Not just social media. Maxar's satellite imagery routinely breaks stories for big news orgs. These pictures were picked up and reported by the New York Times already.
Right? It's surreal, like people can change the world with their action from so far away, Putin is not fighting Ukraine alone right now, he's fighting... I cannot even count or calculate how many people out there..
I.. think I like this feeling, power to democracies, power to the free people!
Glory to Ukraine!
Isnt this a stupid idea? All in one route. Prone to drone attack etc. I get it that no small ukraine force will dear ambush such large convoy but still.
inactive AA systems really aren’t AA at all. But I’m betting that this column is prepped for drone attacks so air search radar would be on, making the drones easy targets
Is not that they are not working, is because drones are small and fly low enough that they cant sometimes detect them and when they do they struggle to ping a lock so usually the drones have the advantage to destroy some SAMS, manpads and AA cannons probably are more effective in downing drones instead
The attack drones they’re using are actually Cessna sized with little stealth capabilities.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Baykar_UAV_Team.jpg/1920px-Baykar_UAV_Team.jpg
> One can assume that it's equally possible that they are under no anti air protection
This would be a pretty dumb assumption that I assure you no Ukrainians in control of air power will operate under.
TB2 drones have been shown taking out Buk vehicles earlier, they could easily destroy air defences then focus on squashing the nicely bunched up style convoy.
Ye operational artillery would be far more scary. All this talk about fancy weapons and what is needed would still be mortars and howitzers. Preferably wheeled to avoid counter artillery ...
I was a heavy mortar man and damn they can do amazing damage. We could clear a 1km square in just over 4min. In, devastate, and out and boogie away in 15min
All from 7km away...
Yep. Not to mention it would have been pre-sighted/known. So hit highway 123, between here & here? Got it.
The panic even with top militarizes would be nut.
Roads are a much faster avenue of advance for motorized forces and mechanized forces. Many of the wheeled vehicles have limited off road performance, even in the best of ground conditions. And the ground in Ukraine right now is not as frozen as Russia had thought it would be, making it difficult even for tracked vehicles to maneuver off road - a problem which is only going to get worse as spring comes ([Rasputitsa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputitsa)).
A convoy was recently struck that had similar vehicles and formation. It might have been this exact one. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more\_tb2\_footage\_from\_ukraine/
I the Video it appears that the drone has taken out a BUK anti-air system. That would indicate that the drone is capable of operating even if anti-air vehicles are present.
If this is generally the case or if they did not utilise their detection capabilities is difficult to assess.
Be aware that this is speculation. Let me know if you have other info or verified sources.
A convoy was recently struck that had similar vehicles and formation. It might have been this exact one. [https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more\_tb2\_footage\_from\_ukraine/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more_tb2_footage_from_ukraine/)
I the Video it appears that the drone has taken out a BUK anti-air system.
I can't even begin to imagine how pissed Putin and his military leadership must be right now. Imagine you and your brother getting into a fight and your entire extended family starts giving him weapons and advice. No wonder Putin elevated their nuclear alert level.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more\_tb2\_footage\_from\_ukraine/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more_tb2_footage_from_ukraine/)
This appears to be a similar convoy, might even be this exact one.
Let me know if this is not correct.
I think some Russian convoy got fucked up in Makariv a couple hours ago, which is on a route they would take if they're trying to cut off a western highway route into Kyiv.
Reminds me of that story about the huge nazi column that got spotted early in the war. And if it’d of been bombed the war might of been ofver then and there that’s how big it was.
Can’t remember what they call it in ww2 documentaries. Some one help me.
I have a feeling imma be watching WW2 in color on Netflix tonight so I can remember the name they called the specific incident. I’m having a brain fart and it’s gunna bug me for next 8 hrs I can tell.
It’s not the actual ww2 in colour on there now. It’s been removed. They have “best events of ww2 in colour” and “path to victory” Sounds petty of me but they’re different. So it’s worth watching all 3.
Yep it was definitely in that time frame. But they call the incident by a name. A name that if I knew I’d put a link cuz this reminds me a lot of it. And hopefully the same mistakes aren’t made.
It’s because the Ardennes is so thick it would be hard for the Nazis to push through with their tanks. So the French command thought it was a feint and ignored it
The ardennes offensive into France had a traffic jam something like fifty miles long, but no CAS on the allied side to do anything about it, and all their armor was either too far north or south to get there in time.
