The USAF certainly realizes the F-35 is in a very tough budget position here since a GBU-53/B Stormbreaker 250lb guided bomb on the F-35 costs twice as much as a GMLRS round.
A single UK provided M270 launcher with two six-round GMLRS pods can cut that bridge even if the Russians use overbridge structures to temporarily repair it.
For all we know, Ukraine SF teams may have a remote camera watching that cut waiting for Russian engineers to show
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...up to call another GMLRS strike to kill them.
It also demonstrates several things to the military professional.
1st, in the age of long range guided artillery, armies without counter rocket, artillery, & mortar (C-RAM) air defense capability will be losing armies.
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""I cannot begin to describe how many "ah-hah" moments your guest Sasho Todorov delivered in his presentation. I have the @adam_tooze book on the German economy, but missed the part about the
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The thing about Russian high tech isn't that it is 🥔 & that causes detonations & screw ups.
Russians are cheap about what costs their economy a lot -- be it mechanized logistics or good electronic human interface -- & substitute it with conscripted/involuntary manpower.
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Soviet style high tech military systems rely heavily on the smarts of their operators.
Russians' military leaders of the Soviet era cherry picked conscripted STEM grads in physics, engineering, maths to run their integrated air defenses (IADS).
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The interview I did with TVP World on the battlefield impact of HIMARS/GMLRS in the Russo-Ukrainian War, & the reasons why the Russian S-400 was incapable of stopping GMLRS strikes, has been posted at the link. 1/
Since I've gotten a lot of pushback to the effect that "Trent Telenko can't be an expert on everything."
I am going to start by agreeing with that criticism. I'm not an expert.
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.
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I'm a retired DoD quality auditor & amateur historian.
A large part of a DoD quality auditor's skills set is developing audit methodologies to test 'expert badges' and see if they applied to the relevant contract technical specifications.
The Ukrainian crowdsourcing of intelligence to a cellphone app early in the Russo-Ukrainian War, and the non-mechanized/forced labor nature of Russian logistics, have combined to give US provided GMLRS rockets a lot of logistical targets to destroy.👇 1/6
This is one of a list of reasons why Russia is forcing Russian cell phone sim cards on Ukrainians in the occupied territories and has rerouted all landline internet in the occupied territories through Russian servers.
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Yes, there are a lot of other intelligence, surveillance & reconnaissance assets involved in targeting Russian depots and command centers.
But lots of Ukrainian cellphone "eyes on the ground" early in the war built an operational template of Russian Army logistics for those
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