plawolf
Lieutenant General
Ah wow, how foolish of the world’s militaries to waste all that money on heavy armour and combined arms armies when ISIS level mass technical spam was all anyone needs!
You know what happens when glorified technical squadrons run into enemy positions with even 50 cals? They cease to exist.
The casualties the Ukrainians and foreign fighters are taking for these successes would be completely ridiculous and unacceptable to any modern military.
They are only succeeding because of how thinly the Russians are spread at the front. Most technical charges that hit actual Russian positions are just Turkey shoots for the Russians, but there are so many technicals charges and the Russians major formations are spread so thin that its inevitable that multiple breaches occur as technicals find gaps in the line or overwhelm small Russian checkpoint formations. This then forces the major Russian formations to have to hastily retreat for fear of being cut off.
This can be disproportionately effective, as America itself knows for being on the receiving end of such tactics in Korea.
But the problem is such advances are unsustainable, and the gains made indefensible without massive heavy armour and artillery following up to secure ground against the inevitable Russian combined arms body slam of a counter attack.
You are not seeing the Ukrainian armour follow up because they don’t have the armour left to support and sustain this scale of offensive operations.
As someone very timely pointed out to me earlier, these Ukrainian attacks are irrational and illogical, which is how they have managed to catch the Russians out. The Russians weren’t expecting modern kamikaze equivalent strategic attacks, their mistake. But the damage Ukraine is doing to its own overall war effort with these attacks are far more devastating as they emptied almost all the reserves and defensive lines for these Leroy Jenkin 2.0 charges.
Yes, the Ukrainians were loosing slowly and steadily before with trench warfare and artillery duels against the Russians. But the Russians could not deliver a mighty knock-out blow either, and were limited to slowly bleeding Ukraine to death with a thousand small cuts. But now, but putting so many of its eggs in this one shitting basket, Ukraine has gifted Russia the opportunity to deliver a devastating, maybe war-endingly devastating blow once they pull themselves together to blunt the new charge of the light brigade and begin their counter offensives.
As I said before, this feels too stupid to not be a feature.
