Why is this link you posted not visible?
Maybe this works better:
Also a first however it does not look like a destruction?
The War in the Ukraine
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Why is this link you posted not visible?
Maybe this works better:
Also a first however it does not look like a destruction?
This footage is spectacular. But first some background to this, this being the approaches to Verbove. There is a line of Dragon’s Teeth in the front that does not allow enemy vehicles to pass through, but allows enemy infantry to get in. The line was meant to be breached but only by infantry, the teeth acting like a filter. So Ukrainian infantry are dropped off by APCs, and then to avoid going through the open fields, they would infiltrate through the forest lines and dig trenches there.
In this scene a Russian BMP with a 30mm gun, could be BMP-3, or -2, or -1 with upgraded turret, goes boldly forward and rips the 30mm into the Ukrainian held trenches.
The Ukrainians also have BMP-2 and have been upgrading BMP-1 with BMP-2 turrets with the 30mm.
At the low side the 30mm 2A42 has a rate of fire of 200 to 300 rounds per minute, and at a high rate, up to 800 rounds per minute.
The Lancet strike on a MiG-29 aircraft on a Ukrainian Air Force Base over 70km from the front, suggesting the Lancet has a range exceeding such. Furthermore this was all observed from an equally ranging surveillance drone. Looks only like a damage however.
Russian artillery slamming at Ukrainian positions and vehicles as Klescheevka.
Incendiaries from Grad MLRS being used on Ukrainian positions in the Lysychansk front.
Ka-52 takes out an AFU vehicle.
A bit of an overkill to use a FAB-500 on an M109.
Upyr drone goes after Ukrainian high speed commando boat. The drone appears to deliberately explode just over the boat's heads, and observed by another drone.
This time a TOS-1A Solntsepek is used on Ukrainian positions across the Dniepr.
This time it's a FAB-250 with UMPC hitting possibly an ammo or fuel depot in the Kherson region.
In this scene a Russian BMP with a 30mm gun, could be BMP-3, or -2, or -1 with upgraded turret, goes boldly forward and rips the 30mm into the Ukrainian held trenches.
The Ukrainians also have BMP-2 and have been upgrading BMP-1 with BMP-2 turrets with the 30mm.
At the low side the 30mm 2A42 has a rate of fire of 200 to 300 rounds per minute, and at a high rate, up to 800 rounds per minute.
The Lancet strike on a MiG-29 aircraft on a Ukrainian Air Force Base over 70km from the front, suggesting the Lancet has a range exceeding such. Furthermore this was all observed from an equally ranging surveillance drone. Looks only like a damage however.
Russian artillery slamming at Ukrainian positions and vehicles as Klescheevka.
Incendiaries from Grad MLRS being used on Ukrainian positions in the Lysychansk front.
Ka-52 takes out an AFU vehicle.
A bit of an overkill to use a FAB-500 on an M109.
Upyr drone goes after Ukrainian high speed commando boat. The drone appears to deliberately explode just over the boat's heads, and observed by another drone.
This time a TOS-1A Solntsepek is used on Ukrainian positions across the Dniepr.
This time it's a FAB-250 with UMPC hitting possibly an ammo or fuel depot in the Kherson region.
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Since twitter became X.com the link media button doesn't really work unless you change X to twitter in the url first.
I suggest using Nitter or Bitter redirect browser extension
More FABs hitting AFU concentrations in the Kherson region. These patterns of hits suggest the Russians trying to preempt Ukrainian raids to the other side of the Dniepr.
Australian Bushmaster gets bushwhacked by FPV drone by the Sudaplatov Battalion.
Russian MSTA-B wins counter battery duel over AFU SPG.
AFU tank hits a mine.
247th Cossacks VDV counterattacks and regains trench positions in Verbove. This follows my previously posted video of BMP spraying Ukrainian held trenches with rapid fire 30mm.
Ukraine sends back 10 Leopard 1 tanks back to Germany for technical problems. In short the Germans sent junk.
FPV drone from Beaver attacks and hits an AFU SUV.
Australian Bushmaster gets bushwhacked by FPV drone by the Sudaplatov Battalion.
Russian MSTA-B wins counter battery duel over AFU SPG.
AFU tank hits a mine.
247th Cossacks VDV counterattacks and regains trench positions in Verbove. This follows my previously posted video of BMP spraying Ukrainian held trenches with rapid fire 30mm.
Ukraine sends back 10 Leopard 1 tanks back to Germany for technical problems. In short the Germans sent junk.
FPV drone from Beaver attacks and hits an AFU SUV.
Footage of an attack by a Ukrainian HIMARS MLRS missile made in the USA on a Russian Tor-M2 air defense system. A civilian drone was used for surveillance, apparently small in size, and the Tor-M2 air defense system apparently could not notice it. Judging by the video, as a result of the HIMARS MLRS missile strike, the crew and the Tor-M2 air defense system were not injured, as the installation continued its work
The first case of a Lancet drone hitting a Ukrainian MiG-29 aircraft. Footage has been published of the first strike of the Russian kamikaze drone “Lancet” on the MiG-29 aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force. This is the first time such a drone strike has been recorded in Ukraine. Reportedly, the Lancet drone strike was recorded at the Krivoy Rog airfield Dolgintsevo, 70 kilometers from the front line. This confirms that the Lancet drone can strike targets at a range of up to 70 kilometers.
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In the medium-term future - provided cheap glide bomb kit numbers will continue to expand the way it does right now, - it may start making sense.
US did pretty interesting carpet precision bombings against ISIS occupied islands in Iraq. Tree lines and trenches within technically can be attacked the same way, from stand-off (glide bombs), and here capacity matters a lot again. Both volume-vise (at some point RuAF tactical bombing capacity will start getting strained - i.e. the same way US started using B-1Bs as bomb trucks) and payload-vise(tu-22m3 carrying capability is many times that of su-34, and it uses much less resource doing that).
As far as I understand, per current Ukrainian tactics, whole companies can be distributed through such lines; single attacks against them are painful, but bearable; attacking the whole line can be devastating.
plawolf
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Well, that can work in theory, but it also creates a lot of problems in practice.
For instance, due to scramble and travel times, bombers make poor QRF assets (unless the Russians set up a rota to always have bombers on station near the frontlines at all times, but that is going to be costly in terms of money and wear and tear on already aged airframes).
As such, the most practical use of such tactical precision mass bombing is to support friendly offensive attacks. But then the effectiveness and power of FABs will become a downside, as deleting a defensive line with them will also effectively create an impassable terrain feature that your armour will struggle to get past, and which you will also struggle to hold with your own infantry since it will just be a series of open crates that will offer little protection against enemy artillery barrages.
The same issue will crop up using this tactic defensively. Because right now, the Russians are having great success bleeding the Ukrainians dry by baiting them into occupying disposable trenches well ahead of their own principle defensive lines and them just shelling those trenches to hell and back and mopping up what’s left with their own mechanised infantry counter attacks so they can use the same trenches and tactics over and over again. FABs will delete those trenches and ironically help to clear the way to the Russian main lines.
I think it’s telling that the Russians have not used FABs on any trenches thus far, and I think it’s because they don’t want those trenches destroyed since they are working out great for the Russians so far.
Indeed, if we do start seeing footage of the use of FABs on trenches, then that to me would be one of the flags which would suggest the Russians are seriously pressed in that area and are at risk of actually suffering a meaningful breach of their lines.