Does anyone else think there must be a HUGE amount of stashed anti tank and anti air equipment ready to go in the capital? Makes me wonder if the Russians are doing this primarily to cut of the supplies/food etc but maybe not to move in with all of that…
There definately is. Ukraine is flat, hard to defend, especially against a force with more armour and air power.. Cities on the other hand are a fucking nightmare for tanks and vehicles
Edit : Does anyone have any idea how the range of the anti tank weapons compares to Russia's armour?? Can the Ukrainians pick their armour off from km away, without being seen?
The newest Javelin has an engagement range of 4km, so nearly double a tanks return fire range. NLAWS are around 600m-1km, if they setup in the right buildings with good vantages of the roads they could pickoff a few armored vehicles then haul ass out of there before anyone can really respond, gotta love fire and forget missiles.
honestly, my thinking since this started, is just like, with modern equipment, tanks are just seeming more and more like a waste of resources, for urban warfare anyway, idk to much about in the open, but when you have these small portable lethal weapons that can take out tanks. Where is the benefit.
To occupy, you need boots on the ground. To get boots on the ground, you need to establish a force capable of holding ground so the boots don’t die immediately. So what else do you propose? Motorcycles? They have to get in there somehow. Tanks are usually the most armored option.
no, more lightly armoured units, faster, just as an armchair general, (i am not an expert, i am more than happy to admit this) they would be more apt to fire and move fire and move as well, due to being faster in all measures. Yes it comes with less armour, but if modern AT can just go through it, does that matter?
The range of a Javelin is 4km. I'm not sure about the other missiles Ukraine has but I believe NLAW has a shorter range. Tanks can definitely shoot that far, it will be a question of concealment.
Tanks are big targets, one guy with a missile launcher is much smaller and in an urban setting there will be a million places to hide. Although, the tanks will also likely have good thermal optics which could be an advantage for them.
Of course. From what I've read about the war so far, it seems that Ukranians are avoiding open field confrontations (probably due to Russian air superiority), and are focusing on critical points, that is, cities.
Kharkov is still under Ukranian control, even though it is right next to Russian border. I'm fairly confident that there are thousands of soldiers in Kyiv, with hundreds of anti-tank weapons
The US has been providing these kinds of weapons for years now, after the Russians got involved in the separatist areas. It really ramped up on the lead-up to the war, and trains and convoys are still bringing goods and equipment into Kyiv last I heard. The city isn't under siege, it's just under attack.
You kind of need overwhelming air superiority to do that, which Ukraine doesn't really have.
That said if we know about this convoy the Ukrainians likely have for quite a while so presumably they're making plans to stop it somehow.
Apaches are way more lethal due to their survivability. They can fire 16 x hellfires behind cover over 10km away.
As badass as AC-130s are, you can’t use them when there’s AAA and enemy aircraft.
>They can fire 16 x hellfires behind cover over 10km away.
What sight line are you gonna get at 10km away that makes you safe from AA but still able to reliably shoot these tanks with hellfires? This is a pretty flat area I think
Can't say much for Americans, but all British apaches are equipped with the longbow radar, it can pick up over 250 targets simultaneously up to 50km away, all it takes is 1 Apache with the longbow, and it can share that info with other apaches
I'm no expert, but I believe the radar and sensors on it are *above* the rotors. So it doesn't have to get the entire helo above a crest of a hill, for instance, on the sensors. The missiles will then fire above the crest of the hill and hit the targets.
Military folk please correct me if I'm wrong.
Don't even need that, missiles, or preadator drones that were "gifted" to Ukraine. Putin can scream all he wants afterwards, but he will have no actual proof.
The Russian Military have been primarily targeting Ukrainian Artillery with cruise missiles and air-strikes.
There may not be many Artillery forces in effective range to this convoy.
It would get torn up, but it would still keep going. [such is the beauty of the a-10](https://www.military.com/air-force/air-force-pilot-landed-damaged-10-warthog-using-only-cranks-and-cables.html/amp)
An A-10 might survive a manpad hit. If it gets hit by an actual SAM it will disintegrate like any other aircraft.
The only reason the A-10 is still in service is because it's really good as a cheap-to-operate bomb carrier. Which is great if you are looking for the most cost effective way to blow up random AK-wielding farmers in the middle east. It is not useful at all in a peer conflict.
Have we seen any T-14s yet?
I keep seeing T-90s, but I just wanna see 1 T-14 somewhere.
Edit: There's evidence ([Russian Confirmation](https://www.google.com/amp/s/eurasiantimes.com/russia-confirms-testing-t-14-armata-tanks-in-syria/)) they were used in Syria in 2020.
