Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Where is G W Bush when you need him. At least he would have found his WMD's there or what's left them after the maniac of 24years in power.
1420 asked the question of election next year. Majority for the maniac in power. Interestingly every election videos pop out of folk making a handful of ballot drops. So, I assume they are doing this for the other participants.
 
Russia is consistently losing 20 to 25 artillery guns a day, you would think that would create not only logistical problems with having to bring up new equipment to replace what's been lost but gaps in the line where there is no artillery to cover areas where Ukraine is attacking.
When you have a consistent supply from Chiina then that is not an issue.
 
Russia is consistently losing 20 to 25 artillery guns a day, you would think that would create not only logistical problems with having to bring up new equipment to replace what's been lost but gaps in the line where there is no artillery to cover areas where Ukraine is attacking.
Russia has loads of artillery and that'll be everything from large SPG's to the smaller towed stuff, logistically it's probably not that much of a massive job across the front and given the way artillery is meant to be placed you'd problably need to lose a lot more than 20-25 across several hundreds of miles of front for there to be a noticeable gap.
Remember these guns can fire 20-50 miles with ease and are often in groups of 5+, with additional groups within a few miles which means that you could lose an entire group and still have most of the area covered due to the overlapping fields of fire from other groups, and most of the time it's likely to be one or two guns in a position that are taken out at any one time (at least if they're set up properly in regards to placement and spacing*) unless you hit the area they are in very heavily.
To create a meaningful gap in the artillery you need to basically destroy or disable a number of guns from neighbouring positions in the same area at about the same time (so all those losses would need to be in the same area), otherwise you generally reduce the range and density but not really a gap.

Even if you don't destroy the guns, you can suppress them by firing at them, or by killing/wounding the troops servicing them which won't necessarily destroy the guns but will make them combat ineffective (there is a reason armoured SPG's that can operate and even resupply without exposing troops are an increasingly big thing for modern armies**).

The bigger problem with losing that number of guns a day is that they'll likely be losing a lot more of the trained men and thus team cohesion, so you might still be able to keep the number of guns up but the ability of them to fire quickly, accurately and as a group is lost resulting in slower rates of fire, more misses, and more chance of dangerous mistakes (ranging from small but debilitating injuries as fingers/hands get caught in mechanisms, to potential for explosions).



*You are meant to space them so that a single hit shouldn't take out more than one, preferably so that even if the "ready" ammo by a gun goes up it shouldn't take out additional guns (and ideally I believe with at least earthen barriers to give a little protection to the sides).

**IIRC South Korea make a very popular system that basically has a good rate of fire, good protection and can be entirely reloaded without the soldiers ever stepping outside of it's armoured hull.
 
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Russia is consistently losing 20 to 25 artillery guns a day, you would think that would create not only logistical problems with having to bring up new equipment to replace what's been lost but gaps in the line where there is no artillery to cover areas where Ukraine is attacking.

With Ukraine falling back to a more Soviet style approach, although its certainly not pure soviet, degrading the enemy arty seems to be their primary objective.
They have been pounding it across the front for some time. Making very good use of their superiority from the western arms.

Russia do have massive amounts however, since soviet doctrine as we have seen demonstrated numerous times is pound everything to hell.
 
When you have air superiority via unarmed drones lol.
I'm guessing it's probably too small, too slow and too little heat and radar signature for most of the weapon systems on the Russian aircraft to hit it with any of their automatic assistance systems, so they're forced back to doing it the really old way with mk1 eyes and hands to aim.
From memory even people that trained extensively to shoot down other aircraft with guns/cannons had a low hit rate, and that was for manned aircraft which are typically several times the size of the drone and with a very large soft target that could be hit to disable it (the pilot), whilst even a fairly "large" drone likely only has a few small areas where a direct hit will immediately take it out so you're stuck trying to do a lot of damage to the control surfaces which I'm guessing any guns on the helicopter probably can't do without multiple hits.
 
I'm guessing it's probably too small, too slow and too little heat and radar signature for most of the weapon systems on the Russian aircraft to hit it with any of their automatic assistance systems, so they're forced back to doing it the really old way with mk1 eyes and hands to aim.
From memory even people that trained extensively to shoot down other aircraft with guns/cannons had a low hit rate, and that was for manned aircraft which are typically several times the size of the drone and with a very large soft target that could be hit to disable it (the pilot), whilst even a fairly "large" drone likely only has a few small areas where a direct hit will immediately take it out so you're stuck trying to do a lot of damage to the control surfaces which I'm guessing any guns on the helicopter probably can't do without multiple hits.

Most radars/IR systems have the ability to pick up even the slightest differences. The problem is you have to increase the power output and this broadcast the location of the sensor. The other issue is you flood the operator with masses of false hits and start picking random returns that appear and disappear. Patches of mist, reflections, sparrows etc.
 
Interesting how it seems to be an attack by (presumably) local agents/partisans or maybe some ridiculously long-range infiltration by Ukrainian SF.

Gotta hope they're able to carry on without being caught as for the Russians they're probably among the most wanted people in the country right now.
Or it could just be reports to get the Russians even more paranoid and wasting resources internally.
 
This bad comedy!


Vidar Helgesen, executive director of the Nobel Foundation, explained the decision to invite the countries back: "It is clear that the world is increasingly divided into spheres, where dialogue between those with differing views is being reduced.
"To counter this tendency, we are now broadening our invitations to celebrate and understand the Nobel Prize and the importance of free science, free culture and free, peaceful societies."

Good to see the Liberal MP's in Sweden calling out this BS.
 
Or it could just be reports to get the Russians even more paranoid and wasting resources internally.

There's a video in the post above though, the attack seems quite clearly to have come from a small drone operated locally and dropping ordinance on the planes rather than some long-range missile or kamikaze drone.
 
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