From his business background he is better suited to root out corruption and that appears to be the main concern, the generals fight the war, he just makes sure they have what they need to do the job. The other guy was a war fighter, not a corruption fighter, he didn't have the skills and experience this guy has for that particular task, a lot of accounting and auditing are involved. Ukraine has a wartime coalition government with liberals and conservatives filling the roles of ministers. The UK did it during the war, parliamentary politics was suspended, and Churchill led an all-party coalition government, his deputy prime minister was the labor leader and Zelenskyy's prime minister is a conservative.Wow.....i didn't know the new defense minister is a Muslim Tartar......
Jewish president picks Muslim defense minister: Ukraine’s diverse leadership debunks Russia’s “Nazi” slurs
Ukraine now has a Jewish president and a Muslim minister of defense, underlining the diversity of the country's leadership while exposing the absurdity of Russia's “Nazi Ukraine” propaganda, writes Peter Dickinson.www.atlanticcouncil.org
Yep, Napalm payloads on drones would make quick work of those planes when the rubber tires caught on fire, even if they were bone dry of fuel!
yes but mines.
www.forbes.com
I'll bet all the recently laid ones were geolocated down to centimeter range by UAV drones as they were buried by the Russians and entered into a GIS system. The further they go the fewer the mines, the Russians need to move behind their lines too, though they will carpet the likely paths of the Ukrainian advance with mines if they can but are in artillery range trying to lay them under the surveillance of high flying long range UAVs. They obviously have developed tactics for dealing with mines while slaughtering the Russian artillery trying to stop them with counter battery radar. They turned mine clearing into a trap for Russian artillery because of counter battery radars, UAVs and superior artillery range and accuracy. This has been reflected in the number of artillery pieces destroyed since they changed tactics in the beginning of the offensive.yes but mines.
To Slow The Ukrainian Counteroffensive, the Russian Army Quadrupled The Size Of Its Minefields
The Russians quadrupled the depth of their defensive minefields, from 120 meters to 500 meters—and also increased the density of mines within the expanded fields.
Were that the case, the Ukrainians would be advancing faster than the Russians could bury them. I don’t think that’s happening.
I didn't say they were, but those laying them would be out in the open and choice artillery or drone targets, if they could reach them. However other higher flying military drones are in the air monitoring the advance path 24/7 and they can locate things on the ground with great accuracy and plot the GPS coordinates too. I imagine today all this data is entered into a GIS system and database to give as complete a picture of the battlefield as possible. It is one thing to collect massive amounts of data, another to make sense of it all and use it in a timely manner to make a difference.
All told, you might be 20 years before your time.
Think about it. Drones could drop a marker on every geolocated mine. One truck with a .50 could put one round in each mine, and done.
We don't know what they are capable of, but I do know military intelligence did some amazing things decades ago and we have powerful computers and networks these days and lots of data to shove into the system. Military grade UAV drones can plot things on the ground with great accuracy and provide GPS coordinates for each one from recorded data. It would be logical to focus such efforts in the area of planned advance, weeks or months ahead of the attack.
But that does not stop you thinking things up to the closest centimetre.
The info is more likely used with conventional methods to dig them up and disarm them or blow them up in place or mine plow of flail them into detonation. Knowing the areas that aren't mined is more important IMO, but the point is it makes clearing them easier and they have gone through them faster than the Russian thought they could. My only point here is they have the technology to do this kind of stuff available. Most cities have every telephone pole, manhole cover fire hydrant and storm drain plotted on a GIS system, they are quite common and have been for decades.
His military spirit animal must have been in the Air Force. They are the only branch of the service who have not had the force-degrading effect of adverse conditions pounded into them.But that does not stop you thinking things up to the closest centimetre.
the article I posted? The Russians have defeated that method by stacking pairs of mines. The resulting shock damages the vehicle bearing the blade or flail.
When I say centimeter range, I mean around 10But that does not stop you thinking things up to the closest centimetre.