This is a Rail logistics & Drone 🧵thread.
Much is being made of the arrival of the US Switchblade drones and the ability of the 600 model to reach 50 miles to kill tanks & artillery.
That isn't how you beat the Russian Army
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Much is being made of the arrival of the US Switchblade drones and the ability of the 600 model to reach 50 miles to kill tanks & artillery.
That isn't how you beat the Russian Army
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https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1511173297228161025
You don't beat the Russian Army in a tank/artillery attritional fight. Ukraine in particular does not have the depth of forces to grind on Russia tank to tank, MLRS versus MLRS.
Ukraine has shown you stop the Russian Army by killing its trucks.
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Ukraine has shown you stop the Russian Army by killing its trucks.
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https://twitter.com/L_Team10/status/1511398575397392390
To kill a dug in a Russian Army in Donbas, you have to destroy its trains.
Take a look at the Donbas area in this railway map.
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Take a look at the Donbas area in this railway map.
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https://twitter.com/Taurevanime/status/1511211998599696384
The Donbas railways are why the Russian Army is withdrawing from the North and moving to the East & South of Ukraine.
Russia cannot support its Army's artillery ammo needs without them.
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Russia cannot support its Army's artillery ammo needs without them.
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https://twitter.com/GeromanAT/status/1509067080515137537
A Switchblade 600 with a Javelin warhead is powerful enough to destroy the control section of a rail engine or can be flown into the forward train wheel assembly, blowing it to h--l and causing the derailment of a moving engine.
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railwayage.com/mechanical/loc…
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railwayage.com/mechanical/loc…
A Switchblade 600 detonating on the roof over a Russian engine's Diesel-electric power pack will put a 2-4cm dia. hole about 5-feet long into it
If that hole cuts into the transmission or the alternator. The spontaneous mechanical self-disassembly will explode like a bomb.
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If that hole cuts into the transmission or the alternator. The spontaneous mechanical self-disassembly will explode like a bomb.
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Russian air defenses simply cannot stop a single well operated Switchblade 600, let alone a swarm of them.
A Ukrainian Switchblade 600 railway interdiction campaign...
(WW2 Operation Strangle photo)
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A Ukrainian Switchblade 600 railway interdiction campaign...
(WW2 Operation Strangle photo)
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...will give Ukraine artillery fire superiority in the Donbas by virtue of it's artillery will have more ammunition than Russia's.
The Switchblade 600 will turn the artillery ammunition rich Donbas into the same kind of 'logistical desert' the 35th CAA faced NW of Kyiv.
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The Switchblade 600 will turn the artillery ammunition rich Donbas into the same kind of 'logistical desert' the 35th CAA faced NW of Kyiv.
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