Posted on 08/18/2022 4:16:23 AM PDT by McGruff
For weeks Ukraine's armed forces have been talking of launching a counter-offensive in the south, and now a senior military officer has told the BBC they aim to recapture the city of Kherson within weeks. Instead of a major full-scale attack, they are expected to adopt a different strategy, with a role for small drone units.
His eyes glued to a monitor, a member of Ukraine's special operation forces is operating a drone flying over Russian positions when he spots an armoured vehicle hidden in trenches: "Fire when you're ready," he says in a voice message to an artillery unit.
Russian lines are just 3km (1.9 miles) away and this soldier has to hide his identity: his call-sign is Maverick, from the movie Top Gun.
The task for Maverick and his team is to identify potential targets and pass on their coordinates. Then they watch and direct fire.
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Well may I say GOODBY Maverick.
I think Russia has missiles and artillery with a range of a few miles.
I wonder if his apartment house neighbors know what he is doing at that monitor day after day?
Like I said, this war has shown how technology is change the nature of warfare:
Armored vehicles/tanks shown to be far less as important,
the massive expenditure of traditional artillery has yielded less than expected results for the Russians
Precision artillery combined with eye in the skytechnology (drones,GPS,Satellites) have made positions in the rear much more vulnerable.
“the massive expenditure of traditional artillery has yielded less than expected results for the Russians”
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I’m not sure what they were expecting, but the combination of drones as artillery spotters is the real tactical gain here. Trouble is, the Ukrainian army has few artillery assets left. Recent fighting has demonstrated that hardened positions like those constructed in eastern Ukraine are turned into death traps for troops once spotted and targeted. Hyperbaric weapons are simply unstoppable. And finding yourself underneath one is a bad day.
That war’s still going on? I thought Russia got the land they wanted and the resources to go with it.
US forces have access to an array of very effective drone detection and destruction/denial platforms.
Drones are neither ‘invisible’ not invulnerable over US Forces.
Yeah I heard that the Ukrainian eastern front was collapsing about 4 months ago.
Funny its still there.
They have they land they wanted, but the ukes are not going to let them stay. This will continue until Russia leaves. Nothing else will matter.
Aren’t a lot of the ukrainians that live in that area sympathetic to russia?
rouble is, the Ukrainian army has few artillery assets left. Recent fighting has demonstrated that hardened positions like those constructed in eastern Ukraine are turned into death traps for troops once spotted and targeted. Hyperbaric weapons are simply unstoppable. And finding yourself underneath one is a bad day.
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Ukes don’t need a lot of artillery for this to be deadly because the uavs a great spotters.
That’s half the point.
Add in the ability of some new equipment to track and kill russian spotter radar. Add to that himars and sabateurs blowing up munitions and supplies so the russians absolutely can’t bring big guns to bear at scale—and everything changes.
The war has changed in the last weeks since the himars arrived. you can see it in pictures of the front. Before the himars the Ukes side was ablaze in sattelite pictures of the front while almost nothing was ablaze.
now you see occasional blazes on the Uke side. But as much ore more on the russian side.
big difference. the massed artillery is gone.
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