There has been a lot of talk about dropping the Kerch Straits bridge including a proposal by former SACEUR Breedlove to drop the Kerch Strait bridge with Block 1D Harpoons.
This will not cut off Russian rail links to Crimea, even if such missiles
@CehMojmir >>"Systemic shock*?! Please, stop making up terms as you go along,
Definition:
"A systemic shock is a shock to any system that perturbs a system enough to drive it out of equilibrium. [1] Systemic shocks occur in a wide range of fields,
@CehMojmir ... ranging from medicine (see shock), ecology, economics to engineering. Designers of systems usually desire their systems to be able to withstand or recover from foreseeable system shocks; therefore, many systems are designed with mechanisms in place to restore an...
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This bridge cut is part and parcel Ukraine's anti-artillery depot logistical attacks. Ukraine is executing a "systemic shock" attack strategy by trying to first remove the biggest depots.🧵👇
Then hammering the railway distribution system as it is at peak stress trying to 1/
One hundred sixty-ish (~160) US & NATO 155mm guns and nine HIMARS/M270 launchers do not make up for the lost firepower of 700 Ukrainian 152mm guns without ammunition.
Ukraine was on the wrong end of a 45 to 1 Russian to Ukrainian shell ratio in the Lysychansk retreat.
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Russia in Donbas is engaged in a form of civil engineering with artillery shells.
It saves it's very small numbers of trained infantry from Ukrainian urban fighting by removing that terrain with artillery shells.
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I haven't talked truck logistics in a while. This thread 🧵will revisit truck logistics of the Russo-Ukrainian War.
1. What we thought we knew. 2. The logistical truth on the ground. 3. And how Ukraine's new HIMARS/GMLRS weapons are kicking over the logistical table.
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What we thought we knew came from the outstanding November 2021 piece by Alex Vershinn titled:
"FEEDING THE BEAR: A CLOSER LOOK AT RUSSIAN ARMY LOGISTICS AND THE FAIT ACCOMPLI"