"Says used Kinzhal missile against military warehouse in Delyatin of Ivano-Frankivsk region yesterday"
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He also claimed that the Russians seems on shortage with Iskander, Kh, Kalibr CMs and that's why they started to use their new Hypersonic missile
I don't think this is the case tbh but what do you think?
The use of Kinzhal on Ukraine at this point is a demonstration of strength as a signal to NATO.
The Russians still should have plenty of cruise missiles left. They ordered over a thousand of them some years back. They should not have used but a small fraction of those thus far.
I think I read that a few years back. If I’m not mistaken, it was the General that attempted to transition from Divisions to Brigades.
There was a plan in Russia to use smaller units with better equipment. But after the declaration that Ukraine and Georgia would join NATO in the future those plans had to be changed and Russia went back to division structure. Small units for expeditionary warfare are unsuitable for large regional wars like the current war in Ukraine. It also places more pressure on top level unit command.
Russia made plenty of mistakes but the biggest was underestimating Ukrainian resistance, holding back their firepower and have bad logistical issues. All of these 3 combined with tough Ukrainian resistance has led us to this point. Many analyst believed that Russia would sweep through eastern Ukraine simply because of the flat terrain.
But they have swept through flat terrain. The resistance seems mostly confined to cities. In a way this is a lot like Iraq conflict on a somewhat larger scale. Since Ukraine is a larger country with 2x the population of Iraq and external support.
They didn’t foresee Ukraine to resist this hard. Also Ukraine has been prepping for this type of war for 8 years. Digging in defensive position and fortifications.
Ukraine's forces are mostly trained to fight insurgents in Donbass not a regular army. If you look at their level of equipment you would see this.
Plus Ukraine has put their most experienced, most equipped fighters in the east. Also the cities are heavily militarized.
Mariupol is falling pretty quickly. Compare conflict with Fallujah which had half the population.
Putin was really naive to think that Kiev would surrender quickly.
Except there is no evidence the Russians ever thought that would be the case.
Russia does not have enough troops to conquer Ukraine.
They do have those troops. They are just not deployed in the field. Most seem to be kept in reserve in case of conflict with NATO.
And what exactly do you think it means for China to be next? Do you think America is going to invade China? Do you think Europe is going to do that? What can these countries really do? What are you afraid of?
It would not be the first time. If Russia's government did collapse and they used Russia as a springboard for invasion of China in the future what do you think would happen?
If Russia did not invade Ukraine, what kind of terrible things do you think were going to happen to China?
A lot of political forces in the US were not content with collapse of Soviet Union and wanted to break Russian Federation into smaller pieces. Hence support for Chechen conflict. They also want to do the same to China hence support for insurgencies in Tibet, Xinjiang, and Hong Kong.
Au contraire my friend. This system is more precise than conventional rockets. They can use it in dense populated area without risking large collateral damage. Russia won´t go "full syria" (albeit "full syria" is a western propaganda term) it is one of the "moral" pillars of the special operation. What we are seeing in the last days is a increasingly use of more complex and precise wepons systems.
The latest versions of Tornado MLRS have Stellar navigation i.e. GLONASS. Should be around 1m accurate.
