Right now Ukraine is racing to strike every one of these five depots with GMLRS before Russia can disperse the concentrated tonnage of artillery munitions in them.
These depots are covered by the full bell, book, & candle of Russian integrated air defenses with S-400, S-350,
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... Pantsir & Tor.
To defeat them, Ukraine has been doing coordinated Toska-U & GMLRS saturation strikes from multiple azimuths & trajectories to overload Russian fire control channels.
These kind of strikes take time to set up between the evaluation of air defenses & the
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Alright, this is a logistical thread 🧵revisiting roller conveyors.
The photo at the lower right in the retweet is a Soviet era railway mechanized roller conveyor that assists in the loading of wooden boxes into break bulk railway cars.
I've gone on at length about roller conveyors history, role in WW2 military operations and how they are being used in US military cargo planes to move pallets of weapons to Ukraine.
@ChrisO_wiki@chefjoseandres Mierzejewski's "The Collapse of the German War Economy, 1944-1945..." which would be more accurately subtitled "How Bureaucratic Fights of Ultra Intelligence Delayed Giving the German Economy a Coal Distribution Heart Attack Via Strategic Bombing."
So, it looks like the Atlantic Council was right and I was wrong writing the following because they knew the utterly pathetic levels of GMLRS ammunition the Biden Administration was going to provide.
I don't have the words to express how militarily _Silly_ the Russian Air Force standoff missile strike shown in the tweet below is. So I'm going to drop some WW2 photos to calibrate your eyes to the silliness.