(09-12-2023, 01:22 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: Russia’s wider war on Ukraine grinds toward its third year, both countries’ tanks mostly aren’t fighting as tanks. Hounded by drones and artillery, hemmed in by mines, Ukrainian and Russian tanks tend to hang back a mile or two behind the front line, angle their main guns high and fire at targets their crews can’t see. Like tough little howitzers.
Russians Couldn’t Take Avdiivka With Tanks. Putin Try, But Couldn’t Take It With Infantry.
They’re Trying With Drones. Night-vision drones close to Avdiivka’s. Both Ukrainian and Russian militaries deploy FPV drones by thousands along the 600-mile front line, Russia’s 22-month wider war on Ukraine. The drones are everywhere—but not necessarily all the time. Most drones lack infrared cameras, meaning they’re not terribly useful at night, when their operators might not be able to see their targets.
After two months, the Russian assault on Avdiivka, a key Ukrainian strongpoint in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas region, appears to be petering out. That does not mean Russians are done with Avdiivka, While they are shifting to attacks elsewhere in south and east, mad Putin forces in Ukraine apparently plan to lay siege to Avdiivka ... without directly attacking it. The key strategy, a new type of night-flying attack drone.
If drones can close Ukrainian supply lines in Avdiivka, the garrison might have to retreat and hold out at other area, as their tank and infantry assaults is not working in Avdiivke.
But if Ukrainians can do to the drones what their comrades in the south have done—shut them down with electronic jamming—then Avdiivka might hold out. “Overall situation for Ukrainian forces [in Avdiivka] has stabilized, as Russian offensive appears to have reached its peak.”
Analysis group Frontelligence Insight reported.
“Russian forces have lost eagerness to assault and the number of operational equipment has been severely reduced.” However, the logistical situation in Avdiivka has deteriorated for Ukrainian forces further,” Frontelligence Insight added. “Despite employing nighttime supply routes to evade drone targeting, reports from the ground indicate Russian forces are now utilizing FPV drones with thermal night-vision cameras, making it difficult to supply forces even at night.”
First-person-view (FPV), drones are small, short range drones operators control via radio, often while wearing virtual-reality headsets. Packing a pound or so of explosives, a two-pound FPV—which might cost $500—functions as a sort of human-guided precision munition.
As Ukrainian tanks from brigades that Kyiv redeployed to south following culmination of its summer counteroffensive. Many more hundreds, or even thousands, of Russians died—but they did succeed in advancing a mile north of Avdiivka and to city’s outskirts south.
Owing to acquiescence of Russian population, the Kremlin is willing able, to absorb casualties that would collapse govts in free societies. But even Russians can do only so much dying. After two months and thousands of fatalities. Putin, Russian effort directly to capture Avdiivka seems to be ending.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/20...th-drones/
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