Russian special military operation in Ukraine #15

caveat emptor wrote:

Arkanghelsk wrote:NATO couldn't beat Russia on any battlefield thus far they have encountered each other

The same trio of clowns US UK And France who faced Russia in Syria couldn't hold onto East Bank of Euphrates , Qamishli or Raqqah

The US barely held onto AL Tanf

In Libya the wagner group stopped the GNA cold and a regiment of su24 stopped the NATO supported forces from leaving Tripoli

In CAR and Mali, Wagner pushed out Barkhane French forces

So where has NATO won even one single engagement against Russia?

In Ukraine, Russia is decimating a 700,000 NATO equipped and trained force which was mobilized, trained and armed by NATO standard

In reality it doesn't look good for NATO at all

To this day, we haven't seen one successful campaign conducted by NATO against Russia

NATO fanboys cling to fantasy and propaganda , but stay silent on Libya, Syria, and Ukraine

Bro, i understand that you are Russian, but tone it down a little. You're going from state of complete exuberance to utter defeatism and back.

That's the Russian and Serbian way.

We Serbs are even worse, you wouldn't believe.  

The symphony of the Russophobes at Azovstal'

Doomed and under Russian bombardment. The piece is an excellent accompaniment

https://t.me/RTllery/2866

Here's a reply I wrote in a forum regarding tanks, antitank missiles, tactics and the current war, hope it translates well back into english.

There's a lot of myths and outright lies about it, so I attempted to set the record straight based on observed facts and available data and not wild claims

https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/tanques-y-armas-antitanque/

Hope is of interest and comments welcome. I am not entirely an expert so corrections accepted and welcome.

As an afterthought, I am thinking the heyday of the antitank missile is over, and bazookas are obsolete.

The effectiveness of a shaped charge warhead is dependent of it's diameter wich means a bigger size and weight. Adding a tandem charge only adds to the weight.

Just like wheeled antitank guns eventually disappeared as they became too heavy and unmaneuverable, so shaped charge antitank launchers have become ever bigger. The smaller sizes cannot penetrate reactive armor, only with multiple hits exposing an area. The bigger became too heavy. Lots of Javelins abandoned because the bloody thing is too heavy.

And the Russians haven't started using active countermeasures. The vaunted Javelin IR guidance probably is affected by smoke and fires and could be confused by flares as airplanes use. Ukrops complaint it's useless in urban warfare and must not be working as advertised because Russian tanks don't seem to have much problem with them. The British NLAW is even worse, and all the Cold War stuff as obsolete as the bazooka.

Allied forces (both federal and republican) are moving surprisingly fast now towards hohol-Nazi-held Slavyansk.

flamming_python wrote:The symphony of the Russophobes at Azovstal'

Doomed and under Russian bombardment. The piece is an excellent accompaniment

https://t.me/RTllery/2866

Begging the "international community" to get them out because of "humanitarian reasons". Shit. The same community that burned down
Fallujah, killing scores of civilians. There was not a single "green corridor" established to bring civilians(!) out. And now the f...ing west
sheds tears about war criminals!

Ispan wrote:
Here's a reply I wrote in a forum regarding tanks, antitank missiles, tactics and the current war, hope it translates well back into english.

There's a lot of myths and outright lies about it, so I attempted to set the record straight based on observed facts and available data and not wild claims

https://guerraenucrania.wordpress.com/2022/05/13/tanques-y-armas-antitanque/

Hope is of interest and comments welcome. I am not entirely an expert so corrections accepted and welcome.

As an afterthought, I am thinking the heyday of the antitank missile is over, and bazookas are obsolete.

The effectiveness of a shaped charge warhead is dependent of it's diameter wich means a bigger size and weight. Adding a tandem charge only adds to the weight.

Just like wheeled antitank guns eventually disappeared as they became too heavy and unmaneuverable, so shaped charge antitank launchers have become ever bigger. The smaller sizes cannot penetrate reactive armor, only with multiple hits exposing an area. The bigger became too heavy. Lots of Javelins abandoned because the bloody thing is too heavy.

And the Russians haven't started using active countermeasures. The vaunted Javelin IR guidance probably is affected by smoke and fires and could be confused by flares as airplanes use. Ukrops complaint it's useless in urban warfare and must not be working as advertised because Russian tanks don't seem to have much problem with them. The British NLAW is even worse, and all the Cold War stuff as obsolete as the bazooka.

Lets say the western way of using AT weapons. Javelin is a one-trick pony. NLAW can be used against other stuff but... Man, it´s from Little Britain!

