Posted on 05/05/2022 3:37:28 AM PDT by tlozo
What a BS. They used to have over a thousand of artillery pieces before the war, several hundred of them much more capable than M777. But yes, 100 guns are going to change everything:)
The author of this article works for the Pentagon.
Which defense contractor is this idiot in the pay of?
BEAUTIFUL!!! This backups what was reported elsewhere from Russion troop radio intercepts that moral us extremely low due to Ukrainian artillery fire. The Russian troops know they are getting thrown into death trap kill zones. Their advances have stalled out because Russian troops are refusing to be cannon fodder.
Did he read this in a book somewhere?
The Russians can't use google maps? Well, they have their own as well. And oh, there are all those Russians living in Ukraine who know the territory they live in as well as the Ukrainians because they are Ukrainians.
Whatever. We know the Russians have lost too many men and too much equipment and are out of ammunition and food and retreating as fast as they can in a direction to encircle the Ukrainian forces in the Donbass where the Russians will be shredded mercirlessly.
And sanctions are taking their bite as the Rubble climes to new highs against the almighty dollar.
The most important part was buried in the article: “14 counter-artillery radars.”
The the mobile radar can pinpoint enemy artillery from up to 20 miles away.
See, this tells us that the war is going well enough that people are running to the news outlets and video’s to get their moment and “recognition” on how we’ll the war is going.
Grandstanding means there’s some level of success somewhere to make a mountain out of a mole hill.
Without air superiority, how do these artillery units not get pasted before they are moved into range?
Nice looking...we need to make lots more.
WOW! You found Mookie? Is there still a bounty on his head?
It can be fired upon just as great, especially when there are just 14 of them. Ukrainian officers also have a history of selling them to DNR rebels.
Who cares? Someone already paid for it.
Learning to fire a howitzer is not very difficult. Maybe 2 or 3 weeks.
Teaching firing data computation and a Fire Direction team takes a little more effort.
Synchronizing artillery fire with the maneuver effort takes an effort and months of training to perfect.
Mastering Battalion and higher level massing of Artillery fires takes years to develop.
There are 5 conditions for accurate, predictable artillery fire.
1. Accurate gun location. (GPS)
2. Accurate target location.
3. Accurate Metrological Data.
4. Common Survey
5. Accurate Muzzle velocity.
Unless they sent of ton of fire control computers, calculating any of these manually is difficult for anyone.
Made me laugh!
Western weapons just keep pouring in. Russia stands no chance of winning long term. It’s a of beauty watching the Ukrainian honey badgers maul the Russian scum.
At some point there’s going to be a confrontation between us and the Ruskies. I wonder what the cheeseball in chief will do then? They’ll cut and run, leaving us high and dry.
Ukrainian villagers report Russian movement real time, through messaging apps
>Western weapons just keep pouring in.
And who is gonna man them? The Ukrainian men who keep fleeing the country?
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