18-01-2023, 03:33 PM
(18-01-2023, 03:18 PM)Tee tiong huat Wrote: The high-precision M30/M31 GMLRS rockets used by Ukrainian HIMARS have an effective range of some 85 kilometers. Therefore, locating their depots beyond this dangerous effective range would be the answer to the problem. But by pulling them back, Russia is also greatly complicating its already very problematic logistics.
Russian trucks would have to make it 90 or 100, or even 120 kilometers![]()
https://youtu.be/FPCfrypVCf4
Russia’s military keeps running short of trucks, and truck drivers. Many were killed in huge numbers during Russia’s early offensive deep inside Ukraine. According to the open source project Oryx documenting Russian war losses, the Russian military has lost at least 1,254 supply trucks and fuel tankers.
Even if they are eventually relocated farther away from the front line, Russian depots would still be threatened by Ukrainian Tochka-U missiles, which have already swept off some of Russia’s most giant ammo dumps in Donbas, such as the one in the city of Khrustalniy (formerly Krasniy Luch) in Luhansk Oblast on June 18.
Should Ukraine be finally provided with 300-kilometer ATACMS missiles??.
The situation will become even more complicated for Russi. Russian air defense little time to notice them and react.
This means Ukrainian-operated HIMARSs continue delivering strikes anywhere they can reach.
Especially when the Ukrainian military overcharges Russian air defenses with barrages of Tochka-U, Uragan, or Smerch rounds — and then shoots a full salvo of HIMARS to get a guaranteed hit