Bernd
02/25/2022 (Fri) 08:09:43
No.46622
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02/25/2022 (Fri) 08:09:43
No.46622
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>Why the very quick ground operation even reaching the outskirts of cities after the air strikes if the goal is demilitarization?
By demilitarization they most likely mean occupying Ukraine and then disbanding the army, like what was done to Germany and Japan. Just smashing some soviet era air defence systems would not achieve that much.
>Yet I have seen more (unconfirmed but plausible) reports of decommissioned armor, either destroyed or just abandoned, than I expected for the early hours of a conflict. If those reports are to be believed then I suppose RU strikes missed some of the drones/mines/manpads/javelins/whatever it is they are facing. Seems like they might have acted too hastily.
Air strikes can't really target javelins and manpads. They can target SAM sites and airfields which they have though and it does seem they have taken out the Ukrainian SAMs.
>Also surprised by the speed with which they just drove through UA territory with little opposition. Maybe Kiev was surprised too. Or maybe it was an "invitation" to get bogged down in suburban areas? I hope the russians haven't forgotten about Grozny
Air assets can hit Ukrainian armoured and mechanised formations in the open quite hard ans can the superior Russian Armour so it's probably not going to be the open country side that gives Russia trouble and that seems to be the case. They are making progress on every front but only up until they hit urban areas it seems(which is why they have not achieved much at Karkhiv at all even though it's right over the border).
>Why the very quick ground operation even reaching the outskirts of cities after the air strikes if the goal is demilitarization?
By demilitarization they most likely mean occupying Ukraine and then disbanding the army, like what was done to Germany and Japan. Just smashing some soviet era air defence systems would not achieve that much.
>Yet I have seen more (unconfirmed but plausible) reports of decommissioned armor, either destroyed or just abandoned, than I expected for the early hours of a conflict. If those reports are to be believed then I suppose RU strikes missed some of the drones/mines/manpads/javelins/whatever it is they are facing. Seems like they might have acted too hastily.
Air strikes can't really target javelins and manpads. They can target SAM sites and airfields which they have though and it does seem they have taken out the Ukrainian SAMs.
>Also surprised by the speed with which they just drove through UA territory with little opposition. Maybe Kiev was surprised too. Or maybe it was an "invitation" to get bogged down in suburban areas? I hope the russians haven't forgotten about Grozny
Air assets can hit Ukrainian armoured and mechanised formations in the open quite hard ans can the superior Russian Armour so it's probably not going to be the open country side that gives Russia trouble and that seems to be the case. They are making progress on every front but only up until they hit urban areas it seems(which is why they have not achieved much at Karkhiv at all even though it's right over the border).