The heavy war has been going on for more than 2 years, and if we look back, then in the first half year after the outbreak of the war, the most dazzling star weapon was definitely the individual anti-tank missile represented by the Javelin. In the period from half a year to one and a half years, the status of Hippocampus has sprung up, and it has frequently achieved major results that have made the outside world jaw-dropping. For example, accurately hitting the opponent's southern command post and accurately destroying key bridges over the Dnieper River are all strategic prerequisites for recovering half of Kherson Oblast. But what confuses the outside world is that in the second year of the war, especially in the last half of the year, whether it is the Javelin or the Seahorse, the limelight of these "high-end" Western-style weapon systems seems to have passed. It's been a long time since I've heard anything about the Javelins and the Seahorses. Recently, what has been heard the most is that the strategic defenders, like Xianglin's sister-in-law, have constantly complained about the serious shortage of the 155 main artillery shells, resulting in the opponent's firepower being at least six times that of its own.
This is also the fundamental factor that the front is becoming tighter and tighter, and the overall environment is becoming more and more unfavorable. So here we have to ask, is it because the Javelins and the Hippocampus have already been exhausted? Or compared with the traditional large-caliber artillery groups, the Hippocampus and the Javelins have been forced to stand aside and are no longer weapons systems of strategic significance? An in-depth analysis will reveal that the above two factors actually exist. After all, in the first year after the start of the heavy war, the battlefield environment was still dominated by sports offensive and defensive warfare. In the first two months, the tank assault group of the active attacking side will advance more than 300 kilometers in a week. As a result, the two sides are constantly setting up tactical ambushes and counter-ambushes in a vast theater of operations, and there are often fierce encounters between tank groups and antitank combat groups within 1 kilometer or even 500 meters. At this time, hundreds or thousands of rounds of maneuverable individual anti-tank weapons can often achieve significant results. In one night, all the tanks and armored vehicles in the queue can be destroyed.
Within an alley. And before and after the Battle of Kherson. At this time, the battle line was not consolidated, and even if the command post of one of the sides was at the division level, most of them were temporarily set up in ordinary civilian buildings. At this time, if frequent radio exchanges are carried out, they will often be easily located by the space-based reconnaissance system, so as to provide the best target for the Seahorse precision-guided rocket system. In the eyes of the outside world, a single weapon system like the Seahorse can determine the final outcome of a ground battle. As a result, it has also had the strategic effect of drastically changing the direction of the front. In the second year of the war, the battlefield environment changed profoundly: at the southernmost point of the front, the Dnieper River was separated by a width of several kilometers to tens of kilometers, and neither side could cross the river to launch a large-scale military operation. On other land fronts, where there was no wide river to block them, after more than a year of continuous strengthening, the so-called Suvolokin Line had been gradually fortified to a certain extent. Most of the offensive and defensive forces of both sides,
and most of the land warfare weapon systems, which have generally been used in the underground and covertly. Even in some so-called new battles, it is difficult for the two sides to advance and retreat more than 5 kilometers, and once the positions have been consolidated, all the living forces are immediately deposited in the increasingly strengthened underground fortresses. At this time, if you hit with a seahorse and a javelin, you can only blow up a circle of dirt. At this time, the fight is whose traditional artillery group has more shells to fill in the line every day. It can be seen that no single weapon system can fight the whole field of heavy warfare. If you want to be invincible in a land war, it is still the heavy artillery group with a steady stream of firepower that has the most right to speak!