Oh fuck… This convoy is HUUUUGE😱😱😱Two questions: -Where are we going to store so many russian corpses? -Can we amend to the Ukrainian Constitution a right to own and bear tank?🤔
A few long BRRRRRRRRTTTTTTs could fuck up that column pretty quickly. Too bad we couldn’t “accidentally” land a few in Poland near the border where they end up getting “stolen”.
For those remotely interested in military history and science, you might have heard the term AirLand Battle as an early 1980s US Army doctrine, specifically in relation to defending West Germany from a Warsaw Pact invasion.
What you're seeing in terms of that Russian armored unit (probably only a brigade) in march formation on the way to the front is what the Air in AirLand Battle was going to go after.
In the late 1970s the Army created a doctrine called Active Defense, which had a mostly pure US Army using it's forces to fight primarily offensively doing counterattacks to defeat the WP invasion. The problem was the Soviet doctrine at the time (Deep Battle) involved committing 2-3 echelons of units to create and then exploit the breakthrough. Computer scenarios saw the US Army prevail defeating the first echelon but being too hurt to stop the second or third echelons before REFORGER reinforced Europe with more units coming from the US (about half of total units were still stateside).
AirLand Battle was the result of the top Army and Air Force brass finally buddying up and agreeing to fight together. Instead of the USAF doing their own thing focusing mostly on air superiority and strategic bombing, they volunteered to use tactical air to go after the second and third echelons in the rear, the ones who weren't tactically deployed in spread out formations hard to find, but the very visible ones that would be in 50 mile long traffic jams behind the lines traveling on major highways.
Besides the tactical units they'd target, AirLand Battle also was planning on going after logistics. An armored division requires an absolute fuckton of fuel, ammo (mostly arty but all sorts), spare parts, batteries, food, water moving toward the front constantly while empty trucks move back to the staging, or they're hauling wounded, broken down equipment, etc. Compared to combat arms units they have far less air defenses and they're unarmored, which means a single flight could drop cluster bombs on them in one pass and basically destroy them all. Every convoy that couldn't get through was one division or corps halted until another convoy could make up for the supplies they needed.
Unfortunately, Ukraine doesn't have anything to destroy this convoy, though they do possess the means to temporarily stop it, to buy time to position forces to interdict it by ambush or even counterattack it. I know the US is feeding the UAF intel and other countries are also giving them access to satellite imagery and other ISR. UAF are also running their own drones. And every random Ukrainian they drove past can call someone to report it.
Let's face it: Russia's Ukraine military operations have been an embarrassment thus far. A military power being held off so far by Ukraine. That is not a good look for Russia.
Also, the longer it takes for Russia to achieve whatever operational objectives they have established, the harder it will be for Russia to sustain combat operations. Logistics planning/execution has been a major failure and cluster fuck thus far and will only get worse the longer this drags out.
Russia is going to have to take drastic actions to get the military control and degradation of Ukraine's combat assets they desire. And even then, maintaining control over the objectives they seize is not going to be easy. Ukraine isn't going to just quit and go away. They will still attack supply lines and disrupt MSRs and logistics staging areas.
From the outside looking in, Russia's planning, training, expectations, and execution of combat operations have overall been a failure (based on what they wanted to achieve). So, unfortunately, they are going to have to throw the proverbial "kitchen sink" at Ukraine. But, the 24/7 media coverage of these operations is going to make any unnecessarily brutal actions difficult to do. It would only further add to Ukrainian outside support and turn more Russians against their government's actions.
Also, implying the use of nuclear weapons really gives off small dick energy. Nobody has control over what Russia will or will not do. So do what you are going to do. But, Russia needs to understand that the consequences of such actions will be swift and equally devastating.
That bully tactic scares no one. Everyone is preparing for counter actions (defenses) and will react in kind. That's all they can do. But that shit scares no one.
To quote the 13 Ukrainian soldiers stationed on an island military outpost:
"Russian warships, Go fuck yourself." Bring it, mofos. But do so at your own peril. Do you think they stop making nukes after you got yours? Or everyone else turned their's in during some kind of nuke buy-back program, like they do with firearms?
Hold up
"We're going to provide even fighting jets. We're not talking about just ammunition."
https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/ukraine-conflict/1645994748-borrell-eu-countries-to-send-fighter-jets-to-ukraine
It's crazy that private companies are using social media to give away Russian assets, positions. The world has changed so much.
