Chuck Pfarrer meldt 20 to 1 in Pokrovsk.
https://x.com/ChuckPfarrer/status/1990855811808272596
https://www.reddit.com/r/...ily_in_the_pokrovsk_area/
20 ongetrainde en slecht uitgeruste russen per Oekraïner is een ratio zoals in een zombie-film.
Nog een verdubbeling en het is 40 to 1 zoals hoe de Polen vochten tegen 40 Duitsers per Pool.
Wikipedia: Battle of Wizna YouTube: 40:1 – The Battle of Wizna – Sabaton History 001 [Official]
*knip* Wat schuttingtaal en vergelijking met de film "300" weggehaald. Vergelijken met historie moedigen we hier niet aan. Het kan een discussie over verschillen opleveren. Thermopylae verdient trouwens een eerlijk historisch verslag. Maar... andere discussie.
Vakmanschap, professionalisme,... is hoe ze de aanvalsgolven tegenhouden.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat de Oekraïners 20 to 1 deden.
In december vorig jaar was de aandacht op Kursk en in Pokrovsk was het 20 to 1 dankzij drones:
Russian forces ultimately ejected the stubborn Ukrainians from Kursk in this way, by deploying the elite Rubicon drone group and its unjammable fiber-optic drones to bombard the single main road supplying the Ukrainian force in Kursk.
One Ukrainian battalion did the same thing in reverse south of Pokrovsk starting in December. Its supporting drone teams, including the famed Birds of Magyar, made it impossible for Russian supply trucks to reach the troops on the edge of battle in Shevchenko. The interdiction halted the grinding, yearlong Russian advance on Pokrovsk.
It was an incredible victory for a tiny Ukrainian force. “They were heavily outnumbered, probably like 20 to one,” Perpetua said.
https://www.trenchart.us/p/how-1-ukrainian-battalion-beat-20
David Axe schrijft regelmatig artikels over de oorlog in Oekraïne voor Forbes.
Few outside observers noticed as that Ukrainian battalion made its move. But the Russian troops in Shevchenko certainly noticed. The Ukrainians “moved these drone units down to this area and that’s when they started setting up their kind of drone superiority, where they took complete control of the sky,” Perpetua recalled.
“The Russians basically couldn’t fly drones,” he added. “Their drone would take off, Ukraine would shoot it down and then attack the drone pilots—and they couldn't fly drones. The Russians were complaining of, like, a 10-to-one or worse drone ratio.”
“That drone advantage is what eventually led to this stopping the Russian attack through shutting down all of these roads,” Perpetua said. The Ukrainian drone pilots “had this policy, where they wanted to first take out the Russian drones and then—once those drones were taken out—go for the supply routes.”
Heavy hexacopter “vampire” drones fitted with night-vision gear and carrying loads of grenades or mines, many of them flown by the Birds of Magyar, inflicted the most damage on the roads to Shevchenko.
The Russians are adept at downing the 50-pound vampires with two-pound first-person-view drones that blow up on contact. But having suppressed the Russian drone teams around Shevchenko, the Ukrainian drone teams could fly their vampires with impunity.
Smaller FPV drones joined the vampires, including some fiber-optic models. After blasting every Russian supply truck in sight, the drones ranged farther south and east—and located the depots where the Russian regiments were storing the trucks and other vehicles that remained.
“The went to every vehicle depot and just blew them all up so they had, like, no tanks, no BMPs,” Perpetua mused. “They took out all their MRAP [armored trucks] and then they just shut down every single road, so they starved out the Russians.”
To reinforce Shevchenko, the Russians had to walk … for miles. “Their engineers were saying, ‘We have to build a minefield, but we can’t bring any trucks up. So everyone has to carry two mines,’” Perpetua laughed. “So there’s these videos of infantry marching up and, you know, they’re being told that you have to march [12 miles]. You have to bring all of the food and ammo to last two weeks and you have to carry two landmines.”
Sensing weakness, that sole Ukrainian battalion attacked—temporarily kicking the Russian division out of Shevchenko. “The Russians in that area were saying if Ukraine continued their assault forward, if they continued those tactics [and] if the rest of the [Ukrainian] brigade joined in … the Russians were probably going to have to pull back” as far as 12 miles, Perpetua said.
Ik ben benieuwd hoe de clash tussen Birds of Magyar en Rubicon eruit ziet.
2 weken geleden had Magyar 15k vacatures (waarvan de helft niet militaire functies zijn, ook wel bekend als de nukubu) aangekondigd:
Ondertitels kan je op auto-generated Oekraïens en vertaling naar het Engels zetten.
Unmanned Systems Forces is slechts 2% van de Oekraïense strijdkrachten, maar zorgt wel voor 1/3 van de vernietigde doelen en 1/3 van de uitgeschakelde russen. Ze breiden zich naar 5% van de Oekraïense strijdkrachten uit.
En rusland had een week geleden gereageerd dat ze ook een dronemacht gingen oprichten zoals wat de Oekraïners al hebben.
Grey zone kan je nauw definiëren als het gebied waar de Oekraïense en russische soldaten door elkaar zitten. Je kan het breed definieren als de "last mile" dat te voet gedaan moet worden.
Met drones kon een jaar geleden de "last mile" voor de vijand naar 20km uitgebreid worden. Zonder vrachtwagens een mijnenveld aanleggen, betekende toen 2 mijnen per man die 20km ver moeten sleuren.
Tegenwoordig gaan de 8 of 10 inch kleine FPV-drones tot 60 km ver.
https://militarnyi.com/en...it-russian-supply-trucks/
Dat is drones vanuit Brussel laten opstijgen en over de grens in Nederland wat vrachtwagens opblazen. Vanuit het Atomium is een wandelroute naar Hulst 54km en Putte 57km.
Er kan tot 60km aan grey zone over het front geprojecteerd worden.
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