Dulfite said:
JRPGfan said:
I watched a video of some ukraine soldiers makeing use of what others commented on as a "shoot and scoot" (hit and run), or "kiteing" in gamer terms.
They would lay low, make use of drones to get a birds eye view, get coordinates (lazers? gps?), run in a small team of 4-5 people, carrying parts of a "reuseable laucher", deploy it (its like a little stand, that then gets 4-5 parts added ontop, and loaded with a rocket), and basically as soon as it was fired, they where pulling it apart, carrying their parts (each guy takes care of their part) and then running off, even before the missle even lands (and usually hits).
Apparently, these guys just keep doing things like this, you can hear frustrated russian soldiers fireing at them (their out of range usually) and theres like bush/vegitation in the way (sight issue).
I thought, damn... now I know why the russians are makeing such heavy losses.
These small hit and run teams (with drones, and smart weaponry), and the Guerrilla warfare they make use of, are apparently hard to deal with.... if your soldiers are basically just cannon fodder, just drafted, that are clumped up together in a caravan or such.
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As long as Russia keeps trying to absorb Ukraine, their people, their assets, and their economy, they will never have the advantage over Ukranian guerilla warfare. But if Putin just throws his hands up and wants the land, not caring about how many people and structures he destroys, then that advantage goes away and he just starts bombing cities like Hitler.
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Hasn't Nato said, they wouldn't accept him useing like vaccume bombs, or tactical nukes and such? Chemical weaponry?
With traditional bombs, missiles, what gains are there to just takeing down random buildings? like say a apartment building? If theres basically no combatants liveing there? is it just about causeing as much suffering as possible amoung the civilians?
Those big missles (ones that can take down a building) arn't cheap, and you dont typically just have near unlimited numbers of them.
I'd assume, you would rather make use of those for strategic senseable targets? like army bases, weapon chaches, fuel, stuff like that.
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