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2022-03-22 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russia lacks enough combat strength to advance further: Ukraine

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Posted by Fred 2022-03-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Question: Does the Ukraine have any surface launched anti-ship missiles?
If they do, why haven't any been used against the Black Sea Naval Ships?

Posted by 3dc 2022-03-22 05:38|| 2022-03-22 05:38|| Front Page Top

#2 @3dc not to my knowledge. I know they damaged a ship using a truck rocket launcher in what is the military version of "Hold my beer".

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-22 07:59|| 2022-03-22 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 They have enough combat strength. They lack logistics strength. You can send raw recruits into combat and they do. You can not use raw recruits to run a logistics operation other than raw manpower to load and unload vehicles.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-03-22 11:29|| 2022-03-22 11:29|| Front Page Top

#4 It's hard to do "Combined Arms" when the Russians seem to be building an army composed of tanks, artillery, rocket launchers and barely enough infantry to dig the latrines. Knights in shining armor is so one dimensional...

Posted by magpie 2022-03-22 12:27|| 2022-03-22 12:27|| Front Page Top

#5 So maybe not WWIII. More like WWI.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-03-22 13:12|| 2022-03-22 13:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Damit, he had to say it.

“(Over the past day) there were practically no rocket strikes on (Ukrainian) cities,” Arestovych added.

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-22 13:19|| 2022-03-22 13:19|| Front Page Top

#7 commanders are being accused of "cowardice and weakness of character" after inspections by Russia's Federal Security Service

This tactic is taken straight from the days of Trotsky and Stalin. One of Zhukov's first acts on arrival in Stalingrad was to shoot 2 generals and a commissar for "not enough fortitude."

Posted by Tarzan Cheating8715 2022-03-22 14:49|| 2022-03-22 14:49|| Front Page Top

#8 ^ we could do with more of that in the West

Posted by Spinenter Grerenter6527 2022-03-22 14:59|| 2022-03-22 14:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Zhukov never set foot in Stalingrad.

Posted by badanov 2022-03-22 16:34|| 2022-03-22 16:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Tarzan you are thinking of Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, who led the defense of Stalingrad.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-22 17:44|| 2022-03-22 17:44|| Front Page Top

#11 From what (one-sided) pics I have seen, the Russians seem to be operating the tanks without a solid combined arms doctrine, they are going in without infantry, depending on artillery and rockets and air support (primarily helicopters for CAS, fixed wing for deep attacks) to suppress the enemy and simple mass to overcome the defenses. This pretty much fails if you don't have infantry to support the armor, the ATGM teams are having a field day with ambushes and pop-up attacks.

Not to say this will be a loss for the RUssians. It seems the Russians are learning from this, and have gone to their old "shell them to hell" playbook, which is slow, methodical, and very destructive. All they need is enough men and ammo to feed into the meat grinder, which they appear to have, absent a mutiny or very unlikely domestic turn of events.

It's all a question of who runs out first: the Ukrainians and their cities being rubbled and civilians deliberately targeted, displaced and/or killed (and eventually suffering morale from such terror), or the Russians and their Army being attrited to the point where their command and control and logistics simply fail at certain key points.

Never underestimate the ability of the Russians to drown you in their blood.

Posted by Chealing Chomotle4158 2022-03-22 19:19|| 2022-03-22 19:19|| Front Page Top

#12 ^^ The Word of God

Posted by badanov 2022-03-22 19:33|| 2022-03-22 19:33|| Front Page Top

#13 and sad in their pigheadedness. What could have been

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-22 20:25|| 2022-03-22 20:25|| Front Page Top

#14 You could "understand" China sending all those single males without marriage/family potential in to a meatgrinder martyrdom. Russia doesn't have that luxury

Posted by Frank G 2022-03-22 20:27|| 2022-03-22 20:27|| Front Page Top

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