[If there was similar video from the Russian battle perspective, I'd post that too, but I can't find any.]
It seems like armor is a death trap in 2022.
Did Russia walk into a major paradigm shift trap?
Like late-19th-Century African natives charging Maxim guns? It sure doesn't help that March is Mud Season in Ukraine, and much of the armor that moves off the paved roads gets stuck, and is then abandoned.
This reply was sent to me on Gettr, Corpsman has a point.
Here is the “Ukraine Weapons Tracker” twitter account I mentioned above.
Ukraine Weapons Tracker
The biggest threat to Putin is that Russians don’t like to lose wars; thus, you had Nicholas II overthrown largely bc of the catastrophic Russo-Japanese War and WW1; the Soviets were out of it bc of Afghanistan. I suspect that the news of their losses is spreading throughout Russia; all they need is a new Gen. Zhukov to change the power structure. Who will we get in power is a mystery - with 6800 nuclear warheads in that country and no effective ABM system here, we may long for Putin.
-—Did Russia walk into a major paradigm shift trap?-—
I think so.
More precisely perhaps, they drove into a trap.
If Ukrainian commanders took out targets at both ends of the column, on such a narrow road, the ones in the middle were in fact trapped. Rendered useless, it is not necessary to destroy them all. They become harmless just setting there
First, there are the Turkish drones. There apparently lots of them and although the weapons load is not great, it can be delivered with deadly precision on tanks and vehicles lined up like ducks in a shooting gallery. They can deliver a bomb or rocket and then quickly go get another
Secondly, there are the American provided hand held rockets that seem to provide quite a strong punch. Once the drones stop the convoy, there they are sitting still for a sneak attack on the flank.
The end of the story is yet to be heard or told
Somewhere between the defeat of the Soviets in Afghanistan and the aftermath of the 1st Iraq war we sort of knew that - precision guided munitions changed everything.
It has taken a long to for that to set in, as you say, and I don't know that US doctrine has really adjusted to it either. We sort of get it that the standoff distance for aircraft carriers is getting longer and longer. But our doctrine on carrier based force projection is still there.