 212
September 2022 - 217
August 2022 – 74
July 2022 – 108
June 2022 – 67
May 2022 – 148
April 2022 – 243
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 350
RuZZian Artillery losses Running Total: 542
March 2023 - 17
February 2023 – 41
January 2023 – 31
December 2022 – 19
November 2022 – 55
October 2022 – 64
September 2022 - 73
August 2022 – 21
July 2022 – 21
June 2022 – 18
May 2022 – 20
April 2022 – 52
Feb 24 - March 2022 – 110
“Pentagon Puts Priority on Replacing Munitions in 2024 Budget”
“The Pentagon’s $170 billion procurement request for the new fiscal year focuses on replacing munitions supplied to Ukraine as well as well as weapons like long-range missiles, which would be necessary in a conflict with China, according to an internal budget document.
The Defense Department will ask for $76.8 billion for the Navy and Marines, with $32.8 billion in new ship construction; $61 billion for the Air Force, which includes the US Space Force: and $24.4 billion for the Army, according to the official P-1 summary document obtained by Bloomberg News.
The companion R-1 research and development document requests $145 billion overall, with $46 billion to the Air Force, $27 billion to the Navy and $15.7 billion the Army. The documents are to be released Monday by the Pentagon as part of its detailed disclosure of the budget request for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1.”
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“Highlights of the munitions requests include:
• $951 million for 550 Joint Air-To-Surface Standoff Missiles made by Lockheed Martin Corp.
• $928 million for 831 Navy/Air Force Amraam air-to-air missiles from Raytheon Technologies Corp.
• $886 million to buy 5,016 GMLRS rockets from Lockheed Martin.
• $639 million to buy 91 Navy Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles from Lockheed Martin
• $400 million to buy a new version of the Stinger called M-Shorad
• $308 million for 78 MK-48 advanced torpedoes from Lockheed Martin
• $199 million to buy 541 Javelin anti-armor missiles made by Raytheon-Lockheed and lionized by Ukrainian forces for their lethal efficacy against Russian tanks
• $179 million to buy from Lockheed Martin 28 additional Himars mobile rocket systems
Notable non-munitions procurement requests by the Army, Navy and Air Force include:
• 91 AMPV Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicles built by BAE Systems Plc, which replaced the Army workhorse M113 personnel carrier
• 48 Air Force F-35s built by Lockheed Martin Corp.
• 42 AH-64E upgraded Apache attack helicopters built by Boeing Co.
• 34 M1A2 tanks to be upgraded built by General Dynamics Corp.
• 33 Mobile Protected Firepower light tanks built by General Dynamics
• 24 Boeing Co. F-15EX fighters
• 15 additional Boeing KC-46 refueling tankers
• 10 National Security Space Launch missions for military satellites, which have pitted Elon Musk’s SpaceX against the Boeing-Lockheed Martin United Launch Alliance
• 8 Navy Conventional Prompt Strike ship-launched hypersonic missiles built by Lockheed Martin
• 7 MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopters built by Boeing, designed to guard US ICBM silos
• Two Navy Constellation-class FFG frigates built by Fincantieri/Marinette Marine of Marinette, Wisconsin, up from one this year
• Two Virginia-class submarines built by General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls,
• Two DDG-51 Arleigh Burke class destroyers built by General Dynamics and Huntington Ingalls”
“A Russian MT-LB carrying 100mm ammunition for the MT-12 Rapira AT gun was destroyed by the Ukrainian 59th Brigade using a drone-dropped munition near Staromykhailivka, #Donetsk Oblast.”
https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1634593353303052288
“According multiple sources US-delivered JDAMs are already striking Russian targets in east Ukraine. Those two videos were credited to be explosions caused by this ordnance. The GBU-38 (one of the JDAM variants) has a 227kg (500lb) warhead.”