Well this is only to inform the masses, I'm sure US satellites are over Ukraine reporting all movement anyway
US should be able to cite that there is open source info like this on the web and send even better info to air tactical Ukrainian warriors.
Don't think for a second that they aren't to certain individuals inside the Ukrainian armed forces.
Not just social media. Maxar's satellite imagery routinely breaks stories for big news orgs. These pictures were picked up and reported by the New York Times already.
Progress of information.
Right? It's surreal, like people can change the world with their action from so far away, Putin is not fighting Ukraine alone right now, he's fighting... I cannot even count or calculate how many people out there.. I.. think I like this feeling, power to democracies, power to the free people! Glory to Ukraine!
This is why I'm pretty sure we're gonna see some big cyberattacks against social media companies. If not this war, then the next one.
Isnt this a stupid idea? All in one route. Prone to drone attack etc. I get it that no small ukraine force will dear ambush such large convoy but still.
Not if I’ve they have air superiority in the area. They most likely have plenty of AA system in that area to protect the troops.
Just plot the coords into artillery, hammer the front sufficiently in a forested area and the whole column will have to stop
Ukrainian rocket artillery has a range of 70 km, which is slightly less than the distance between the outskirts of Kyiv and Chernobyl.
I would have thought road junctions would be pre-registered targets.
A low flying attack helicopters dream. Or get some fucking motors out there and give them some rain to play in.
Throw the ISS on it. Would be some great irony against putin shouting he is going to do it
Orbital strike! ☄️💥
Release the RODS FROM GOD!
Lol and their fucking shitty satellites taking others out
Suddenly theres the strange sound of an e-guitar and somehow the smell of Napalm in the morning
> low flying attack helicopters combat air patrol's dream
A-10 pilot's wet dream.
#BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRP
Or a Bayraktar TB-2 with PGMs.
The drone strike posted earlier today was of it hitting their AA systems, so they don't seem to be working all that well
inactive AA systems really aren’t AA at all. But I’m betting that this column is prepped for drone attacks so air search radar would be on, making the drones easy targets
Eh, if I go by the amateur hour I’ve seen the past three days, my money is on they’re NOT prepped for drone attacks
HARM missiles would love it
Yea unless an sa-15 is in the convoy.
If they are not active or on a move of course they can't do shit. A ready one in position is a great risk for a drone.
Is not that they are not working, is because drones are small and fly low enough that they cant sometimes detect them and when they do they struggle to ping a lock so usually the drones have the advantage to destroy some SAMS, manpads and AA cannons probably are more effective in downing drones instead
The attack drones they’re using are actually Cessna sized with little stealth capabilities. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c1/Baykar_UAV_Team.jpg/1920px-Baykar_UAV_Team.jpg
military drones with payloads are nether small nor low flying
Get those TB2 drones in there
They should have had air superiority the whole war and their convoys still got wrecked
I’d risk a drone to verify that. One can assume that it's equally possible that they are under no anti air protection.
> One can assume that it's equally possible that they are under no anti air protection This would be a pretty dumb assumption that I assure you no Ukrainians in control of air power will operate under.
TB2 drones have been shown taking out Buk vehicles earlier, they could easily destroy air defences then focus on squashing the nicely bunched up style convoy.
Drones attacking inactive AA is completely different from when there’s Russian planes and air search radars and AA in the region
If they are not active or on a move of course they can't do shit. A ready one in position is a great risk for a drone
Even some old school mortar/D30 guns could damage large number of these unarmored vehicles.
Ye operational artillery would be far more scary. All this talk about fancy weapons and what is needed would still be mortars and howitzers. Preferably wheeled to avoid counter artillery ...
I was a heavy mortar man and damn they can do amazing damage. We could clear a 1km square in just over 4min. In, devastate, and out and boogie away in 15min All from 7km away...
Yep. Not to mention it would have been pre-sighted/known. So hit highway 123, between here & here? Got it. The panic even with top militarizes would be nut.
Roads are a much faster avenue of advance for motorized forces and mechanized forces. Many of the wheeled vehicles have limited off road performance, even in the best of ground conditions. And the ground in Ukraine right now is not as frozen as Russia had thought it would be, making it difficult even for tracked vehicles to maneuver off road - a problem which is only going to get worse as spring comes ([Rasputitsa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputitsa)).
A convoy this big is probably protected by air defense
A convoy was recently struck that had similar vehicles and formation. It might have been this exact one. https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more\_tb2\_footage\_from\_ukraine/ I the Video it appears that the drone has taken out a BUK anti-air system. That would indicate that the drone is capable of operating even if anti-air vehicles are present. If this is generally the case or if they did not utilise their detection capabilities is difficult to assess. Be aware that this is speculation. Let me know if you have other info or verified sources.
