tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post4876803772739598110..comments2024-03-27T20:37:08.065+01:00Comments on Defence and Freedom: Convoy spacingUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-72751656186407783842022-03-02T02:25:54.272+01:002022-03-02T02:25:54.272+01:00If the Russians were truly concerned about NATO in...If the Russians were truly concerned about NATO intervention- as Putin's recent escalation re: nuclear forces suggests - then they would hardly be presenting NATO with such a juicy target as a 60km long badly-spaced convoy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-22972899255054619722022-03-02T00:18:33.243+01:002022-03-02T00:18:33.243+01:00Read once an AAR about another epic traffic jam in...Read once an AAR about another epic traffic jam in the invasion of Yugoslavia before the left turn into Greece. IIRC besides all sorts of issues and breakdowns most of it was due to trying extra hard to push man and material over the pass. Exceeding the capacity by trying to get through fast made progress slow.<br /><br />Might be partly so in Ukraine as according to Twitter most of the Russian forces are engaged now. <br /><br />Letting engines run, stop and go between crawl must drive fuel consumption through the roof. With lots of fuel getting blown up the advancing forces might find themselves in a bad spot. <br /> <br />How will they manage to supply themselves? Are there Ukrainians lying in the woods? Drops seem risky so close to the capital. Maybe this is why the Russians have been sending ILs in this direction...<br /><br />Overall it doesn't seem unlikely that the big convoy will mostly run out of fuel. <br /><br />Firn<br /><br />P.S: Was it the first big modern mass migration with so many cars? Sadly that also caused a brutal jam with lengths over a 10 kmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-48525954644873207552022-03-01T22:32:14.195+01:002022-03-01T22:32:14.195+01:00The simple solution is to not send more formations...The simple solution is to not send more formations to march on a road than the road has capacity. This is a corps-level or higher fuck up, not the nature's work.<br /><br />Germany had the same kind of epic traffic jam in the Ardennes May 1940. The difference is hardly any Belgians fought in the Ardennes, while the Ukrainians apparently fought a delaying action from the border to Kyiv.S Ohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03359796414832859686noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386077914312449748.post-16920467774594854372022-03-01T21:57:37.235+01:002022-03-01T21:57:37.235+01:00One main reason for many such things you see now i...One main reason for many such things you see now in the ukraine is the mud-period, the rasputiza, which has started parallel to the invasion. There are many vids which show russian vehicles offroad stuck in mud, even main battle tanks and other such vehices with chains.<br /><br />And on the streets there is simply not enough space to hold the mentioned spacings, otherwise the overall length would be to long. <br /><br />Also with some few exceptions the ukraine airforce is down and the russian artillery wins actually the artillery battle, so the risk is not as high as you might think here.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com