Posted on 04/02/2022 9:17:02 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
To knock out Russian vehicles, Ukrainian teams lie in wait along roads — sometimes for days — before firing their missiles and sprinting away to their own vehicles for a quick escape.
That’s the basic tactic the Ukrainians have worked out as Russia’s wider war in Ukraine enters its sixth week. Ukrainian missileers packing foreign-supplied anti-tank guided missiles, such as the American Javelin, as well as locally made ATGMs such as the Stugna-P and Corsar, have plunked at the Russian invasion force, knocking out a vehicle here and a vehicle there until the losses have become unsustainable for the Kremlin.
The exact numbers are impossible to pin down, but Ukraine’s fast-moving ATGM teams undoubtedly have taken out hundreds of tanks and other vehicles. Missile ambushes probably account for a significant proportion of the roughly 2,200 major pieces of hardware that outside analysts can confirm Russia has lost since widening its war in Ukraine starting on the night of Feb. 23.
The laser-guided Stugna-P has proved particularly effective—a development that should surprise no one. At just $20,000 per set, the 71-pound, three-person weapon is cheaper than the $178,000-per-system Javelin. It’s made in Ukraine and paid for in local currency, so the Ukrainian army has been able to acquire thousands of them — reportedly 2,500 in 2018 alone.
As the Russia-Ukraine crisis escalated, Kyiv diverted to its own forces Stugna-Ps that originally were bound for export customers, potentially including Algeria, Morocco and Saudi Arabia. That’s evident in videos of Stugna-P ops in Ukraine. Many of the consoles in the videos still display Arabic script.
The Stugna-P boasts an important feature. The operators can fire the tripod-mounted missile remotely via a rugged television control unit. Remote launch protects the crew, which must keep a laser beam pointed at the target until the missile
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Red Dawn tactics
Glad they let everyone know their MO.
FYI re Putin's policy choices vis-a-vis the US:
Alexander Dugin’s book “Foundations of Geopolitics” has been used as a textbook in Russia and has had influence in military and political circles in Russia. In it, he advocates the following measures against Ukraine and the US:
The Foundations of Geopolitics: The Geopolitical Future of Russia is a geopolitical book by Aleksandr Dugin. Its publication in 1997 was well received in Russia; it has had significant influence within the Russian military, police and foreign policy elites[1][2] and has been used as a textbook in the Academy of the General Staff of the Russian military…
Ukraine should be annexed by Russia because “Ukraine as a state has no geopolitical meaning, no particular cultural import or universal significance, no geographic uniqueness, no ethnic exclusiveness, its certain territorial ambitions represents an enormous danger for all of Eurasia and, without resolving the Ukrainian problem, it is in general senseless to speak about continental politics”. Ukraine should not be allowed to remain independent, unless it is cordon sanitaire, which would be inadmissible.[9]…
Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States to fuel instability and separatism, for instance, provoke “Afro-American racists”. Russia should “introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics”.[9]
No matter the time, no matter the technology, Infantry is still the Queen of Battle.
learned? i thought it was doctrine...
Their ‘MO’ has been known for decades. The tactic of shoot and move is not new.
A classic guerrilla warfare tactic. This will grind the Russians down with a h passing week.
[learned? i thought it was doctrine...]
[Glad they let everyone know their MO.]
Thanks Zhang Fei.
Shoot and scoot is generally a good idea when involved in any kind of sniping. 1 shot, maybe 2 then git outta Dodge .
CC
This is tactics 101. The Russians gain nothing by reading this.
CC
I think the Javelins are shoot and move. I think theyh are shoulder fired and they lock on their target when fired. So you don’t have to guide them in, you are free to move.
By Contrast the Stugna-P can be fired remotely from a tripod. But a team has to keep lasers on the target. So the team can avoid being in the immediate vicinity of the missile when fired. But the team is tied down due to the necessity of the laser on the target.
Deserves its own post. On these grounds the US could justify an invasion of Canada.
The bulk of the lifers were stationed near the Donbas. There was one brigade watching Crimea, but their senior officers were bought and they were out of position and unable to block the tank rush up the highway.
“Glad they let everyone know their MO.”
Shoot and scoot is as old as warfare.
The Mongols used it with great success, every guerilla outfit in history has used it as well.
Nothing new under the sun.
Only the weapons change.
[The bulk of the lifers were stationed near the Donbas. There was one brigade watching Crimea, but their senior officers were bought and they were out of position and unable to block the tank rush up the highway.]
Correct. I know of OT geeks who headed back to be such soldiers. Their job is shoot and scoot and leave the more intense fighting to real soldiers
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