there is an enemy present, and while they have been pretty incompetent so far, they're not all total fools. they're going to have to get shit situated, and they're going to have to do it as weather allows, so the russians can't watch everything they do on satellite. they have to bring in tons of ammunition..literally TONS of it, the video you just posted says a transport plane can carry 140 tons. each 6 rocket pod weighs 2.5 tons, and they can fire one off every 5 minutes, if they don't have to move.
The point is not many of them are required, each Russian BTG is a self contained fighting unit with armor, infantry, AA support and about 8 artillery pieces on average and contain about 600 to 1000 people, about 30% who are infantry. Destroy 3 BTGs at your front and you can breakthrough to their rear and toll them up. So a couple of MLRSs with good intelligence on where the Russians are at the rear can take out their artillery and allow an advance across open ground or down highways. MLRS will focus mostly on C&C, their supporting artillery, fuel and ammo dumps at the rear of the BTG and it's neighbors. A common 5 ton truck can transport them to the front. We are not talking about large numbers of rocket pods here, a hundred or two could do the job, along with regular artillery, drones for air support and recon. Take out their artillery support and they don't fight very well and if they have no fuel they are sitting ducks in useless equipment.
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OK tinkerbell. The Russians are tossing 20,000 a day. And they would not notice the hundred trips back and forth bringing in rockets?
They can't hit anything behind the Ukrainian lines with precision now, much less a moving truck along with thousands of other tons of shit moving a day. They only need to feed less than 10 MLRS units and since they are precision munitions, they are not used to blanket an area with a salvo, though they can. There are always problems with logistics in war and these things expend one pod, and move on to the next location while picking up another pod on the way. If used wisely, they could make a big difference, particularly if the Russians are not quick to adapt. Their purpose is to take out the support at the rear including artillery and each BTG has on average 8 pieces. Break a few adjacent BTGs and you can breakthrough, provided you can also neutralize tactical air support, if any shows up.
i'm still very very interested in how large that fucking stockpile of missiles and artillery shells is. no matter how large, it is finite, and they're making huge dents in it daily...how long can they throw 20 or 30 thousand shells and rockets a day? they can't replace them, at least in nothing like they way they could before sanctions.
I used to work in a plant that made rockets. Aluminum tube, we had a graphite nozzle but the Americans used aluminum. You mix fertilizer (ammonium nitrate) with a plastic and there, you have your rocket motor which you can put on whatever warhead you want. The mixing of the plastic with the fertilizer has to be done properly, our production buildings were separated from each other and a large berm around each just in case one building exploded. So for dumb rockets that light off a dozen at a time there is not a lot of high tech going on. Russia is probably the biggest exporter of fertilizer, doubt they will be a shortage. They also is one of the biggest aluminum exporter, I am betting they manufacture their own tubes. More expensive than manufacturing a shell and propellant but the do a different job than the shells. I would bet the plants they have in Russia are going all out making them.
I did not worry too much about the number but having 15 years on an assembly line, reloading my own ammunition as well as my brief rocket education, the article seems reasonable.
They still were taken From South Africa and given to Israel. Was it? How did that work out? More stealing of Palestine?
Fancy that eh...You are going to love this.
European leaders still can’t shake the urge to appease Russia
It felt like a historic occasion when the leaders of Europe’s largest states, Germany, Italy and France, finally visited Kyiv on Thursday. Air raid sirens howled as their night train pulled into the Ukrainian capital. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke of “a message of European unity”. But behind the warm words, there was also plenty of cold calculation as Europe’s leaders push to end the war as soon as possible.
Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, none of the European Union heavyweights had seen fit to visit Ukraine. Macron, who boasted that he has spent “at least a hundred hours” on the phone with Vladimir Putin, declared that he would travel to Kyiv only if he felt it was “useful”. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke dismissively of not wanting to “join the queue of people who do a quick in-and-out for a photo opportunity”.
But the Thursday visit didn’t turn out to be particularly “useful” to Ukraine, which has been pleading desperately for more weapons; nor was it much more than a photo op. Apart from six additional howitzers from France, all the European leaders offered was support for Ukraine’s bid to become a member of the E.U. at some point in the future.
European leaders still can’t shake the urge to appease Russia
It felt like a historic occasion when the leaders of Europe’s largest states, Germany, Italy and France, finally visited Kyiv on Thursday. Air raid sirens howled as their night train pulled into th…www.almendron.com
Well Finland did steal Sweden's Åland archipelago when Finland was aligned with the nazis. Perhaps they should give them back?maybe Finland wants to stay neutral, but is afraid that if they do, they'll be next on putin's lunch platter?
then why not a little Sweden for dessert? i mean, we're already in Finland, might as well, it's right next door...
I wonder what Trump would do?
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Make $, lie, cheat, have sex with little girls, pornstars and probably dead people.
Dumb shells and rockets, even in volume, are not hard to make. For shells round stock steel, a drop forge and a lathe are required for most of it, these days CNC controlled. Fuzes are simple circuit boards with low end processors these days and can be set to delay, impact or proximity, using a cellphone and bluetooth with an app. The only thing special you need to make rocket motors is a vacuum mold to remove the bubbles from the propellent before it sets into hard rubber. The rest is a metal pipe, folding fins, machined nozzle, warhead, fuze and nose cone.
that's fucking stolen Ukrainian flour. they try to steal their sea port, they try to steal their gas and oil, they try to steal their lives, and now they're stealing the food out of their mouths...russia just sinks lower and lower every time they open their mouths...to put stolen Ukrainian food in them
steal something, then lie about it?