{"id":262979,"date":"2022-12-29T08:08:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262979"},"modified":"2022-12-31T07:06:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T07:06:35","slug":"ukraine-sitrep-counter-artillery-war-financial-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=262979","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine SitRep – Counter Artillery War – Financial Disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Dec 28, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Since the mid of the year it has become clear that the war in Ukraine is one that is mainly fought by artillery.<\/p>\n

\"\"Ukraine was clearly the underdog in that fight as the Russian forces fired eight times the amount<\/a> of artillery munitions the Ukraine could make available. The U.S. and some European dependents stepped in. Some 120 M-777 guns and a myriad of modern track mounted artillery systems were given to the Ukrainian army. Hundred of tons of ammunition were moved in. The U.S. and some allies delivered HIMARS systems that could reach beyond the limits of gun artillery.<\/p>\n

The Russian military reacted to it. It dispersed its depots and command centers thereby limiting the number of targets for HIMARS systems. It also intensified its use of electronic warfare<\/a> which took down the drones the Ukrainian artillery used to find its targets:<\/p>\n

The electronic suppression of Ukraine\u2019s unmanned aerial vehicles blunted one of Kyiv\u2019s biggest advantages in the early months of the war. The Ukrainians counted on superior intelligence\u2014largely provided by UAVs\u2014to make their smaller artillery arsenal more precise than Russia\u2019s own, larger arsenal of big guns and rocket-launchers.<\/p>\n

But the Russians\u2019 electronic warfare prevented those drones from navigating and communicating\u2014and deprived the Ukrainians of the precision they were counting on. \u201cThe defeat of precision was critical to unit survival\u201d for the Russians, analysts Mykhaylo Zabrodskyi, Jack Watling, Oleksandr Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds explained in a study<\/a> for the Royal United Services Institute in London.
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\n\u201cThe average life-expectancy of a quadcopter remained around three flights,\u201d Zabrodskyi, Watling, Danylyuk and Reynolds wrote. \u201cThe average life-expectancy of a fixed-wing UAV was around six flights\u201d and, \u201cin aggregate, only around a third of UAV missions can be said to have been successful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lacking real fighting capabilities the Ukrainian artillery switched towards easier fixed targets. In late November it again started to intensely bombard Donetsk city with artillery and missiles. As there are few military installations or even barracks within the city this clearly was a war against its civilian population.<\/p>\n

Cont. reading: Ukraine SitRep – Counter Artillery War – Financial Disaster<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The setup and displacement time for a M-777 howitzer are each at least three minutes with a well-trained crew. When radar detects a Ukrainian M-777 fire the Russian response now comes in before the gun is moved out. As a result, 4 M-777 howitzers and numerous other missile and artillery systems have been taken out in the past two days in the Donetsk region <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":258202,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=262979"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262982,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262979\/revisions\/262982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=262979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=262979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=262979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}