The War in the Ukraine
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Before or after China rare earths embargo?
On the other side, my money is literally paying for this.
Russians without weapons, ammunition, fuel, water, armored vehicles, using horses, civilian cars, WWII weapons and donkeys are actively fighting for 3 cities (Pokrovsk, Kupyansk and Volchansk) and are besieging 4 cities (Konstantinovka, Seversk, Lyman and Huliapole)
No kidding. This is just typical Russian combat, like seen in WW2 just in a smaller scale. It is still scary as shit.
I wonder how Ukraine's tank situation is going now the West ran out of ex-Warsaw Pact era tanks to send. Considering the West gives Ukraine like 50 refurbished tanks a year now, while Russia builds like 200-300 new ones a year without counting refurbs.
UAZ, the guys who make the "Loaf", also are having major investments done to increase production of vehicles, including pickup trucks. You will see a deluge of technicals even more than we see already.
I wonder how Ukraine's tank situation is going now the West ran out of ex-Warsaw Pact era tanks to send. Considering the West gives Ukraine like 50 refurbished tanks a year now, while Russia builds like 200-300 new ones a year without counting refurbs.
UAZ, the guys who make the "Loaf", also are having major investments done to increase production of vehicles, including pickup trucks. You will see a deluge of technicals even more than we see already.
I think there's a reason why the majority of Russian FPV footage shows mostly APCs and civilian vehicles now. Ukrainian Tanks are an endangered species.
A Loaf with a drone crew Is a more serious threat in the battlefield than a modern battletank now. Drone crews strike then run, on their SUVs, their Mitsubishi pickups and station wagons, even ATVs and buggies. It's harder to hit though they get hit once in a while, in an endless game of cat and mouse with each side. It's why you want the power grids near the front to be knocked out, more difficult to charge the lithium batteries of the drones without going farther back in the lines, and more difficult to refuel for gas and diesel with gas stations having no power or knocked out by drones. The task of hitting gas stations are usually with Gerans and even Lancets. Taking out gas stations reduces the ability to run portable generators either.
As far as Western tanks go, it's gotten rare to see one now, but T-64BVs and T-72EAs can still be spotted, probably due to the Western tanks are more difficult to maintain near the frontline, due to parts, while T-64s and T-72s, even a dash of T-80BVs, can still be refurbed from damaged ones, knocked out ones providing a source of parts for cannibalization. For this, repair depots are a main target for Gerans and Iskanders. The same thing are happening with the Russian tanks, APCs and IFVs but with a vastly greater scale. It's another reason why it's a bad time to introduce a new type, whether it's the Armata or the Kurganets, as they do not fit within the repair and refurb logistics chain. As long as the hull is still intact, anything can be rebuilt.
The Ukrainians are using pickups and ATVs for logistics, driving madly across the terrain, the Russian drones chasing after them like a scene from an action flick. You can sometimes see stashes of bottled water on the backs of the pickups, and you suddenly realize how essential bottled water is to the frontline that even drones are used to drop them for troops in the frontline. The Russians are going after choking the logistical chains, from operationally cutting off roads with drones, mines, and artillery to physical close quarter ambush with DRGs. Russian advances are not meant to maximize in taking territory, they are making a beeline towards highways to cut them off.
The last few kilometers of supplying troops to the frontline have become the most perilous of journeys. This is why I believe having armored trucks are going to be more essential in winning the battlefield more than a tank can.
Chocking supply lines have become a Russian trademark in every major city and salient battle since Bakhmut.
This intersection may already have been reached by Russian DRGs, cutting off supplies to both Pokrovsk and Myrnograd. An important case in point of the Russian chokehold strategy.
As for APCs and IFVs in Ukraine, they are also becoming increasingly rare for the Ukrainians with each passing day, with each drone strike. Ukraine is being demechanized without a steady stream of replacement vehicles. The leadership is asking for F-16s, Taurus and Tomahawks when they should be asking for more vehicles, more Bradleys, Marders, M113s, Humvees, Maxxpros and so on.
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Footage, possibly archival, of strikes by Russian Iskander-M ballistic missiles against Ukrainian MIM-104 Patriot air defense systems.
The Patriot air defense system is manufactured in the United States; technical information about it is available on the channel. The video was filmed near Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
The first Iskander-M missile strike hit the Patriot air defense command post and radar. The second Iskander-M missile strike hit a Patriot air defense missile launcher.
The Patriot air defense system is manufactured in the United States; technical information about it is available on the channel. The video was filmed near Pavlohrad in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine.
The first Iskander-M missile strike hit the Patriot air defense command post and radar. The second Iskander-M missile strike hit a Patriot air defense missile launcher.