Russian invasion of Ukraine

[roubaixtuesday]

Makes you glad to be out of the EU.

The same EU Ukrainians are laying down their lives in their tens of thousands to be able to join, or a different EU?

Take your obsessions to the Brexit thread.

 

[i kne albert davy]

The same EU Ukrainians are laying down their lives in their tens of thousands to be able to join, or a different EU?

Take your obsessions to the Brexit thread.

Don't worry the obsessed from the EU thread will get on to here, if not already arrived.

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

Aw, poor Jonny, can't cope with a different opinion. Back to kindergarten for you.

You’re proving my point.

 

[grunge]

Places like that should never have been closed, more to the point do we have anybody left knows how to make anything :-(

To be fair Artillery seems to be pretty old hat in reality. For our armed forces things have moved on to more advanced stuff with missiles, drones and planes etc.

I could be wrong, no real world experience of it, just my gut feeling.

 

[Blue Maverick]

To be fair Artillery seems to be pretty old hat in reality. For our armed forces things have moved on to more advanced stuff with missiles, drones and planes etc.

I could be wrong, no real world experience of it, just my gut feeling.

The artillery they use now is zeroed in by the drones, there doesn’t seem to be much fore and hope it gets the general area, the drones can pinpoint tanks in trees and they can land a shit load of shells in that area. Artillery shells are much cheaper than missiles so maybe a few thousand £s of shells take out a multi million dollar tank, rather than using a million £ missile which unless it’s lit up by laser could miss.

 

[BlueAnorak]

You really are a sanctimonious little prick aren’t you.

Calling out Macron for what he is is not “xenophobic”.

Agree to the second part.

 

[BlueAnorak]

The artillery they use now is zeroed in by the drones, there doesn’t seem to be much fore and hope it gets the general area, the drones can pinpoint tanks in trees and they can land a shit load of shells in that area. Artillery shells are much cheaper than missiles so maybe a few thousand £s of shells take out a multi million dollar tank, rather than using a million £ missile which unless it’s lit up by laser could miss.

Artilary is clearly very useful but only as part of a combined arms fighting paradigm.
Counter battery radar can identify roughly where shells came from, drones can pin it down exactly so you need to fire 3 or 4 shells then move to keep your artillary in tact, then you have to have any anti-drone weapons and tech to kill the drones before they get close.
The Russian army artillary is not particularly mobile so they are losing some of it every day but they have a lot to lose.

 

[SPIDERBOY]

Some guy in his 40s was apparently arrested at Gatwick Airport on Monday night.
Suspected of being a spy for the Putin regime.

 

[Kompany Car]

The artillery they use now is zeroed in by the drones, there doesn’t seem to be much fore and hope it gets the general area, the drones can pinpoint tanks in trees and they can land a shit load of shells in that area. Artillery shells are much cheaper than missiles so maybe a few thousand £s of shells take out a multi million dollar tank, rather than using a million £ missile which unless it’s lit up by laser could miss.

Not if you buy Excalibur shells...

M982 Excalibur - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[AlgarveBlu]

Some guy in his 40s was apparently arrested at Gatwick Airport on Monday night.
Suspected of being a spy for the Putin regime.