The War in the Ukraine
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What do you mean by this? Who says that an SPH would have any sort of armour? How are these useless in a high intensity conflict? Does ancient Soviet artillery somehow not melt down when you fire hundreds of rounds an hour?
My understanding is that GPS is about 3.5 to 5 meters, Glonass from 4.5 to 7 meters, Beidou is 2 to 5 meters and Galileo to 1 meter. But it doesn't matter because anything can tap on to their civilian use frequency. Meaning it's possible that a device can use all four, like most of your Chinese branded smartphones.
Russian Uragan (Hurricane) and Smerch (Tornado) are both busy. Usual targets are armor and troops concentrations, ammo and fuel depots, headquarters, barracks, repair centers, bridges and other stuff. But the most important use is counterbattery, which is to kill other artillery and MLRS units.
HIMARS seems to have a mobility advantage over the Tornados and BM30s. Not invincible, just an advantage.
Those are Chinese commercial drones that were used. Commercial drones are usually filtered out because they are generally considered non essential and only serve to distract if they appear on radar.
Plus the fact that Mugin 5 is actually a quadcopter with a fixed wing and a horizontal propeller. The drone has an unusual layout of having four vertical propellers like a quadcopter and a horizontal propeller like a plane. These vertical propellers play tricks on the doppler (you need a separate explanation why helicopter blades are an issue with Doppler which is tldr and distraction from the subject here).
Once you have decided this particular drone is now a threat you can add it's radar signature to your threat library. Pretty sure you can obtain a working Mugin 5 for your own examination or buy one from Chinese merchants.
Lately a massed attack of these drones were foiled by the Russians even if they have to waste an entire S-300 missile on a $10,000 drone. But at least it does mean the latest software upgrades to the ground systems are working.
These small drones are ultimately detectable and tractable. But because of their low cost and easy replaceability, they are also trolling defense systems to shoot them and expend their expensive missiles on cheap drones, leaving them ammo less when the cruise missiles come in or target baited to reveal their locations and get targeted by other drones. Or both. The Gerans, Lancets and Orlans, along with drones that are acting as datalink routers, appear to be working in unison in baiting Ukrainian radars and SAMs.
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The advantage besides the previously mentioned mobility, is that HIMARS can make use of NATO's extensive ISR assets. It cuts down reaction time in the kill chain, specially if it isn't really the Ukranians the ones operating them. What's limiting them right now, beside Russian AD figuring out how to spot GMLRS from the Grad decoys is the range which has reduced the amount of HVT they can hit with them and why they keep whinning about getting ATACMs
Had they been used on their own, at the discretion of the Ukranian commanders in the areas, the HIMARS would probably be gone by now.
It does, but it probably has a far higher threshold than western equipment or at least it can keep firing although with degraded performance, instead of blowing up.
Sounds like you’re just making assumptions.
I would say it is a stalemate now. We all expected given Russia's technological and numerical superiority that Ukraine infrastructure, economy, and demographics will be more negative than Russia's, but Russia has yet to conquer all of Donbass, not even remotely close to securing neutrality promise from Ukraine. So a fair and unbiased interpretation is it is a stalemate now, yet hopefully the winter offensive would bring more momentum back on Russia's side.
It is a stalemate in terms of ground captured but not in terms of casualties. Trading lives for ground is regarded as the lowest form of tactics and is a classical mistake made by all fascists, ranging from Hitler's no retreat order to Imperial Japanese defense of isolated islands without surrender to Chiang Kai Shek celebrating "taking" of an abandoned Yan'an in 1947 while his forces were overextended, setting him up for his famous retrograde advance to Taiwan.
Russia is following a sound attrition strategy, Ukraine is following the typical fascist no retreat strategy that often hastens collapse in the end.