***Russian - Ukraine War Tactical and Strategic Updates*** [Warning on OP]

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From WaPo

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Starting in the earliest days of the invasion in February, a clandestine network of railway workers, hackers and dissident security forces went into action to disable or disrupt the railway links connecting Russia to Ukraine through Belarus, wreaking havoc on Russian supply lines.

The attacks have drawn little attention outside Belarus amid the drama of the Russian onslaught and the bloody aftermath of Russia's humiliating retreat. Fierce Ukrainian resistance and tactical errors by an ill-prepared Russian force were likely enough to thwart Russia's plans, analysts say.

But the Belarus railway saboteurs can at least claim a role in fueling the logistical chaos that quickly engulfed the Russians, leaving troops stranded on the front lines without food, fuel and ammunition within days of the invasion.

Alexander Kamyshin, head of Ukrainian railways, expressed Ukraine's gratitude to the Belarusian saboteurs. "They are brave and honest people who have helped us," he said.
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Rossticus said:


We're going for the throat punch.
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After the throat punch I'd like to see a curb stomp followed by a skull drag.
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Full Thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1518151079598428161.html



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benchmark said:

Rossticus said:


We're going for the throat punch.
The artillery rounds pictured on the right are GPS-guided. The bulky thing on top is a Precision Guidance Kit (with its protective cover still on) which screws into the fuse well and upgrades just about any 155mm round.
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I remember seeing the full video of that a while back. That dude is animated. Especially when he misses.
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Luka is a boob.

Full thread on Belarus:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1518240030967406593.html

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Rossticus said:



https://bb-cntv.com/news/canadian-general-accused-of-sexual-harassment-leaves-for-ukraine-31519/

Lol. Accused of sexual harassment. I guess Ukraine is running the full version of the French Foreign Legion.

Regardless I hope he does some good over there
Seven and three are ten, not only now, but forever. There has never been a time when seven and three were not ten, nor will there ever be a time when they are not ten. Therefore, I have said that the truth of number is incorruptible and common to all who think. — St. Augustine
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From what I've seen of the female Ukrainian troops, he'd be wise to keep his hands to himself unless invited.
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Rossticus said:


Can someone explain what is happening? Something is fired at the beginning that lands behind the large scorched rectangular building at the center of the frame, then almost two minutes later the building blows up. Was something fired with delayed action? Or did something else hit the building?

edit - It looks to be a "line charge", which trail along behind the projectile and is manually detonated. That makes sense for something used for mine clearing. It looks like here it left the line charge draped over the top of the building, which becomes a very effective way to destroy the the entire building. I wonder what was in the building.
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Line charge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UR-77_Meteorit

"The vehicle is armed with a launcher and two mine-clearing line charges. When launched, a charge causes a shock wave that destroys or disables all the shells or mines along the area of the line charge (with a width of 6 metres and length up to 90 metres).

The vehicle has also been used offensively, where its line charge has been used to destroy entire streets in urban combat in Syria and Ukraine."
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Rossticus said:

Delayed line charge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UR-77_Meteorit

"The vehicle is armed with a launcher and two mine-clearing line charges. When launched, a charge causes a shock wave that destroys or disables all the shells or mines along the area of the line charge (with a width of 6 metres and length up to 90 metres).

The vehicle has also been used offensively, where its line charge has been used to destroy entire streets in urban combat in Syria and Ukraine."
Looks pretty barbaric when used that way.
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torrid said:

Rossticus said:

Delayed line charge.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UR-77_Meteorit

"The vehicle is armed with a launcher and two mine-clearing line charges. When launched, a charge causes a shock wave that destroys or disables all the shells or mines along the area of the line charge (with a width of 6 metres and length up to 90 metres).

The vehicle has also been used offensively, where its line charge has been used to destroy entire streets in urban combat in Syria and Ukraine."
Looks pretty barbaric when used that way.


Correct.
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For perspective, here's the US's mine clearing line charge (MICLIC).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M58_MICLIC

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CS78 said:

Huge amounts of high quality artillery being supplied. I assume the tacticians feel it won't be destroyed from the air?


Artillery is vulnerable to air attack but concealment from observation and supporting air defense can significantly mitigate that risk. Russia doesn't have air superiority and the Ukrainians will almost certainly have layers of MANPADS forward and S-300s behind their artillery. The Orlan--B surveillance drones and helicopters are threats that the MANPADS can handle. The S-300s will have to take on some of the fixed wing air.

Unlike what has been displayed in many photos of Russian artillery positions, disbursing the guns with at least 100m between them in a nonlinear pattern makes it difficult for enemy air to take out more than on or two guns in a single attack run with dumb bombs or rocket. Moving at night and using radar scattering camouflage netting also makes it harder to detect the artillery visually or with ground search radar.

With enough time and engineers support each gun would have a revetment berm built around it to reduce vulnerability to direct fire and fragmentation from surface burst enemy artillery.

The firebases built in Vietnam had extensive berms and sandbag walls built to protect them from ground attack and enemy artillery. Khe Sanh firebase survived a six month siege with hundreds of NVA artillery rounds impacting daily. The situation in Ukraine is different but some of the defensive preparations uEd at Khe Sanh will still be effective.
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Rossticus said:


Search Google for Trevor Kadier. The first few links are sketchy websites that call him a rapist or a sexual harasser. Interesting that none of the websites seem legit.
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Rossticus said:


I have to wonder why they don't list the wounded and MIA figures. It's one reason to take pause with Ukraine's numbers (though, that could have been the Twitter user's editorializing).
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How would the Ukrainians know WIA and MIA numbers of the Russians? Their figures are iffy enough as it is.

179 aircraft?
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GAC06 said:

How would the Ukrainians know WIA and MIA numbers of the Russians? Their figures are iffy enough as it is.

179 aircraft?
With the effectiveness we've heard of from the MANPADS, this wouldn't surprise me.
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179 aircraft and 154 helicopters isn't credible in my opinion.

Visually confirmed air losses are 24 FW and 36 RW according to this tracker

https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html?m=1

The losses are certainly higher than that but not 300+
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Their numbers were originally thought to be high and propaganda. However, multiple sources have analyzed them. Based on visually confirmed losses (which will always be conservative) they seem plausible. Even the western intelligence numbers which purposely err on the low side weren't much different. Intercepted Russian conversations seem to reinforce extremely heavy losses and a Russian wounded to dead ratio closer to WWI numbers than modern warfare expectations.
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Rossticus said:


Probably one of the most rawest footage I've seen, though the smoke and black/white screen blurs things.

Pretty sure the first few shots absolutely tore through multiple Russians, spraying black/red mist.
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