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Is Ukraine's strategy of blowing up ammo dumps working? (Original Post) Tomconroy Jul 2022 OP
You can have all the guns in the world but if you don't have the ammo to feed them with.. mitch96 Jul 2022 #1
Massed infantry is an old Russian tactic. Turbineguy Jul 2022 #2
Read an article somewhere, House of Roberts Jul 2022 #3
+1, and there's some wicked tech confusing Rachist radar when GMRLS are fired uponit7771 Jul 2022 #8
it makes great video, this much i know. mopinko Jul 2022 #4
We should send them like 50+ himars. Calculating Jul 2022 #5
Russian artillery is a shotgun blast. HIMARS is a sniper shot NickB79 Jul 2022 #6
Good analogy. Just A Box Of Rain Jul 2022 #9
YES !!! And it's near impossible for them to change quickly uponit7771 Jul 2022 #7

mitch96

(13,912 posts)
1. You can have all the guns in the world but if you don't have the ammo to feed them with..
Tue Jul 12, 2022, 02:35 PM
Jul 2022

well what's the point...The point is less UKR troops get shelled, yes? More HIMARS please.
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House of Roberts

(5,177 posts)
3. Read an article somewhere,
Tue Jul 12, 2022, 02:42 PM
Jul 2022

that Russian supply lines depend on transporting by rail only to 100 km from artillery units, then requiring truck crews to hand unload onto trucks, then hand unload at artillery units. Ukraine is targeting both the rail facilities and the trucks, creating havoc with resupply. Sometimes the trucks deliver to the wrong units, meaning other units don't get resupplied.
A few more dozen HIMARS could just about eliminate Russian logistics in the region.

Calculating

(2,955 posts)
5. We should send them like 50+ himars.
Tue Jul 12, 2022, 02:50 PM
Jul 2022

It would stop the Russians in their tracks and inflict massive losses on them.

 

Just A Box Of Rain

(5,104 posts)
9. Good analogy.
Tue Jul 12, 2022, 03:22 PM
Jul 2022

Adding that the Ukrainians have excellent intelligence on what to target, both through their own local resourcefulness and by the sharing of real-time intelligence from the "eyes-in-the-sky" of friendly allied governments.

When UKR knows what to hit, where it is located, and precision guided weapons with greater range than the Russians have, they can degrade the threat.

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