The War in the Ukraine
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In the last episode of The Russia Contingency, M.Koffman talked about his trip to the front lines in Ukraine. He observed that the advantage in artillery has shifted to Russia‘s side, as has the advantage in FPV drones, which the Russians have in plentiful enough supply to deploy against individual soldiers. This is indicative of Russia succeeding to ramp up drone production beyond what Ukraine is getting supplied with. Furthermore, he observed that the soldiers in the Ukrainian army are visibly older now, which introduces limitations to how effectively Ukraine can conduct offensives, although it’s less off an issue for defending a position.
Plenty of videos of individual Russian troops being taken out by Ukrainian drones if you care to look.
Footage of Russian military personnel using an MT-LB armored personnel carrier as a kamikaze vehicle in the Avdeevsky direction near the city of Donetsk. The MT-LB military transporter was loaded with a large amount of explosives and sent towards the positions of the Ukrainian army. The armored personnel carrier did not reach the Ukrainian positions and exploded on an anti-tank mine. This is already the third case of military equipment being used as kamikaze vehicles in Ukraine.
Yes, I can corroborate seeing the same thing. Both sides have enough FPV drones to target individuals. In fact, FPV bombardment of trenches occurs just as often as artillery bombardment as part of assault preparations on both sides.
It was a very good episode. They touched on lots of things. Force structure, equipment needs, technological innovation and its influence on the battle.
Also, the #1 requested vehicle by UAF is apparently the M113. It's a vehicle that can reliably move troops to the frontline and back. I wonder how the MT-LB compares.
Sounds like Europe and USA can massively help Ukraine by shipping thousands of M113s (that are in storage anyways).
M113 is an old workhorse that is probably easy to repair and maintain and have quite a small footprint for his troop capacity. The amount of M113 that have been build keep spare parts and new chassis quite easy to find. More than 80 000 have been build... sure that they can find a lot to send there.
Ukrainian oil facility 20km of Kiev reportedly hit. Probably a Geran swarm.
Geran-2s gets shot down by Zu-23-2. Both sides trying to bring in these antique AA machine guns back to the front. Second video takes place at night using a spotlight. So World War 2 now.
Russian MoD announces the take down of seven drone boats and a Willard class commando boat with a landing party approaching Crimea.
Burning Stryker and lone survivor.
Ukrainian transports taken out by FPV drone from the Beaver.
EU cannot replace declining US aid, writes WSJ.
Ukraine sends waves of groups of 10 to 15 soldiers in dispersed assaults in Rabotino and Verbove, which were quickly spotted and covered by Russian artillery and FPV drones.
PZH-2000 gets knocked out by BM-21 Grad MLRS of the 200th Brigade in the northern flank of Artemovsk.
Russian FPV drone gets inside a Ukrainian dugout and explodes. This in Avdiivka.
Russian tanks coordinated with drones launch a surprise attack on Ukrainian defenders seeking shelter on destroyed buildings. This in the Avdiivka industrial zone.
Geran-2s gets shot down by Zu-23-2. Both sides trying to bring in these antique AA machine guns back to the front. Second video takes place at night using a spotlight. So World War 2 now.
Russian MoD announces the take down of seven drone boats and a Willard class commando boat with a landing party approaching Crimea.
Burning Stryker and lone survivor.
Ukrainian transports taken out by FPV drone from the Beaver.
EU cannot replace declining US aid, writes WSJ.
Ukraine sends waves of groups of 10 to 15 soldiers in dispersed assaults in Rabotino and Verbove, which were quickly spotted and covered by Russian artillery and FPV drones.
PZH-2000 gets knocked out by BM-21 Grad MLRS of the 200th Brigade in the northern flank of Artemovsk.
Russian FPV drone gets inside a Ukrainian dugout and explodes. This in Avdiivka.
Russian tanks coordinated with drones launch a surprise attack on Ukrainian defenders seeking shelter on destroyed buildings. This in the Avdiivka industrial zone.
With the sheer number of drone footage in Kherson, one must ask oneself, where the hell is all the Russian EW in that area?
Or maybe asking just how many drones are there. as EW is a statistical thing, it cannot be scored in exact manner as one can never repeat the condition in testing range all the time. Thus why EW capability are scored statistically and ranged from "Fragile" to "Robust".