Ukrainian War Developments
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Wouldn't say incompetence.
The USA continously monitoring the Ukrainan airspace, and doing the command/control part.
Means if they spot a gap anywhere ,due to malfunction, mistake or anything then they attack.
The USA made way more mistake during the serbian war, but Serbia hasn't got the means to punish. Russia has, example the downed helicopters next to Mariupol. But even in that case they KNOW where are the SAM radars , and MANPADSs downed them, not a SAM battery.
Means they have good quality inteligence, from protected sensors, and extreme level of processing capability, considering the limited battlespace compared to the means of the NATO.
As is NATO continued existance, but here we are.
I think its because he has limited number of contracted soldiers and he doesn't want to send conscript there.
After all, he called this a "special military operation", not a war. What would happen if mothers saw their young sons coming back to coffins after taking part in this so-called "special operation"...
So, even the justification of the war from the start was flawed in such a way that it has tied Putin's hands on how many resources he can throw there.
What you are saying is much much less than the absolute conquest of Ukraine.
You would think the Ukrainians would jump on the helicopter attack on Belogrod but instead they are saying it’s not true but a false flag. Could have been a local commander that did the attack. Anyway Russia needs to up the ante right now. Clearly there has been so much incompetence it’s crazy. But at least they learn adapt and reorient. They’ll have to take the entire former Novorussiya area to turn West Ukraine into a broke Banderistan failed state and let the west deal with it. Ukraine attacked your homeland with this helicopter attack. Now it’s time to wage total war against Ukraine.
You're using an example of American incompetence to justify Russian incompetence? That isn't the Chinese way of thinking, and I don't think even the Americans think like that.
There is no military reason not to. Even Tu-95s should have made an appearance by now. My impression is Putin either doesn't want to kill too many Ukrainian soldiers. Mass bombardment of Ukrainian lines would quickly cause a rout and this war would have been over in days not weeks. But Putin wants to be seen as a "good guy".
The trouble is, there's no meaningful difference between not having the military ability to accomplish something and lacking the political will. If you have an advanced 5th gen fighter but are too afraid to deploy it, then you may as well not have it.
If I am not mistaken, much of north central and north western Ukraine, and adjacent areas of Belarus and Russia is a large plain with very little topological relief except some very shallow river valleys. It would have to be an extremely low flying aircraft to cover any long flight path behind terrain.
Also, I believe helicopters produce a distinctive flickering radar return due to rotor rotation that allows radar signal processing to pick them out relatively easily.
plawolf
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I suspect we might see bombers start to make an appearance soon.
The issue is less one of Putin being a bleeding heart and being precious about killing Ukrainian soldiers (come on, not even the most pro-Russian posters will believe that), but rather there are no ‘clean’ targets to use such bombers and carpet bombing tactics against since Ukrainian troops almost always dig in around towns and cities rather than try to fight clean battles out in open fields.
Unless the Russians are truly comically inept, their current pull backs should leave towns with zero civilians left to get underfoot. So when the Ukrainians move into occupy them, that’s when carpet bombing becomes actually viable and militarily useful to do.
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