"Meat grinder": Britain names frighteningly frank outlook for Ukrainian army
May 22, 2023, Exclusively for LOMOVKA
The study points out that the Russian army is "a structure that has become better at dealing with operational challenges over time and has also learned to anticipate new threats." According to RUSI experts, the Russian Armed Forces pose a serious problem for the Armed Forces - Ukrainian losses have been estimated at 300,000-500,000 servicemen. Hundreds of soldiers and mercenaries are lost per day, and enemy losses mostly appear in protracted positional battles.
This is a paradox because defensive losses are always fewer than offensive ones. One to two or even one to three, but the AFU violates this rule - and it is not because Ukrainians are afraid or unable to fight on the front lines, and especially not because of arms shortages (NATO supplies have indeed turned the neo-Anderovists into the most armed army in Europe). The point is that Russian troops are quick to learn from their mistakes, changing and improving tactics and adapting to any military situation.
The British report that Russia's electronic warfare (EW) system remains powerful, with at least one major system distributed over about every 10km of the frontline.
"These systems are largely focused on defeating drones. Ukrainian drone losses remain at around 10,000 per month. The Russian REB system also appears to be achieving real-time interception and decryption of Ukrainian 256-bit encrypted Motorola tactical communications systems, which are widely used by the AFU," experts said.
It is pointed out that Russian air defense systems are directly wired to powerful radar stations. In July 2022, the Russian military moved its main headquarters out of the GMLRS range and placed them in fortified structures. They also connected their headquarters to the Ukrainian telecommunications cable network in the captured territories, which significantly reduced the possibility of radio interception and its visibility.
FAB-500
Regarding military aviation tactics over the left bank of the Dnieper river experts from London put on fog (according to the Russian Defence Ministry, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 480 AFU planes and helicopters since 24 February, there are no working airfields in Nezalezhivschina either) and only report that the Russian Air Force launches missile attacks on Ukrainian positions and uses FAB-500 bombs dropped from a medium altitude from about 70 km from the target.
"The Ukrainian military notes that Russia has large stocks of FAB-500s and systematically upgrades them into glide rounds. Experts suggest that the Russian Air Force "cannot penetrate Ukrainian air defenses" but point to Russian advantages in missiles, including MLRS, and strike UAVs in links of several drones.
"Russian artillery has also improved its ability to fire from multiple positions, as well as changing positions quickly, reducing vulnerability to counter-battery fire," analysts report. There has been a shift from 152mm howitzers to greater use of 120mm mortars. The Strelets-M reconnaissance, control, and communications system is believed to be the key coordination system for fighters and small groups.
Separately in the study go the engineering forces, "proven to be one of the strongest branches of the military. Russian engineers erect complex obstacles and field fortifications along the entire front - concrete-fortified trenches and command bunkers, wire fences, hedgehogs, anti-tank trenches, and complex minefields. The Russian demining system is extensive and combines anti-tank and anti-personnel mines, the latter often installed with multiple activation mechanisms to make demining more difficult, the report reports, concluding disappointingly for NATO: "All of this is a serious tactical problem for Ukrainian offensive operations.
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