The RPG-7 is still useful, has a lot of different ammunition. Also all russian ATGM´s come with different warheads. Kornet and Krizanthema can still kill tanks head on but can also be used against fortifications or buildings or even drones.

Try to shoot down a drone with a Javelin!

Trolling, the russian way

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Allied forces (both federal and republican) are moving surprisingly fast now towards hohol-Nazi-held Slavyansk.

I can't get over the fact that Biden wanted to splash another $40bn one some eastern euro nazi rednecks, while his own voter base is starving at home.

I can't get over the fact that in Bidens inclusive democratic America you can get fired and socially cancelled for addressing somebody with the "wrong" gender pronoun, while he splashes $40bn on people who are so "based" in the pronoun game even the republican opposition would blush.

They'd probably try to kill most of the Democratic voter base on sight. So Biden's starving his own supporters at home, by sending their money to people in a country faraway who oppose everything they are and stand for.

America, f**k yeah.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Allied forces (both federal and republican) are moving surprisingly fast now towards hohol-Nazi-held Slavyansk.

I can't get over the fact that Biden wanted to splash another $40bn one some eastern euro nazi rednecks, while his own voter base is starving at home.

I can't get over the fact that in Bidens inclusive democratic America you can get fired and socially cancelled for addressing somebody with the "wrong" gender pronoun, while he splashes $40bn on people who are so "based" in the pronoun game even the republican opposition would blush.

They'd probably try to kill most of the Democratic voter base on sight. So Biden's starving his own supporters at home, by sending their money to people in a country faraway who oppose everything they are and stand for.

America, f**k yeah.

History often repeats itself.

Usama bin Ladin went from brave anti-Soviet warrior supported by the U.S. (featured on U.S. news frontpages in the 80's, hey they even made propaganda blockbuster movies, like that Rocky V was it?)... To terrorist scum 10-15 years later.

You think the U.S. public, taxpayers had approved of that support if they'd been made savvy of just who bin Ladin and his crew were, their views on women etc?

Yeah, enough, you know how it is. Infuriating, decade after decade.

Last PO'd remark: It really is the empire of lies, as I think Lavrov said.

Arkanghelsk wrote:Huge breakthrough occurring to the west of Izyum, Slavyansk is under approach

perhaps one line from the last MoD briefing helps:

Missile troops and artillery units hit 15 command posts, 520 areas of concentration of manpower and military equipment, six artillery units in firing positions, as well as a missile weapons depot near the village of Shebelinka, Kharkiv region.

https://z.mil.ru/spec_mil_oper/news/more.htm?id=12421430@egNews






BMP-3 100mm gun effectiveness. Is there any info/analysis yet about effectiveness of 100mm gun mounted on BMP-3 in anti-ukro fighting?

US-made air defense warning and indication radar were destroyed in the Kharkov region.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/14615133


Kh-131 ? or RuAF keeps still using Kh-25PMU?

ALAMO wrote:

flamming_python wrote:

Gerasimov will have to wait, I have Dvornikov on hold on the line waiting patiently already for me to finish typing up this post.

Gerasimov is wounded, you silly!
Don't pretend to call Shoigu either, as the one is dead!
And don't try with Putin, as he has cancer and Parkinson and Alzheimer and and and and and.
Just ... don't!

Just ask UNIAN, they will tell you how things are out there!

In fact the situation is too grave that neither of   dead/wounded nor  just busy top brass can help here.

We need to ask the  forum experts    

Artillery indicator radars have small ranges and are close to the front. They can be destroyed by Smerch pretty easily or even small drones.

No need to waste kh-31 which isn't a cheap missile. Kh-25 can also do the job.

Early kh-31 if I'm not wrong had removable warheads to switch for different radars. Chinese made a universal one for their copy version. Russian latest versions should also be improve on that point. So kh-31 isn't the best option here.

What do you think of these "Brimstone" missiles the British are sending to Ukraine?

About 40km range when launched from the ground, and a 6kg warhead, bit more powerful than a Hellfire.

The thing that got me was you can launch them from a truck or whatever, so they can be hidden easily.

https://southfront.org/new-footage-shows-kiev-forces-launching-british-made-brimstone-missiles-from-modified-truck/

Isos wrote:Artillery indicator radars have small ranges and are close to the front. They can be destroyed by Smerch pretty easily or even small drones.

No need to waste kh-31 which isn't a cheap missile. Kh-25 can also do the job.

Early kh-31 if I'm not wrong had removable warheads to switch for different radars. Chinese made a universal one for their copy version. Russian latest versions should also be improve on that point. So kh-31 isn't the best option here.

"US-made air defense warning and indication radar were destroyed in the Kharkov region."


