• @Navaryn
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    121 year ago

    Russia is systematically building cauldrons because that’s the best way to lure in Ukrainian troops and grind them away with the aid of artillery and air superiority.

    Putin knows that Zelensky knows that his only way to survive is to get more western support. And the only way to get that, is to show to the world that you are resisting and fighting for every inch.

    By semi-encircling cities, Russia forces the ukrainian leadership to concentrate forces in very disadvantageous places. Which is why they are taking their sweet time in places like Bakhmut, Seversk, or Avdiivka.

    Russia understands what most reddit generals do not: war isn’t about the funny lines on the map, it’s about killing soldiers. If Ukraine keeps wasting equipment and manpower by making it a principle to defend every single city, the defense as a whole will eventually collapse.

    In a normal war where one side’s success weren’t reliant on persuading foreigners to send aid, by all means Zelensky’s rational choice would be to pull back and reform at the defensive line formed by the village chain west of the city. He knows he can’t, because “to the last ukrainian” isn’t an euphemism for the west

  • @Franfran2424
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    91 year ago

    I thought I shared it here, but must have been mi military subs. Yeah, they are kinda fucked. 1 month until theyre actually in deep shit.

    Especially since ukraine is doing dumb attacks in zaporozhye and trying to keep bakhmut with counterattacks, so little force left to reinforce here-

    • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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      21 year ago

      They grouped up in Orekhov (ZA front) for a major recon-in-force but the Russian air force struck at the hotels they were sleeping in, killing and injuring at least 500, and they had to withdraw lmao

  • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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    1 year ago

    It is.

    RuAF has been using new FAB-500 glide bombs on Avdiivka by the hundreds. FAB-500s are approximately 8 feet long (imperial system) and weigh 500kg (1100lbs). Designed in the Soviet Union, Russia has ENORMOUS stockpiles of them, and they remained kind of an untapped resource. They are very, very cheap (especially considering that they were paid for decades ago) and the wings allow them to drop the bombs from pretty far off, and the bombs will glide towards a precise target. This allows Russian bombers to bomb things without worrying about Ukrainian MANPADS. Urban wrecking balls

    • @Shrike502
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      31 year ago

      Pretty sure those are unguided. Or about as guided as those yankee “precision munitions”. Are we arriving at the carpet bombing stage?

      • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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        71 year ago

        I guess depends if it’s original FAB or if they are modified to KAB standard. The first ones are unguided, though depending on technique and modern aiming equipment they can be quite precise. Also when bombing places like Avdiivka this don’t really matter - there are basically no civilian targets there now. KAB bombs are guided.

        • @Shrike502
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          41 year ago

          A guided 500 kilos of explosives is still a 500 kilos of explosives. It’ll level a lot.

            • @Shrike502
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              51 year ago

              No, I mean that the “precision” munitions are usually about as precise as a couple square metres, usually less. It’s enough to get the target. But as you know, UA military have a penchant for positioning among civilian structures. So a precision munition that can destroy a howitzer nest next to an apartment building will also likely shred whoever is in the building too.

              Now I won’t shed any tears for the fuckers in the Nazi battalions. But I find it hard to pretend that every single individual over there is a Nazi, and so are their houses

              • 陈卫华是我的英雄
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                usually about as precise as a couple square metres, usually less

                Don’t we have Lancets for that? It’s not as if we’re hitting every suspicious bush with 500 kilos of high explosives.

                I think FABs are used to clear buildings with extensive defenses built into them (machine gun nests, etc.) instead of driving straight up to them with tanks and bombing them that way while risking land mines and ATGMs. That way, if we see enemy fortifications, we just delete the entire struture from existence. This sounds brutal, but it does not cause more civilian deaths than charging at these buildings while yelling “URAAAAA!” at the top of our lungs and then clearing these structures room by room with hand grenades and assault weapons.

              • @PolandIsAStateOfMind
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                1 year ago

                But those places have been fought for days or weeks already. I doubt there is many civilians left there at all.

                • @Shrike502
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                  51 year ago

                  There’s still infrastructure. Houses, schools perhaps, hospitals, you name it. The civilians will have to return at some point. Who will they blame for the misery and destruction? I somehow doubt it will be Zelensky or Poroshenko or Victoria Nuland