Posted on 09/11/2022 9:31:16 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
The Russians are “regrouping” so rapidly in the Kharkiv region that Ukrainian troops barely have time to captured all the weapons and equipments during the offensive in Kharkiv region but they manage to captured so many weapons abandon by Russian Army.
Several photo appeared in the public domain indicating that during the offensive in the Kharkiv Region, the fighters of the Armed Forces of Ukraine took as a trophy the enemy command and staff vehicle R-149МА1, which is an element of the automated control system of the Russian military, known under the designations “Sozvezdie” and “ESU TK”. It seems that this car was taken as a trophy from the results of the battles on September 8, 2022.
And this is only the second R-149MA1 that fell into the hands of the Armed Forces during the entire war against the Russian Federation. The first was captured in mid-March 2022 in the Mykolaiv region. Analysts of the Oryx portal give a conservative estimate according to which Ukrainian troops also destroyed at least six R-149МА1 by using anti-tank missiles during the entire period of hostilities.
As we can judge by the feedback of our defenders on social networks, the Russian army in the Kharkiv region is retreating so rapidly that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have not collected so many trophies for a long time.
Here it is worth adding that the above-mentioned P-149MA1 is not the first “valuable gift” left behind by the Russians. As previously reported by Defence View, during the liberation of Balakleia, Ukraine military took the Russian Tor-M1 air defense system as a trophy for the first time during the war. And also – that the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces “trophied” the 1L261 radar station of Rashistov from the 1L260 “Zoopark-1M” counter-battery complex, the second during the entire war.
Not only that Ukraine armed forces also captured numbers of Russian tank T-72, T-80 tanks BTR armored personnel carrier. In just single location Ukrainian forces captured Russian 8 T-80BVs, and a T-80U, two BTR variants, a UR-77 and more vehicles near Izium. Also they able to captured BREM–1M armoured recovery vehicle (ARV).
NO most tanks where just abandoned where they sat in fighting positions. Want one? just drive it off the lot free.
When one is in a hurry to leave an area in panic - and the choice is either a wheeled or tracked vehicle - guess which one get left behind?
Right. I read somewhere else that they have supposedly recovered enough armor to equip 5 mech brigades, which clearly is bogus. Reporters who either deliberately exaggerate or just lack perspective/knowledge are annoying as hell.
To the extent Russia still has significant armor remaining, it is overwhelming going to be already dispersed in the field to operating battalions and brigades, not sitting in a park to be captured.
Destroying or rendering nonoperational 10% of an enemy force is routinely referred to as "decimating" (reducing by a tenth) it. It should not be casually dismissed or minimized.
Besides the tangible effect, it also has a tremendous impact upon morale.
Regards,
Thank the Lord - but pass the ammunition!
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No links. So, nothing more than the idle speculation of an armchair military strategist.
Thanks, "Concern Troll!"
Regards,
“Thank the Lord - but pass the ammunition!”
Amen. May the Lord sustain support for the Ukraine military in the defense of their nation.
I haven’t seen any reports of booby traps or even the spiking of guns during this war, it has puzzled me.
I like it, but it is a mystery, maybe the average Russian soldier just isn’t sophisticated enough or intense enough to get that involved at that level.
During this retreat though, time and panic and fear of being captured and punished, and even lack of (easy) means and interest may be accounting for skipping it.
"Decimating" is an old Roman term not used by modern military forces, which tend to go with "neutralized" for 10% casualties, and "destroyed" for 30%. That is based largely on the axiom that each soldier killed or wounded (especially the latter) takes 2 others to care for/transport him.
But it's important to realize that those are short-term statuses from which units can reorganize and recover. They don't get the troops back, and so are not at full-strength. But they can easily become operationally capable again even if they've lost 30% of their starting strength.
—”My guess is that most of the mech recovered will be stuff that wasn’t working and that was set for repair. Maybe some towed assets, etc.,”
That said, Now Ukraine has received more equipment from enemy troops than from the BIG TOE of Europe, Germany.
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