Russian Invasion of Ukraine 2022

Husky_Khan

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Video of the Aftermath of an alleged HIMARS strike back in September Upon a Russian Convoy in the Kharkiv Oblast. One of the Russian vehicles destroyed is apparently a T-90M Tank



Good News From Russia. The Russian authorities maybe seizing privately imported donations of drones and other military equipment from countries like China (which currently aren't selling Russia military technology like drones ostensibly) undoubtedly so that the Russian authorities can best determine where such equipment can go best... :sneaky:



Details on the Western Towed Artillery that Ukraine is Operating. Roughly a third of the Western artillery is not active due to maintenance and repair issues including from battle damage. NATO is helping with maintenance of such artillery pieces with operations setup in Poland. There's also maintenance being done on the German made PzH2000's in the Baltic Countries. It's also notable as per earlier posts in this thread, the Ukrainians have been able to replace barrels and do maintenance in country as well. Ukraine is apparently firing 2-4K shells a day, something typically outmatched by the Russians.



Alleged Video of Russian POW's taken by the Ukrainian Forces. Admire their kit.



Pretty tense video showing a charity 'Saint Javelin' evacuating civilians from front line areas.

 

Husky_Khan

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Large Number of Previously Undocumented Russian Airborne Vehicles Found Abandoned in Kherson Oblast by Ukrainian forces.



Spain to Provide 105mm Pack Howitzers To Ukraine.



The AFU Captured Enough Russian T-62's to Now Bring Some of Them Into Service with Ukraine.



Russian Casualties (Human and Vehicular) Near Bakhmut.



Thread by Def Mon on the new Challenges Facing Russian Logistics.

 

Husky_Khan

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Two French LRU MLRS Systems Arriving In Ukraine.



Italian FH-70 155mm Howitzer Operating With An Iveco Astra SM 66.40 Prime Mover for Transport.



Russians Using LST's and Ferries Amongst Other Vessels To Transport Military Supplies and Equipment Across Kerch Straight Now.



Germany to Deliver 14 THeMIS UGV's to Ukraine For Casualty Evacuation.



Italian MLS Shield Armored Vehicle Purchased by Volunteers Suffered Some Battle Damage While Apparently Protecting Its Crew From Harm.

 

Husky_Khan

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Turkey Supposedly in Talks To Send Three Power Ships to Odessa to Help Provide Electricity There.


Ukrainian Forces Allegedly Hit a Power Supply Station in the Kursk Region of Russia.



Turkish BMC Kirpi MRAP Struck by an AntiTank Mine. Functioned as Designe Apparently.



FN-FAL Rifles In Service with Ukrainians near Bakhmut.



Downed Russian Orlan-10 Drone.

 

lloyd007

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Ukrainian Forces Allegedly Hit a Power Supply Station in the Kursk Region of Russia.


Honestly, if Ukraine is getting less restrictive about attacking targets in Russia directly thanks to the Macross Missile Massacre on their own infrastructure... things could get REALLY spicy if Ukraine realizes / decides all those airbases just over the border with planes lined up like it was December 6, 1941 Oahu may be preemptively struck and Russia... doesn't realize that.
 

WolfBear

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Honestly, if Ukraine is getting less restrictive about attacking targets in Russia directly thanks to the Macross Missile Massacre on their own infrastructure... things could get REALLY spicy if Ukraine realizes / decides all those airbases just over the border with planes lined up like it was December 6, 1941 Oahu may be preemptively struck and Russia... doesn't realize that.

Why has Russia failed to establish air superiority in this war?
 

Marduk

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Why has Russia failed to establish air superiority in this war?
Surprisingly bad readiness, minimal stocks of PGMs for tactical aircraft, disappointing air defense suppression (should have been expected, USA had some problems with much weaker Serb one), bad deconfliction with own air defense, poor integration with command and insufficient recon just like in ground forces.
 

WolfBear

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Surprisingly bad readiness, minimal stocks of PGMs for tactical aircraft, disappointing air defense suppression (should have been expected, USA had some problems with much weaker Serb one), bad deconfliction with own air defense, poor integration with command and insufficient recon just like in ground forces.

PGMs = precision guided missiles?

And what do you mean by deconfliction with Russia's own air defense?
 

Marduk

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PGMs = precision guided missiles?

And what do you mean by deconfliction with Russia's own air defense?
Yup. Munitions though, not missiles necessarily.

Basically Russia has a spotty IFF system they can't fully trust so that when their air force and air defenses operate in the same area, it takes specific plans that need to be disseminated to units on the ground and then followed by aircraft no matter tactical situation changes, or air defenses being told to shut down for a time, to prevent the risk of friendly fire, because their SAM operators may mistake returning aircraft as Ukrainian air raids and blast them out of the sky.
 

lloyd007

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PGMs = precision guided missiles?

And what do you mean by deconfliction with Russia's own air defense?
This seems to be a good video overview of the situation with the RuAF. The TLDW of it is that the air force was the LEAST prepared of all the branches of their military and a basket case of poor training, poor maintenance, their top of the line stuff being T-14 complex and reliant on foreign parts, running out of PGM's such that they have to turn Su-35's into what A-10's were back at when they were brand new and the chain gun wasn't mostly just decoration... with expected results.

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Aldarion

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Russia forced to abandon its offensive against Avdiivka town just outside Donetsk.


Donetsk front... fighting over a couple hundred yards either way for years now... it's WW1 redux.


Well, of course it is. PGMs mean that any sort of movement in the open is incredibly risky, and modern weapons are so expensive that you'll be running out of them in short order. In any sort of World War 3 scenario, you'd have two weeks of modern warfare at best and then it would be back to World War 1 conditions: unguided munitions, infantry-centric armies and so on. And that is assuming nukes don't fly at all.
 

bintananth

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Not if you have good IFF, combined arms integration, planning and inter-branch communication. So for Russia, yes.
IFF can be spoofed and things get confusing when both sides are using the same plane.

The American C-47 and Japanese L2D during WWII is just one example. They're both legit DC-3 variants. The Japanese didn't just buy some before the war. They acquired a licence to build them and got the blueprints.
 

Megadeath

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IFF can be spoofed and things get confusing when both sides are using the same plane.

The American C-47 and Japanese L2D during WWII is just one example. They're both legit DC-3 variants. The Japanese didn't just buy some before the war. They acquired a licence to build them and got the blueprints.
IFF can be spoofed, and same or very similar types can add to confusion. In previous era's it certainly could pose an obstacle. It really should not be a significant issue in the modern day though.
 

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