I am, we have one in our unit (for real I was shocked) but nobody uses it of course. Problem is it’s a weapon so every time we are moving there is a lot of space used by that junk. 😅

It was not a threat and I sincerely don’t want anyone to experience this.

Just a reminder that r*ssians produce hundreds of bombs every day. They are big bombs, almost impossible to destroy them all they can fly up to 90 kilometers or so. There are scarier ones that can fly up to 200 kilometers. They make up to a thousand shahed drones a day, they can fly hundreds of kilometers these are precise and they can essentially destroy anything over ground or deplete anti air defence. It’s just sad fact that r*ssia produces a lot of weapons, not great ones but they are good enough.

You get it when 2 ton aerial bomb falls close to you.

Donkeys aren’t bad at all, you can carry up to 80 kg on donkey, they are pretty smart and cost a lot cheaper then UGV. 🙃 Donkeys, guys on horses and shit are more of an accident not a strategy, we have fucking maxim guns.

RL example of artillery working:

• we know where enemy is stopping from radio interception
• we have a picture
• multiple armored vehicles in full anti-drone kit
• arty informed minutes after detecting
• an hour later arty reports that they are ready
• enemy still there
• 20+ times fired with corrections given online
• 0 hits enemy retreated

Same situation with drones: 15 minutes in 50 fpvs, 5 bombers worked, enemy is probably dead.

Artillery is situated far so it won’t be hit and they can’t stand in one place for longer then 5-10 minutes.

Yeah, I’ve seen this, cool shit, but in my mechanized brigade aemor crews were literally forced to become pilots of different unmanned vehicles due to bmps and other armor becoming one way ticket. Even modern machines like maxxpro are single use machines (they do work great and actually hold multiple hits) that can return but they are rare. Kozaks, hammers, various toyotas are far more popular for logistics and moving people to and from positions.

Artillery piqued in ww1 we never will return to 5 meterdeep trenches and walls of fire with million shells fired in a single day. 🥴 Not to say it’s useless but they require a lot of time to get going and actually hit something.

From the top of my head some of them use different laquer that allows less loss on the fiber = longer distance travel on same battery with a bit bigger payload, they have universal mounts for payload, they have standartized a lot of things, they have just a lot more of them.

Tanks and armor are currently unusable due to drone saturation they just cant move close enough in most places, even regular trucks can’t, we are slowly losing positions due this, when pilots need to move 10-15 kilometers on foot over fields it’s just unsustainable even with logistics handled by robots. We still don’t have domestic production of shells at least not full cycle I think and 4 years into existential war it really a big problem. Artillery is cool and all but there is no answer to fiberoptics drones currently (there literally none except shoot them or something) and they are extremely effective weapon that can be deployed up to 40 kilometers with 50 centimeter accuracy and cost fraction of what single artillery piece costs.

We haven’t seen tank for over a year in our area of responsibility neither ours not theirs. There are enough of them tanks and APCs, yet they are rapidly becoming obsolete (it’s temporary for this iteration probably) noone wants to get into them due to them veing death traps at the moment. Bohdana is great and there is a lot of them being produced, yet there is a lot of them being destroyed as well. Still hugeproblem with ammo remains. For the fiberoptics it’s one of those fields where numbers are extremely important and they can push out a lot of drones 3 maybe 5 times more and they make longer range ones as well. We might regain some edge in fpv with move to digital from analogue video (using retranslators and openipc). We have a lot of cool shit true, but numbers are on r*ssian side.

western military doctrine

absolutely not applicable to this war and is failing to modernize currently, german (maybe it’s just them and other countries are different who knows) basic training is insanely out of touch with reality and promotes mid 20 century shit that absolutely ignores things like mavics and recon drones in general, has worse personal eqipment (was shoked tbh).

They absolutely have a lot more equipment and more importantly they have ammo for it, our mortars and most of artillery is literally useless or semi-useless due to not having ammo to fire with. They have aerial superiority and use it effectively (missiles, aerial bombs). They have both ballistic and cruise missiles and produce a lot of them. They produce a lot of long range aerial drones (shahed/geran) they have bigger explosives and have advanced capabilities like forming a mesh network and working as retranslators, shorter range ones are better as well we actually copied lightning and they are already moving on producing newer version. These days armor is almost useless, front line is oversaturated with drones. As for the drones, they have a huge edge in fiberoptics drones (was obvious that we need to move in this direction as well from the start), also they just have a lot more of them with better range. Most of their newer drones have optical stabilisation, ‘ai’ features powered by orangepis and the like. Also partially just my bad luck that their best pilots are close as well (rubicon).

They still have a lot of direct military power. They have better and more equipment (including fpvs), they have a lot of bodies and don’t really care about their long term survival, they have support of china, india and usa (diplomatic only at this time).

We already have Piefed and Mbin.

Your point about popular uprising.

Short term? If they ‘lose’ as in freeze the war not on their maximalist terms, yes. If they will get full ukranian capitulation (as it is being forced right now) they will go for another run in 5 years at best.

Afganistan war was deeply unpopular, and there were a lot more people involved and dead then reported, also it wasn’t exactly war that brought it down, just one of the many factors. Current war has popular support.

soviet union existed with ration cards for 40 years and they absolutely adore that abomination.

You are under impression that they are somehow liberal market economy, it’s a dying empire with extremely loyal subjects that choosing between food on the table and glorious empire chose the latter 10 times out of 10. And they won’t be allowed to collapse completely by bigger european countries, by usa, by china. Essentially everyone roots for fucking r*sia, except those that border them, because it would be inconvenient if that shithole collapses.

It won’t, but nobody cares.

They will do as they are told by khuilo and his supporters.

So? They can support their war for a long time, europe, china and india would buy their resources, china would continue to supply them. They are desperate for some kind of victory so they can start preparing for the next war in the earnest. As for all they have left, they are making ‘smart’ bombs, they are making rockets, tjey are making fuckton of different military hardware.