2023-08-01 21:27 Compiled by United Daily News Zhou Chenyang/Real-time report Ukraine launched a counterattack in June, but so far only achieved negligible results. When the retired Australian general Ryan was interviewed, the Russian…
Ukraine launched a long-awaited counteroffensive in June with the goal of retaking Udon and Unan, but so far has achieved only negligible results. Business Insider reported that a retired Australian general described the fortifications built by the Russian army in Ukraine as “more complex and deadly than any line of defense that any army has experienced in the past 80 years.”
According to reports, in a recent interview with The Economist, retired Major General Mick Ryan of the Australian Army made the above comments regarding the Russian Army’s obstacle design.
The Economist writes that the Russian defense line in Wunan is tens of kilometers deep and aims to disrupt or delay even the most capable combined arms teams and separate them from logistical support. The goal that the Ukrainian army is trying to achieve on the southern front is to push south to the Russian-occupied Melitopol and Berdyansk, split the Russian army in two and cut off the access to Kerry Mia’s land bridge is an extremely difficult operation.
The Economist also pointed out that the Ukrainian army faced a deadly combination of millions of land mines, first-person view (FPV) drones that transmit real-time images back to the operators, “Lancet” loitering ammunition, anti The jamming and paralysis of Ukrainian drones, long-range rockets and attack helicopters are all combined by dense sensors and data networks. Even when the mines are cleared, aircraft or artillery quickly re-mine the minefields with scattered munitions.
Ryan pointed out that breaking through such a carefully prepared line of defense requires the highest order of joint arms combat capabilities. However, Michael Kofman, a military analyst who visited the front line in early July, believes that this is a technology that the Ukrainian army has not demonstrated on a large scale. Not only that, but the means and techniques for penetrating defenses have barely evolved in 30 years, and even the best-trained NATO forces, which enjoy air superiority, may find it difficult to overcome these obstacles.
Experts told Business Insider that the slow, difficult nature of the conflict and trench warfare meant the Ukrainian battlefields looked like World War I battlefields, only with more advanced technology mixed in. David Bramlette, a former U.S. Army Ranger who fought in Afghanistan, Iraq and Ukraine, said the fighting here is worse than fighting in other countries.
In an interview with the Daily Beast at the end of June, Bramlett said that when he fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, he had air support, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. “The worst day for Afghanistan and Iraq was a good day for Ukraine.”
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