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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    26 minutes ago, hockeydork said:

    This has been one of the most interesting points. We have the Ukrainian military leveraging geolocating/literally the public of the world to find Russian armor. What a resource to tap. The Russians have their population walled off who think nothings going on. Crazy how much of a disadvantage you are at when the free world hates you. 

    I guess passing 300 posts makes me "Supreme User" 😁What do I win? I like Jameson.

    In this day and age even in Russia I would say eventually the truth finds its way out. Nothing stays a secret for long.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    10 hours ago, arg said:

    We were yanking and banking to get away from one of these, and some 6s, one night in the Desert Storm. They didn't get a lock on us thankfully, we ran out of chaff but still had the partially effective pods.

    Good thing the Iraqis were not as good as these guys.

    A whole lot of combined arms doctrine will need to be looked at when this is all over.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    1 minute ago, pawnman said:

    I don't see much evidence that any other nation is willing to commit to anything kinetic, even if Putin takes all of Ukraine and kills every man, woman, and child inside the borders.

    Pawnman, ClearedHot all others, I admit I sit here with my more than a couple drink(s) wondering how the hell it got to this point. Do we allow Putin to use nuclear blackmail to keep us on the sidelines ad infinitum and if he gets away with it here where does he stop? I HATE to think we as NATO in general and we as a country in particular have no choice now but to take him the fight directly. God help us one and all. 

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    I don't have access to the BAM (Big Assed Map) showing (closer to real time) what's happening where in Ukraine but it appears the cities under greatest siege are close to unfriendly international borders or the Black Sea. In a nod to Captain Obvious much shorter supply lines and actually in range of systems located outside of Ukraine. If this is the farthest the Russians can push after this amount of time I don't see how they subdue the whole country. Short of the once unthinkable. Never been to Ukraine but looking at the map the Dnieper and associated lakes and bodies of water basically splits Ukraine down the middle and that certainly doesn't make it easier. I have no idea what can use it as far as navigability especially in wartime.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    23 minutes ago, hockeydork said:

    Footage of the 225 burning from the link somebody else gave. 

    Many years ago I saw her in OKC. Really a thing of beauty. The cargo deck felt like a gymnasium. Say what you will about the Russians but they do understand heavy lift. Another example is the MI-26 Helicopter.

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    2 hours ago, Lawman said:


    It’s not.

    Russians redesigned a whole lot of their ground doctrine following Chechnya.

    https://www.armyupress.army.mil/portals/7/hot%20spots/documents/russia/2017-07-the-russian-way-of-war-grau-bartles.pdf

    https://info.publicintelligence.net/AWG-RussianNewWarfareHandbook.pdf

    https://info.publicintelligence.net/AWG-RussianNewWarfareHandbook.pdf

    That’s Low side. There is other stuff out there….

    There is a lot of wide area discussion but essentially it focuses on the move to Battalion Task Group models (BTG). Actual Table of Equipment though is all over the place dependent on type of units.

    Main tank rule is Battalion structure. They don’t intermix tanks below Brigade level so a battalion is going to be structured around a particular model (72, 80, 90). Brigades may have Battalions with different types (like a single 80 and 2x 72s). Within that individual Battalion you have 3 or 4 company models (10 MBTs per company with 1 for the Battalion Commander) based off what kind of parent brigade/division it’s intended to fall under. Tank Brigade/Division will usually prioritize 4 Troop tank Battalions (41 total tanks) to Infantry brigades so they can provide a Troop to each infantry Battalion with a single Troop in force reserve.


    Which brings me to my main point….. Send More Javelins!


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    This is what happens when we spend the last 2 decades (and personally a bunch of days in OIF/OEF) focusing on the COIN fight and not near peer. 😁 I do recall a conversation I had with an 82nd ABN E-7 Ranger more than a few years ago when I first heard about the Javelin. He told me the Javelin is no joke and gives a lot of teeth to the infantry that wasn't there before. I can't believe in hindsight how prophetic it was. Copy that. More Javelins

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    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    43 minutes ago, ViperMan said:

    Here me out on this one.

    We should hellfire Putin. Send them a *uck of a message. Shake things up. Call their remaining leadership's bluff on further escalation. Put them on notice that they are criminals and are legal targets.

    As much as I would like too the Russian people will have to handle this one in house. Even that has some risk.

    Russian Ukraine shenanigans

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    The lessons learned from this on combined arms operations will be staggering. So many systems/TTPs tested in a real world combat environment. For instance I'll be interested in how many aerial kills were A-A vs surface based systems. Clearly more lessons on preventing fratricide. As for the Javelin I can't think of a more realistic test than against a large, massed armored force.  Plenty of subjects to write on for Air War College and Command and General Staff College for years to come.

    Now my biggest fear is Putin seeing himself getting bogged down in a slog in Ukraine and the protests really start getting going back in Russia and he starts becoming unhinged at the thought of losing his grip on power. If Hitler in April 1945 had access to the nuclear button what would have happened? I sure hope he isn't that crazy.

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