On the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield, the Russian army has made little progress in the past month, and the only place where there is still an offensive is the fierce battle between Ledal and Bakhmut in donezk Oblast, which is basically a repeated battle around several villages.
At present, the fiercest fighting in the direction of Donbass is concentrated in two parts, with the exception of the mainly shelling Afdeyevka-Pesky line in the northwest of the city of Donetsk and the Soledar-Bakhmut line in northern Donetsk. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Russian army carried out strikes against the 14th and 66th mechanized brigades of the Ukrainian armed forces in the direction of Bakhmut and Avdeyevka.
According to the Russian satellite network, the Russian military said that after a long period of fierce fighting, the Russian army has severely damaged the 14th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army on the first line of Soredal-Bakhmurt, resulting in the loss of more than 2,000 people in the 14th mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian army. The remaining personnel of the brigade were transferred to the rear area by the Ukrainian command.
Located between Sheversk and Bakhmut, Soledar was one of the most important strongholds of the Ukrainian army after Severodonitesk and Lisichansk. The Russians dispatched a large number of 240 mm tulip self-propelled mortars, which weighed 230 kilograms in a single shell and could destroy almost any reinforced concrete fortifications of the Ukrainian army.
The Russian army also has a large number of small red flower regiments on the front line, such as 2S4 Tulip 240 self-propelled mortar, 2S1 Carnation 122 self-propelled howitzer, 2S19 Acacia 152 self-propelled howitzer, 2C5 Hyacinth 152 self-propelled cannon, 2S7 Peony 203 self-propelled howitzer, 2B9 Cornflower 82 self-propelled rapid-fire mortar, 2S34 Jade Flower 120 self-propelled artillery and so on. The work is hard work and hard work, specifically knocking on the fortified positions.
The Russian army is to concentrate superior artillery to destroy the strong positions of the Ukrainian army, and the helpless stubbornness of the Ukrainian army is a dead end, and there is no walled city that cannot be breached. If the Ukrainian army is mobile, the hard village will not be hard, and it is a good opportunity for the Russian army to annihilate the enemy in the mobile.
The problem of insufficient firepower, mobility and protection of the Ukrainian army on the whole was very prominent in the second stage of the Russo-Ukrainian War, and it was a helpless move to fight separately and divide the troops, so it was likely to be broken by each one.
However, if the Russian army wants to give full play to the superiority of artillery firepower, it must grasp the real-time situation on the battlefield, and the blind coverage shelling effect is very poor, and the hit rate is even lower and scarier. Therefore, the Russian military began to make extensive use of DJI drones to reconnoiter the battlefield. The Russian military found that when the drone hovered over the target, the correction of the ballistic trajectory could make ordinary shells play the same effect as precision-guided shells. This greatly improved the operational efficiency of the Russian army.
Therefore, Russian General Yuri Baruyevsky said that China's ordinary commercial quadcopter has brought a real revolution to the application of traditional tube artillery and rocket artillery, and actually completely solved the problems of artillery reconnaissance, target instruction and fire correction.
Iran's large number of DJI drones, even if they are equipped with backward towed howitzers, The Pro-Russian Armed Forces and Wagner mercenaries in Uganda have been very accurate with UAV reconnaissance. Since June, many brigade commanders of the Ukrainian army have been killed by artillery, and the battalion company commanders are countless, which is the best example.
In the era of non-linear combat, it is necessary to use unmanned aerial vehicles, electromagnetic reconnaissance, and satellite reconnaissance to maintain comprehensive and full-time monitoring of the battlefield, and under the highly interconnected and automated digital command and control, the mobile artillery unit will carry out a rapid and accurate and timely strike at the Ukrainian army, which is a more efficient approach.
Military theorists of the Russian military believe that contemporary drones have shortcomings such as slow speed and poor survivability. Specific to the battlefield, the radar reflection area of the fast UAV is large, and the radar reflection area is small and the speed is slow. But the current situation on the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield broke the military theory of the Russian army.
On the battlefield, the Ukrainian army relied on dozens of Western self-propelled guns and 16 Haimas rockets to give full play to the characteristics of running and mobile operations, and carried out mobile operations on hundreds of kilometers of fronts, firing ammunition for no more than 3 minutes at a time, and then immediately withdrew from the battlefield.
The Russian Su-34 long-range fighter-bomber and the Su-25 attack aircraft could not lock in the Ukrainian mobile artillery force at all. Therefore, the Russian military still needs large drones and various micro-drones to improve the 24-hour real-time state perception of the battlefield. Only in this way can we effectively restrain the mobile artillery tactics of the Ukrainian army.
The traditional 10,000-gun firing tactic is no longer suitable for the current Ukrainian battlefield. Even if the Ukrainian mobile artillery is found, if there is no drone, it will be locked immediately. When the Russian aviation troops went to strike again, the mobile artillery of the Ukrainian army had already run away and hidden.