Posted on 07/06/2022 8:23:29 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
The Ukrainian army systematically is demolishing Russian ammunition supplies. The strategy could have big implications as Russia’s wider war in Ukraine grinds into its fourth month.
Firing new, American-supplied GPS-guided rockets—plus a few old, ex-Soviet ballistic missiles—the army in just the last two weeks has targeted no fewer than a dozen Russian ammo dumps.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
“Another Gameboy general that is calling the plays like it’s Monday night football Look in the mirror yourself, Francis. You lecture, blather and ridicule with your pretentious drivel without an ounce of warfare experience or ever being to Ukraine. You’ve never shot at the enemy or been on the front lines giving the Russians the middle finger or a bullet. You’ve never planned/executed a battle, made tactical decisions under fire in a war, commanded troops or won a battle.I doubt you have the skill or courage to break a nail with a squirt gun charging a nest of field mice in your back yard.Take your bloviating BS and hot air to a kindergarten playground. Maybe you can impress a bunch of 6 year olds with your cocky arrogance. But I’m certain a 6 year old has a higher level of mental acuity than you.
Have a nice day...”
I doubt you have either...other than that, put some salve on it.
“keep sending the Ukrainian conscripts to the front line! Maybe the Russians will drown in their blood.”
“It’s a land grab.”
Yep! When you get down to it, just about every war is about land/power.
the Putards still falling for the Nazi/NWO/GloboHomo Ruzzian propaganda.
“And the Russians have yet another incentive to systematically reduce their ammunition stocks.”
And just how is that going to happen? Most Exalted Beautificent Generalissimo-Maximosimo Putin has granted-in-magnaminous-beautificence a most-exalted ceasefire upon his misguided and wayward opponents.
No ammo. No firing. Amazing how that works.
Nice to see the UKRs using the GMLRS 200lb HE unitary warheads effectively.
I don't think you can build your cost-benefit analysis on that alone.
On its face, it may seem a waste to fire a $1 million missile to destroy $250,000 worth of dumb artillery shells, until you factor in that those dumb artillery shells can potentially do $10 million in property damage and create untold numbers of casualties.
At that point, the $1M missile seems like money well spent.
Putin says different, pizdobol.
hope they shoot as many ammo dumps as they can as fast as they can.
the natural russian response will be to put their ammo dumps out of range of the new missles and make them smaller and more dispersed.
shouldn’t take but a week or two.
then they truck the shells in at night.
after that the ukes need to concentrate the high value long range missles on getting high value russian colonels, generals and the like. these can’t get too far from the front.
Is all this because of natural gas?
They need to systematically destroy Russian rail lines that keep the supplies going. Then sink the relief ships that try.
They need to systematically destroy Russian rail lines that keep the supplies going. Then sink the relief ships that try.
So when we’re attacked by our former friends/equipment we won’t have much left.
We have plenty left.
And who do you think this inventory of arms was created to attack?
I am pretty sure that we will be able to restock by the time Russia re-tools.
Two of the four HIMARS missile systems have already been destroyed. The Biden/Zelensky(y) regime is certainly getting a lot of bang for the buck. /sarc/
That includes the oil companies that are buying up Russian Oil at a discount and re-selling it in the US Market, right? The best thing to happen to Putin is the Biden Administration ....
Welcome to 2022.
The US has an appointed Czar in the White House and Russia, a duly elected president.
“Two of the four HIMARS missile systems have already been destroyed.”
Citation? Photographic proof? Certainly there would be photo proof of such a high value target being destroyed.
I did find this which puts the claim in dispute:
Kramatorsk is close enough to possibly be inside range of Russian artillery and I can see HIMARS doing shoot-and-scoot runs inside Russian counter battery fire range in order to reach Russian ammo depots. But doctrine is to scoot before enemy counter battery radar can pass firing coordinates to supporting units. So I really doubt it. They don’t crew MLRS with dumb people.
But if HIMARS was struck then there is one certain remedy: ATACMS -with the promise of not targeting Moscow and other Russian cultural centers.
And the Russians have yet another incentive to systematically reduce their ammunition stocks.
“And just how is that going to happen?”
Blast Ukrainian positions even harder
UA keeps taking on supply infrastructure.
“An oil facility in Donetsk is on fire.”
https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1544726904347000833
Hitler thought “Wonder weapons” would win the war—they didn’t. Ukraine thinking American “Wonder Weapons” will win the day is also mistaken. These strikes are feel good attempts to cover the loss of cities and land to the Russians. They might slow the advance—but they can not stop the relentless grind of the Russian Juggernaut. Give peace a chance. Every rocket we give to Ukraine is one less we have to shoot at China when they go on the move. Every American young man who dies of a drug overdose is one less soldier we can send to fight China or defend the beaches when they come here.
And yet during the Vietnam war, Haiphong harbor and all the russian cargo ships unloading russian arms and ammunition existed because if the U.S. administration hands off policy. Can't pizz off the russkies. The carrier based fighter bombers could have sunk pretty well every russian freighter back then, but weren't allowed even though they were in plain sight unloading the SAMs that would get fired at them the next flight.
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