Украйна загуби въоръжение за 2 армии, сега иска такова за трета:
https://brunobertez.com/2023/01/18/lukr ... cidentaux/Преводът е машинен. Френският не е моят език ;) :
What almost all reports from Ukraine seem to ignore is the enormous damage that Russian artillery causes on a daily basis.
Ukraine has little artillery to respond to this and all it still has is dwindling day by day.
A few weeks ago, the Russian army launched a systematic counter-artillery campaign which has since made great progress.
The typical Western way of detecting enemy artillery units is by radar. The projectile's flight path is measured and the coordinates of its source are calculated allowing its own artillery to react. But the counter-artillery radar itself depends on radiation. It is thus easily detectable and vulnerable to fire.
Over the past few months, Russia has deployed a very different counter-artillery detection system with the rather tongue-in-cheek name penicillin. Penicillin or Penicillin 1B75 is an acoustic-thermal artillery reconnaissance system developed by Ruselectronics for the Russian Armed Forces. The system aims to detect and locate enemy artillery, mortars, MLRs, anti-aircraft or tactical missile firing positions with seismic and acoustic sensors, without emitting radio waves.
It locates enemy fire within 5 seconds at a distance of 25 km (16 mi; 13 nmi). Penicillin completed testing in December 2018 and entered combat service in 2020.
Penicillin is mounted on the 8×8 Kamaz-6350 chassis and consists of a suite of 1B75 sensors placed on a telescopic boom for the infrared and visible spectrum as well as several seismic and acoustic receivers installed on the ground as part of the suite of 1B76 sensors. It has an effective range for communication with other military assets up to 40 kilometers (25 mi) and is capable of operating even in fully automatic mode, without any crew. One system can apparently cover an entire division against enemy fire. In addition, he coordinates and corrects friendly artillery fire.
The Penicillin System can hide in the woods and hold its telescopic pole to watch and listen to the battlefield. Since it doesn't radiate, there's no good way for an enemy to detect it.
The system spots Ukrainian guns as they fire. They are then eliminated by an immediate and precise counter-fire. As asserted by the relevant artillery part of the "clobbers" list provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Ukrainian counter-battery fire against Russian artillery is no longer possible as the necessary detection equipment is eliminated and Ukrainian counter-fire is shot down by Russian air defenses.
This Russian counter-artillery campaign has been going on for several weeks. It disabled much of what was left of the longer range Ukrainian capabilities. Meanwhile, Russian artillery continues to shoot down Ukrainian troops holding the front line. Only when all parts of the Ukrainian trenches have been hit by intense fire will the Russian infantry move in to clear what remains.
This form of battle causes huge casualties on the Ukrainian side while the Russian forces incur minimal casualties.
We can say that Ukraine has now lost the nominal equipment of two large armies.
At the start of the war, the Ukrainian army would have around 2,500 tanks, 12,500 armored vehicles and 3,500 large artillery systems. It is doubtful that more than half of them were in serviceable condition, but they may have received enough repairs to be serviceable.
The Russian military claims that most of them have been eliminated
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