Russian special military operation in Ukraine #63

The loss of life of French / American advisors (illegal combatants ) is not even painful for their mothers ! Let alone the " West . " There is no news about these , in MSM . As there was no news about previous loss of life of western military personnel . Deaths were passed off as accidents in air crashes etc .

The Orcs are an alien entity in Ukraine . They are a proxy force . Russia has to eliminate them and confront their sugar daddy supporters . Either Trump reverses the Biden decisions or not . If not then in the long term , waiting and not responding to missile strikes inside Russia even at this lower intensity in not possible .

In the mean time various actions can be taken by Russia to put political pressure against the warmongers in the West . As explained previously . Some things that will not trap Trump in vicious cycle of retaliation .

It is quite easy to explain.
It carries HESH ammunition.
While being weaker than a typical HE round, it still has more than 4 kg of high explosives inside.
This is what it looks like when detonated.

The hilarious thing is that to keep using HESH they have had to keep using rifled main guns, which costs them extra, and of course HESH works by a HE charge that flattens on the target armour and then detonates sending shockwaves through to make the inner surface flake and peel off sending metal fragments through the crew compartment without penetrating the armour. Problem is it only works through solid armour so composite armour or add on armour... or even ERA boxes render it useless as an anti armour round. Layered armour will also render it useless.

During Desert Storm a Challenger hit a Warrior BMP but the Warrior survived a 120mm gun hit. At the time it was taken as proof of how amazing the add on armour the Warrior was fitted with and no other BMP could take such a hit, but the reality was the round that hit it was HESH which not doubt sent a powerful shockwave through the add on armour box, but the airspace behind the armour box meant it was useless. The armour wasn't amazing... the tank round was fucking useless.

T-72s carry plenty of HE and they do not burst apart like a cardboard box.

The ones that don't are the ones that only carry ammo in the autoloader under the floor where most of the time they don't get hit.

Leopard 2s carry HE in the hull too and while they do burst it is nowhere near as dramatic as the challenger.

The Leopard 2 probably carries the same number of HE rounds as the Challenger, and both probably also carry the same number of HEAT, which are also full of HE, but the Leopard 2 has APFSDS rounds as the rest of its loadout, while the Chelly probably has a mix of APFSDS and HESH, so the volume of HE on board is probably higher.

One of the main reasons the T-72 used to lose its turret all the time was because the Russians traditionally use a lot of HE in their tanks.

Even if they can come up with 300.000 men, they will be low on tanks, artillery and with close to zero AD.
Ammo stocks will be enough for a few weeks of fighting. That´s it.

They would be open to drone and Iskander attack and would be slaughtered... Their AD would be pathetic.

The General Staff and the Ministry of Defense are currently selecting targets in Ukraine for strikes with the "Oreshnik," Putin stated.

For best effect they should state that there are ten targets that might be targeted, and they wont reveal which, but that two or three targets will be hit and they will be two or three of these ten places....

Make them get used to bunking out...

Some say these direct attacks by NATO missiles inside Russia , fired by NATO killing servicemen are mere PR or propaganda and are too few to be militarily significant

The escalations by the west in the Ukraine frees Russias hand to escalate as they see fit, and rather than trying to dissuade the west, it seems they are more focussed on hitting important centres and targets in the Ukraine.

The factory they hit with Iskanders was clearly damaged but obviously not to their satisfaction. The western escalation allowed them to use missiles that were banned up until recently by the INF treaty and no one has jumped up and down in the west complaining that Russia promised not to deploy such weapons until the US did.

Of course the US tested Tomahawk missiles from the AEGIS AShore system in Europe so Russia could say they were entitled to test this missile too...

Quite different missiles though to be fair.

No need to start WWIII yet , but counter- pressure need be applied , in a non- lethal way , that demoralize their Army and people and government for supporting the war . Use your imagination .

The unreasonable behaviour of the west is just reinforcing to Russia and Russians that this war was inevitable and most important necessary...

I have heard analysts saying that the Oreshnik missiles have such a high kinetic energy that their impact is equivalent to a nuclear bomb. But the video showing an Oreshnik missile did not show any nuclear-like explosion or something.
Could anyone enlighten me. I have no clue about this.

If you look at the aftermath of an APFSDS round penetrating a tank from the outside you see a tiny hole punched into the heavy armour skin of the vehicle.

If no ammo or fuel is hit and there is no explosion then from the outside it doesn't really look like the tank has been hit, though the crew might have been eviscerated by high velocity fragments and spall from the penetration.

In this case the facility is a cold war era strategic rocket production facility with floors going about 8 floors down.... even the biggest explosion and fire in the bottom floor would not be visible from the surface, but all they oxygen would be consumed and most of the people working there likely killed by the impacts.

It would be safe to say at this time in the conflict they were likely running three 8 hour shifts per day and that this place was busy...

So Russia is able to destroy underground bunkers with the energy of a nuclear weapon without suffering the diplomatic consequences of a nuke. That is incredible.

A truck mounted missile that can reach targets 5,000km away in a matter of about 20 minutes at most.

It obviously helps they likely had the schematics of the target in this case being a soviet facility so they would know where fuel tanks would be for storing fuels and other workshops, and likely some spies probably helped too.

Methinks that SK doesn't want its weapons to be affected by the same PR destruction as others in Ukraine. Bad for sales into countries like Poland.

They probably didn't want to encourage Russia to give gifts in retaliation to NK...

SK used to have a deep MIC connection with Russia.

Ironically better relations with SK and Russia are probably their best chance at peace with NK... the US is just interested in war and maintaining troops near China... they don't want NK and SK getting along.

Kellogg himself has declared his intention to seek "peace through force."

Which means Trump will be sounding off and talking and the Russians and Ukrainans will ignore the barking...

The west never had the potential to win this conflict with force... force has failed... so now they want to try using it again... super fail.

Trump has leverage over Kiev but not Russia, but you could argue that when Kiev collapses the war is over. Russia isn't anywhere near collapse.

This was a dangerously weak response.

It isn't over yet... these are normal attacks with conventional weapons, Putin has stated that targets are being selected for Hazelnut.

More importantly HATO troops will be needed to operate most western systems like Patriot and Storm Shadow and Scalp, and likely their battefield radars and EW equipment for jamming drones, not to mention ATCMS as well.

These people will be tough to be replaced now Kiev is clearly losing... and they make the Kiev military work... such that it is now.

The Hazelnut strike will likely be against HQs and deep bunkers for people they desperately want to keep safe from Russian fire power... which makes them targets of value.

The loss of life of French / American advisors (illegal combatants ) is not even painful for their mothers ! Let alone the " West . " There is no news about these , in MSM . As there was no news about previous loss of life of western military personnel . Deaths were passed off as accidents in air crashes etc .

Hoping the devil will care how many zombies you kill is futile. The important factor is that eliminating these people weakens the Kiev war machine because these men are operating systems that conscripts cannot operate.

With these people dead then Trumps escalation is going to require more blood from HATO and I can't see a lot of volunteers with no bunker safe in most of Europe if they wanted.

Russia should keep them all on and have them keep doing the same job

If you needed to keep jews in prison after WWII the best guards would be the ones they already had... the western colonial powers used Japanese guards to control the people in their colonies after WWII while they lacked the personnel to do the job...

I don't think these TCC will last the war to be honest... a surge to put up a final resistance before the negotiations start might involved TCCs being sent to the front with anyone they can find going with them.