240 mm self propelled mortars
Mi-28 attack aircraft
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The War in the Ukraine
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send them F-15s so that its "undefeated" it hold record can finally be broken
On Chinese vs Russia military structure, the Chinese theater commands are supposed to be purely operational structures, with administrative duties fall to a separate chain of command led by services headquarters. Northerner Theater Command are not in charge of procurement, maintenance, training or personnel matters of the PLAN Northern Fleet. Conversely, if parts of PLAN Northern Fleet are to participate in a Taiwan scenario, these naval formations will fall under Eastern Theater Command rather than Northern Theater Command. Thus Chinese theater commands are very much different from Russian military regions, which I understand to be, at least on paper, administrative structures.
Each Chinese theater command is associated a number of strategic directions they are responsible for and each theater command is the sole highest joint command of their assigned strategic directions (presumably also their geographical region within China). The Northern Theater's strategic directions include Korean Peninsula as well as Eastern Russia & Siberia. The job of the brasses of the Northern Theater Command is to make operational plans for, say, scenarios where Russia invades Northeastern China or where US and South Korea invades North Korea, and run joint exercises (but not day-to-day training of individual formations) to prepare for such operations.
A problem, similar to what Russia is experiencing now, arises when an operation requires units stationed outside the theater command's geographical region inside China. Say a hypothetical scenario where Vietnam invades Cambodia again and the Southern Theater Command is running a two-front operation with a ground invasion of Vietnam from north and also Liaoning and Shandong providing air support to Cambodian forces from the Gulf of Thailand. Liaoning and Shandong CBGs will be commanded by the Southern Theater Command in such a scenario. I guess the hope is that since maintenance, training and personnel matters of both carrier battle groups are administered by the naval service and not by the theater commands, they are not wed to the theater command of their respective home base and are capable of operating under the Southern Theater Command and coordinating with each other.
If Russia has Chinese-style theater commands then their "Western Theater Command" would run the invasion alone, and HQs of their other theater commands would focus on planning for contingency in their area of responsibility.
The first question is of course where they will likely be based. For me it seems Ivano-Frankfisk and Uzhorod International hold potential. particularly Uzhorod. s it's so close to NATO allies border. and might likely be away from Russian AEW except if one flying above Black sea.
It is in my opinion way to early to talk about advanced fighter jets. The west has been unwilling to even deliver retired cold-war era tanks to Ukraine. By several accounts, Ukraine is even short of fuel to run those tanks it already has, something the west could deliver super easily with very little risk. Western/American arsenals are big enough to equip every soldier in Ukraine with an M16 or M4 and near endless amounts of ammunition without making a dent in our numbers, and yet we haven't, and they run about with Maxim guns. They received a pitiful amount of M113s, those didn't even come with armament. 100 F-35s? At this rate, they wouldn't even receive armed Cessna Caravans before the war is over.
Considering the US already spends trillions of dollars on millions of expensive GMRLS rockets for Kiev regime, spending trillions of dollars on fighter jets for Kiev regime is not out of the question.
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On the night of July 21, Russian troops launched a missile attack on the Ukrainian military depot in Nikolaev. Local residents reported a series of violent explosions throughout the night in warehouses, moments now visible on video. After the attack on the warehouse in Nikolaev, the SBU began looking for saboteurs who had passed the exact coordinates of the object to the Russian military.
Ukrainian soldiers showed an episode of the battle with erroneous fire on their troops. Apparently there is no communication between the military units.
Ukrainian soldiers showed an episode of the battle with erroneous fire on their troops. Apparently there is no communication between the military units.