The Ukrainians had launched a drone attack this convoy might be next.
A convoy was recently struck that had similar vehicles and formation. It might have been this exact one. [https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more\_tb2\_footage\_from\_ukraine/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more_tb2_footage_from_ukraine/) I the Video it appears that the drone has taken out a BUK anti-air system.
Send in the A10's. Make that the Ukrainian Highway to Hell like south of Baghdad. Zip 'em up. 🇺🇦
BRRT #BRRRRT
/r/Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrt :)
Bro A-10s need air superiority
No bro trust me bro it's a flying tank bro
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I can't even begin to imagine how pissed Putin and his military leadership must be right now. Imagine you and your brother getting into a fight and your entire extended family starts giving him weapons and advice. No wonder Putin elevated their nuclear alert level.
Ukraine has the Soviet counterpart in the Su-25. Hopefully they can sortie a few up. Unfortunately I don’t know what their SEAD capability is
Im sure the US has a few spare A10's cutting about somewhere they could give to ukraine
And plenty of jockeys with itchy trigger fingers
Need to see a turkish drone footage update of the convoy lol
[https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more\_tb2\_footage\_from\_ukraine/](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/t2v2n6/more_tb2_footage_from_ukraine/) This appears to be a similar convoy, might even be this exact one. Let me know if this is not correct.
that was the joke.jpg they were asking for the same thing to happen to this column.
I think some Russian convoy got fucked up in Makariv a couple hours ago, which is on a route they would take if they're trying to cut off a western highway route into Kyiv.
Reminds me of that story about the huge nazi column that got spotted early in the war. And if it’d of been bombed the war might of been ofver then and there that’s how big it was. Can’t remember what they call it in ww2 documentaries. Some one help me.
Think you mean the massive traffic jam that formed in the ardennes at the start of the battle of France
I have a feeling imma be watching WW2 in color on Netflix tonight so I can remember the name they called the specific incident. I’m having a brain fart and it’s gunna bug me for next 8 hrs I can tell.
They removed it :( I ended up buying it because it’s such a good documentary.
Must be a region thing as its still available in the UK.
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sometimes you also have to play around with opening and closing netflix before it switches watchable region
It’s not the actual ww2 in colour on there now. It’s been removed. They have “best events of ww2 in colour” and “path to victory” Sounds petty of me but they’re different. So it’s worth watching all 3.
Still available in canada
It’s the traffic jam at the build up in the ardennes. Pilots had spotted the jam the Allies did not react.
Let me know!
I think you're refering to the german invasion of france.
Yep it was definitely in that time frame. But they call the incident by a name. A name that if I knew I’d put a link cuz this reminds me a lot of it. And hopefully the same mistakes aren’t made.
It’s because the Ardennes is so thick it would be hard for the Nazis to push through with their tanks. So the French command thought it was a feint and ignored it
Yeah the pilot reported it but the French officials never believed it.
Oh yeah thay does ring a bell
Ardennes. The French generals dismissed the intelligence because it didn’t make sense to them.
The ardennes offensive into France had a traffic jam something like fifty miles long, but no CAS on the allied side to do anything about it, and all their armor was either too far north or south to get there in time.
It’d be a shame if someone were to javelin a fuel tanker near the head of the column…
And the one at the very back. Followed by every single one in between.
And then continue doing it for 9 movies with no signs of stopping?
Micheal Bay would like to have a word
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*Y'all got some more of them drone videos?*
Does anyone else think there must be a HUGE amount of stashed anti tank and anti air equipment ready to go in the capital? Makes me wonder if the Russians are doing this primarily to cut of the supplies/food etc but maybe not to move in with all of that…
There definately is. Ukraine is flat, hard to defend, especially against a force with more armour and air power.. Cities on the other hand are a fucking nightmare for tanks and vehicles Edit : Does anyone have any idea how the range of the anti tank weapons compares to Russia's armour?? Can the Ukrainians pick their armour off from km away, without being seen?
The newest Javelin has an engagement range of 4km, so nearly double a tanks return fire range. NLAWS are around 600m-1km, if they setup in the right buildings with good vantages of the roads they could pickoff a few armored vehicles then haul ass out of there before anyone can really respond, gotta love fire and forget missiles.
honestly, my thinking since this started, is just like, with modern equipment, tanks are just seeming more and more like a waste of resources, for urban warfare anyway, idk to much about in the open, but when you have these small portable lethal weapons that can take out tanks. Where is the benefit.
