re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Here is the response of a retired A-10 squadron commander

Would probably work pretty good. Problem, as always is the logistics tail and where you can hit.



716 built. Less than half of them still flying. Subtract those crashed and those turned into lawn ornaments, I’d guess there are about 300 left at the Boneyard in Tucson. Don’t know how many have been destroyed.



Basing becomes a problem. Can’t base in Belarus, as it is friendly to Putin. If you base to the W, it puts Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Moldova into play as targets. If you base in Romania, you have to defend the base with something. It’s a long trip across Ukraine, 800 mi from westernmost border to Luhansk in the E, meaning you either have to base in country or have tanker support. Then there are the weapons. 30 mm is hard to come by, iron bombs, not so much. And you don’t want a hog without the gun. Add to that the maintenance and pilots (training included), and this gets difficult in a hurry. Given the large number of former hog pilots out there, I don’t think getting mercs to fly them would be all that hard. Would end up being a DIP (die in place) mission, though, not unlike Iraq / Afghanistan where you don’t want to get captured because after capture the only variable would be how painful your death would be.



You also end up with the Vietnam problem, of not being able to hit anything important in Russia (fuel, ammo, and other logistics dumps) without expanding the war, especially true if you base somewhere outside Ukraine.



A better solution would be to bury the Russians in tens of thousands of drones. All you have to supply are drones (which are weapons), and the controlling units. All Russian equipment is channelized on either the roads or rail lines. Armor is limited with engine lifetimes around 200 hours, just over 8 days of use, before they need to be replaced, so their log tail is huge.



Fun idea, though. Hope all is well. Been raining for a couple weeks. Plants are happy. So are weeds. Cheers –



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Oh no Ukraine Bros, why is NPR raising questions about our funding going towards the prolonging of this regional conflict half a world away while our Western European "allies" who are not running $25+ trillion dollar debts and who have far more at stake are giving only small fractions of the financial sums that Biden and War, Inc. are?

Hey man did you see bro Putin bent the knee on the grain embargo? Such an alpha

Please explain to me how the SU-25 has done so well. It seems like you hear one gets blown out of the sky each day. Hell a 19 year old kid already has shot 6 down by himself.

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Hell a 19 year old kid already has shot 6 down by himself.

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Re­cent ship­ments of U.S. and al­lied weapons, par­tic­u­larly the Hi­mars mul­ti­ple-launch rocket sys­tems and 155mm how­itzers, have helped to blunt Rus­sia’s of­fen­sive in the Don­bas and sta­bi­lize the sit­u­a­tion there, Mr. Ze­len­sky said. The Rus­sians used to fire 12,000 ar­tillery shells daily against 1,000 to 2,000 by Ukraine, he said. Now, he added, Ukraine can fire some 6,000 shells a day while Rus­sia is be­gin­ning to feel a short­age of am­mu­ni­tion and troops.

This change in the bal­ance of fire­power has stemmed Ukrain­ian ca­su­al­ties, Mr. Ze­len­sky said. At the peak of fight­ing in May and June, he said, Ukraine was los­ing be­tween 100 and 200 troops a day; now, it is down to some 30 fa­tal­i­ties a day and around 250 wounded.

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The HIMARs are doing work. They have pushed the Russian logistical system to the breaking point at the same time Ukraine’s artillery stockpiles are increasing.

Now if cowards like OMLandshark and the Germans don’t force Ukraine into a premature ceasefire things could get rather interesting.

Armed Forces of Ukraine execute high-precision attack on Russians near Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant – intelligence
Friday, 22 July 2022, 19:15

Ukrainian military intelligence has released a video showing the Armed Forces executing a high-precision attack on Russian positions near the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

Source: Ukrainian Chief Intelligence Directorate

Details: According to intelligence, a kamikaze drone hit the occupiers’ tent camp and equipment, specifically anti-aircraft vehicles and a BM-21 Grad multiple rocket launcher.

According to the information available, three Russian soldiers were killed and 12 more were wounded in the attack.

The tent city was destroyed by a fire that could not be extinguished for a long time.

link has video of kamikaze drone attack...

Ukrainska Pravda