Russia has zero chance against US/NATO in conventional warfare. So Putin in desperation is again threatening to use nukes. It’s obvious that the PLA has moved past Russia in terms of capability and technology.
The War in the Ukraine
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The guy he was responding to made up stuff why NATO isn't sending tanks to Ukraine.
That's the thing APC's in general are already bad as it is when it comes to dealing with high intensity battlefields which is why IFVs exist in the first place. MRAP's are the brainchild of the Global War on Terror, meant to survive IEDs and the odd rusty RPG-7 in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It is better than a Nissan or a Hilux but not by much and they are far bigger targets, visually. What they do have in their favor is speed, so for now they can outrun Russian artillery until they reach and over run the weak points of the Russian defense lines. Thing is, as winter rolls in the mobility advantage will be reduced as the ground softens and if the Russians reinforce their positions and bother to adapt their tactics, they will become deathdraps just like any other APC.
I'll still take an MRAP over an M113, in similar conditions.
PR and technology falling into enemy hands do factor in the kind of weapons being provided to someone by the west, along with other aspects. There is nothing made up about it and has happened before.The guy he was responding to made up stuff why NATO isn't sending tanks to Ukraine.
Nowhere did they imply Ukraine "was lucky" for not receiving them.
Yesterday there was a wave of attacks with Shahed-136 drones on Kiev. Several barracks were burned down though the Ukranians claims they were emtpy
An M777 position getting destroyed around Liman
An Ukranian Humvee gets hit either by a BMP-1's main gun or got grazed by an MBT round, forcing the occupants to bail
Artillery fire on an Ukranian position corrected by drone. According to the post, the drone operator was in direct communication with a Giansint-B battery issuing corrections instead of going the usual hierarchic way.
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If the Russians actually employed a large amount of armed drones this would be a problem, their speed makes up for their weakened protection as they are not going to be there by the time artillery hits. They fill a similar role to m113 in that they act as battle taxis but with way better crew protection against mines. There are many cases of MRAPs that are visually torn to pieces by IEDs but the crew escaped mostly unharmed.
It really does seem that that northern thrust are largely attributed to those light vehicles driving hard and fast along roadways, Russian defenses are just criminally undermanned at this point.
If you're wondering why it's working for Ukrainians but not Russians at the start of the year it's because mixing wheeled and tracked vehicles into a BTG is a bad idea, and forcing that sort of mixed BTG into attempting to drive along roads at wheel IFV speed is just going to cause all the tracked vehicles break down all over the place.
For modern warfare you really need all wheel medium armour formations, and for that you need more than just BTR-80.
Yep, Ukraine has declared it's intent to invade and conquer Russia already.
This is a war of national survival for Russia now. A loss in Ukraine would lead to a century of humiliation and minor territorial loss like the Late Qing, if they're very very lucky. If they're unlucky they could end up like modern day India and Pakistan under the British. That is to say, Russia could cease to exist.
Needless to say that either scenario is bad for China. If Russia is not cooperating with satellite intelligence now they had better start. They can't keep riding Soviet era achievements forever.
It is not 100% cloud covered and with a high density satellite constellation like Jilin-1 your revisit time is on the order of a few hours, rather than days or weeks. Russia also no longer has SAR satellites.
They're also only sporadically flying their long range recon planes with side looking SAR. Basically Russians have been flying nearly blind outside of the support they get from China. And if China is not providing this support then it is a damning indictment of Chinese capability too.
Ukraine could also just throw 15k+ men with their accomplying vehicles into battle in stark contrast to Russia BTGs which were undermanned and over ambitious at the beginning of this war across a massive Front.
I noticed that there has been an uptick in the amount of posts talking about how this war affects China or how China could have helped Russia. This thread’s rules forbid such topics since those are off topic and purely political.
Yes. Radar sensing SAR satellites are how you achieve this. US commercial SAR satellites have 0.3m resolution. Military satellites can do even better.
AFAIK, Russia may have just one operational radar sensing satellite.