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30th July 2022, 06:05 AM | #2681 |
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According to Czech media, they refused to follow Russian absurd games with Rubbish rubble.
That was absurdly large massed inaccurate artillery fire (that was the only way they could hit something). Not any more. After HIMARS arrival magnitude of Russian shelling sharply decreased. |
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30th July 2022, 09:32 AM | #2684 |
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There is more to it than that. Otherwise the artillery would have been destroyed long ago. The are reports from Ukraine Artillery crews that they can only fire off a few rounds before they have to relocate. They must have something more than basic cannons in operation to be able to do that. Also, the Russians don't control the airspace but neither does Ukraine. |
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30th July 2022, 09:57 AM | #2685 |
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The firing off a few rounds before relocation is (normal) tactical strategy to mitigate losses. Counter battery fire really is a thing, after all. For all Russia's faults, they've held a notable advantage in pretty much all kinds of equipment for the entire war, especially on the artillery front.
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It is standard to fire then move. Once you fire you give away your position to the enemy and they will fire back 'counter batter' it is called. That's why most modern artillery is self propelling so it can get away quickly and when it arrives at a new position it can shoot within a few seconds of arriving.
Here is a film of the Archer self propelling gun doing 'shoot and scoot' It is in action 14 seconds after arriving, first round away at 23 seconds, third round away at 40 seconds and underway again after 70 seconds before the first round has reached it's target.
NATO Enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup in Lithuania. Dutch self propelled artillery doing 'shoot and scoot' missions.
British M270 MLRS doing 'shoot and scoot' (reduced power training rockets)
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In late WW2 operators on radar fire control sets on British AA batteries noticed they could see mortar rounds coming in, the fins acted as reflectors. Some sets were procured by the field artillery and used as dedicated counter battery sets.
Dedicated mortar-locating radars were developed after the war and in common use by the 60s. Radar capable of tracking artillery shells didn't appear until in to the 70s with the British 'Green Archer' system that used a fan shaped beam rather than the traditional cone that has a limited field of view. USA developed 'phased array' systems in the 80s which was the next jump forward. In the British and US army the counter battery radars have authority to send target details to counter-battery fire units and order them to switch their targets and fire. It means they can react very quickly. |
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Not now. But if the fighting stops, they'll start pushing very hard to end the ban. They'll use the same justification as before, claiming that doing business with Russia encourages Russia to moderate itself.
That's a crap argument, but it makes rich people richer, so they'll run with it. On another subject, here's an analysis of the bombing of the prisoner barracks. For reference, Russia is running with a conspiracy theory claiming that Ukraine hit the barracks to prevent the Azovtal fighters from testifying about Ukr government human rights abuses and war crimes. A separate Russian ct is claiming that Wagner group did it to prevent the fighters from being returned to Ukraine in a prisoner swap (claiming that Wagner did it sort gets the Russian government off the hook). Olenivka POW massacre thread
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Well, if Russia is pacified enough like say Russian army no longer existing, I won't mind getting back in business. There are still things I'd like to get from Russia. (Old Soviet-era computers like IBM PC clones or nice products that were sold on Etsy, - for some reason nobody else makes them; maybe with some exception by Chinese...)
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Except it increasingly isn't giving the ever improving economics of renewables, not to mention there are plenty of large powerful companies who have suffered because of this and have an incentive to protect their profits by reducing their dependence on oil and gas, where a spike in prices is never very far away.
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A good indication that Russia are desperate and know that they can't win is the use of their missiles on random civilian targets in cities away from the fighting.
If they could identify useful military targets along the front or in rear support areas they wouldn't be wasting precision munitions on cities. |
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In other news, celebration of Navy Day in Crimea has been cancelled.
The reason given by Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev was an alleged Ukrainian drone strike on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters. |
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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe...hq-2022-07-31/
I'm amused by the Russian reaction. "Ukraine decided to spoil Navy Day for us," as if this was undeserved. Now Putin is going to St Petersburg to celebrate the occasion after the Ukrainians forced its cancellation in Russian occupied Crimea. It's too bad they didn't kill an admiral. |
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Here is a short clip on PBS. They report on a strike with several missiles on a toy factory.
Sounds bad, eh? But the UA military actually DID use that factory to house and store some troops and equipment - and they said that the missiles hit with super precision . like 50-cm-precision. As a result, something like 40 Ukrainian soldiers died. They said they suspect that a cleaning lady gave a hint to the Russians. This was not a random strike on a random civilian target. This was a precision strike on a military target housed in a previously civilian building. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTXeFWDG4FA I think it is stupid and dangerous in the extreme to assume the Russians are weak, bumbling idiots at everything they do. Underestimating the enemy is a sure recipe for losing a war. The story told by a small handful of posters here of Russia blindly swinging punches like a drunkard and committing crimes all the time, and Ukraine striking precisely with clean hands and winning winning winning is a silly fantasy. I wish you experts would drop that silliness. |
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Exactly. We can't tell. If the Ukrainians don't say what the likely target was (and why would they?) then all we can do is infer that the Russians aren't wasting their precious stock firing blindly into cities. Some may miss. Some may be intercepted and fall just anywhere. But a proportion will be hits on legitimate targets, quite likely given away by intelligence provided by civilians. It doesn't take many pro-Russian people to cause a lot of harm.
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What is up with reports that Ukraine is placing mines in cities?
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A good thread on the Russian massacre of POWs at Olenivka
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To add to what Doubt wrote, any source that uncritically quotes Ritter about the Ukraine war has at least two strikes against it to begin with. Here's a great series of videos exposing Ritter, using his own words, as the pro-Putin shill he is. I've given timestamps for a few lowlights.
04:00 Kyiv attack was a brilliant feint. 09:26 The Ukrainian National Police carried out the Bucha massacre.
16:00 Zelenskyy owns a $35 million house in Miami.
13:48 Ukraine is losing 600 to 800 dead per day. 17:00 Ukraine is taking 20 casualties for every Russian casualty. 17:45 Because it's a "special military operation" and not a war, Ukraine is not legally allowed to strike back at Russia. 18:15 The "special military operation" was "designed to punish Ukraine for its criminal activities in the Donbas for the past eight years."
13:50 "What is Ukraine known for, other than corruption and Nazis?" 19:30 ". . . sending 40 billion dollars to a Nazi regime without any accounting." 30:00 Diatribe against Finland for allegedly violating spirit and letter of treaties pledging neutrality, while ignoring numerous Russian treaty violations. Also, here's a Newsweek article that tells you all you need to know about Ritter's credibility. Last year, Ritter wrote an article for Russian state media about his regrets at the demise of the former Soviet Union. |
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