Posted on 03/17/2018 4:41:28 PM PDT by BBell
Seriously, whats with all the rporting on every thing that goes on with the Russians. This is stuff straight out of the cold war, like Russian spy ships and planes, and really is not worth reporting unless someone has an agenda to keep the Russians on our minds as the biggest boogie man of them all. The ChiComs are more threatening.
I guess since those wily Russians are always up to something they must be preparing for war.sarc
To be realistic Ivan is probably more worried about China and Iran than us.
the neocons have to keep us scared and fearful
hence these silly articles
LOL. Because almost all our artillery isn’t self propelled. Shoot and scoot is standard.
The Chinese have been eyeing Siberia for decades and the Russians know it. Lots of resources there that could truly make China an independent country. Much like the Japanese lashed out before and during WWII because of their lack of raw materials, the Chinese are feeling the same.
You have to wonder what the tank crews think of their new role.
Air superiority. No drones, no problem.
US counter battery fire is not just generations ahead of anyone else, but it is insanely deadly. It uses any number of *correlated* intelligence gathering from satellite on down to ground, and within seconds can target every *possible* target on the entire battlefield.
Their biggest potential problem is running out of shells.
Fake news.
Tanks are easily destroyed. There are no General Patton battles anymore. It took half an hour to destroy all Iraqi tanks.
Haha I’m taking that...:)
The US has used the shoot and scoot method using self propelled artillery for decades. Radar controlled counter battery fire was used quite well in the 60’s. Ivan needs to get with the program.
This is fairly standard coverage. NI has hired writers who do equipment and tactical comparisons all the time. Russia isn’t the main adversary, but it is an adversary. It covets, at the very least, the territory of the former Warsaw Pact, in addition to that of the former Soviet Union. It would be nice if Trump could convert Putin into an ally, but the odds are small unless he’s willing to hand over all the territory the Russians want. Upon which the question would be what the next Russian demand would be.
The Chinese are the main event, but we can have more than one adversary at a time. It would be nice to have the Russians on our side against the Chinese, but just as the West was unable to get Italy on its side against Germany prior to WWII, it’s possible, and I’d say likely, that Russia will be China’s version of Germany’s Italian or Japanese ally in the next war to come. A more ancient analogue would be to Russia’s role as a Mongol vassal many centuries ago - with Russian armies acting as the Mongol Empire’s auxiliaries. (The knowledge the Russians acquired of Mongol equipment, strategy and tactics was used later to rid themselves of the Mongol yoke).
We had Marines doing time in Japanese jails. The Marines there all spoke perfect Japanese. Weird trick to learn it.
What? Don’t the Russians have self-propelled arty? Using yanks in an SP role is wasting the tank asset and using it as an inferior artilley system. Wasteful and stupid — unless you have no SP artillery worth the name.
This is all neocon scare tactics. I’m convinced someone wants something to start between us and the Russians.
Over half with A-10 Warthogs. Yet the @$$#0l3$ in the DOD keep wanting to retire them because they're not "sexy" enough.
Libtards and their scary Russian paranoia is pure bunk. There are those who want nothing more than a protracted war with Russia. Those people are insane.
“” “” Russia has unveiled a devious new battlefield tactic: use tanks as decoys in order to hunt down enemy artillery batteries.
It’s a bait-and-switch con job that relies on relies on Russian tanks, drones, artillery—and an opponent that is just a tad gullible.”” “”
That’s one strange take on this.
The point of exercise is that the rebels in East Ukraine got to use some cheap drones for artillery correction in their civil war. Normally indirect artillery fire is super inaccurate requiring hundreds of rounds to hit a specific target. Their tactics of using drones to adjust targeting real-time allowed to increase accuracy like ten-fold.
For obvious reasons tanks aren’t usually used for indirect fire because their ammo load is not sufficient to hit a target this way.
Actually borrowing the rebel tactic the Russians are overcoming a mentioned above limitation significantly increasing combat effectiveness of a tank. Combining with a counter-battery radar it also allows to employ tanks for counter-battery tasks which is novel too.
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