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That applies to UA armor too. Way harder to do hit and runs on road columns when you can't fall back to where ever but have to follow roads your self.
by rightbyte 5y ago
That applies to UA armor too.
Way harder to do hit and runs on road columns when you can't fall back to where ever but have to follow roads your self.
- jacquesm 5y agoDefender advantage is substantial in situations like that. Moving targets are a lot harder than stationary ones. Ukraine armor is concentrated around the main cities instead of strung out in long vulnerable stationary lines.
- throwaway6734 5y agoUkraine also has javelins and other shoulder fired anti tank weapons
- withinboredom 5y agoAnything you hit with those is pure luck. Source: experience. Edit: I was thinking of what we had in the Army, which was definitely not guided.
- chrisseaton 5y ago> Anything you hit with those is pure luck. I've never seen a Javelin miss in my entire life. They've got like 5,000 recorded successful engagements. > Source: experience. Are you firing them before they've got a chance to get the sensor down to temperature?
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoEr, no. Javelin is guided. They are videos of them doing some really amazing long-range shots.
- tome 5y agoFor example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sah9nbGQLFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sah9nbGQLFY
- tablespoon 5y ago> For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sah9nbGQLFY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sah9nbGQLFY I guess you posted that for the compiled footage, but Lord do I hate voice synthesized narration. From my armchair, it seems totally practical to hit-and-run attack the convoy on foot using fire-and-forget Javelins from 1.5-2 miles away. If the terrain is impassible to vehicles, the attacker can just shoot from the top of a hill and run away down the other side (maybe without even being seen).
- tome 5y agoThat's interesting. I didn't even notice that! I suppose I found the footage sufficiently compelling to distract me.
- cutemonster 5y agoMight the javelin fail to hit the tank, by accidentally homing in on one of the trucks next to it instead? From what I've read, they have too few javelins already
- Tuna-Fish 5y agoYou lock the missile on a target while aiming it. The seeker will remain locked to exactly that target until it hits. Only way it's hitting a neighbouring truck instead is if that's what you aimed at when you pressed fire.
- cutemonster 5y agoOk. I suppose this works also if the tank moves -- but if it gets out of sight, let's say a truck drives in front of the tank, then might the javelin miss? Or is the javelin so high up in the air, so it could typically see the tank anyway?
- na85 5y agoSaint Javelin never misses.
- newuser94303 5y agoIn close quarters and urban environments, I would think that it would be hard to miss
- rad_gruchalski 5y agoI too sucked at CoD.
- littlestymaar 5y agoWe aren't talking about RPG-7 here, but ATGM (which, as the name imply, are guided missiles).