Josh

Am reading. (In order to write later)

[Josh @LostLT1]

wartime industrialized economy and thus is a cost-effective investment by transferring personnel casualty via infantry assaults to equipment casualties (most AFV crewmen survive) is under threat

[Josh @LostLT1]

There's been a lot of reporting about drones acting as carrion on the battlefield - that is picking off already damaged vehicles.

When we take a look at historic armor operations, it becomes evident that armor units have historically often taken heavy equipment losses 1/x

[CJ @CasualArtyFan]

One of the most dangerous time for an SPG is on the road.

While this North Korean M1989 looks to have been abandoned by an earlier strike of some sort, it just goes to show you that drones can turn damaged vehicles into destroyed vehicles quite easily.

[Josh @LostLT1]

If drones are able to consistently independently target or cue other assets to target damaged tanks and other vehicles and turn recoverable losses into irrecoverable losses, a basic premise of armor operations, that tanks can easily be returned to combat if backed by a 3/x

[Josh @LostLT1]

@MAGTravF Feel like your old - what does isolation look like on the modern battlefield would go well here

[Josh @LostLT1]

@MAGTravF when observed in modern conflict studies

[Josh @LostLT1]

@MAGTravF Interesting that combat forces made battlefield modifications to increase their survivability prior to industry sanctioned and enacted modification. Almost as if this is a known historical pattern and we should be wary about too quickly deriding battlefield modifications

[Josh @LostLT1]

Also - does this mean that the best anti-tank weapon isn't another tank? Hmm....

[Josh @LostLT1]

Combined Arms bros - are we back?

[WarTranslated @wartranslated]

Russian milblogger Vault 8 says that Ukrainians are effectively leveraging drones, artillery, and advanced tactics to neutralise Russian armored vehicles, forcing Russian tanks to operate only from covered positions while enabling their own tanks to engage more freely, even with direct fire. Meanwhile, Russian capabilities, particularly in drones and artillery, are hindered by shortages and inefficiencies, limiting the ability to counter these advancements effectively.

[Josh @LostLT1]

A UMO three days ago: I don't know why we have to print off all these stickers and do 50 different train trackers. It's not as if a Bradley is just gonna disappear between here NTC

[MEDPROS Center of Excellence @Asst_to_the_RM]

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[Josh @LostLT1]

@Asst_to_the_RM That's a whole ass SCT platoon lmao

[Josh @LostLT1]

@ZynAndBlueReign Idk why we're name calling

[Josh @LostLT1]

@ZynAndBlueReign Meanwhile I think I've been overdue for HIV for three months

[Josh @LostLT1]

@KiranPfitzner @The_Lookout_N @SashoTodorov1 might remember the article but a year ago there was a great deal of making fun of a US Army general for saying something to the effect of you might need two armies - one for blunting, one for protection - just not as elegantly hence the commentary

[Josh @LostLT1]

@TheKimulation Star Wars Revenge of the Sith novelization - Battle of Coruscant

[Josh @LostLT1]

Begun the drone wars have

[Future Adam Curtis B-Roll @adamcurtisbroll]

A self-driving car collides with a food delivery robot in San Francisco, December 2024.

[Josh @LostLT1]

@ChemicalFire I'm being lazy and haven't tried *actual* research yet. I figure someone somewhere has looked at it - but it's kinda niche it's gonna be a pain in the ass to get the word combo right - or speed read/skim a bunch of hits from a wide search

[Josh @LostLT1]

Anyone know of any Army/AF/DOD studies on the anticipated effect of second-echelon targeting as part of ALB in projected force casualty rates for Soviet Second Echelon formations or the effect that such targeting would hopefully have on slowing down their projected march tables

[Josh @LostLT1]

@MAGTravF