Russian invasion of Ukraine

SPIDERBOY said:
Think today is the first time HIMARS has been fired directly at Orcs on the front line.
Ukrainian Aiforce up and over Kherson.

Slava Ukraini.
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We've only seen the bigger target removal M270/HIMARS missiles in use so far.
UK troops refer to the M270 it as a 1km grid square removal system. A pod comes down on an area 100m by 100m and cluster munitions detonate across pretty much the whole area. Any human being not underground or in an armoured vehicle is in big trouble.
I really wouldn't want to be in the front line when they come down.

Can an M270 MLRS really take out a square kilometer?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M270_Multiple_Launch_Rocket_System One launcher firing twelve rockets can completely blanket one square kilometer with submunitions. For this reason, the MLRS is sometimes referred to as the "Grid Square Removal System" (metric maps are usually divided up into 1 km...
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SPIDERBOY said:
Orcs leaving Tomaryne,Kherson.
Gonna be some swim accross the Dnipro.

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Rats on the run. Let's hope they prioritise washing machines rather than military hardware. Will be interesting to see what's left on the banks of the Dnieper after the pontoons float away/sink. Definitely, no officers as they legged it weeks ago.
 
AlfGreyruinedmyday said:
Rats on the run. Let's hope they prioritise washing machines rather than military hardware. Will be interesting to see what's left on the banks of the Dnieper after the pontoons float away/sink. Definitely, no officers as they legged it weeks ago.
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The question is do white goods float?

It's the only way the Orcs are getting them out of Kherson as the bridges over the Dinipro are unusable.
 
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Evening briefing...
m.dailykos.com

Ukraine Update: Ukraine launches major Kherson counteroffensive

MAJOR UPDATE: I can’t remember the last time current events made something I wrote obsolete this quickly. Just as I finished writing “I no longer see any urgency from Ukraine to start that counterattack,” it did exactly that, with reports on the ground...
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Not just Kherson counter attacks but Izyum too.
 
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