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Ken Macaulay's avatar

I'd personally put the M777 systems (along with all the other fancy western artillery systems) as atleast a 2 - maybe even a 3....

They have forced something of a doctrine change - in that the the Russians have had to reposition where command posts/resupply/reserves/etc. are - and put a lot more effort to avoid clustering large groupings in the rear.

Franfran2424's avatar

Disagree. They are just ANOTHER howitzer.

It was long distance and guided munitions that forced a decentralization of supplies.

Clementine's avatar

What's your take on Starlink? Seems to be the one Ukrainian 'game changer' made by actually competent people, on account of Elon not being a traditional defense contractor (and thus optimizing for systems that are functional rather than expensive).

Ken Macaulay's avatar

hadn't got to the writeup on the himars yet - where you gave it a 5! (agreed)

I just tend to group all the western artillery/rocket systems together at this point...