HTownAg98 said:
Wasn't Cloutier giving a speech in Turkey the day after he was supposedly captured? These idiots forget that linear time is a thing.
If you are interested in downloading the data currently reflected in our TimeMap of Civilian Harm in Ukraine for your own analysis, you can now do so by clicking “Download” on the far left side of the map https://t.co/8us6xorcUw
— Bellingcat (@bellingcat) April 6, 2022
2 Ru AF Su-25s dropping flares somewhere over Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/voQzqEmJ95
— Aldin 🇧🇦 (@tinso_ww) April 6, 2022
If you’re going to spread disinformation, at least get the details right. Roger Cloutier is a Lt General, not a Major General; and he’s no longer the Commander of US Army Africa - he’s been Commander Allied Land Command for two years.
— Alistair Coleman (@alistaircoleman) April 5, 2022
Rossticus said:2 Ru AF Su-25s dropping flares somewhere over Donetsk Oblast. pic.twitter.com/voQzqEmJ95
— Aldin 🇧🇦 (@tinso_ww) April 6, 2022
Nice.Rossticus said:
Speaking of Ukrainian artillery…Since no one has mentioned this so far:
— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 1, 2022
Ukraine's artillery is using the 152 mm semi-active laser guided 𝘒𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘪𝘬 artillery ammunition to hit these russian vehicles.pic.twitter.com/ZQVHNec76i
Finally, an indication of 136th Separate Guards Motorized Rifle Brigade (58th CAA) in Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Original article with this tactical sign being used by 136th from Bellingcat: https://t.co/HehNC6qLoA https://t.co/TKvCQDd3Xc pic.twitter.com/r65HnnDCQI
— Henry Schlottman (@HN_Schlottman) April 7, 2022
This move will intensify Poland-Belarus tensions, which soared after Poland backed the Belarusian opposition in 2020 and were exacerbated by the migrant crisis and Belarus's logistical support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine pic.twitter.com/gfXGHfecSq
— Samuel Ramani (@SamRamani2) April 6, 2022
5% lost does this? You're going to need to explain that to me. If that's the case, it seems like every military is massively fragile at such a relatively small amount of losses. Also, how much are you assuming are doomed because of poor maintenance?ABATTBQ11 said:
Russian armor advantage is gone, IMO. They've lost thousands of pieces of equipment including hundreds of tanks. They've lost maybe 5% of their their total inventory of tanks, and they can't produce more right now because of sanctions. I'd be willing to bet that a not insignificant number of their inventory have also not been maintained and/or stripped for parts, so their total inventory Clint is likely misleading and overstated. They're getting torn to pieces by artillery and ATGMs, so they're going to have to start being judicious at some point or they will find themselves with a real armor shortage.
Modern militaries are fragile. They dont have massive production like in WWII, with Ford and other companies making planes/tanks/ships.Waffledynamics said:5% lost does this? You're going to need to explain that to me. If that's the case, it seems like every military is massively fragile at such a relatively small amount of losses. Also, how much are you assuming are doomed because of poor maintenance?ABATTBQ11 said:
Russian armor advantage is gone, IMO. They've lost thousands of pieces of equipment including hundreds of tanks. They've lost maybe 5% of their their total inventory of tanks, and they can't produce more right now because of sanctions. I'd be willing to bet that a not insignificant number of their inventory have also not been maintained and/or stripped for parts, so their total inventory Clint is likely misleading and overstated. They're getting torn to pieces by artillery and ATGMs, so they're going to have to start being judicious at some point or they will find themselves with a real armor shortage.
It's interesting to see the percentages factored.
GAC06 said:
Production and stockpiles aren't nearly as important as trained crews. On paper Russia has a lot of tanks. They committed a large proportion of their combat capable units and they are getting chewed up.
Waffledynamics said:5% lost does this? You're going to need to explain that to me. If that's the case, it seems like every military is massively fragile at such a relatively small amount of losses. Also, how much are you assuming are doomed because of poor maintenance?ABATTBQ11 said:
Russian armor advantage is gone, IMO. They've lost thousands of pieces of equipment including hundreds of tanks. They've lost maybe 5% of their their total inventory of tanks, and they can't produce more right now because of sanctions. I'd be willing to bet that a not insignificant number of their inventory have also not been maintained and/or stripped for parts, so their total inventory Clint is likely misleading and overstated. They're getting torn to pieces by artillery and ATGMs, so they're going to have to start being judicious at some point or they will find themselves with a real armor shortage.
