Still works very well, except that pillbox (esp. concrete ones) is no longer done these days. Its replaced by sand bags instead.

Artillery and motar been there all along even during WW2....

damn brutal the latest combat video where ukrainians tembak few ruski in the trench..close up like counter strike

War is hell.....

I wonder why. Maybe superbrains Putin never wargamed for a campaign that lasted more than 3 days or 3 weeks and thought he could get away with a slap on his wrist, like when he invaded Georgia or Crimea and so never prepared his war industrial complex accordingly.


This is not C&C red alert. Stuff don't magically appear. Even a highly over resourced army like US has trouble keeping their war machine in fighting shape. When you factor in storage conditions, age & wear and tear and endemic corruption, there's no way all those 50k T55 or 20k T72 are anywhere near combat usable.
But certainly a useful percentage can be cannibalized provided they had the industrial capacity and manpower.
To put things in context, Russia has gigantic borders and land mass, with an economy the size of Italy and a population less than Bangladesh. The one thing going for them is a largish slave-like population that is highly tolerant of abuse and deprivation of human rights that will never rise up against their top leader, so they can last longer than a democracy put in a similar situation.
However, they *don't* have unlimited manpower or industrial capacity even if they pretend they do. Sooner or later they will hit wall called basic war arithmetic.

You don't bodoh me la. I saw so many videos of grenades and thermite explosives dropped down open hatches of abandoned T72. A full loaded carousel would have exploded super high anyway. Those tanks were probably abandoned due to mobility kills and had exhausted their munitions too. Plus you can look up at how the latest vintages of Russian ammo are being sent and stored at the fronts and hubs. No wonder they don't even dare to carry a full load now.

After one week: "We need another week"
After one week: "We need another week"
After one week: "We need another week"
.........

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Still better than 3 days special operation.

U mean like the one this guy said?

I think a lot of smart people were fooled by the Russian paper tiger. But smart people also know when they are wrong and will reconsider their opinions in light of new facts.

still extremely formidable, put yourself in the shoes of the soldiers who are tasked to assault these. there are so many levels of disadvantages via infantry that makes you question how to do it in first place

why else you see both UA/RU sides progress are always minute especially when going on offensives? cause both sides employ same tactic of deep defense

Pro-Russian militia group examines a knocked out Ukrainian AMX-10RC. Interestingly they recovered the manual for the vehicle.

at least he is more balanced in reporting what is happening than you ever can

Or at least some have, russians pundits notwithstanding

this is intense

Oryx shutting down

Don't look real to me... Looks more like those early stage Ukraine videos....

oh no...
they are the most reliable sources in documenting equipment losses...

Nothing much to dig... Ukraine hardly advance.... They yet to get anywhere near the 1st defensive line.....

Reliable?? Lol..... It's all bs..