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What a novel way to detect artillery
I'm picturing the droid in rogue One
There's some.
Send some guys to run out screaming "I bet the artillery can't hit me" with targets on their backs.
What’s as big as a house, burns 20 liters of fuel every hour, puts out a shit-load of smoke and noise, and cuts an apple into three pieces?
A Soviet machine made to cut apples into four pieces!
Now they know there's artillery. Test successful.
Next they're gonna test for cruise missiles again.
The counter-battery radar doesn't prevent artillery from working; it makes it dangerous for them. Theoretically the units that took this out could already be destroyed after having had their coordinates calculated and counter-battery fire immediately called down on them.
In practice it was just setting up, having been tracked to its location, and possibly wasn't working yet. Also the GMLRS rockets fired by HIMARS are not ballistic - they execute a counter-battery-confounding turn. And the salvo is fired quickly after which the vehicle immediately leaves - it can park, get ready and fire a full salvo in under a minute. When the first rocket is detected a couple of minutes later, the launcher will already have driven off and counter-battery coordinates will not be that useful/
To add to that, this war has shown the importance of shoot-and-scoot. Towed artillery with long setup and teardown times are too vulnerable to drones. Might be the end of an era for towed artillery.
On the other hand the artillery mounted on trucks seems to be quite effective.
Stuff like the Caesar can park, fire 6 shells and leave in less than 3 minutes.
What? Ukraine is effectively using towed artillery, Russia isn't really using anything effectively so there's an argument for them I guess.
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Even if it was fully operational, Western artillery used by Ukraine is more precise with longer range than Russian, so they can target the ruskies with less risk.
It detects artillery, it doesn’t deflect it.
Ironic, he could save others from death, but not himself
Just like rain on your wedding day...
Probably had a great view the whole way in. I'm silly laughing right now thinking about some Russians just watching this missile come in on an old ass CRT monitor.
You see, this is why the westoids always underestimate the glorious Russians. Even when their system is hit, it is still reporting the artillery by sending a smoke sign that is visible for kilometers - we never stood a chance
Lifelock marketing department salivating at this new ad script
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Apparently Russia called for a meeting of the UN Security Council to complain about Ukraine fighting back
LOL no fair when you fight back, it's violence! /s
They called it terrorism even lol
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It would be better if Ukraine was regaining territory.
Why? Because they're defending against massive waves of badly trained unsupported conscripts right now with extremely favorable loss ratios?
Because ultimately, Ukraine cannot support a stalemate forever. Eventually, they'll lose international support and just won't be able to replace the troops.
Even a casual history buff would understand Russia is culturally willing to accept losses far beyond what any other modern country(with the exception of China) would ever consider or whose populace would support. Russia has historically thrived in attrition scenarios.
Honestly, their only real hope is for either Putin to die and resulting political shake up to be favorable. Or to start winning decisive victories and force Russia to the table (more unlikely).
It's not a stalemate, though. Russia is suffering way more attrition than Ukraine. That said yes things would look nicer if western support was more extensive, though then you also have the issue of training capacity on the Ukrainian side. But it's not like Russia is winning in the current situation, currently Putin is holding out in the hopes of US support collapsing which, in his mind, would mean western support drying up (because something something they're ruling us or something. KGB minds also run on geopolitical realism). The opposite would happen: That'd prompt the EU to switch the economy into first war gear (which will be plenty), not just because it's the right thing to do but also because it'll be the only way to keep the Poles from putting boots on the ground right away.
The problem is, Putin doesn't care.
Yes, they are suffering way more losses, but they still got plenty of troops to throw against.
The Russians have gone through the conscripts. They've gone through the criminals. They're now on to Ukrainian PoWs and international conscripts.
The Ukrainian force is still Ukrainian.
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One step at a time. It’ll take time for the blyats to figure out this shit isn’t worth it.
Preferably all the way to Moscow.
I don't know, I rather favor self determination, which is why I stand with Ukraine.
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Well it was very successful in detecting artillery
Artillery attractant
What's the status of the artillery detecting radar?
Well, sir, it's a good news/bad news thing...
Clever russians, detecting artillery fire by the explosions on their equipment!
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I was a counter battery radar operator. The systems I used 20 years ago had these neat things called electronic counter measures. I guess russia never got the message that it's not a smart idea to radiate in a zone with anti-radiation missiles.
The Russians are actually pretty good at EW and invest a lot of effort into it, but it's possible that a new, detectable freq pattern got a lot of attention.
e.g. the AFU EW picks up something that is detectable above the noise floor and sends a drone to look -- what is this weird radar sig? Drone sees something and they get a strike setup.
Plus we're only seeing the blow up, it could have been killing M777 and CAESAR crews for days till it ate a HIMARS strike.
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Lmao, love to see it
I just saw the clip of the thing getting deployed, then getting blown up real good. It was awesome.
well, don't keep a thing like to yourself. if you have links, bring enough for everyone!
You can deduct two things from this:
-Russia is not as big of a threat as propaganda depicts it
-Spending trillions in "defense" is useless
If even a small fraction of Russia's nuclear arsenal is functional then they are still incredibly dangerous
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Let's spend trillions on offense for Ukraine instead! Help them take back Crimea and make Russia afraid to go on conquest again.
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-Spending trillions in “defense” is useless
Who knew that skimming money off the top at every level will leave you with nothing but a shell of a military?
Russians engineers are hardcore, they really go all out on systems validation.
And many more Conscriptoviches, Korruptnikovs, Korruptoviches and Korruptovs are going to get sent into the insane stalemated meat grinder that is the "special military operation".
Good gunners those Ukrainians
Anyone else, here read, the title in Christopher Walken's voice?
Well I have now.
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