ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
Posted on 03/12/2024 11:55:19 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
Despite staggering losses in its two-year wider war on Ukraine, Russia still has more tanks, more artillery and more troops than Ukraine has. What Russia doesn’t have more of, is drones.
One close count of publicized strikes by explosives-laden first-person-view drones reveals that Ukraine holds a steady 300-drone-a-month lead in confirmed strikes.
Since August, Ukrainian troops have flung at Russian troops least 8,273 FPVs—each of which weighs two pounds and hauls a pound of explosives as far as two miles. The Russians have flung back no fewer than 6,059 FPVs.
There likely are many, many more FPV strikes that go unreported. But in any event there evidently is an FPV gap—a gap that helps to explain how Ukrainian troops were able to halt the Russian winter offensive west of the ruins of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine.
The Russians glide-bombed the outnumbered and artillery-starved Ukrainian garrison in Avdiivka—the 110th Mechanized Brigade plus some attached units—and attacked with wave after wave of infantry, ultimately forcing the garrison to retreat to the west under the cover of three brigades: the 47th Mechanized, the 3rd Assault and the 53rd Mechanized.
The Ukrainians gave up the first line of villages a few miles west of Avdiivka and rebuilt their defensive line in the next line of villages: Berdychi, Orlivka and Tonen'ke.
On favorable terrain with water at their backs, the 47th, 3rd and 53rd Brigades turned and fought back with tanks, artillery and mortars—and, most importantly, with drones. Lots of them. “The number of drones the Ukrainian armed forces have in the Avdiivka sector is off the charts,” one Russian military blogger complained.
The same blogger estimated that the Ukrainian brigades west of Avdiivka launch as many drones as the Russian field armies in the area—the 2nd and 41st Combined Arms Armies—send soldiers into battle.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!(((PING!)))
Tell Russia to stop crashing their IL-76’s.
We could have ham and eggs, if we had some ham
...and some eggs.
Tell Russia to send "General 200" Syrskyi's new crop of massacred Ukrainians back from liberated Avdeyeka, so their wives and mothers can bury the pieces.
Drones will inevitably make all infantry and ship-based warfare obsolete.
And then that's when terror bombing civilians becomes the only way to win.
RuZZZZia doesn’t need as many drones because it has a massive artillery advantage both in barrels and shells. Also, Russia is now out producing the Ukraine with drones as well.
So what’s the whole point in buying old crappy North Korean ammo ? Must be neocon lies again.
Rotating one's inventory.
Also, they don't need Iranian or Chinese missiles, but they may want to test these to see how they work in practice.
I wonder if these drones, are being operated and guided from an Air Force Base in Clovis, New Mexico!!!
I readily admit that the RuZZZZians bought North Korean shells. You have to remember that RuZZZZia is fighting against the entire manufacturing capacity of the West, even though this capacity is a pitiful shadow of itself.
Seen any good snuff films lately?
We all know how you love your snuff films.
A lot of serial killers have the same fetish.
Coincidence?
Tell Russia to leave Ukraine. It’s not their country.
You didn’t answer my question: Seen any good snuff films lately. You do love your snuff films, just like a good psychopath.
“It’s not their country.”
The parts their in is their country.
“they’re”
It may turn out, given the truly astonishing rate of advancement in drone tech, that artillery as we know it is becoming obsolete. I wonder what the artillery situation will be in six months.
It may turn out that conventional artillery cannot continue to exist within, say, 20km of the front. And that @25% of combat personnel will be devoted to drone operations.
The Russians took what they hold through aggressive and unjustified war.
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