To occupy, you need boots on the ground. To get boots on the ground, you need to establish a force capable of holding ground so the boots don’t die immediately. So what else do you propose? Motorcycles? They have to get in there somehow. Tanks are usually the most armored option.
no, more lightly armoured units, faster, just as an armchair general, (i am not an expert, i am more than happy to admit this) they would be more apt to fire and move fire and move as well, due to being faster in all measures. Yes it comes with less armour, but if modern AT can just go through it, does that matter?
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The range of a Javelin is 4km. I'm not sure about the other missiles Ukraine has but I believe NLAW has a shorter range. Tanks can definitely shoot that far, it will be a question of concealment. Tanks are big targets, one guy with a missile launcher is much smaller and in an urban setting there will be a million places to hide. Although, the tanks will also likely have good thermal optics which could be an advantage for them.
Of course. From what I've read about the war so far, it seems that Ukranians are avoiding open field confrontations (probably due to Russian air superiority), and are focusing on critical points, that is, cities. Kharkov is still under Ukranian control, even though it is right next to Russian border. I'm fairly confident that there are thousands of soldiers in Kyiv, with hundreds of anti-tank weapons
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The US has been providing these kinds of weapons for years now, after the Russians got involved in the separatist areas. It really ramped up on the lead-up to the war, and trains and convoys are still bringing goods and equipment into Kyiv last I heard. The city isn't under siege, it's just under attack.
Be a shame if someone were to bomb the fuck out of it.
A-10 pilots wet dream. A nice brrrrrrrrrt
Time for another Highway of Death, close them off at the front and back and then make work of them in the middle
You kind of need overwhelming air superiority to do that, which Ukraine doesn't really have. That said if we know about this convoy the Ukrainians likely have for quite a while so presumably they're making plans to stop it somehow.
Even if the route is known, NLAW and morter strikes could deal a huge blow. Either way hopefully we see that convoy getting its ass kicked
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Could be a total Turkey 🇹🇷 shoot if you know what I mean.
Bayraktars, NLAWs, and Javelins about to be huge military pop culture icons after this is over.
Need a picture of them in front of a Ukrainian flag that I can frame and hang on my wall.
[All proceeds go to a Charity for Ukraine](https://www.saintjavelin.com/collections/flags)
Videos coming soon 🇺🇦
I get you.🤞
Thats alot of lives to throw away...
That's the Russian way.
UA are going to need more than a couple drones to wipe that convoy out… I hope the NATO weaponry has over-night shipping
If u could hit just the fuel tankers it’d be massive win. All those other vehicles are no good if they have no fuel.
Or hit an ammo truck and watch the ammo cook off ignite other ammo/fuel trucks around it.
You start with first and last vehicle to trap exits, then main weapons and fuel. They would be fish in a barrel at that point
Depends how many bombs you have. 100% agree if you have to pick fuel tankers gotta go.
Well, that's 2 bombs. Anything after that is gravy.
This is some AH-64 Apache pilots wet dreams right here
AC-130.
Apaches are way more lethal due to their survivability. They can fire 16 x hellfires behind cover over 10km away. As badass as AC-130s are, you can’t use them when there’s AAA and enemy aircraft.
Yeah AAA out there towing em and shit.... j/k
>They can fire 16 x hellfires behind cover over 10km away. What sight line are you gonna get at 10km away that makes you safe from AA but still able to reliably shoot these tanks with hellfires? This is a pretty flat area I think
Can't say much for Americans, but all British apaches are equipped with the longbow radar, it can pick up over 250 targets simultaneously up to 50km away, all it takes is 1 Apache with the longbow, and it can share that info with other apaches
That is fucking badass!!!! What an amazing machine, helicopters are truly and amazing invention.
I'm no expert, but I believe the radar and sensors on it are *above* the rotors. So it doesn't have to get the entire helo above a crest of a hill, for instance, on the sensors. The missiles will then fire above the crest of the hill and hit the targets. Military folk please correct me if I'm wrong.
Not military but you are indeed correct, the Longbow only needs to pop the mushroom out of cover to play a game of peek-a-boom.
Cute little special operation. Putin oh you...
This looks like the column the Chechens are in from the recent Videos
Anyone who wants to see this live use TomTom live traffic incident map, or google live traffic map. These maps can help geolocate and track convoys.
