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To: Zhang Fei

military warehouses in Donbas
UAWire
Saturday, June 18
https://uawire.org/over-the-past-3-days-ukrainian-artillery-has-destroyed-7-russian-military-warehouses-in-donbas

Over the past three days, at least 7 facilities have been destroyed in the occupied Donetsk, where the Russians held significant stocks of ammunition since 2014, reported the Ukrainian website InformNapalm, citing its sources.

InformNapalm’s sources claim that the Russian warehouses were destroyed by “high-precision strikes” with 7 shots hitting 7 targets.

“The destroyed ammunition depot in the occupied Khrustalnyi (Krasny Luch) alone had up to 1 thousand tons of ammunition,” InformNapalm specifies.

According to InformNapalm , the Russian troops are trying to “diminish the successes of the Ukrainian Armed Forces” by shooting at the city center with smaller caliber artillery in order to instill fear in the local population and stop rumors about the high accuracy strikes of the Ukrainian Forces on ammunition depots.

“A range of testimonies of various insiders gives us a rough idea of the situation there and inspires cautious optimism that high-precision weapons started working on the front lines. Using them the Ukrainian army reduces combat capabilities of the Russian army and cuts off the offensive potential of the Russians in the Donbas,” the journalists explain.


41 posted on 06/18/2022 6:28:08 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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[“The destroyed ammunition depot in the occupied Khrustalnyi (Krasny Luch) alone had up to 1 thousand tons of ammunition,” InformNapalm specifies.]


While that’s heartening news, if true, that’s only 20,000 shells. The Russians are said to be firing 50,000 shells a day. To get a sense of the feasibility of this volume of fire, the numbers from WWI might be instructive. The Germans fired 222m rounds in 4 years of war.

https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/artillery

That’s 150,000 rounds a day. So, even with the economic capacity and manufacturing capabilities of WWI, it was possible to sustainably expend 50,000 howitzer rounds a day.


46 posted on 06/18/2022 6:37:15 PM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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