With the collective surrender of the Azov battalion, the Battle of Mariupol was officially concluded, and the Russian coalition forces that were tied up in the area could also be drawn in large quantities to make up for the lack of troops on the Donbass front. Whether it is energy or strength, the Russian army can concentrate on the eastern front of Ukraine to carry out the final decisive battle, and under the blows of the Russian army with high morale and strength, the Ukrainian army has suffered a double blow of military defeat and national belief. For example, as of the 28th, there were 16 front-line grass-roots companies in the Wudong area, which publicly refused to participate in the battle, or said that if they did not get support such as weapons and equipment, they would directly abandon the battle.
On the other hand, the speed of the Russian coalition forces on the North Donetsk front has accelerated significantly, and on the 27th, it was announced that it would take Dividend Man and cut off the supply line of nearly 10,000 Ukrainian troops in the region. In the face of this unfavorable situation, the Ukrainian side is already quite anxious, knowing that according to the propaganda situation in Ukraine, it is almost to fight in Moscow, but it did not expect that the battlefield situation would not deceive people and lose the city and lose face.
The Ukrainian army surrendered
Carrying a boundary marker to take photos and promote
The first stage of the war was unfavorable, the blitzkrieg failed to completely defeat the Russian army losses, for the Russian army with about 200,000 troops, the tactics needed to be changed. At present, in addition to using aerial bombardment and ground armor torrents on the battlefield, the Russian army has also dispatched a variety of killer weapons, including the 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb, which is extremely lethal and can produce great psychological pressure. According to the video taken by Ukrainian soldiers, the Russian army once again used 9M22S thermite incendiary bombs to attack, and thermite incendiary bombs landed densely from the air like scattered flowers.
Visually, it's like fireworks, but it's a disaster for Ukrainian soldiers, and if you can survive in a fortress with multiple layers of underground fortifications like the steel mill. But for the defenders in field fortifications or in the condition of ground houses, there was no escape, and the incendiary bombs had 180 magnesium alloy shells filled with aluminite, and the ambient temperature could reach 2500 degrees Celsius after ignition. Unlike physical killing, this high temperature alone can destroy everything within the killing radius, and there is only one result of flesh and blood confrontation.
9M22S thermite incendiary bombs attack steel mills
9M22S thermite incendiary bomb
This is not the first time that the Russian army has used 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb, before Russia has used the 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb against the Ukrainian army of the Azov Steel Plant, with amazing power and huge killing coverage. The 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb is fired by the BM-21 multiple rocket launchers, which can cover a large area in an instant, multiple at a time, although Ukraine hypes that the Russian military uses weapons banned by the United Nations. However, the 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb is not within the scope of the ban, and the weapon currently prohibited by the international convention is the white phosphorus incendiary bomb, so the Russian army can use the 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb on the battlefield to promote the progress of the battle. The surrender of the Ukrainian army in the Azov steel plant not only lacked supplies and poor medical conditions, but also the deterrent effect of the 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb.
At present, the Russian army uses the old BM-21 rocket launcher as a launch platform, this 122 mm caliber 40-barrel rocket launcher, although it is not the most advanced equipment for the time being. But imagine that 40 tubes are equipped with 9M22S thermite incendiary bombs, and a fierce bombardment of the Ukrainian army position is absolutely a disaster, and there is basically no possibility of survival within the scope of this firepower. But Ukrainian soldiers can still hold up mobile phones to shoot, and at the same time have time to upload to social media, can only say that the Russian army has the virtue of life without a full range of firepower, more of a deterrent to remind the other side that it is time to surrender.
BM-21 rocket launcher
BM-21 rocket launcher
Compared with the high-temperature 9M22S thermite incendiary bomb, the Russian army also invested a TOS-1A Spitfire tank, which is a self-propelled rocket launch platform. 24 combined ammunition, 6000 meters range, the launch of the so-called "fuel air ammunition", through the special charge to absorb oxygen in the air, the explosion produces a large number of high temperature, high pressure gas, thereby causing huge damage to the fortifications, personnel, vehicles in the target area. That is what we often call the thermobaric bomb, after hitting the target will cause a vacuum explosion, can easily razing a small village or a position, the damage to the defenders is more tragic than ordinary incendiary bombs.
TOS-1A Spitfire tank
TOS-1A Spitfire tank
Fire coverage
The Russian army has transitioned from the earlier blitzkrieg without regard to casualties to the current way of disappearing the living forces with superior firepower and not forcing a rapid occupation of positions. For example, in the Battle of Dividend Man this time, the Russian army no longer emphasized the speed of attack, but used the advantage of firepower to conduct reconnaissance and surveillance of the Ukrainian positions with the support of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft. As long as the target is found, it is covered with precise artillery fire, and at the same time, the aviation, artillery and ground fire are combined to cut the enemy's defense system and divide the opponent's supply line piece by piece after cutting off the opponent's supply line.
Then repeatedly in the form of aerial bombardment, ground bombardment, and even this incendiary bomb \ thermobaric bomb, physically and psychologically exerting strong pressure. The strength of the Ukrainian army will be continuously depleted, and after reaching a critical point, tanks and motorized infantry detachments will be dispatched to conquer in one fell swoop in the case of the other side's loss of confidence. Proper tactics coupled with the application of firepower to the extreme, anyway, holding the air supremacy and the initiative on the battlefield, can launch an attack at any time according to the actual situation, and the effect of dividing and encircling the occupation is very good.
Can't laugh anymore
The effect of the thermobaric bullet is amazing