As evidenced by advances, it works at 1916-1917 level. Even WWII tempo is unattainable for modern Russian army.
I think you're missing that WW2 tempo is at a completely different scale from this war. 10,000 dead in a battle in WW2 barely warrants a wiki page, 10,000 dead in a battle in this war would be catastrophic. WW2 is a completely different conflict, and not comparable to this. Nothing is, this is the first truly modern war fought between two more or less equally advanced powers.
"Conventional" (more fitting term is antiquated)
lol. Tell that to every army in the world.
artillery works until Soviet arsenals run out
Yeah, I'm sure the Russians have no idea of how to make artillery shells. They totally don't have some of the biggest arms factories in the world, and they most definitely have no way of stuffing propellant charge and a blasting cap into a metal tube, since that may as well be alien technology to the vatniks.
No offense but get a grip. Even Romania can manage to make D-20 howitzers and their own shells and you think the Russians don't have the capacity to feed a relatively small scale war?
and it also puts serious strain on logistics (artillery shell is the heaviest type of munitions for frontline forces).
Good thing that the Russian logistics train has gotten increasingly smaller and less vulnerable as the war goes on. We have no evidence that suggests the Russians have ever had any shortage of artillery shells anywhere. The shelling in the Donbas and Kharkiv is literally an hourly affair.
Also, as you dig deeper into Soviet legacy, fuzes get less and less reliable.
Do you think the Russians are exclusively working with shit built in the 1950s or something?
Eventually, you will capture empty trenches with Ukr forces retreated to a next line (while wasting shit ton of time and shells)
Yeah, and every day trenches which used to have Ukrainian forces get captured as well. Obviously the Ukrainian army isn't going to be destroyed to the last man.
. Each day, more Ukr troops are being mobilized, trained and supplied with whatever equipment the West sends them
As we all know, hastily trained and assembled troops tend to do great in combat and totally don't get slaughtered wholesale. If Ukraine wants to stand a chance, they better ask the West for at least 10,000 artillery pieces because no amount of infantry is going to save an army fighting another with air superiority,artillery supremacy and a lot more tanks, IFVs and APCs.
. Speed is necessary to cut off enemy forces instead of pushing them back.
No it really isn't. You're really stuck on this WW1 shit but we have cruise missiles now, dude. Nearly every railway connection in Ukraine has been battered to hell and back and is completely unusable. The Ukrainian Army has probably never been less mobile than it is with each passing day, and is probably mostly forced to move troops around in trucks and civilian vehicles, which is wildly inefficient since it is not only slow, but also far more prone to being ambushed and wastes more fuel per soldier transported than a train would.
RuAF is operating at its peak performance, judging by sorties per day and sorties per units deployed. Most likely, the advance is stalling due to insufficient air support and mass artillery use is therefore a literal coping mechanism.
How is the advance stalling? Popasna was taken, so was Nyzhnie, Yampol got taken a few days ago along with Zarichne, Rubizhne is taken. The advance was stalled a week ago, this week brought many advances. If you're expecting some retarded 40,000 man offensive to quickly gain ground you're completely delusional and stuck in the WW1 mentality. Artillery is more than accurate enough these days to batter most everything to shit before any of your soldiers even get to defensive positions. You're also stuck on the "fighting guerillas" attitude of muh air support, which is fucking stupid. The Ukrainians aren't the Taliban, they have tons of MANPADs and probably some SAMs still active, airpower isn't the end-all be all of warfare, denying your opponent air superiority is, which the Russians did when they gained it.
And how exactly spotter drones will improve precision?
Holy fuck you really are stuck in the 1900s.
>Drone operator spots target
>Calls in so artillery can zone in on it
>Artillery fires, misses
>Drone operator reports miss, tells them to re-adjust
>Artillery fires, hits
We've seen this happen literally a million times in this war already.
The limiting factor is the unguided shell itself. Against moving/open targets drones will greatly improve the efficiency of artillery, against stationary targets - not so much.
lol.
Even FAB-250 has 100kg of explosives and can be dropped more or less precise, and Russian planes are flying at low altitudes anyway. Of course, it's more feasible to spend several trucks loaded with shells on platoon strong point because Codex Astartes the Holy Soviet Field Manual says so. Logistics is for fags.
So combined arms don't real now? You either use planes or artillery? Because the Russians are using both. They just use artillery a lot more because it's far cheaper, safer and simpler, and basically almost as effective. You don't need a SU 34 to blow a hole in a machinegunner's firing point for fuck's sake.
Kalibr and Iskander are operational level missiles. They cannot replace guided bombs or artillery shells, they're too expensive and inflexible.
The Russians don't care and will drop them on Huracans and SMERCH systems all the same, lol
Russia has started using submarine-based Kalibrs.
They've been using them since the start of the war.
This modification cannot be launched from other platforms interchangeable, so it may be a sign of depleting supply.
Actually they ran out of PGMs February 29th.
