RE: Russia and Ukraine
March 31, 2022 at 12:28 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2022 at 12:34 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
One of the significant problems with the btg structure...that prevents it from being a traditional maneuver unit (and russia is well aware of this, btw, the btg is supposed to be an intermediate step in their modernization)...is the lack of adequate support personnel. So...you know, nothing wrong with the guys in the rear - they do all the real work. Russia is having comms issues. Russia is having damage control issues, russia is having medical issues, food issues..on and on the list goes. I'd rather run across a field for twenty minutes once or twice a month than slave away fixing that trash praying to some eldritch god that the enemy arms havent slipped past my (mostly) inactive infantry buddies to murder me in my sleep.
Even if their infantry and their armor were well trained and well maintained - the way the ukranians are operating would still inflict mass casualties. Just as a handy reference...if ukraine was as well supplied as we are with the equipment they want - russia would have to inflict 10x the rate of armor casualties in an engagement to destroy a btc. 4x in ifvs, 2x in fire squads at the standard 30% (though it seems that russia is willing to lose damn near 50% before they admit they fucked it and cut). Then, if they managed that, they'd have to pursue and entirely eliminate a unit that's still twice it's size, resupplying and reconstituting as close as 50 miles from the initial engagement. The light vehicle insurgency shit the ukranians are doing is exactly why we use a btc. They're small enough to go fast, but big enough to be immune to getting whittled like the russians have been. That's why we had such staying power in our recent misadventures.
One party in the conflict learned from our mistakes, the other did not..or could not move beyond the intermediate organization before..for whatever reason, they felt compelled to attack.
Even if their infantry and their armor were well trained and well maintained - the way the ukranians are operating would still inflict mass casualties. Just as a handy reference...if ukraine was as well supplied as we are with the equipment they want - russia would have to inflict 10x the rate of armor casualties in an engagement to destroy a btc. 4x in ifvs, 2x in fire squads at the standard 30% (though it seems that russia is willing to lose damn near 50% before they admit they fucked it and cut). Then, if they managed that, they'd have to pursue and entirely eliminate a unit that's still twice it's size, resupplying and reconstituting as close as 50 miles from the initial engagement. The light vehicle insurgency shit the ukranians are doing is exactly why we use a btc. They're small enough to go fast, but big enough to be immune to getting whittled like the russians have been. That's why we had such staying power in our recent misadventures.
One party in the conflict learned from our mistakes, the other did not..or could not move beyond the intermediate organization before..for whatever reason, they felt compelled to attack.
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