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1634892875191427074/video/1
https://twitter.com/Tendar/status/1634892875191427074/video/2
POWs
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1634863948720685058
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1634781282604294146
https://twitter.com/antiputler_news/status/1634602898825912321/video/1
Ukraine: military situation update with maps - Mar 11, 2023
(’Orc’ is associated with the various hoards of 13th century Mongol invaders, as well as LOTR evil villains)
War in Ukraine Explained/Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
Artillery (key to success in this war), Fuller explanation of Orc military structure, Other Bonus articles - see previous postings in “Attack on Europe” (FR title search).
(Numbered printed material below - Some of the items below may be out of date, and not updated yet)
••Denotes Transcribed Dialogue. The entirety of the analysis is from a Ukrainian guy named Reporting from Ukraine’s daily video - I only transcribe it. Extras are just that - from other sites, or my comments marked (Edit: .... ) or { } or [ ].
-—> Current to date and past MAPS: <——
https://militaryland.net/
-—> The True State of Russian Army <——
posted 2 months ago, 21.13 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KiII_2qabk
-—> Combined Arms Breach, what UA will have to master to smash Orc Lines <——
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZ-sCT_maAQ
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Extra:
-—> Ukraine Situation Report: Leopard 1 Tanks Will Arrive This Spring
The collection of refurbished Danish, Dutch, and German Leopard 1A5s will outfit a couple of Ukrainian tank battalions.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/ukraine-situation-report-leopard-1-tanks-will-arrive-this-spring
Excerpts:
... the first of its Leopard 1A5DK tanks will be delivered by spring.
Acting Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen, along with German Defense Ministry State Secretary Thomas Hitschler, visited Flensburger Fahrzeugbau Gesellschaft (FFG) to speak on the planned transfer. FFG is renovating the formerly Danish, Dutch, and German Leopard 1A5s before their delivery.
The plan calls for two tank battalions, or approximately 80 tanks, for Ukrainian forces. While the standard Leopard 1 entered service in the 1960s, the 1A5 upgrade variant began its career in the 1980s with a modern fire control system and all-weather night sights.
While the Leopard 1 and its derivatives, including the Gepard self-propelled anti-aircraft gun, remain in service in several countries, Germany retired its last Leopard 1s in 2003.
The Danish version of the Leopard 1A5 features the welded 1A3 turret in lieu of the German 1A5’s cast turret, but still features the venerable 105mm L7 Royal Ordnance main gun. Danish 1A5DK tanks saw combat in what’s now known as “Operation Bøllebank,” Danish for “hooligan bashing,” as part of the United Nations Protection Force’s Nordic Battalion 2 in Bosnia.
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Recent drone footage shows both sides’ strikes on opposing air defense systems. Video from the Ukrainian side shows a 9K37 Buk missile system (NATO: SA-11 “Gadfly” or SA-17 “Grizzly”) transporter-erector-launcher-and-radar (TELAR) exploding after a hit by what’s believed to be an M982 Excalibur 155mm guided artillery shell.
The Buk TELAR carries four missiles of the 9M38 “Gadfly” or 9M317E “Grizzly” variety depending on the variant. What looks like the launcher’s nose is the 9S35 “Fire Dome” fire control radar for tracking and guidance not only for the missiles onboard but also for other radar-less transporter-erector-launchers (TEL) in the SAM battery.
The Russian Ministry of Defense also released footage of a ZALA Lancet loitering munition strike on one of Ukraine’s British-supplied Stormer HVM air defense vehicles.
The Stormer HVM carries up to 20 of the lauded Starstreak short-range missile used against Russian aircraft and drones since their arrival nearly a year ago. The video ends before damage to the vehicle can be fully assessed, but it’s safe to say it did not go up in nearly the same fireworks show as the Buk above.
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Ukrainian forces were also seen testing out a portable anti-aircraft spotlight for counter-drone operations.
Spotlights have been largely replaced by radars since the Second World War when anti-aircraft artillery and flak gunners used the beams to direct fire, but they have since become a regular part of Ukrainian air defenses against Iranian-designed kamikaze drones.
