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The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 10:53 pm
oljames3 wrote: ↑Wed Mar 23, 2022 12:13 pm Retired Navy Commander Ward Carrol continues to publish insightful videos on the Russian invasion of Ukraine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBV-FG0fg9c
The one he published today, about the use of privately owned "quadcopter" drones, was particularly enlightening. That segment his interviewee showed of an artillery round of some sort hitting almost the exact spot where a drone operator had recovered his quadcopter just moments before was pretty impressive. If the Russians have the ability to geolocate a drone operator and put steel on foreheads within a few seconds of locating him, then we have it too. And that struck me as a concern for people who think they’ll be able to use their private quadcopters for surveillance/recon/intelligence gathering purposes in any kind of domestic civil war.

Regarding the use of light drones to deliver munitions, perhaps equipping some of the troops with shotguns and "heavy shot" shotshells wouldn't be such a bad idea. I mean, if the munition gets detonated high enough in the air, it seems like it would spread the blast out and at least reduce the potential damage to ground targets.

K.Mooneyham

oljames3 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 13, 2022 11:37 pm Expecting the Russian government, and by extension its military, to behave as we do is akin to expecting violent criminal actors to behave as good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people. Just as violent criminal actors do not think as good, sane, sober, moral, prudent people, neither does the Russian government or its military. The US Army has Field Manual 6-27 (August 2019), the Commander's Handbook on the Law of Land Warfare which gives guidance on the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs ... WEB_v2.pdf If the Russian military has a book about LOAC, I feel confident that it very different from ours.

Based on Russian military actions during the Cold War as well as tactics used in Afghanistan and Syria, we can see their strategies and tactics have changed little. The Russian military started the invasion of Ukraine with a heavy artillery bombardment and air strikes aimed at defeating the Ukrainian air force. Putin's leadership seems to have resulted in a lack of maintenance and weapons procurement that may be an explanation for stalled convoys and the lack of the use of guided munitions. In the past, stalled Russian military leaders have used indiscriminate, large scale bombardment and chemical weapons.

Ward Carroll is a retired Navy Commander (O-5) who served 20 years as a Radar Intercept Officer in the F14 Tomcat. He has posted a clear and concise discussion of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on his YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liKtIsMoPoA

EXPOSED! What the Ukrainian Invasion has Revealed about Russian Military Power

The Russians obviously have some serious institutional failures within their military forces. You being a former US Army Captain, I'm certain you will understand the next thing I point out. We've seen, multiple times, Russian armored convoys being absolutely wrecked by lesser forces. Part of that is attributable to modern weapons, sure. However, it's also a serious failure of their leadership (thankfully for the Ukrainians' sake). For many, many decades now, it has been known and understood that armor cannot operate in a vacuum, so to speak. An armor force commander must have well-trained and coordinated infantry assets to work along with the armor, specifically to prevent the exact sort of enemy infantry (Ukrainian) response we've seen so far. Armor assets on their own become sitting ducks for trained infantry anti-tank teams. The Russians seem to have just tossed all those hard-learned lessons out the window. The Russians, again thankfully for the Ukrainians' sake, seem to have no good grasp of proper combined arms. And I'm just an amateur student of war, me being an aircraft mechanic, and never attended anything beyond a basic NCO school in the USAF. What the heck do they teach in the officer courses in Russia, the best ways to skim money from the budget?

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