Tempest414 wrote: ↑14 Mar 2022, 10:47
... in total Ukraine has well over15,000 anti tank weapons

They have probably been targetted for bombing. Do you know if they still exist?

what we are seeing is very good use of drones to spot the enemy and to set up a kill box for artillery or fast moving mortar teams and direct fire Fast moving Mortar teams using 60 and 81mm mortars can set up and use the drone to spot fire from 3km's away they can rain rounds in for 60 seconds befo...

You could always strap an RPG-7 Rocket to your drone and Kamikaze it onto the target. I sense his lordship is being facetious. But, setting aside the fact that it is heavier than the shaped charge idea by an order of magnitude, it would need a different drone. If the RPG tube is removed, it should ...

] If you’re stuck to plain explosives, you’re back to substantial charges, as far as I can tell. The desperate manual attacks on AFV in previous conflicts used large charges and modern tanks are somewhat more robust. Shaped charges became the go-to solution for infantry (hence light) anti tank for ...

Artillery delivered AT bomblets are down to less than 0.25kg by dint of using a shaped charge. Whether you could reliably deliver them accurately enough to be effective using a drone is up for debate. This seems complicated. If one were to use the best of regular plastic explosives, how, as a rouig...

The $64,000 question is this: If the intention was only to disable the tank [maybe hit the front/rear wheels to wreck the track, wheel and drive, possibly the joint between the turret and the body] what would be the weight of such a charge? Anti-tank mines typically have more than 5kg explosive, an...

Very popular in Ukraine - where they now have over 3,500 of them: https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1501347099748802568 Very inspiring video. He says that civilians have asked for NLAWs but they can't be issued with them. Probably, understandably, the cost. But they could be trained to use a very ...