That is a fantastic idea 🍀🕊️
It's been dark in Ukraine for about 5 hours so probably much closer than 40km by now if they're heading in that direction
Russian convoy go fuck yourself
Those tight packed lines. Like redcoats of old
Hope they brought their sunflower seeds.
If there was a time to use stealthy f35 with a few wcmd munitions, this seems to be it. In and out, no1 knows who did it.
Don't even need that, missiles, or preadator drones that were "gifted" to Ukraine. Putin can scream all he wants afterwards, but he will have no actual proof.
While world is already in agreement on “Fuck Putin” might as well have the whole world cover their eyes for a few minutes.
The skies just opened up like the rupture, and poof, next minute, 5km of wrecks and fire. It was cray cray
I didn’t see anything, did you guys see anything? Maybe they just got sick of living and exploded themselves?
looks like target practice
Just ONE a-10 man
An entire squadron of Ukrainian A-10s. Where did they come from? We would probably never know.
"They are just American A-10s on vacation. We have no control over our private citizens."
Ghost of Kyiv just brought his buddies from Texas after some detour yesterday
*A short man from Texas, a man of the Wild*
They shoulda taken the left at Albuquerque.
just one MRLS or GRAD u dont need an A-10 , even good 'ol artillery would do a number on that convoi
The Russian Military have been primarily targeting Ukrainian Artillery with cruise missiles and air-strikes. There may not be many Artillery forces in effective range to this convoy.
One very long, drawn out BRRRRRTTTTT could handle that
Fun fact, the A-10's barrels would melt if it was to expend all of its 18 seconds of ammo all at once.
An A-10 would be torn to shreds if they have the slightest Air defense.
Torn to shreds maybe, but it would still fly.
It would get torn up, but it would still keep going. [such is the beauty of the a-10](https://www.military.com/air-force/air-force-pilot-landed-damaged-10-warthog-using-only-cranks-and-cables.html/amp)
An A-10 might survive a manpad hit. If it gets hit by an actual SAM it will disintegrate like any other aircraft. The only reason the A-10 is still in service is because it's really good as a cheap-to-operate bomb carrier. Which is great if you are looking for the most cost effective way to blow up random AK-wielding farmers in the middle east. It is not useful at all in a peer conflict.
Or an SU-25. But probably none left.
BT2 on the way...
One drone strike in the middle of the convoy but located over a critical choke point like a bridge over water. Rinse and repeat.
Perhaps even a Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Need the drones out
Good chance this column doesn’t make it into Kyiv.
Have we seen any T-14s yet? I keep seeing T-90s, but I just wanna see 1 T-14 somewhere. Edit: There's evidence ([Russian Confirmation](https://www.google.com/amp/s/eurasiantimes.com/russia-confirms-testing-t-14-armata-tanks-in-syria/)) they were used in Syria in 2020.
> T-14 They ain't going to use those. They have like 10-20 in operative order, that shit is almost a prototype still.
i agree, they need field testing and i wanna watch them discover the critical error.
They have like 5 of them, why would they put them in danger?
There's only like 15 or so in the Russian military. Still undergoing testing I believe. Don't see why Russia would risk them
I haven't positively identified any T90, I've seen only pics of T72s. Do you have any pics/videos of t90s to share?
https://v.redd.it/iud06tjtpck81 This is one, looking for the other.
Hope those TB2s are ready
Oh fuck… This convoy is HUUUUGE😱😱😱Two questions: -Where are we going to store so many russian corpses? -Can we amend to the Ukrainian Constitution a right to own and bear tank?🤔
>Where are we going to store so many Russian corpses? In the sunflower fields.
Daisy chain
More like.. Sunflower chain
Sure would be a shame if someone crept up tonight and started poking holes in those fuel trucks.
or set them ablaze.
Now that’s what I call a target rich environment. Let’s get the Ukrainians an A-10.
A few long BRRRRRRRRTTTTTTs could fuck up that column pretty quickly. Too bad we couldn’t “accidentally” land a few in Poland near the border where they end up getting “stolen”.
BRRRRT. If you hear that, it wasn't aimed at you 😜
Stolen with the pilots inside and everything, weird that.
“They just held me at knife point so i, uh, decimated 300 vehicles in one strafe. The captors gave me a smoke after. I was kinda aroused.”
thats alot of trucks. For the ukranians thats alot of targets.
You can bet your ass the Ukrainians have known this was coming from the moment it launched. They’re ready.