It's interesting to see the percentages factored.
Thank you for the summary.Ulysses90 said:
I disagree with you analysis on the basis that the Russians have no superiority in tanks at this time and they never will again. They spent their advantage in number wastefully with poor tactics and leadership. My observations are only based on the sources that have been posted in this thread but I am seeing something different from what you are seeing.
The Russians can't put together a pincer movement because that requires covering distances quickly and we know form the past six weeks that they cannot move far because their log trains weren't designed to support rapid long distance movement. They cannot move fast because they don't know how to employ combined arms (i.e. maneuver communicating with fire support while on the move). As Trent Telenko explained very well in his Twitter posts, the Russian trucks have no forklifts or MHE to load and unload them. They might begin to form the shape of a pincer but it will calcify and become static for lack of fuel and ammo resupply and the Ukrainians will put an even finer polish on the tactics that they employed in February and March against the initial invasion.
Russian artillery is devastating and they have a lot of it. However, they have employed that devastating capability almost exclusively against fixed infrastructure and not against Ukrainian military forces in the field. Looking back over the past month of reports, the Russian artillery is always aimed at geographic reference points that are picked from a map and not from forward observers with eyes on the Ukrainian military. Thos missions are called by the commander and not by forward observers. If you substract the attacks on civilian targets in the cities from the total of Russian artillery missions, they seem to have left the Ukrainian Army and territorial defense forces mostly unscathed. The Russian infantry operates as if they have never seen an artillery FO team embedded with their units, let alone a forward air controller.
By comparison, the Ukrainians have mauled the RF forces with artillery using both ground observers and drones. I would expect the Russians to continue using artillery as a siege weapons to destroy infrastructure because they can't grow a fast and efficient kill chain from observer to firing unit overnight.
The RF army had almost no unit cohesion from the very beginning and they will have less going forward. Units cobbled together with a newly assigned officer to take charge of exhausted and combat traumatized veterans thrown together with conscripts or grafted onto the remnants of another unit are not going to perform well and may dissolve entirely in combat. The units pulled out of combat in the Kyiv region will be put back into the fight with the same beat to hell equipment that they have been using since February.
I see no evidence that the RF forces will perform any better in the future against Ukrainian forces that they have thus far. On the other hand, I see no evidence that their artillery will not continue to flatten the cities and kill thousands of Ukrainian civilians and where the Russian infantry occupies populated areas, the atrocities will continue and probably increase. We are in agreement that it will get bloodier.
The biggest risk for the Ukrainian military is that they will over extend themselves while trying to relieve the suffering of the civilians and the Russians can exploit that. The Ukrainian army is heroic and the Russians will bait them into attempting heroic acts on pre-planned targets. That's a horrible dilemma especially as they are holding the families of Ukrainian soldiers hostage in the east for this very purpose.
The Ukrainian foreign minister says there is no distinction between offensive and defensive weapons - any weapons, including tanks and fast jets, would be used to defend Ukraine. He says any country making this distinction (and plenty do) are being hypocritical
— Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) April 7, 2022
NATO chief @jensstoltenberg supports the Ukrainian foreign minister in the idea that a distinction between offensive and defensive weapons is meaningless given that everything Ukraine's military is doing is about defending its country
— Deborah Haynes (@haynesdeborah) April 7, 2022
These are "russian volunteers" gathering in Tuva to go to fight in Ukraine. Interesting choice for the boots! https://t.co/zxOw7NqV56
— Gregor Martin (@Guderian_Xaba) April 7, 2022
it still must be passed by the house.
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 7, 2022
if enacted, what this essentially does is remove a bunch of bureaucratic obstacles to providing military aid to ukraine. more speed and flexibility https://t.co/qsJRtiXRqD
I should note here that a big component of the wwii lend lease stuff was fuel; that could be a major factor in ukraine too as russia keeps blowing up industrial infrastructure
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) April 7, 2022
The House is expected to Pass the Bill on Thursday*
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) April 7, 2022
The edit button can’t get here soon enough!
Lyudmila Denisova, Ombudswoman for Human Rights in Ukraine, cited Russian media that *121,000* children & *615,000* Ukrainians overall were removed from Ukraine. Equivalent of the disappearance of Louisville, KY, or Glasgow from the face of the Earth.https://t.co/F3wS6UTeOh pic.twitter.com/UqTO1VkOYq
— Peter Corless 🌎☮ 💛💉💉+💉🇺🇸🇮🇪🇺🇦🌻 (@PeterCorless) April 7, 2022
The BND intercepts suggest that these were neither random acts nor the actions of individual soldiers who got out of hand. Rather, the material reportedly suggests that the soldiers were talking about the atrocities as if they were talking about their everyday lives.
— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) April 7, 2022
The material is also said to show that members of Russian mercenary troops such as "Wagner Group" were significantly involved in the atrocities. The latter had already attracted attention for their particular cruelty during their deployment in Syria.
— Mathieu von Rohr (@mathieuvonrohr) April 7, 2022
⚡️Blinken: for every Russian tank Ukraine has 10 anti-tank systems.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 7, 2022
During an interview with NBC, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. and its allies have provided or will soon provide Ukraine with “10 anti-tank systems for every single Russian tank.”
#Ukraine: A Ukrainian Stugna-P ATGM operator hitting a Russian tank 3600 meters away somewhere in the east of the country. pic.twitter.com/MaSYk8iVlO
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) April 6, 2022
Waffledynamics said:5% lost does this? You're going to need to explain that to me. If that's the case, it seems like every military is massively fragile at such a relatively small amount of losses. Also, how much are you assuming are doomed because of poor maintenance?ABATTBQ11 said:
Russian armor advantage is gone, IMO. They've lost thousands of pieces of equipment including hundreds of tanks. They've lost maybe 5% of their their total inventory of tanks, and they can't produce more right now because of sanctions. I'd be willing to bet that a not insignificant number of their inventory have also not been maintained and/or stripped for parts, so their total inventory Clint is likely misleading and overstated. They're getting torn to pieces by artillery and ATGMs, so they're going to have to start being judicious at some point or they will find themselves with a real armor shortage.
It's interesting to see the percentages factored.
CondensedFoggyAggie said:⚡️Blinken: for every Russian tank Ukraine has 10 anti-tank systems.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) April 7, 2022
During an interview with NBC, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the U.S. and its allies have provided or will soon provide Ukraine with “10 anti-tank systems for every single Russian tank.”
Good. Send them asap.
This is spot-on. Moreover, Russia's tactics against Ukraine further amplify the problem and will constrain their armor operations going forward. Russia has been fighting this war as if they were trying to clean out isolated nests of terrorists and not a Western trained and equipped army. The Ukes are not a bandit insurgency force (although they've proven to be effective in small unit actions.) Russia is losing its ability to maneuver and project force rapidly just when they need it.Ulysses90 said:Waffledynamics said:5% lost does this? You're going to need to explain that to me. If that's the case, it seems like every military is massively fragile at such a relatively small amount of losses. Also, how much are you assuming are doomed because of poor maintenance?ABATTBQ11 said:
Russian armor advantage is gone, IMO. They've lost thousands of pieces of equipment including hundreds of tanks. They've lost maybe 5% of their their total inventory of tanks, and they can't produce more right now because of sanctions. I'd be willing to bet that a not insignificant number of their inventory have also not been maintained and/or stripped for parts, so their total inventory Clint is likely misleading and overstated. They're getting torn to pieces by artillery and ATGMs, so they're going to have to start being judicious at some point or they will find themselves with a real armor shortage.
It's interesting to see the percentages factored.
Much of the Russian tank force is not really usable. They have about as much chance of mobilizing it as the USAF does of flying a Wing og F-4 Phantoms out of Davis Monthan AFB.
The US has 3,000 mothballed M1A1 Abrams tanks but nobody would count those as an asset that is deployable. I would also venture that the 3000 mothballed Abrams are in a better condition to be reactivated than the thousands of tanks counted among Russia's resources.
Most of these tanks have no crew except the conscripts being inducted in the seniannual draft. Large number of them are old variant T72s or T64s. They were supposed to be sold to Soviet client states before the fall of the USSR but the export market of the 1950s through the 1980s evaporated when the vulnerabilities of Soviet armor was exposed to the world by Desert Storm. Nobody wanted to be the next Saddam.
Because there is no Russian word for the concept of recycling or reclamation, they keep them on the books with the order of battle for the RF army. A battalion of obsolete tanks justifies a commander and staff and continuous funding to keep them ready. It makes Vlad happy to see all of these "ready and capable " tank battalions scattered across the map of his empire but they are really just a paper tiger. He never inspets them and Shoigu knows better than to ever suggest that they be put on parade
Setting aside everything above about the horrible state of the equipment and lack of crews, the Russian ghost-army of tanks is scattered across hundreds of thousands of square miles. They would have to be loaded on trains at rail heads from Siberia to Kazakhstan to the Baltics to bring them to the Ukrainian front. The Russians just don't have the ability to do this. That would require a unified effort by Russian Generals to admit their past corrupt practices o begin repairing the old tanks, foregoing all of the money they would normally get from skimming the resources to move this tank fleet, and inserting a tank car filled with diesel every fifth car in the train just to give each tank a fill-up as it was offloadedfrom the train and sent to combat.
