[Military Martial Plane] Author: leon
In recent times, due to the change of Russian troops in Ukraine, the Ukrainian army, which had some combat advantages before, is becoming increasingly striking, especially in the recent artillery duel positional war between the Russian and Ukrainian armies. The Ukrainian army did not even have an advantage in some small tactical-level combat operations. On the 22nd of this month, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that the Russian army had destroyed 15 M-777 artillery of Ukraine.
It is not difficult to see that for Ukraine, even with the continuous assistance of the United States, the Ukrainian army's performance is even worse than at the beginning of the war. Many of the Ukrainian weapons that aided Ukraine are now in the dilemma of "destroyed upon arrival". So, why, the Ukrainian army, which now has NATO , is still in a "lax" state in the confrontation between positional artillery wars? This has to be analyzed from some basic situations of the Ukrainian army.
▲The maximum range of the M777 gun caliber is about 24 kilometers. Faced with the Russian military equipment, many of which can have a range of more than 28 kilometers, the range of the M777 does not have the advantage. First of all, for Ukraine, at the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, due to the "decline" economic situation for years, many of its land warfare systems and national defense industries were in a "standby" state. For Ukraine, it has no ability to maintain a decent combat system of its own country. Otherwise, before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, Ukraine would not have purchased some second-tier equipment on the verge of elimination from Western countries .
This leads to a problem. Ukraine's weapons and equipment were unable to maintain a continuous self-sufficiency to a certain extent before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. Of course, we have all discovered that the "family" of the Ukrainian army was actually wiped out by the Russian army at the beginning of the war. Now the Ukrainian army can barely support it because NATO maintains its massive military aid.
▲According to external assessments, in this Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Russian army invested about 4,700 various types of artillery
Of course, although this kind of military aid can ensure that the Ukrainian army is not defeated by the Russian army to a certain extent, this also brings another problem. What kind of equipment the Ukrainian army needs to receive is entirely determined by NATO's aid countries, that is, the Ukrainian army will use whatever they come. This leads to another serious problem. The Ukrainian army's combat system is completely impossible to build, and each unit is actually in a state of "fighting on its own", and the degree of cooperation is actually quite low.
The Russian army opposite is different. Take the current position artillery battle between Russia and Ukraine as an example. First of all, if the artillery battle is to be carried out, Russia and Ukraine are not the same in terms of firepower. According to the current public information, the artillery invested by the Russian army is basically mainly those that can quickly deploy maneuvers, and various types of artillery caliber models for different combat situations are also relatively complete.
▲It is difficult for NATO countries to reverse the situation of military aid to Ukraine. For example, the PzH2000 self-propelled howitzer recently provided to Ukraine. Although the performance of this artillery is indeed extraordinary, the number of German aid is only 7. This is a drop in the bucket for the Ukrainian army, which is in a decline overall. Among them, the equipment of the Russian army to fight is more representative of the 152mm caliber 2S19 "Msta"-S-type self-propelled howitzer and 120mm caliber 2S1 "Carnation" self-propelled howitzer. Of course, the Russian army also invested the 203mm caliber S7M "Peony" self-propelled howitzer, which is known as an "demolition expert" on the front line. Under this heavy firepower delivery with combination advantages, the Ukrainian Army, which currently has the M777 as its main equipment, is really difficult to have a firepower advantage.
This is not over yet. The Russian army has not only the firepower advantage, but also the Russian army has the advantage in battlefield reconnaissance and situational awareness . For example, in terms of detecting the positions of enemy artillery positions, Russia not only has the assistance of its own military satellite , but also has an anti-artillery radar on land that can perform reverse calculation and positioning of enemy artillery positions, but also has reconnaissance drones to provide intelligence assistance for it.
▲The Russian army's mass-equipped anti-artillery radar helped the Russian army to a certain extent to control the combat position of the Ukrainian artillery positions
Of course, similar means are likely not limited to this. In short, for the Russian army, the current Russian army has a relatively obvious advantage in terms of battlefield dynamic perception and artillery firepower, and for the Russian army, they will not be limited to using artillery to destroy enemy positions. For the Russian army with a complete data transmission chain, there are actually many ways to choose.
For example, on the 24th of this month, according to the public information of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian army used a "battalion" missile to destroy a base of the Ukrainian army's S-300 air defense missile . In other words, as long as the Russian army discovers important military targets of the Ukrainian army, the Russian army may consider more not how to destroy such targets, but how to use methods to destroy these targets to be more cost-effective for the Russian army.
▲In addition to having extraordinary artillery combat clusters, the Russian army has a systematic guided weapon strike system that can also assist in its operations. This advantage is almost no
. In other words, for the Ukrainian army, which does not have a complete land warfare system, it is probably only a matter of time before the Ukrainian army loses its defeat in the Russian army, which has obviously advantage in the comprehensive artillery combat strength. Moreover, judging from the wartime situation in the currently popular North Donetsk region, the actual control area of the Ukrainian army is still further narrowing, and even the Russian army's artillery firepower has been pushed to the near Kharkov , which shows how the actual state of the Ukrainian army is.
