Warfare Russia/Ukraine War

[Connaught Ranger]

"Counter-offence is in progress in the Kharkiv region. The messages about newly freed settlements appear almost daily. Ukrainian forces are advancing North and pushing the enemy closer to a state border. Military explain their success in finding the enemy's weak spots. The low professionalism of the Russians is the reason too. Russians mainly act head-on and dumb. So it is not difficult for the Ukrainian commanders to outsmart them because it appears that the Armed Forces of Ukraine are more experienced and skilled. The Ukrainian military sees their local goal as kicking the enemy behind the state border in the Kharkiv region. They also report the successful pushing of the enemy back to Russian territory. They also are ready to move further — if the Commander in Chief issues such an order."

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[Connaught Ranger]

"Russian "Arrow-10M3" was captured by soldiers of the 92nd Brigade."

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[JimHPTN]

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[Connaught Ranger]

Soldiers of the 92nd Brigade shot down a Russian Mi-28N "Night Hunter" on 09.05.22

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[Minimalist]

X-22 rocket explosion for example. Municipal Palace of Culture. Lozova today

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[Ivan le Fou]

The Chinese Type 56-1 cache almost strikes me as an organized crime cache given the method of finding it and the nature of the arms. Alternatively, it might have been a pre-war cache provided by the Russians for various purposes with plausible deniability.

Could be both, indeed.

Though considering the stocks of Russian manufactured "small arms", funneling Russian AKs would probably easier logistically speaking than having Chinese ones. And since both sides are using the same weapons, with stockpiles made porous by wars and corruption...

Front-line wise, Russian and DPR forces reportedly captured the villages of Novodarivka, Pryyutne and Stepove, widening the frontlines in the Velyka Novosilka area; Novoselivka in the Lyman front; Vyskryva and Lypove north of Popasnaya.
They also managed to retake the villages of Viktorivka, Typillya, Volodymyrivka, Nova Kamyanka, Stryapivka, Vyskryva, Troitske and reached to important town of Soledar.

It seems the Russian forces gained the momentum in the Popasnaya front.

During these advances, Russian troops advanced about 10km west of Popasnaya. If the Soledar area is captured, one of the main supply route for AFU forces, to the city Severodonetsk, will be cut off.


Despite the Russian heavy counterattacks to recapture the Ternova and Rubizhne areas, these villages are still contested.

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[TheKiwi]

Harpoon is not especially more effective than Neptun would be. I guess if enough of them were delivered then some "time on target" style alpha strikes could probably smash some more Black Sea Fleet assets. But you'd be wanting to launch one or two dozens of them to be sure, not just one or two.

 

[Mike1976]

Harpoon is not especially more effective than Neptun would be. I guess if enough of them were delivered then some "time on target" style alpha strikes could probably smash some more Black Sea Fleet assets. But you'd be wanting to launch one or two dozens of them to be sure, not just one or two.

Of course if the captain is on shore visiting his mistress, the radar operator was a cook two months ago and the guys on watch are all drunk and/or dumb enough to turn off all defensive measures then it doesn't really matter how many you fire.

 

[RL64RL]

You are welcome
Why the question, if i may ask ?

I generally enjoy 90+% of all the posts on this forum’s threads. Even the views of those I don't necessarily agree with. That said, I find your posts interesting, insightful, and sometimes entertaining. Also, they are sometimes biting, but not offensive. Your calls for more depth in operational & strategic discourse are also noted, almost as if you had a military education.

 

[Junglejim]

did it for the lols!

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[muck]

Regarding the Gepard saga … German media say a solution has been found to make do without munition from Rheinmetall's factories in neutral Switzerland, without going into details [A long-standing rumor says Germany acquired ammunition from Brazil, muck]. Ukrainian troops will begin training in Germany soon. Ukraine's minister of defence, Oleksii Reznikov, has told daily 'Die Welt' that a first battery could be declared combat ready in less than eight weeks. A shipment of 15 SPAAGs and 60.000 rounds of FAPDS ammunition is set to arrive in Ukraine some time in July.

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For the life of me, I'll never understand why that question keeps coming back like some sort of zombie. Remember that the concept of the tank was first declared obsolete in 1917, a mere year after its inception.
It was again declared dead during the 1930's, pointing to the upcoming tank-buster potential of aeroplanes.
And during the Second World War, when shaped charges and hand-held anti-tank weapons began to take their toll.
And in the early years of the Cold War, when many experts seriously believed that atom bombs would replace all conventional weapons.
And, most prominently, after the emergence of the anti-tank guided missile.
And so on, and so forth.
Yet still, the tank is still here. There's never been an offensive innovation that wasn't met with a defensive innovation (either a technological or tactical one) to mitigate its adverse effects. Tanks will remain a force to be reckoned with as long as human beings are afraid of catching a bullet.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/19/ukraine-aid-senate/?fbclid=IwAR1-onO631J0KV5Hbfw6d2S4zBOe5R07cdHP3R8o7FXy2HkWwKlpC7e0Ho

 

[bobthe3rd]

I'm taking all such reports with a grain of salt. Chechens were killed, Kadyrov even admited that. But Ukraine was wrong about Tushayev, who was claimed to have died in such an ambush or strike, but is evidently still alive.

You have to take any report coming out of Ukraine atm. With a grain of salt mate.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

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[Gordus]

You have to take any report coming out of Ukraine atm. With a grain of salt mate.

Yes ... that's, what I said :v

From both sides obv.

 

[bobthe3rd]

Yes ... that's, what I said :v

Aye.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

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[Mordoror]

For the life of me, I'll never understand why that question keeps coming back like some sort of zombie. Remember that the concept of the tank was first declared obsolete in 1917, a mere year after its inception.
It was again declared dead during the 1930's, pointing to the upcoming tank-buster potential of aeroplanes.
And during the Second World War, when shaped charges and hand-held anti-tank weapons began to take their toll.
And in the early years of the Cold War, when many experts seriously believed that atom bombs would replace all conventional weapons.
And, most prominently, after the emergence of the anti-tank guided missile.
And so on, and so forth.
Yet still, the tank is still here. There's never been an offensive innovation that wasn't met with a defensive innovation (either a technological or tactical one) to mitigate its adverse effects. Tanks will remain a force to be reckoned with as long as human beings are afraid of catching a bullet.

This is a old Sea Snake. And you will hear it louder now from proponents of "light motorized infantry with modern ATGMs takes all"

Of course some people are wondering why use a 5 million $$$ beast that could be taken out by a 20 000 $ missile.

They are just forgetting that a battlefield is not a chessboard and that if the 20000 missile team was able to destroy the 5 million MBT, it is because it got intel, mobility (ironicaly often within APC/IFV), support that forced the MBT to expose itself etc etc

War is not sword versus shield. War is a complete combined arm system versus another

 

[bald head & beard]

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Russian advances around Popasna from the past 2-3 days mapped.

 

[Hiryu2.0]

UKRAINE'S TERRITORIAL DEFENSE FORCES AT WAR: LESSONS LEARNED

Taras Bartka, Colonel of Armed Forces of Ukraine, 19.05.2022 The experience and misuse of the Territorial Defense Forces of the Armed Forc...

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