G Martin 87 said:This is spot-on. Moreover, Russia's tactics against Ukraine further amplify the problem and will constrain their armor operations going forward. Russia has been fighting this war as if they were trying to clean out isolated nests of terrorists and not a Western trained and equipped army. The Ukes are not a bandit insurgency force (although they've proven to be effective in small unit actions.) Russia is losing its ability to maneuver and project force rapidly just when they need it.Ulysses90 said:Waffledynamics said:5% lost does this? You're going to need to explain that to me. If that's the case, it seems like every military is massively fragile at such a relatively small amount of losses. Also, how much are you assuming are doomed because of poor maintenance?ABATTBQ11 said:
Russian armor advantage is gone, IMO. They've lost thousands of pieces of equipment including hundreds of tanks. They've lost maybe 5% of their their total inventory of tanks, and they can't produce more right now because of sanctions. I'd be willing to bet that a not insignificant number of their inventory have also not been maintained and/or stripped for parts, so their total inventory Clint is likely misleading and overstated. They're getting torn to pieces by artillery and ATGMs, so they're going to have to start being judicious at some point or they will find themselves with a real armor shortage.
It's interesting to see the percentages factored.
Much of the Russian tank force is not really usable. They have about as much chance of mobilizing it as the USAF does of flying a Wing og F-4 Phantoms out of Davis Monthan AFB.
The US has 3,000 mothballed M1A1 Abrams tanks but nobody would count those as an asset that is deployable. I would also venture that the 3000 mothballed Abrams are in a better condition to be reactivated than the thousands of tanks counted among Russia's resources.
Most of these tanks have no crew except the conscripts being inducted in the seniannual draft. Large number of them are old variant T72s or T64s. They were supposed to be sold to Soviet client states before the fall of the USSR but the export market of the 1950s through the 1980s evaporated when the vulnerabilities of Soviet armor was exposed to the world by Desert Storm. Nobody wanted to be the next Saddam.
Because there is no Russian word for the concept of recycling or reclamation, they keep them on the books with the order of battle for the RF army. A battalion of obsolete tanks justifies a commander and staff and continuous funding to keep them ready. It makes Vlad happy to see all of these "ready and capable " tank battalions scattered across the map of his empire but they are really just a paper tiger. He never inspets them and Shoigu knows better than to ever suggest that they be put on parade
Setting aside everything above about the horrible state of the equipment and lack of crews, the Russian ghost-army of tanks is scattered across hundreds of thousands of square miles. They would have to be loaded on trains at rail heads from Siberia to Kazakhstan to the Baltics to bring them to the Ukrainian front. The Russians just don't have the ability to do this. That would require a unified effort by Russian Generals to admit their past corrupt practices o begin repairing the old tanks, foregoing all of the money they would normally get from skimming the resources to move this tank fleet, and inserting a tank car filled with diesel every fifth car in the train just to give each tank a fill-up as it was offloadedfrom the train and sent to combat.
JB!98 said:Nice.Rossticus said:
Speaking of Ukrainian artillery…Since no one has mentioned this so far:
— Thomas C. Theiner (@noclador) April 1, 2022
Ukraine's artillery is using the 152 mm semi-active laser guided 𝘒𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘪𝘬 artillery ammunition to hit these russian vehicles.pic.twitter.com/ZQVHNec76i
@GeoConfirmed Indeed in Mariupol 47.05251530833806, 37.47872001772351 pic.twitter.com/Ad2R39zio1
— Joeksel (@Noobieshunta_) April 7, 2022
This video shows that Ukrainian troops are still able to operate armour in the very outskirts of Mariupol. Not only do they still have working BTR-4s despite a nearly month-long siege, but they still operate in large parts of the suburbs.
— Nathan Ruser (@Nrg8000) April 7, 2022
See this overlay on @Militarylandnet maps https://t.co/3Cwnfmfv7I pic.twitter.com/G8Ip2deI2x
There is not a single undestroyed hospital left in the #Luhansk region
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) April 7, 2022
This was stated by the head of the region Sergei Gaidai. pic.twitter.com/BMLK2JIrqm