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Cockpit video from the Ukrainian Air Force shows a pair of its MiG-29 “Fulcrum” fighters in action. One of the two grayscale camouflaged fighters can be seen with both Russian-made Vympel R-73 (AA-11 “Archer”) short-range, all-aspect infrared-guided missiles and an AGM-88 HARM.
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Reporting from Ukraine:
https://www.youtube.com/@RFU
••Day 381.
Today there are a lot of updates from the Donetsk region.
Here, the Russian command realized that even if they suppressed the revolt and forced the marines to conduct another offensive operation, it would just be another catastrophe.
They decided to urgently relocate a rifle brigade in this region and separate Wagner forces detachments, when Ukrainians conducted an extensive HIMARS strike and destroyed the main transportation center that connected east and south.
[Specifics]
Last time I told you that Russian marines and some irregular formations refused the order to launch another offensive operation on Vuhledar due to extensive losses and a lack of equipment.
I also told you that the Russian command took urgent measures to suppress a mutiny and sent Rosgvardia to the region.
Recent social media footage confirmed that the Russian command decided to replace the 155th Naval Infantry Brigade with the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade.
It looks like they understood that the demoralized soldiers that watched half of their brigade die over the course of 3 weeks would not be capable of conducting prolonged offensives.
Nonetheless, their problem did not end here because the 136th Motorized Rifle Brigade started demanding Russian military command to provide them with more artillery shells and ammunition before they replaced the marines.
However, even if they receive all the necessary supplies, armor and ammunition, this one-for-one replacement does not represent a Russian reinforcement of the offensive effort. Internal dynamics within the Russian military is likely driving the potential resumption of costly offensives in the short term.
Russian Defense Minister Shoigu reportedly ordered Eastern Military District commander Muradov to take Vuhledar at any cost to settle widespread criticism about the lack of progress and significant losses in the Vuhledar area.
It looks like Muradov managed to convince Shoigu during their recent meeting that they need significantly more manpower and equipment reserves to follow through on Shoigu’s reported instructions and that a mere substitution of one brigade with another does not represent a notable fraction of the reinforcements required because locals continue reporting about the increased movement of Russians forces in the Mariupol area.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, Russian forces would need to advance upwards of 24km from the current frontlines around Vuhledar for this offensive to support operations elsewhere in the Donetsk region.
In order to achieve it, Russians continued relocating troops to this region.
As you might have noticed, Russians are always using columns with civilian buses in order to transfer their manpower from Donetsk to Mariupol.
This is because there is no railway connection between these two points. There is one railway, but it goes right along the front line, which makes it inoperable.
In order to constrain the Russian transfer of troops, Ukrainians conducted a HIMARS strike against a Russian transport hub in Volnovakha.
Their main target became an auto transport enterprise with a lot of buses.
Geolocated imagery confirmed that Ukrainians inflicted severe damage to the building and, according to Russian sources, destroyed at least 10 buses.
This is almost half of the potential column that Russians usually use for relocating forces.
Today Ukrainians have also reportedly conducted a HIMARS strike against a Russian base in Mariupol.
Geolocated footage indicated that the target of the strike became the base located in the western part of the city, near the airfield.
Around a week ago, Ukrainians destroyed here several ammunition depots, so it is highly likely that today’s target became forces concentrations, especially given that the Ukrainian Mariupol Mayoral Advisor recently stated that Russians established a lot of camps where they stationed the newly arrived troops.
Overall, Russian attempts to resume costly offensives around Vuhledar signal that Russians continue to misallocate already degraded forces to an operation that they are unlikely to carry out.
The Institute for the Study of War pointed out that to make operationally significant gains, Russians would need to achieve a rate of advance that Russian forces have not achieved since the first months of the full-scale invasion.
But because of personal motivations of the commanders involved, Russian forces in the area may resume these operations nonetheless.
Russian failure here will likely give Ukrainians a strategic advantage because they will be able to start their counteroffensive operation not only in the direction of Melitopol but also Mariupol.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPpYQuLW8T0
Denys says:
••Bakhmut:
Russian forces south of the city consist of:
217th Airborne Regiment from the 98th Airborne Division;
137th Guards Airborne Regiment from the 106th Airborne Division.
