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

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StriderX said:
I hope Ukraine starts getting M109's and HIMARS, don't currently understand why they either haven't asked or the US hasn't obliged.

Maybe it's because they're needed to replace equipment other partners have transferred?
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HIMARS is the single rocket pod version of the M270 MLRS and is quite complex to operate and maintain, the basic MRLS course is 4weeks long and then the advanced is another 4 weeks and then the commanders course is another 5 weeks on top of that. So Your talking 1 man needing 13 weeks of training, 1 needing 8 weeks and 1 needing 4 weeks just to operate it basically without any experience, they would be more likely to hit friendly targets than the enemy. Also the MLRS fire control system is all in English, so every operator would have to be very Competent in English language
 
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woppy101 said:
HIMARS is the single rocket pod version of the M270 MLRS and is quite complex to operate and maintain, the basic MRLS course is 4weeks long and then the advanced is another 4 weeks and then the commanders course is another 5 weeks on top of that. So Your talking 1 man needing 13 weeks of training, 1 needing 8 weeks and 1 needing 4 weeks just to operate it basically without any experience, they would be more likely to hit friendly targets than the enemy.
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I know there's a risk of logistical and strategic sophistication going beyond Ukraine's ability to sustain so many different systems, however as they move away from the dwindling supply of Soviet-era systems it surely becomes critical that they're trained to use equivalent NATO-standard systems? Is there any harm in training them now?
 
Mr Jack said:
That's interesting. How large are these numbers typically for artillery? Showing my ignorance here, but I'd rather assumed that parts like that wouldn't need replacing during a single deployment.
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Google says ~7500 rounds. Times that by 90 and you get 675,000 rounds or roughly 3 times the pledged quantity of ammo. Of course if the poo hits the fan and a particular howitzer is called upon to provide fire support at an elevated frequency it will run hotter and wear out much faster.

On an aside some time ago I saw a vid talking about the barrel life on the 16" guns of an Iowa class battle ship.
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Originally they has a service life of 300 full charge shots before relining was necessary. Over time with the improvement of propellant chemistry and additives they could, by the 1980's, fire 1500 shots before relining which was pretty much more than the life of a battleship.
 
StriderX said:
I know there's a risk of logistical and strategic sophistication going beyond Ukraine's ability to sustain so many different systems, however as they move away from the dwindling supply of Soviet-era systems it surely becomes critical that they're trained to use equivalent NATO-standard systems? Is there any harm in training them now?
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If they can spare a few battery’s worth of troops for over 14 weeks then yeah go ahead, but training on an MLRS is a lot more complex and complicated than training on a M777. As I said everyone that would be trained on it would have to be a very competent English speaker and reader as the Fire control system is in English and the MLRS is absolutely useless if you can’t use the FCS properly.
 
RoboCod said:
It was discussed earlier in this thread that more tnt has been dropped on Ukraine than was used during the whole of ww2... Or words to that effect.
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Have you got any links to that? Ukraine seems extremely limited in the scale of warfare compared to previous conflicts.
 
Fourstar said:
Have you got any links to that? Ukraine seems extremely limited in the scale of warfare compared to previous conflicts.
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I can't find it now so I'm now doubting my awful memory, or I've conflated some facts/data somewhere :rolleyes: However, you have seen how destroyed the targeted cities in Ukraine are, right? I wouldn't say it's of a limited scale. I'm just making the point that just because there were a lot of bombs/shells/mines in ww2, much of it was ineffective and not really of high caliber/strength/size.
 
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RoboCod said:
It was discussed earlier in this thread that more tnt has been dropped on Ukraine than was used during the whole of ww2... Or words to that effect.
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I struggle to believe that given the amount of destroyed cities portrayed in ww2 but who knows it's possible that ww2 was over exaggerated - for example the Nazis only killed 10,000 people in Mariupol over a 2 year period where as the Russians have already killed at least 20,000 over a 2 month period today
 
[Edit: just realised it might show someone small and distant getting taken out by the explosion. Probable explains why it's not been posted.]
It's the footage of a "normal" day's driving on a busy road in occupied Mariupol, when a tank gets taken out up ahead. Rather dramatic footage from unexpectedly close. Recorded (and, surprisingly, broadcast) by Chinese media.
 
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RoboCod said:
I can't find it now so I'm now doubting my awful memory, or I've conflated some facts/data somewhere :rolleyes: However, you have seen how destroyed the targeted cities in Ukraine are, right? I wouldn't say it's of a limited scale. I'm just making the point that just because there were a lot of bombs/shells/mines in ww2, much of it was ineffective and not really of high caliber/strength/size.
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I've not looked it up but I remember a video I watched touched on the amount of explosives used in WW2 and it was a mind boggling high amount.
 
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Grim5 said:
I struggle to believe that given the amount of destroyed cities portrayed in ww2 but who knows it's possible that ww2 was over exaggerated - for example the Nazis only killed 10,000 people in Mariupol over a 2 year period where as the Russians have already killed at least 20,000 over a 2 month period today
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What was the population then vs now?
 
Grim5 said:
I struggle to believe that given the amount of destroyed cities portrayed in ww2 but who knows it's possible that ww2 was over exaggerated - for example the Nazis only killed 10,000 people in Mariupol over a 2 year period where as the Russians have already killed at least 20,000 over a 2 month period today
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The germans killed upwards of 3 million people during the occupation, around one million of them jews. For comparison, the germans murdered around 30,000 jews in a weekend at baba yar.

The figures I have given are very conservative estimates.
 
Looks like the M777's are starting to make themselves felt on battlefield. Ukraine has already taken out several Russian 2S3's self propelled artillery vehicles.
 
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