This is failed WW1 tactics. Very long artillery softening allows the defending side to bring reinforcements and stop offensive. Thats why in WW2 artillery softening was much shorter in some cases even attacked without artillery softening for better surprise effect.
Current Hard Kill systems are ineffective against MAM-L.
On the other hand LWR can easily detect laser beam set smoke and move away. Still there is quite a good chance to hit tank.
Problem that free fall bomb is much harder to see than missile. So you can only estimate time but cant see when...
Several points here:
1) 7.3 % of the Ukraine was occupied prior this war. So in this war they occupied less than 13%.
2) As I noted there is extremely huge gap between militaries: Russia spent 1,300 billion $ on military since 2000, while Ukraine only 60 billion.
3) Ukraine was very hard to...
You are watching too much Russian propaganda. Here an example of their disinformation:
So far zero proof that something was sold.
When you compare Russian and Ukraine militaries u should compare their spending since 2000:
Russia spent some 1,300 billion dollars on military.
Ukraine on the...
After failing in Kiev two months ago, Russians announced phace B of the war in Donbass. This is what they managed to do in those 2 months:
More than pathetic results.
Funny that in the beginning they tried to encircle Severodonesk and Lysichansk towns, then after passing half way they...
F-35 was not lost. Israel reported about F-35 hit by bird, safely landed and repaired and Russian trolls based on this report invented silly story that it was hit by S-200.
There is little difference between latest version of S-300 which Syrians possess (S-300PMU2) and S-400.
Russian generals disagree with you original message + google translate:
"8 октября в 21:33 шесть тактических истребителей F-16 ВВС Израиля с пересечением государственной границы Сирийской...
23 days passed since my post. Russians advanced 13 km further from Popasna towards Yampul.
Now encirclement of Severodonetsk and Lysychanks is inevitable. But Russians advance is much slower than i expected - about 0.5 km a day.
I dont expect big changes. In best case scenario Ukrainians will stop Russian advance and will slowly push Russians back. For effective offensive u need air superiority and strong armor divisions. Nothing like this going to happen.
Here a big pic of Russian advance since the beginning of "second phase" from 1st April to 21 May:
Very minor advance. Basically WW1 style positional war.
I very doubt. And I dont think Patriot is something Ukrainians need now.
Its very complicated, bulky and poorly mobile system. It will need lots of time to train. It can be destroyed quite easily destroyed with cruise missiles (Russia has plenty of them).
Russian army attacked with full strength since the first day.
From 24 February to 1st April their strategy was move swift from all directions to shock the Ukrainians. And virtually all Russian gains were made i first 4 days when Ukrainians were caught off guard. Despite all warnings Ukrainians...
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S-300PMU2 and S-400 have little differences. The problem with S-400 is that it is very expensive and very bulky system which can be easily destroyed with cheap cruise missiles.