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Feb 22 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A lot of people will be focusing on the Russian tank in this video. I'm a lot more interested in the truck.

The Oshkosh M1070 HET AKA tank transporter is a key link in the mechanized recovery/logistics supply chain.

Logistics🧵

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The M1070 Heavy Equipment Transporter is designed to carry a combat loaded M1A2 Abrams and it's crew. The truck cab is large enough for a driver, co-driver and 4-man tank crew.

The truck/trailer combination has 25 ton pull winch to drag a damaged Abrams on-board.

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And in wartime, this capability is used to transport heavily damage Abrams to depot level repair facilities for damage beyond local unit repair capability.

A lessor used but often thought about capability is massing M1070 for long distance operational level repositioning
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...of tank companies & battalions where rail lines don't reach.

The extra seats in the cab mean both the tank crew and the tanks are resting during the movement.

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Military-today -dot- com reports that M1070 HET's have been provided to Ukraine in shipments in 2022 and 2023.

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military-today.com/trucks/m1070_h…
Both the M1070 HET tractor and its associated M1000 trailer are C-5 & C-17 air transportable.

To give you an idea of its relative importance in the US Army logistics.

There are 1,400 new and retrofitted M1070A1 on order for a US Army to support ~8,000 Abrams & 6,000
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...M2/3 Bradley fighting vehicles.

That is, one M1070 is provided for every 14 Abrams and Bradley's.

The M1070 fleet is roughly the same size as the The M88 Hercules (heavy equipment recovery combat utility lift and evacuation system) Fleet.

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The "tail" for every ~14 American heavy tracked armored combat vehicles includes one M1070 & one M88 to recover, retrograde & repair them.

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army-technology.com/projects/m88a3…
Both M1070 & M88's have been provided for Armed Forces Ukraine because they recognize their mechanized recovery & logistics supply chain is inadequate, as the abandoned Ukrainian tank & AFV numbers on the @oryxspioenkop site has made clear.

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These donations & Ukraine's systematic conversion of captured T-62's into BREM-62 recovery vehicles represents the maturing of Ukrainian mechanized recovery logistics in the Russo-Ukrainian War - A Lesson Learned.

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Feb 24
Since all the 'expert' & 'policy makers' are posting posting 1-year retrospectives.

I am going to do something different so you can grade my comparative reliability.

I'm going to post a thread of my posts from Nov 2021 to Feb 22, 2022 on the impending Russo-Ukrainian War.

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This is from Nov 28, 2021 discussing how vulnerable Russian short range air defense would be to the Ukrainian TB-2's when Russia invaded.

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This is from Dec 4, 2021 talking about how Ukrainian responded to a Russian invasion in 2014, and how they would not run away like Afghan security forces, which is what the Pentagon & the CIA seemed to expect.


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Feb 22
FYI, this is where I got the 40km JDAM-ER toss bomb range from in the last🧵:

"The AGW, as noted previously, can be delivered in level flight or tossed. For a 2,000 ft [610 metres] release low level toss at 45 degrees and 0.82 Mach, the weapon has a

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 ausairpower.net/TE-GTV-Kerkany…
...maximum range in excess of 24 nmi [44 km],
twice that of existing powered glidebombs.

Should a steep trajectory be required to penetrate a hard target, cca 30% of range will be sacrificed."

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Now imagine what precision guided 500lb bombs are going to do to Russian fortifications like this.

PSU delivered JDAM-ER sledgehammer please meet a carton of RuAF eggs😈⬇️

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Feb 22
My earlier JDAM-ER thread has generated a number of questions which I will be trying to answer in this🧵

The much cheaper JDAM-ER has been around for a while but has been overshadowed by the JSSAM, JASSM-ER, & LRASM in US military service.
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This Australian DST video is the only one I've found on with images of the JDAM-ER testing.

A key take away is that JDAM-ER is in production for the Australian RAAF.⬇️

2/18
This and the next two articles have better range performance charts and plots on the JDAM-ER.

Including contractor supplied plots for the JDAM-ER demonstrator with the Aussie Kerkanya wing kit design.

3/18
ausairpower.net/TE-GTV-Kerkany…
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Feb 22
This is going to be a JDAM-ER 🧵to try and explain the battlefield impact of the weapon in the Ukrainian Air Force, AKA the PSU.

Essentially this is a glide bomb kit version of the ubiquitous JDAM that pairs well with the PSU Su-24 fleet, the Soviet answer to the USAF F-111.
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The ability of the Su-24 to fly transonic on the deck in a low density integrated air defense environment means there are a lot of low level holes in radar coverage to lob a stick of glide bombs out of, at high speed, inside occupied Ukraine.

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The PSU would be able to hit a number of just over 100 km Russian logistical targets with a 60 km low altitude penetration & JDAM-ER toss bomb attack profile.

See examples⬇️

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Feb 20
This is going to be a mechanized logistics thread dealing with a frustration I am having with Western intelligence & OSINT analysis of Russian logistics.

We are going to start with this picture to calibrate on what real mechanized logistical infrastructure looks like.

1/22
The previous Goggle satellite photo clip and this one are of a Walmart Distribution Center in New Braunfels, Texas.

The previous tweet showed the center's hundred of trailer loading bays and this photo shows a pair of forklifts next to a small building as the same facility.
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This is a US Army M777 Battalion motor pool at Fort Hood, Texas from Google maps (left).

There are several FMTV trucks in the central isle that are equipped with HIAB material handling equipment cranes.

(See the graphic right)

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Feb 17
One of the major questions for me in the Russo-Ukrainian War is why Russia hasn't used this sort of fast rail building equipment to link up LPR/DPR railways to Southern Ukraine railways in the time since the Kerch Straits Railway Bridge was cut?

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It looks like the Southern Ukrainian road connecting Rostov on the Don to the Port of Berdyansk in Ukraine is collapsing from both overuse and a lack of Russian civil engineering effort to maintain it.

h/t @DenysDavydovUA
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The lack of Russian civil engineering support was something I spotted in the days immediately prior to the invasion.

The Russian inability to connect the Donbas railway network to Southern Ukraine since the Kerch straits railway bridge was cut...


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