I thought it might be a part of their AAD so AA missile launchers could be around...

flamming_python wrote:...Russia needs to balance between the war effort and its civilian economy, and it's a delicate balance indeed. Especially as the stand-off with the West can go on for years and the amount of theaters can expand beyond just the Ukrainian one.

Arkanghelsk wrote:...I already have caught on to how these "Pro Russian" channels are working and they are using Ukrainian propaganda to justify a greater war effort...

Not to waste too much time waxing strategic but it's a well known fact that general approach to dealing with Russia is to try and get her to overextend and overcommit in several locations in order to create military and financial exhaustion (worked on Soviets swimmingly, helped by Soviets themselves having colossal inferiority complex)

 
This is why current approach is the right one: keep the war small but keep it going for month and years, keep killing Nazis, be careful with losses, watch the economy and pricetags and keep majority of military on standby to make sure they don't try anything funny elsewhere

And while more Republicans are getting killed than needed (training and discipline obviously) we need to remember that it's these people who are supposed be running the show on local level once this is all done, everything has a price especially political power

Money, hardware and public support is there in Russia and this is what matters and what gives them room to work



As it is now it's Ukrainians that are getting shredded, EU and USA are flushing money down the toilet while Russia is making money (USA is making money also but it's separate thing)

This war is popular in EU and USA for now but no news stays fresh news and after a while folks will stop giving a shit which will be another dick up Ukrainian ass



None of this excuses Russian Plan-A which was epic stupidity for which heads should roll but at least they seem to have gotten their heads out of their asses

Work smarter, not harder

Anyone aware of why this unit would be equiped with these rifles instead of AK74s

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

Isos wrote:Artillery indicator radars have small ranges and are close to the front. They can be destroyed by Smerch pretty easily or even small drones.

No need to waste kh-31 which isn't a cheap missile. Kh-25 can also do the job.

Early kh-31 if I'm not wrong had removable warheads to switch for different radars. Chinese made a universal one for their copy version. Russian latest versions should also be improve on that point. So kh-31 isn't the best option here.

"US-made air defense warning and indication radar were destroyed in the Kharkov region."


I thought it might be a part of their AAD so AA missile launchers  could be around...

As far as I know they sent only artillery locator radars.

What do you think of these "Brimstone" missiles the British are sending to Ukraine?

About 40km range when launched from the ground, and a 6kg warhead, bit more powerful than a Hellfire.

The thing that got me was you can launch them from a truck or whatever, so they can be hidden easily.

How do they lock onto targets from the ground ? Must useless missiles.

Dr.Snufflebug wrote:Allied forces (both federal and republican) are moving surprisingly fast now towards hohol-Nazi-held Slavyansk.

True, but I guess it is not so surprising, once you consider how many drafts of ukie cannon fodder have been annihilated before the Russians advanced into that area... poor nazis and their daddies in the West surely have the right to feel cheated

Isos wrote:

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

Isos wrote:Artillery indicator radars have small ranges and are close to the front. They can be destroyed by Smerch pretty easily or even small drones.

No need to waste kh-31 which isn't a cheap missile. Kh-25 can also do the job.

Early kh-31 if I'm not wrong had removable warheads to switch for different radars. Chinese made a universal one for their copy version. Russian latest versions should also be improve on that point. So kh-31 isn't the best option here.

"US-made air defense warning and indication radar were destroyed in the Kharkov region."


I thought it might be a part of their AAD so AA missile launchers  could be around...

As far as I know they sent only artillery locator radars.

What do you think of these "Brimstone" missiles the British are sending to Ukraine?

About 40km range when launched from the ground, and a 6kg warhead, bit more powerful than a Hellfire.

The thing that got me was you can launch them from a truck or whatever, so they can be hidden easily.

How do they lock onto targets from the ground ? Must useless missiles.

GPS.

VARGR198 wrote:

https://twitter.com/200_zoka/status/1525055727286599682

Anyone aware of why this unit would be equiped with these rifles instead of AK74s

Assault rifles are good for assaulting buildings, but for defending buildings an accurate bolt action rifle is effective longer range and more accurate and still packs a punch. When I did my FIBUA training there was a lot of sneaky tactics and sniper and marksman rifles were key at picking off enemy, you can't shoot at an enemy you can't see, plenty of places to hide, accuracy and range play an important part in FIBUA training. Clearing rooms you want a fully automatic weapon, grenades etc, but defending a building your main objective is to take out the enemy before they get close enough to assault it. Troops on bottom floors will be armed with assault rifles upper levels sniper, marksman rifles, LMG, GPMG. Old bolt action rifles, and SKS will still be useful in these roles.