Ukraine Always Get What You Want

I hope the parallel to Pearl Harbor in this instance won't be Ramstein AFB going up in a mushroom cloud.

 

Oh, man. I’d love to see what a Warthog could do against a Russian armor division. Alas …

 

I thought the Ghost of Kyiv was a propaganda from the start of the war. He apparently shot down 40 Russian planes? I find that hard to believe.

 

Most planes have a gun attached.
The A-10 is a gun with a plane attached.

 

I wonder how many more times we will see this headline.

Live Updates: Russia Moving More Troops to Front as Offensive Appears to Falter

The Russians appear to use tanks and other weapons as their method of advance, particularly given the limitations of their air force. But all the guided weapons the Ukrainians have such as Javelins and various drones seem to be able to neutralize them. The Russians big offensives never seem to get rolling forward.

But the Ukrainians do not have the ability to push the Russians very far back. So we are in another World War I with both sides locked in a stalemate.

So the the Russian strategy is evolving to throw more resources at th e conflict and trying to outlast the Ukrainians. But to paraphrase David Halberstam on the American strategy in the Viet Nam War and apply it to teh situation in the Ukraine "How is it possible to outlast someone from Viet Nam within Viet Nam?

 

Add that Russian doctrine is to shell resisting cities flat before moving in. Javelins can keep the tanks from moving up, but they can't can't prevent shelling from 15 to 18 miles back. Until the UKR gets enough modern counter-battery artillery they will continue to be shelled mercilessly.

 

Good as they were, the new updated Super Warthog will be even less fun to endure.

 

True. But that still means the fronts don't forward of backwards. It just expands he width on no mans land.

 

Overrated.

 

YOUR FACE IS OVERRATED!

 

But true. Thunderbolts do have their limitations. Deploying them is near suicide if you don't already own the skies.