You're funny SM
Remember when you were so excited about Ukraine's upcoming counteroffensive?
Excited about the tanks and equipment, remember?

The counteroffensive failed abysmally, one for the history books.
There's no more tanks, no more equipment and you are short of ammunition and people.
Running out of meat-waves even.
No possible way to even launch another counteroffensive, because there's no military equipment to do so.

The US are too effing scared to even field a damn M1 tank on the battlefield, and somehow they were going to save Ukraine?

Somehow Ukraine are going to re-do the counteroffensive, this time not kill themselves flinging themselves at a wall of steele?

I'm sorry to tell you this, but all those men are dead.
They had to expand the cemeteries to lay them all to rest.

Even if Ukraine does find people
(There's no volunteers, the ones it finds certainly don't want to die for their country, those men are already gone)

The hunt for the male population of Ukraine continues...
In the meantime I guess the women will face overwhelmingly disproportionate artillery barrages.

They must feel so empowered.
And somehow you believe Russia is losing.
Ahahahahahaha

Oh and don't worry about Russias missile shortage.
They can always get rockets from Al Qassam brigades or Hezbollah or North Korea.

Mind you, Russian artillery production is up 17.5 times since the start of the SMO when production was about 300,000 year.
- Europe still hasn't been able to deliver more than 300,000 in total of those million shells it promised right?

Ukraine couldn't win this war now if it had disintegration rays and the death star.

Hi AC,

At the start of the war Russia was firing up to 60k artillery rounds per day. Now Russia fires about 10k artillery rounds per day, and that figure is above the current rate of production and procurement. Further, Russia has lost most of its counter-battery radar systems, further reducing accuracy.

You might also note that drones deployed on the front lines have many times the strike rate of unguided artillery, so it is unsurprising to see both sides developing their drone capability.

How do you think Russia will fare when Ukraine accesses more medium and long range missiles? Crimea could fall this year.

Hi Fester,
'Boots on the ground'

If you were to take the aircraft, artillery, missiles, tanks, drones etc out of the equation...
- At the end of the day, you still need experienced boots on the grounds to go in and dig the enemy out.

Why Giving Ukraine Longer-Range Missiles Will Make No Difference
http://youtu.be/7KrSwAaLXQU

Shoigu says Russian army is most combat capable in world
http://tass.com/defense/1723781

>>Since February 2022, the output of tanks has increased 5.6 times, armored vehicles - 3.5-3.6 times, drones - 16.8 times, and artillery shells - 17.5 times.

The defense industry has upgraded over a hundred arms and hardware units and is rapidly creating new ones. "The weapons that were designed and tested in ordinary conditions for 5-8 years, today reach serial production in 4-7 months. That has not happened since the Great Patriotic War," the minister said.

The Ground Forces have received 1.53 thousand new and upgraded tanks, over 2.5 thousand infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers. The Aerospace Forces received 237 airplanes and helicopters, while the Navy got eight warships, four multirole submarines, and a strategic nuclear submarine.

Volunteers

Over 1,500 men daily apply to join the military service. Close to 490 thousand contracted men and volunteers have been enlisted since the beginning of the year. "The number of foreign volunteers increased seven times," the minister said.<<

"Crimea could fall this year."

I keep telling you all, it's not going to happen - why?
Because Russia already sees it as Russian territory and will launch nukes before it allows the West to take it. Simple.
- But in any case how is Ukraine going to take it back?

I see no plan on the table to take back anything.
Ukraine has moved to a defensive posture I'm told so there's no real plan for a new counteroffensive to take back anything.
Not that I'd know where they'd get the equipment from even if the did find people to put in boots.
It's all pie in the sky, nothing more than band aiding the situation to try and get through to November.

Hi AC,

Some time back the Russian army could use their artillery advantage to advance. Later they could deliver devastating barrages of glide bombs. The Ukrainians have developed effective countermeasures to these strategies. Further, Ukraine has far more accurate weaponry over a 50km to 300km range, which is a large advantage.

Russia will need to innovate. Meat waves won't win the war for them.

'Russia will need to innovate.'

I heard that with the FPV drones, they're actually making them with 3D printers in houses close to the front lines.

The people designing and assembling them are working closely with the operators, so there's a lot of feedback going back and forth and improvements are occurring quite fast.

In the beginning for example they learned technology that could locate not just the drone but also the drone operator, and an enemy could send their own drone to target an enemy drone operator.
So they had to find solutions, countermeasures to protect operators.

As for the new lancets, I think now some of the latest ones have AI, can identify and fire on targets autonomously (meaning there's no signal to an operator to identify or to jam) apparently they can also work as a swarm of up to several hundred at a time.

I've even seen footage of drones delivering food and drinks to soldiers.

As for the current situation, I think its going to be Ukraine that will continue to struggle against drone and missile attacks with a degraded air defense.

I heard Zuluznhy had a meltdown the other day saying he needed people.