@TheStudyofWar The Russian lack of infantry dismounts in their heavily mechanized & "Ghost Soldier" ridden Motor-Rifle Regiments means they cannot hold back wide front Ukrainian infantry infiltration that has superior Western night vision gear.
In the day the Ukrainians use drones to spot
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@TheStudyofWar ...Russian AFV check points. Then at night the Ukrainians infiltrate where Russians are not.
Then the next day Ukrainian infantry use drone directed artillery to kill the check points. Thus forcing Russian vehicle movement into the infiltrated missile teams.
Rinse & repeat.
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@TheStudyofWar When the Russians try a village strong point, you follow on with Ukrainian AFV's.
Then infiltrating more Ukrainian infantry around the strong point while the AFV's hold Russian attention.
The Frontage is simply too wide & Ukrainian night vision too good for the Russians
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@TheStudyofWar ...to stop these "Nibble them to death with ducks" Ukrainian combined arms drone-ATGM armed infantry-artillery infiltration tactics.
It is not fast, but it is low casualty...for the Ukrainians.
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1. Putin is not doing his job as President. 2. Putin is not paying attention to his own personal security. 3. Putin is preventing competent Russian military commanders from doing anything right.
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People mostly attribute #3 to Hitler, but the more recent example was U.S. Pres. Lyndon Baines Johnson during Vietnam playing company commander from the White House.
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The sort of load & unload rates US Army trucks achieve is through the heavy use of boxes, pallets, flatracks, containers, and mechanized material handling equipment built into trucks
@HN_Schlottman@KofmanMichael@KC_Guy@teuraskarju The utter lack of cranes, all terrain forklifts, and container handling material handling equipment in Russian TO&E plus the modern Russian Army's shortage of bodies for the manual handling of cargo means there is no way Russia can move the tonnage 3/
@RandomAcademic@sjellmann If you have not read Lester W. Grau & Charles K. Bartle's "The Russian Reconnaissance Fire Complex Comes of Age." Now is the time to go look it up with an internet search.
UAV artillery spotting tactics are universal, and the Ukrainians are better at it than the Russians. 1/
@RandomAcademic@sjellmann This is mainly because the existential threat of Russian invasion focused the Ukrainian military on "good enough today" is better than "perfect next year."
That means Ukrainian artillery spotting drones cost between 1/10th and 1/100th what a similar drone costs
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Russia is losing 2/3 of a battalion combat group of equipment a day and we are into day 79.
That's over 52.6 full battalion equipment sets out of the 120 initially sent into Ukraine & ~180 over all in the Russian Ground Forces
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IOW, 43% of the total committed Russian mechanized combat vehicle fleet and likely the best 29% of the total Russian combat vehicle fleet have been destroyed or captured.
Percentage casualty rate wise, this is the institutional equivalent of the III Armored Corps in Ft Hood 2/
... Texas catching a high yield tac-nuke for the US Army.
Per the Oryx visual compilations, Ukraine is losing one vehicle destroyed or captured for every 3.5 Russian vehicles.
If the current Ukrainian casualty rates match the 2014-2015 fighting.
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