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The key points are: America has provided eight launchers and on July 8th said it would send four more. Each one carries a pod of six gps-guided missiles accura

by wrp 4y ago

The key points are: America has provided eight launchers and on July 8th said it would send four more. Each one carries a pod of six gps-guided missiles accurate up to 84km... America’s army tends to disperse and conceal its ammunition dumps across a number of smaller sites. Russia’s army, which relies heavily on trains to move munitions and human muscle to load them onto trucks, has instead created big depots close to railheads... So, how much effect HIMARS will have seems to depend on how long it will take the Russians to adapt by dispersing their ammunition caches.

_kbh_ 4y ago
Russian military doctrine kinda relies on these central ammunition depots, they will likely have trouble with changing it. They will probably just move the ammo depots further back but the problem is, if they move them out of the range of HIMARS then because of their lack of solid logistics their time to get ammo drastically increases.
- greedo 4y ago
  This. Russia relies heavily on trains for logistics, so all their main depots will be near a railhead. Then they have to truck the supplies to the front. They're lacking in trucks so the further back they move the depots, the longer the supply route. Putting more wear and tear on the trucks, slowing the supply amounts, etc. And trying to disperse the depots into smaller amounts doesn't really help; say you cut it in half somehow (ignoring the doctrinal challenges). Then you actually need more trucks, and you need to plan carefully about the supply levels at each mini-depot. Besides, if you cut the depot size, the Ukrainians will still hit them with HIMARS etc. One or two rockets is enough for most of these sites.