The tank biathlon had to be made up entirely of T72-B3s, and based on the teams competing in this tournament, it would have required the draw of about 50+ T72-B3s, which is essentially the equivalent of a tank regiment, about 5% of the pre-war T72-B3s of the Russians. Please don't forget that the Russians are now stuffing all kinds of tanks to the front line, even including T72-A's at the moment, and having 50+ advanced tanks unavailable in those two weeks still has quite an impact on the front line. As well I am curious to see if the Russians will be taking their best crews from the front line back home to compete, it will be interesting to see exactly how these war-tested crews will perform.
The War in the Ukraine
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You don't know if that's NATO like or not because we've never seen NATO fight anything but barely armed irregulars or civilians.
At the start Ukraine was fighting fairly professionally, quality is starting to nosedive due to losses among the Soviet organized army and their replacement with western trained nazis and unwilling conscripts.
Russians claim a missile strike on Odessa destroyed 2 Harpoon installations.
I wonder how much of this equipment actually ends in the hands of his own personal army.
If Russia doesn't go for western Ukraine, whatever happens, will most likely be a country split among and run by warlords.
Maybe, but we are indeed comparing their effects on similar targets, which is weapons depots, fuel storages, barracks and command posts, are we not?.
You mean, those who reported the downing of 4 Il-76 around Hostomel, a single non-existant pilot downing 30 russian jets, etc?.
Yeah, you are going to have to do better than that. If Russian sources are no reliable, even more so Ukranian ones.
So, we are led to believe that russian cruise missiles, ones that they have constantly launched since introduction into service particularly in Syria, have a higher failure rate three times higher than the German V-1(22%), yet somehow, the Ukranian countryside isn't completely littered with remains of russian rockets and we see plenty of videos of the aftermaths day in and day out?
Ah, I see they lump them together with "unguided projectiles" without defining what that category entails. Is it only rocket artillery, does it include tubed artillery rounds as well?.
What do they mean not reaching their target?. Landing a few meters short/beyond the assumed target?. Does blanketing an area with Grads without specific targets also acounts as "missing the target"?
On my neck of the woods, that was usually called "creative accounting". Funny enough, you don't seem to have a problem in this case with grouping "two different things together" in order to paint a misleading picture just to cope.
The Americans will soon show bravery in COD and ruthlessly destroy the Russian army.
This is very difficult. The similarity between Ukraine and China is very low. But the Kiev regime is very much like the KMT regime.
Ethnic issues can be said to be the root cause of this war,the existence of Ukraine is based on opposition to the Russians.
Their military industry is a "surprise" for this new country.These industries serve the "Soviet Union" rather than Ukraine.If they oppose Russia, these military industries will gradually lose value.
Eastern European countries have given a good demonstration: a large number of military industries that do not meet NATO standards have been shut down.
That's true as well. Most NATO countries haven't been involved in a near-peer conflict in +30 years, so we have been spoiled by images of their "success" in Afghanistan and Iraq. The closest was their involvement against Serbia where they managed to lose an F-117 and several other planes despite extensive SEAD.
Just like it happened with Libya...oh wait, nevermind
Yugoslavia...wait, nope, not that one either.
Kosovo?. Nein.
I'm certain you are well aware most people in this forum know "NATO is only a defensive alliance" is BS, so I'm not sure who you are trying to convice with that other than yourself.
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They always vague in terms of weapons "accuracy" and "failure rates". especially if adding unguided munitions in the count.
In the retrospect tho.. Cruise missile failure are expected. Reliability of typical cruise missile or tactical missile in general are about 93-94% at most. so in salvo of 10.. there will always likely one bad batch which can fail.
Also Arestovich seems to make claims of 80% of Russian cruise missiles were shot down in the recent time compared to 15% last time.
The thing is of course is that 80% are for "nationwide" or in some very well defended area. particularly Kiev and Lviv. Lviv may enjoy US army patriot coverage from Rzezow but that only against target flying higher or equal to about 3000 m.
In the retrospect tho.. Cruise missile failure are expected. Reliability of typical cruise missile or tactical missile in general are about 93-94% at most. so in salvo of 10.. there will always likely one bad batch which can fail.
Also Arestovich seems to make claims of 80% of Russian cruise missiles were shot down in the recent time compared to 15% last time.
The thing is of course is that 80% are for "nationwide" or in some very well defended area. particularly Kiev and Lviv. Lviv may enjoy US army patriot coverage from Rzezow but that only against target flying higher or equal to about 3000 m.
It’s definitely an interesting topic, but we are heading into the off topic and theoretical region now. That topic would require us to hunt down the numbers and equations needed to determine if that is possible.