Posted on 09/24/2023 3:42:38 PM PDT by delta7
Russia’s defense knocked out a lot of German Marder and US Stryker infantry fighting vehicles, Ukrainian commander tells the Post
Kiev has lost a substantial number of Western-supplied armored vehicles in attempts to breach well-fortified Russian defenses in the southern section of the front, the Washington Post reported on Saturday, citing a military officer on the ground.
In an interview with the newspaper, an unnamed Ukrainian air-assault-unit commander claimed that Kiev had gained some ground in Zaporozhye Region near the settlements of Robotino and Verbovoye, scenes of fierce fighting in recent weeks, although he admitted that the advance was “modest.”
He added that the progress came at a high cost in military vehicles, including German Marder and US Stryker infantry fighting vehicles. “A lot of equipment was lost there,” he said, without providing exact numbers.
The commander also pointed out that Ukrainian troops have encountered serious defenses along their way. “You just have to understand that there is a saturation of anti-tank mines and a saturation of enemy forces, it’s just colossal”, he said.…
….the next question , as our M1 wonder weapon tanks are now entering Vlad’s meatgrinder, will they accurately report their losses?
Just as we’ve been told, “Ukes rolling into Crimea any day now”.
pix, video???
NOOO!!!!! Cannot be. WAPO has become a Puter pufter???
These days, seems like it’s always harder to move the ball than to play defense.
This is a bankers’ war designed to punish russia while murdering white, ukrainian men.
Closer to The Last Ukrainian Alive.
The Ukes with combined arms and superior ISR and the absolute best training that our woke military establishment could provide, based upon all the doctrine in tactics we put in place to ensure that the Taliban would remain in power, were supposed to roll right over the incompetent underequiped ill-armed Russians and their puny defense system. After all we had right and Democracy on our side - forget god. We canceled God because he is just a fiction.
There, fixed it for ya!
“Two weeks to flatten the curve.”
Okay, I admit it is lame. But I don’t have an exclusive on lame.
All the planning tactics and equipment is straight from us - us doing nearly of it, not Ukraine.
You can see clearly if you wacth the videos - same tactics we used on Hadj in the desert, except this ain’t Hadj and it’s not the desert. Western vehicles are rolling into position/onjective - usually with dismounts inside - only to get smoked in place once they’re picked up by drones or other tech.
MRAPS and Strykers are designed for IEDs and VBIDs, not Russian arty, drones and mines. Bradleys are high maintenance dinosaurs.
They’re doing it wrong and failing horribly.
Don’t tell anyone...
That's because you should be concentrating on watching the money movements not the ball.
I presume that this was "unexpected."
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When you use tank tracks as mine clearing vehicles, you can expect heavy losses.
Take out the tracks in contested areas and the crew will be unable to repair it. Russia is eager to get an M1 to see what makes it tick.
They’ve captured Robotyne - again.
Take out the tracks in contested areas and the crew will be unable to repair it. Russia is eager to get an M1 to see what makes it tick.
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We are sending our older model M1’s, stripped of our most updated armor, electronics….which is why it took so long. Our Twinkle Toes General Miley is well aware they will be hunted down, and inevitably captured intact when the M1’s massive required fuel train that has to follow the tanks is clobbered.
My best friend was an M1 tanker in Gulf War I, driving the huge fuel trucks following the M1 was THE most dreaded job.
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