It has proven every cold war NATO doctrine right and wrong at the same time. Unlimited spam works just leads to more busted metal and trench warfare apparently
If anything, it seems to have proven yet again that in not all but many cases, having enough equipment and trained bodies to perform a given task at the rate and volume required by the objective is much more important than the specific quality of that equipment past a certain point of acceptability. Again, not all but many situations are like this. Quality of things like vehicles and munitions become moot if you don't have enough suitable AFVs to rotate positions, or EW sets, or any other piece if equipment you can think of. Something like a Bradley or Patriot battery being really well designed only goes so far.
One also has to remember that this conflict unfolded in a manner that nobody expected it to become. Russia expected a quick police action done by a relatively small elite force to Kiev and getting what they wanted by occupying the intact city in a fast manner, akin to what they already managed to do in January in Kazakhstan that same year. USA expected Ukraine to fall apart within days and their plan of a heavily dispersed military becoming a massive partisan force that would then turn this into Operation Cyclone 2.0 while sanctions would instantly implode the whole Russian economy. Ukraine expected a swift rescue from the West and then being able to do Desert Storm tier offenses with the most hyped pieces of kit in the whole conflict.
This. The supreme retardation of white people grinding themselves to hamburger in Europe all the while jeets, chinks and skinnies are running ever more wild across the civilized world is insane.
The people who actually do run the show in Kiev also are under the belief that they can get 1991 borders any day now if they just keep on persisting when it's pretty apparent that their biofuel tanks are running pretty dry. Vlad at least doesn't have to resort to pressganging random people off the street to plug holes of the frontline so he'll likely win a pyhirric victory, even if it's by instead hiring desperate people from -stan countries to be his foreign legionaires.
I don't think Russia made any signifcant gains after Wagner aside from successfully tard-wrangling North Koreans to regain Kursk. This shit could be over by now.
Uhhhhh no.
have the gains been as consequential as Bakhmut though? I stopped following this shit right before the Kursk incursion
Yes, nothing quite as big but holy shiiiiittt you're literally a year + out of date.
One does have to remember that while Russia had to swap doctrines from the BTG model back to the Soviet model of divisions and corps, they also are conducting what essentially amounts to classic echelon defense that's textbook Deep Battle. They are willing to let spearheads penetrate if it means the enemy spearhead can be stopped, enveloped and then destroyed with vicious counter-attacks and overwhelming firepower of the artillery.
Pink mist against infantry and wedding processions will be glorious.
I'd expect more prox-fuzes for lots of autocannons these days because gun-based AA is now something everyone's gonna be wanting in great numbers. And since the same ammo should be compatible with both the ADEN and DEFA cannons, the fighter's gun gets a new lease in life as a relevant tool for the times.
It could already do this, no?
Yeah, but this works better-er. Impact fuses mean some percentage of fragmentation and blast effect is always going into the ground or some other barrier instead of the enemy. Smart fuses mean you can tailor the round for the target and get maximum fragmentation when attacking spread out troops, delayed detonation for effects past barriers and vehicles, and proximity detonation against airborne targets, potentially all in one round.
The way it's translated reads as "programmed shells" aka the shell is programmed with a set detonation distance vs having a little radar or laser fuse in the nose.