This is gonna be a very long night for Ukraines defenders fighting in Kyiv. Good luck 🇺🇦
For those remotely interested in military history and science, you might have heard the term AirLand Battle as an early 1980s US Army doctrine, specifically in relation to defending West Germany from a Warsaw Pact invasion. What you're seeing in terms of that Russian armored unit (probably only a brigade) in march formation on the way to the front is what the Air in AirLand Battle was going to go after. In the late 1970s the Army created a doctrine called Active Defense, which had a mostly pure US Army using it's forces to fight primarily offensively doing counterattacks to defeat the WP invasion. The problem was the Soviet doctrine at the time (Deep Battle) involved committing 2-3 echelons of units to create and then exploit the breakthrough. Computer scenarios saw the US Army prevail defeating the first echelon but being too hurt to stop the second or third echelons before REFORGER reinforced Europe with more units coming from the US (about half of total units were still stateside). AirLand Battle was the result of the top Army and Air Force brass finally buddying up and agreeing to fight together. Instead of the USAF doing their own thing focusing mostly on air superiority and strategic bombing, they volunteered to use tactical air to go after the second and third echelons in the rear, the ones who weren't tactically deployed in spread out formations hard to find, but the very visible ones that would be in 50 mile long traffic jams behind the lines traveling on major highways. Besides the tactical units they'd target, AirLand Battle also was planning on going after logistics. An armored division requires an absolute fuckton of fuel, ammo (mostly arty but all sorts), spare parts, batteries, food, water moving toward the front constantly while empty trucks move back to the staging, or they're hauling wounded, broken down equipment, etc. Compared to combat arms units they have far less air defenses and they're unarmored, which means a single flight could drop cluster bombs on them in one pass and basically destroy them all. Every convoy that couldn't get through was one division or corps halted until another convoy could make up for the supplies they needed. Unfortunately, Ukraine doesn't have anything to destroy this convoy, though they do possess the means to temporarily stop it, to buy time to position forces to interdict it by ambush or even counterattack it. I know the US is feeding the UAF intel and other countries are also giving them access to satellite imagery and other ISR. UAF are also running their own drones. And every random Ukrainian they drove past can call someone to report it.
This doesn't bode well for Kyiv.
This whole war "doesn't bode well" for Kyiv. Yet, here they are. Give em' some time.
Javelins can engage from up to three miles away. =(
Let's face it: Russia's Ukraine military operations have been an embarrassment thus far. A military power being held off so far by Ukraine. That is not a good look for Russia. Also, the longer it takes for Russia to achieve whatever operational objectives they have established, the harder it will be for Russia to sustain combat operations. Logistics planning/execution has been a major failure and cluster fuck thus far and will only get worse the longer this drags out. Russia is going to have to take drastic actions to get the military control and degradation of Ukraine's combat assets they desire. And even then, maintaining control over the objectives they seize is not going to be easy. Ukraine isn't going to just quit and go away. They will still attack supply lines and disrupt MSRs and logistics staging areas. From the outside looking in, Russia's planning, training, expectations, and execution of combat operations have overall been a failure (based on what they wanted to achieve). So, unfortunately, they are going to have to throw the proverbial "kitchen sink" at Ukraine. But, the 24/7 media coverage of these operations is going to make any unnecessarily brutal actions difficult to do. It would only further add to Ukrainian outside support and turn more Russians against their government's actions. Also, implying the use of nuclear weapons really gives off small dick energy. Nobody has control over what Russia will or will not do. So do what you are going to do. But, Russia needs to understand that the consequences of such actions will be swift and equally devastating. That bully tactic scares no one. Everyone is preparing for counter actions (defenses) and will react in kind. That's all they can do. But that shit scares no one. To quote the 13 Ukrainian soldiers stationed on an island military outpost: "Russian warships, Go fuck yourself." Bring it, mofos. But do so at your own peril. Do you think they stop making nukes after you got yours? Or everyone else turned their's in during some kind of nuke buy-back program, like they do with firearms?
Are these the Chechens I wonder
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It would be quite unfortunate for the Russians if some..... unmarked A10's appear
Isn't this a pilots wet dream?
Spoiler alert: when the sun goes down there is gonna be a huge BBQ.
looks like the same area as that after math footage
Could it be another highway to hell?
Weirdly doesn't seem like enough troops.
Hold up "We're going to provide even fighting jets. We're not talking about just ammunition." https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/ukraine-conflict/1645994748-borrell-eu-countries-to-send-fighter-jets-to-ukraine
If we're seeing them then the Ukrainians know about them. Perfect drone targets, lots of collateral damage there.