I never really ascribed to the whole Bakhmut framing. Even if Wagner encircles the city - the AFU still hold positions to the west and all are within indirect fire range. One question I wanted to ask - I've seen dozens of videos on telegram showing RU indirect (artillery hard shell) fire. It never seems to hit within 50m of anything, the…
I never really ascribed to the whole Bakhmut framing. Even if Wagner encircles the city - the AFU still hold positions to the west and all are within indirect fire range.
One question I wanted to ask - I've seen dozens of videos on telegram showing RU indirect (artillery hard shell) fire. It never seems to hit within 50m of anything, there doesn't seem to be much of it (one or two impacts here and there) and it all looks contact-fused. How is RU using artillery? Do they have precision shells like Excalibur and these German munitions? I would imagine 1 guided shell is worth 100 dumb ones, especially once NATO armor starts making an appearance
Yes Russia has Krasnopol guided shells, but of course they are much fewer than the dumbfire ones so they're only used for more high value targets. Russia also has all the same sensor-fuzed smart munitions like the German one quoted in article, and have used them already many times in the conflict as I believe I've even posted in previous reports. Munitions like Motiv-3m from RBK-500 bomb.
And you're right 1 guided shell is worth more than 100times what a dumbfire one is worth in terms of cost $$$ which is why it's often much more economical to fire dumbfire ones even if it seems like a lot of them are missing because even if 1 out of 50 hits the target, then you still saved money compared to the $100-200k priced guided munition.
Soviet artillery doctrine was a system of grids that had it down to a mathematical science and exact equations as to how many shells it takes to defeat a particular target and the number is usually fairly high when you're not using guided shells. But with that said, shells are often doing far more damage than you think, or than it might look from a zoomed out Drone view. Because a lot of their fragmentary explosive damage wrecks everything (and kills troops) in a wide radius.
I never really ascribed to the whole Bakhmut framing. Even if Wagner encircles the city - the AFU still hold positions to the west and all are within indirect fire range.
One question I wanted to ask - I've seen dozens of videos on telegram showing RU indirect (artillery hard shell) fire. It never seems to hit within 50m of anything, there doesn't seem to be much of it (one or two impacts here and there) and it all looks contact-fused. How is RU using artillery? Do they have precision shells like Excalibur and these German munitions? I would imagine 1 guided shell is worth 100 dumb ones, especially once NATO armor starts making an appearance
Yes Russia has Krasnopol guided shells, but of course they are much fewer than the dumbfire ones so they're only used for more high value targets. Russia also has all the same sensor-fuzed smart munitions like the German one quoted in article, and have used them already many times in the conflict as I believe I've even posted in previous reports. Munitions like Motiv-3m from RBK-500 bomb.
And you're right 1 guided shell is worth more than 100times what a dumbfire one is worth in terms of cost $$$ which is why it's often much more economical to fire dumbfire ones even if it seems like a lot of them are missing because even if 1 out of 50 hits the target, then you still saved money compared to the $100-200k priced guided munition.
Soviet artillery doctrine was a system of grids that had it down to a mathematical science and exact equations as to how many shells it takes to defeat a particular target and the number is usually fairly high when you're not using guided shells. But with that said, shells are often doing far more damage than you think, or than it might look from a zoomed out Drone view. Because a lot of their fragmentary explosive damage wrecks everything (and kills troops) in a wide radius.
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