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The bodies of hundreds or thousands of Russian soldiers still lie unclaimed in fields all around Bakhmut. Shows image of one part of one field with over 70 bodies.
Russia has the same losses every month as in their entire Afghan war.
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Russians, like Ukrainians, can refuse to go into the army and are required to pay a fine. No prison or anything like that. Yet, Russians continue to go into the military (not the mobniks) and die for nothing by the thousands every month.
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A B-52 flew up the Baltic accompanied by Polish fighters toward St. Petersburg, then turned abruptly south at Estonia, past Tallinn.
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Poland is in the process of building Europe’s largest army with 300,000 men under arms. It should be the most capable army in Eastern Europe with hundreds of US and South Korean tanks.
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Prigozhin announced he will be Ukrainian President in 2024. May show Russian thinking: perhaps to create some sort of Korean type partition.
Russian elite have understood they are out of resources to take control of all Ukraine. But they may believe they have enough to keep their current territories and declare Donetsk the capital of Ukraine and not recognize the government in Kiev. In order to do that, the Russians need to keep the war going until 2025 and the election of a new Ukrainian President.
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Russia is selling 24 SU-35s to Iran. A significant number. [Keep in mind, Algeria turned the Russians down because of the planes’s weak and jammable radar among the reasons.]
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People have asked how did the saboteurs get onto the Russian airfield to destroy the SU-27 yesterday. It turns out the the airfield is near an overgrown 2-lane road, surrounded by trees, small fields and low hills; there is no fence separating the air field and the plane from the surrounding countryside - anyone could step out of the woods and walk a few feet to the plane and set it on fire.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1634862825901375489
Appears to be military drones with thermal imaging.
The fight was described as follows:
"It was more epic live. Three attacks. First tanks then 3 BMPs. Then again the BMPs and tanks."
https://twitter.com/i/status/1634820706184617984
Drone directed artillery.
The explosions, to me, appear to be larger than artillery and HIMARs rockets. JDAMs definitely a possibility.
BeauBo...has Chuck posted any confirmation on JDAM drops?
Probably a silly question because if he had you would have already posted it.
Putin still in Sochi. It’s been more than a week.
АSLAN
@antiputler_news
❗️Armed Forces of Ukraine destroyed such a number of Russians near Bakhmut that they could try to re-go to Kyiv, - Defense Express expert Kirichevskiy.
“50 thousand people killed or wounded and up to 200 tanks.
The war in Ukraine has exposed the uncomfortable and dangerous truth that America has lost its ability to mass produce in a timely manner artillery shells, cruise missiles and other critical military equipment. While the CIA and the Western media continue to insist that Russia is running out of rockets and missiles, Russia continues to fire an average of 20,000 artillery rounds a day (compared to only 3 to 5 thousand by Ukraine).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beSNTBXNmos
7 year old boy & father killed by Ukraine shelling in Donetsk
Nazis in Moldova. Russia should intervene. Wait. They are actually pro-Russian. Russia has a Nazi problem.
https://twitter.com/intermarium24/status/1634936588110053376?t=OvNjRYlYDHjVxsfo8yvgvg&s=19
Still, the DNR soldiers don’t seem to like having Russian “mobiks” with them: “We somehow managed to live these eight years without you – we would have kept on living.”
https://twitter.com/ChrisO_wiki/status/1634303481036042242?t=jlszN-4EATcrXrv6OjXlaw&s=19
"President Zelenskyy released the statement that Oleksandr Igorovych Matsiyevsky receives posthumously the title of Hero of Ukraine."
“Russian failure here (Vuhledar) will likely give Ukrainians a strategic advantage because they will be able to start their counteroffensive operation not only in the direction of Melitopol but also Mariupol.”
This complicates Russian defensive preparations.
Mud Season usually ends about six weeks from now.
Let’s hope that the last storm of the season is a deluge of those Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs, to prepare for the assault.
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