Yep, Russians changed strategy from aggressive mobility to a slow pressure campaign. It seems to be working so far. Ukraine does effectively have all the surveillance NATO can offer, so rapid advances are spotted and countered effectively by Ukraine. Plan B for Russia appears to be an artillery meat grinder. I think Ukraine’s refusal to do tactical retreats is helping the Russians. Leaving men to perish in doomed campaigns seems really stupid to me, but I’m far from an expert.
The ZSU lacks dedicated long endurance artillery drones, severely limiting their artillery effectiveness doing counter battery fire. Also limiting them is the scarcity of shells; the Orcs fire 50,000 shells, the ZSU fires back 2,000.
The incoming US shells amount to only a few days of Orc shelling. The ZSU needs millions of shells and thousands of tubes to counter the massive amount of Orc artillery. Without the drones like the Orc’s Orlon-10, high precision shells are only hitting the few relatively close targets that commercial drones can reach.
“Plan B for Russia appears to be an artillery meat grinder”
The cannon is The Lord of Battle.
Unless the west is sacrificing the Ukrainian Army to make a dent on Russia.