Sweet!
Makes you wonder how close that first round was, given the reduction in muzzle velocity while it ran three feet back to dig the trails in.
Great, now you have to re-tram the gun.
Russian artillery is outranged
Must mean we aren't supplying those puppies with the guns. Shame - it makes things faster and more precise.
What happens when Ukraine doesn’t have enough trained soldiers to fire the howitzers?
“Ukraine forces use new American Ukraine forces use new American howitzers on Russian positionss on Russian positions”
Did Kamala write the headline?
The trouble with this war is the Russian attack has done nothing to affect the rampant corruption of the Uke ruling class. If anything they will emerge stronger from this.
I wonder what kind of Fire Direction Control they are using? FDC is what makes artillery extremely deadly.
Russians used to use Target Reference Points on their maps, indicated by plus (+) signs. Some of their maps were just covered by plus signs.
The Ukraine is losing up to 15,000 men per month to the war. The total Ukrainian casualties, dead and wounded, are likely already at 50,000. The weapons the U.S. and others provide, are not sufficient to sustain the war. The Ukraine has only 3 days reserves of diesel and gasoline left. The main parts of its forces are immobile and are getting surrounded by Russian forces. Their situation is hopeless.
https://thedreizinreport.com/2022/05/15/russia-helps-the-ukraine-meet-its-emissions-reduction-targets/
Although barely any U.S. or European media mentioned this at all, the past week saw the destruction of the Kremenchug oil refinery, which the Associated Press—citing a Ukrainian official—conveyed was “not operational anyway”…..
…..So, no big deal! Right?
The oil tanks at Kremenchug had been damaged previously, but the facility—as one of the Ukraine’s only three functioning refineries at the start of the war, and one of only two large ones—has just lost its production section thanks to at least six Russian cruise missiles.
This size of refinery would take years and hundreds of millions of dollars to rebuild.
Regional authorities say the gas will run out completely in a few days.
With the Lisichansk refinery also destroyed, and the Odessa refinery’s fuel tanks all well blown…..
…..the one avenue now for supplying the Ukraine (and its army) with ready fuel, is via tanker trains coming from Moldova.
As I’ve written before, these trains are loaded at the port of Giurgiulești, then moved over Soviet-gauge Moldovan track into the Ukraine.
Poland and Slovakia don’t use the same track, so sourcing from that direction is not an option, unless you want to transfer the fuel to a new train at the border—ridiculously time-consuming.
Russia has hit and possibly disabled one of two Odessa-region bridges used by these fuel trains.
In short, the “fuel line” into the Ukraine, is hanging on a thread, and fully at Russia’s mercy.
Send more Javelins!