(March 29, 2022 at 9:27 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(March 29, 2022 at 8:40 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I was completely wrong in my expectations at the outset - but, in fairness, I'd been told a whole bunch of shit about russian equipment and soldiers and tactics that may have been representative of the russian forces sometime in the 90's when it was all put together...but it's clear that -that- russian army can be found nowhere on the battlefield in ukraine. I could have saved myself trouble typing much of this by saying that from a ground pounders perspective, russian forces..operating the way they have been... are a loot pinata at a murder party. That shit makes mech infantry rock hard.
The incompetence we've seen on display this last month is stunning, to me.
Even if Russia had more-than-competent field commanders, their invasion force would still be in the weeds because their equipment and logistics are shit. They attempted a half-arsed blitzkrieg with four different lines of assault using armour and artillery that hadn’t been properly maintained and couldn’t be reliably supported.
Boru
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