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3·22 hours agoI feel like the only way to have your life valued in the Russian military is to successfully infiltrate behind Ukrainian lines while most of the soldiers around you are killed, regroup with others and establish yourself as the dominant leader by any means necessary and then make contact with the “worthless” Russian soldiers that haven’t passed through the crucible of the frontline yet.
Under these conditions how would you survive that much longer than any other Russian charging the frontlines? Unless you succeed in surving the battle royale of penetrating Ukrainian frontlines (a very bad bet) the longer you survive the more evidence there is for the Russian military that you are useless for not dying in the act of trying to infiltrate already.
This is likely already a memorial to dead soldiers, there isn’t any way out alive unless you get captured by Ukraine.
3·22 hours agoThe bible serves the same purpose to these idiots, they claim it is holy in order to get out of doing their homework to understand the world around them as it is. As a result they neither understand the bible nor do they understand nature, just bullshitting.
Especially given these flying bombs are literally being used as weapons of mass terror against Ukrainian civilians and are hardly used for actual war to pursue a strategic goal, absolutely they are valid military targets.
How can I not forget some of these insane details? It is like trying to read a book marinated in hamburger juice, the original record has been hopelessly degraded and enriched.
“Add” is a peculiar word here, you might as well say I “add” to conversations if we are going to start stretching words like taffy.
Well, that’s awkward. Is there a market for “Tactical Vehicle” wrapped Cybertrucks that aren’t bulletproof?
Props for a low budget scifi movie
A tank alone is almost useless, it’s big, loud, has poor visibility and big difficulties to engage close soft targets.
You are right but it is fascinating how this is rapidly changing too…
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Modern main battle tanks have gotten progressively quieter. Also emissions signatures are being reduced electric drivetrains being a massive leap forward for the stealth potential of armor. They named it a Leopard not a Bear or Rhino for a reason…
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Modern main battle tanks have superb thermal and night vision optics. The CROWS system on an Abrams is like the turret and sensor suite of an attack helicopter bolted on top, this is in addition to the seperate main gun optics.
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Systems like the Bullfrog counter uav automated machine gun and PERCH uav launch system that integrate easily onto main battle tanks such as the Abrams tanks position the “western” tank as a co-interlocking platform with unmanned vehicles in a way no other platform can rival.
A tank alone is still useless but it is anything but a legacy platform like the way people say, it is the armored control room that also happens to be located inside the big armored cannon.
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End of 2026 Russia is going to be crumpled on the ground with Ukraine kicking them in the face to wake up so they can negotiate a ceasefire but Russia is way too fucked up to do anything coherent but lay there in the mud moaning in pain while taking drunken swipes with a knife at Ukraine in attempt to press the attack.
I do not honestly think Russia is capable of continuing to fight that long, especially if we are talking about large mechanized assaults, certainly not at this rate of attrition and also the rate Russia is training Ukrainian personnel to be ruthlessly effective at repelling their mindless assaults as their own soldiers learn nothing and then die.
Not to mention Ukrainian/European military technology is pulling far ahead of Russia while Russia doubles down on trying to make iterative improvements to fundamentally obsolete equipment and doctrine.
It will be a disaster for Russia if they continue to insist on losing for that much longer.
As someone from the US let me speak for most of us when I say Fuck Trump
It is called a gun raid, it is a military tactic that already exists as quite a fleshed out battle concept that relies primarily on a similar shortsightedness to yours in what defenders expect, by the time it is realized a vulnerable asset is near the frontline the artillery system has fulfilled its fire mission and there are now much bigger issues for the defenders to focus on.
Another commonly employed tactical method for offensive operations is the artillery raid. The artillery raid is a rapid air or rapid ground movement of elements into a position to attack a high- payoff target currently beyond the maximum range of available field artillery weapons. This could involve operations across the forward edge of the battle area. Normally, a raid is extremely short and does not involve sustained operations. A detailed plan, surprise, and speedy execution are key factors in a successful raid. Firing units will move forward only the number of vehicles necessary to accomplish the mission. When the fire mission is complete, the howitzer crews prepare the howitzers for movement.
https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/NEWS-ARTICLES/News-Article-View/Article/948203/the-gun-raid/
How does the drone get to the battlefield? How do you protect those support crew? You have to consider that along with the rapidity of artillery response.
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=7zS3Yl0hu7Y
When you start to consider laser guidance on those shells from spotting unmanned assets the loop from being seen to having incoming fire is almost incomprehensibly short under optimum conditions. Counter battery calculations aren’t even that helpful unless you can act on it in literally seconds or minutes if you are lucky.
The future is drones AND artillery working together, if you think “drone beat artillery” like “paper beat rock” you aren’t understanding this from the right mindset at all.
You have to think of this as you are fighting against a highway-speed-capable armored 155mm howitzer somewhere 20km+ away connected and communicating with drones hunting you.
The measly munitions drone carry pale in comparison to a 155mm shell, so the drone is best used to spot the target…
112·3 days agoIf there is anything I am sure about it is that the children of politicians are largely useless.
Statistically it is a far superior choice to literally pick a random person off the street.
How about the Abrams getting PERCH systems to launch switchblade drones? That one is straight out of C&C Generals.
They are unarguably are, in one recent instance a .50 cal robot obliterated a Russian APC at point blank range, in another one held a position on the frontline for over a month.
Obviously they do not replace humans, but when used in the right ways they are extremely effective.
The primary use of unmanned ground vehicles are for logistics especially logistics with explodey things it is very dangerous to ask a human to carry through a battlefield. If a UGV carrying a bunch of mortar rounds is hit by an FPV drone that sucks for the mortar crew that doesn’t get ammunition but it is unimaginably better than a human being driving a truck full of mortar rounds being hit by one.
The next most useful use of unmanned ground vehicles are for casualty evacuation under fire and under conditions too risky for humans to try.
The third most useful is as a weapon.
So yes this is scary but honestly a human with a gun is still far more terrifying. The broader future of these big derpy rolling ground robots are disaster response and lifesaving applications, they are useful for war too but under very specific human coordinated contexts.
Yeah the US didn’t even want those Australian ones donated, it is pathetic.
I mean how about Saudi Arabia or Egypt too? They have a couple thousand between them… not that I would expect them too especially before the US gave more but they have A LOT.