Alright, Mud, Road & Truck logistics thread🧵
This Russian media still & Drone video piece has a lot of "Admissions against self-interest."
I would like people to look at the Ukrainian roads and what this Russian Army convoy has to do to get around
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This Russian media still & Drone video piece has a lot of "Admissions against self-interest."
I would like people to look at the Ukrainian roads and what this Russian Army convoy has to do to get around
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https://twitter.com/TpyxaNews/status/1502325058861244416
these destroyed Ukrainian vehicles.
First, undestroyed Ukrainian roads suck.
2nd the Russians are using bigger truck convoys. This is a tactical improvement in that there are fewer targets for Ukrainian Territorial "Road Burning Sweeps" or Spetsnaz kill teams.
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First, undestroyed Ukrainian roads suck.
2nd the Russians are using bigger truck convoys. This is a tactical improvement in that there are fewer targets for Ukrainian Territorial "Road Burning Sweeps" or Spetsnaz kill teams.
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3rd, the Russians haven't put _ANY_ combat or civil engineering efforts to clear wrecks and open lanes for their trucks.
Heck, a T-72 tank with a bulldozer blade could have cleared those wrecks in 30 minutes so the convoy didn't have to slow down past that bottle neck.
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Heck, a T-72 tank with a bulldozer blade could have cleared those wrecks in 30 minutes so the convoy didn't have to slow down past that bottle neck.
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The Russians didn't even police up the missiles.
IOW, that was Ukrainian "Indian country" where the Russians didn't want to risk E.O.D. or engineering assets.
4th, the roads under those destroyed Ukrainian trucks are done. Even if cleared, they will fall apart with less
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IOW, that was Ukrainian "Indian country" where the Russians didn't want to risk E.O.D. or engineering assets.
4th, the roads under those destroyed Ukrainian trucks are done. Even if cleared, they will fall apart with less
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...than 25 military truck transits.
This is an important visual demonstration of "Friction" in war.
Road/Truck lines of communication require a lot of engineering effort just to keep from falling apart in war.
The Russian Army is not even trying in this part of Ukraine.
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This is an important visual demonstration of "Friction" in war.
Road/Truck lines of communication require a lot of engineering effort just to keep from falling apart in war.
The Russian Army is not even trying in this part of Ukraine.
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So the Russian Army's lines of communication are are simply getting longer as burnt out wrecks with unexploded ordnance increasingly clog the lanes of the none to good to start with Ukrainian roads in mud season.
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