Thread by @xv40rds

The correct way for dismounts to react to contact. Dismount. Get away from the vehicles. Seek to orient and coordinate the pursuit of fire supremacy. Contrast this with so many of the RU helmet cam clusters we’ve witnessed in recent months. 🇺🇦

https://twitter.com/znezabarom/status/1577571683963109376

Although, I will say I would have preferred a little more muzzle awareness during that last burst 😳

Still, even this makes the point. In the early fight for fire supremacy, nothing matters more than noise. Accuracy be damned.

When ambushed: be as loud as you can possibly be. Violence of action and volume of fire, regardless of real effectiveness, will save lives.

The morale of the attacker will be high. The assumption is that surprise will immediately generate paralysis.

Instead, make them think they kicked a hornet’s nest and the psychological scales will tip rapidly in your favor.

For those of you who are fortunately uninitiated, the sounds that sound like firecracker poppers (Black Cats in the US) are all incoming Russian fire. The louder stereotypical gunshot sounds are outgoing Ukrainian rounds. The pops and zips… well those are RU rounds rather close.

Much of a close fight is about telling the difference quickly between sounds. Fine grain differences that denote friendly vs. enemy fire, types of weapons by rate of fire, whether or not the fire is direct or enfilading or plunging, etc. All of this can be derived from cover.

This audio also tells you vital information to report over the radio immediately so that those supporting you know exactly what support to bring to bear and where. Even if you don’t know precisely all and what you’re facing. They hear it too and desperately want to hear you.

The first thing on their minds will be whether or not you have casualties. The next will be where you want things to start blowing up.

At that point: it’s time to start making them pay. 🇺🇦