I see many of these 7 strategies in China. The story created by the regime looks weak from the outside but I am still shocked by how many of my chinese friends who live and travel outside China believe the government’s messaging.
I think this is why I’m more pessimistic than you that military defeat can pop the russian propaganda bubble.
Hahahaha. The outcome of the War according to Scott Ritter.
Including creative uses for new assault units.
Both sides have also been using tanks as indirect fire artillery tubes when nothing else available.
A lot of precision munitions are on the way to Ukraine. Unrifled tank barrels may be suitable for some interesting guided indirect fire munitions.
Combination of laser designation from drones and self-propelled short range indirect precision fires from tanks could be an interesting form of assault.
The English language would cease to exist if one was to exclude phrases that fruitcakes had uttered in the past
Marders and Bradleys have 25mm chain guns, so no fancy tricks with tank barrels. They are there to get in your face, pin you down with terrifying fire while the infantry sneak around from the side to finish the job.
That’s a decent bang.
Ok. I got confused by the reference to tanks in nearby posts.
But now I am wondering. Is there room to add an APKW launcher like the one you showed in recent video to the Marder and/or Bradley turrets? It is designed to mount pretty well anywhere and video mentions Fit to existing turret rings at 44" of 1’10"
Often used together with optics and laser designator on same platform but the main components are the rockets with precision guidance kit themselves:
Adding a 4-5km precision indirect fire capability to knock out stuff behind walls etc ahead of an assault force combined arms operation with drones could be interesting?
Armor protects the crew and chain gun still there when you get close enough.
Edit add:
APKW is supposed to be the current standard precision kill.
Bradley’s used to be equipped with much clumsier optical guided TOW Under Armor (TUA):
Listening to that vid leads to the question - if these folk can see through the govt web of lies why can’t others?
I think the how and why of our self-deception - ie make up our own individual bullshit story line - is difficult to unravel.
Maybe it’s information in/group-think/personal fear/bias - but why are we attracted to different BS story lines?
Chinese friend of mine is like that.
Actually it is not uncommon for ethnic communities in Australia to be more closely attached to what they remember and are still in contact with from their countries of origin than the current generation that did not leave.
Generational change takes a long time. But each generation DOES change and events like major wars and revolutions cause generational change to happen faster.
Chinese regime has much stronger control of information than Russia but it is just as totally corrupt and fragile and in real fear of disintegration.
About 180,000 “mass incidents” of protest in China per year - mainly rural and unreported.
Indeed! That’s why regimes put so much effort into convincing everybody who asks that question that they are quite isolated in both time and space.
Things have always been this way and everybody else thinks this way and there is nothing you could do about it if you don’t think this way. That is the central message.
But, a proposition often attributed to a leading American revolutionary actually goes back to a 17th Century Protestant and the later French Encyclopaedists:
You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
BECAUSE that is true, some people always end up asking the question you are asking.
But they don’t always stop there.
Many of them start by trying to come up with explanations for why others cannot see what they can see, and end up by concluding that they need to help show them.
Once that happens. Things begin to move faster.
Like bankruptcy, revolutions happen gradually, then suddenly.
Marder and Bradley will be the Ferrari of the Ukrainian forces. Let them do their job as designed, which will be assault Russian trench networks and wipe them out. Drone and anti air defences can be done with other vehicles.
The TOW is a very very serious weapon. Between the optics on the Bradley and the range of the TOW, they can hit a T-72 from outside the Russian range. They can also use GPS and laser distance finder to accurately call in artillery fire.
Maybe the 25mm can be used to hit a drone, but I’d probably just throw a MANPADS in the back of the Bradley and let the infantry deal with it.
Going to be fascinated to see how they Magyver this together.
This is really important as Ukraine is running short on air defence ammo. If the BUKs can be rearmed, they can push forward with any assault groups and keep an air defence cover over any push into Russian territory.
At last, arsonists have an opportunity to do some good
It would not cease to exist, because it would still be doubleplusgood.
