[SpeedyInTexas]

“Russian Combat Air Strengths and Limitations: Lessons from Ukraine”

“The most significant aspect of the VKS performance over Ukraine that had been overlooked or at least not explicitly predicted by VKS experts before the invasion is the fact that Russian pilots and planning staff lack the ability to plan, organize, and execute composite air operations (COMAOs). COMAO is a NATO term used to describe missions where “dissimilar types of aircraft interact in coordinated actions, to achieve defined military objectives within a given time and geographical area…normally involving between 20–100 aircraft.”

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“Many of these limitations stem not from inherent Russian technological limitations, but from the fact that the Russian military as a whole has long relied on massed artillery, armored vehicles, and land-based precision fires for the core of its tactical and operational level battlefield lethality rather than CAS. Therefore, Russia has not invested heavily in the sort of sensors, weapons, and pilot training that Western air forces have taken for granted after decades of counter-insurgency campaigns where airpower provided the majority of deployed joint force firepower. Consequently, it should not have been a surprise for Western observers that the VKS proved poor at conducting dynamic CAS and interdiction on the battlefield in Ukraine.”

https://www.cna.org/reports/2023/04/Russian-Combat-Air-Strengths-and-Limitations.pdf

[SpeedyInTexas]

“Ukrainian military claims “impressive results” against Russia in Kherson”

“’ Ukraine’s military has claimed it is achieving “impressive results” against Russian forces on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in Kherson.

“Over the past three days, we have quite impressive results of our combat work,” the spokeswoman for Ukraine’s Southern Command said in a national broadcast Tuesday.

“We have managed to hit and destroy artillery pieces, tanks, vehicles, armored vehicles, and enemy air defense systems,” Natalia Humeniuk said. “In other words, our work on clearing the front line of the east bank is quite powerful, but we are still working in a counter-battery mode.”
Humeniuk hinted that further developments would be expected in the near future. She went on to say Russian evacuations from the banks of the Dnipro were also facilitating Ukrainian operations.”

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-04-25-23/index.html

[ganeemead]

"“The most significant aspect of the VKS performance over Ukraine that had been overlooked or at least not explicitly predicted by VKS experts before the invasion is the fact that Russian pilots and planning staff lack the ability to plan, organize, and execute composite air operations (COMAOs). COMAO is a NATO term used to describe missions where “dissimilar types of aircraft interact in coordinated actions, to achieve defined military objectives within a given time and geographical area…normally involving between 20–100 aircraft.”

… “Many of these limitations stem not from inherent Russian technological limitations, but from the fact that the Russian military as a whole has long relied on massed artillery, armored vehicles, and land-based precision fires for the core of its tactical and operational level battlefield lethality rather than CAS. Therefore, Russia has not invested heavily in the sort of sensors, weapons, and pilot training that Western air forces have taken for granted after decades of counter-insurgency campaigns where airpower provided the majority of deployed joint force firepower. Consequently, it should not have been a surprise for Western observers that the VKS proved poor at conducting dynamic CAS and interdiction on the battlefield in Ukraine.”"

nato... Making the promulgation of bullshit into an art form....