https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWSdfUb7omQ
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/i-
[Alex Christoforou at about the nine minute mark of this video breaks down how ridiculous the NATO numbers are and amount to the Ukrainian military killing a higher percentage of Russians in 28 days than the Nazi military did in 41 days in the same area in WWII:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWSdfUb7omQ
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/i- ]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/507th_Maintenance_Company#Killed_in_action
And these were American soldiers, who have the benefit of superior training and equipment maintained to American standards, rather than Russian troops having to deal with clapped-out equipment and non-existent training (because training costs money that detracts from the lavish lifestyles to which the Russian brass have become accustomed).
The Ukrainians have the advantage of concealment* and comparable ranges to Russian armor, thanks to Javelins and NLAWS, as well as the inferior Ukrainian ATGM, the Stugna-P, which, optimistically, might be effective out to a mile. Whereas the Iraqis who ambushed Jessica Lynch’s convoy were operating at point-blank range with assault rifles and RPG’s.
https://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/17/sprj.irq.lynch.convoy/index.html
The real problem is that the Russians are too strung out and have, as a result, made themselves vulnerable. The US advance into Iraq only *looked* easy. It wasn’t, and highlights just how impressive Tommy Franks’ execution of the advance into Iraq was.
* Note that unlike the open desert of Iraq, Ukrainian hunter-killer teams have foliage behind which they can hide from Russian eyes.
Alex Christoforou at about the nine minute mark of this video breaks down how ridiculous the NATO numbers are and amount to the Ukrainian military killing a higher percentage of Russians in 28 days than the Nazi military did in 41 days in the same area in WWII:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWSdfUb7omQ
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2022/03/i-
In recent years, it's hard to think of too many instances of high intensity warfare involving fairly well-armed adversaries - including one of the superpowers - that was stalled the way the Russian invasion is. For a few weeks, the Tet Offensive was one of them. It is a bit long in the tooth, but the closest thing I can think off. During a two-month stretch, the US and South Vietnam lost an average of 175 KIA/MIA a day, combined, compared to the NVA/Vietcong's 750 dead a day. Note that the US and South Vietnam were defending, and the NVA/Vietcong were attacking. The US had air supremacy and fire superiority, and the NVA/Vietcong lacked the expensive man-portable PGM's, effective from a mile away, with which the Ukrainians have been supplied.
The NVA/Vietcong had the benefit of $3.6b in current dollars of equipment per year in Russian aid.
Under the rule of Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union initially supported North Vietnam out of “fraternal solidarity”. However, as the war escalated, Khrushchev urged the North Vietnamese leadership to give up the quest of liberating South Vietnam. He continued by rejecting an offer of assistance made by the North Vietnamese government, and instead told them to enter negotiations in the United Nations Security Council.[90] After Khrushchev’s ousting, Brezhnev resumed aiding the communist resistance in Vietnam. In February 1965, Premier Kosygin visited Hanoi with a dozen Soviet air force generals and economic experts.[91] Over the course of the war, Brezhnev’s regime would ultimately ship $450 million worth of arms annually to North Vietnam.[92]
They also received substantial amounts of Chinese weaponry and other equipment:
Military aid given to North Vietnam by China[3]: 379
Year Guns Artillery pieces Bullets Artillery shells Radio transmitters Telephones Tanks Planes Automobiles 1964 80,500 1,205 25,240,000 335,000 426 2,941 16 18 25 1965 220,767 4,439 114,010,000 1,800,000 2,779 9,502 ? 2 114 1966 141,531 3,362 178,120,000 1,066,000 1,568 2,235 ? ? 96 1967 146,600 3,984 147,000,000 1,363,000 2,464 2,289 26 70 435 1968 219,899 7,087 247,920,000 2,082,000 1,854 3,313 18 ? 454 1969 139,900 3,906 119,117,000 1,357,000 2,210 3,453 ? ? 162 1970 101,800 2,212 29,010,000 397,000 950 1,600 ? ? ? 1971 143,100 7,898 57,190,000 1,899,000 2,464 4,424 80 4 4,011 1972 189,000 9,238 40,000,000 2,210,000 4,370 5,905 220 14 8,758 1973 233,500 9,912 40,000,000 2,210,000 4,335 6,447 120 36 1,210 1974 164,500 6,406 30,000,000 1,390,000 5,148 4,663 80 ? 506 1975 141,800 4,880 20,600,000 965,000 2,240 2,150 ? 20 ? Total 1,922,897 64,529 1,048,207,000 17,074,000 30,808 48,922 560 164 15,771