Comments by "Logik" (@philonetic321) on "How Ukraine Smashed Through Russian Defensive Lines" video.

Military breakthrough definition; A breakthrough occurs when an offensive force has broken or penetrated an opponent's defensive line, and rapidly exploits the gap. Usually, large force is employed on a relatively small portion of the front to achieve this.
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@denfoot1111 Russia population is only about 3x that of Ukraine, is losing twice as many soldiers, way more than twice the equipment and is losing ground. Ukraine and western money can buy a lot more mercs and weapons. Look at Russian GDP. Do the math.
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@hb1338 Why wouldn't a surveillance satellite have live video feed?
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@ourlifeinwashington4114 Say a track takes a direct hit from storm shadow. The damaged section will be small. Compare to the Mk 84 which leaves a 50 foot crater. Lethal radius to organics is much higher, but not to steel rail. Let's over estimate and go 200ft. So we need to replace 400ft of rail. That's not even 10,000lbs of railway steel, far less than a truck load. It would take 1 truck and a few buckets of thermite to fix it in less than a day, if the strike were perfect. Railway is a bad target. Far better to hit supplies at critical moments. Lots of ammo depots have gone up in smoke.
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@fjalics On the trains vs trucks, 1 freight train can pull 672 freight trucks worth of weight.
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To clear a few things up for the comments, no, Ukraine is not short on manpower. But at the same time, Russia has not formally declared war. If Russia actually declares war then they have access to over 1.2 million more conscripts, nearly instantly. They just don't have any equipment for them.
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@Jm-wt1fs It's already a political mess. The Hague, International Criminal Court, wants Putin and others for multiple charges. The UN has concluded that Russia has committed crimes against humanity and multiple war crimes. Russia military describing certain soldiers as "disposable" manpower. They tried to blow up a nuclear power plant. Short of nuclear arms, there's nothing that Russia can do at this point to lose more face in the international community. They've made the USA look like a savior, they've brought about the arming of their neighbors and Russian aggression is the sole reason for the recent additions to NATO. Russia accomplished everything that they wanted to prevent.
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Railway is a legitimate target but not usually worth the munitions. They're just repaired too quickly.
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@kimweaver1252 You're talking about hitting a train, not railway.
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@kimweaver1252 Even in that scenario, the cleanup of an actual train wreck would be the majority of the cleanup. It still takes relatively very little time to repair surface and rail. A few truckloads of quarry dust, level it, 1 truck with rail, repair, still less than a day.
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@kimweaver1252 lol that's not how reality works. You should look up "railway repair".
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@kimweaver1252 Best at night, is that right? It doesn't matter when they use long range precision munitions, Russia doesn't have a capable defense. A few pounds of explosives, you're assuming a very specific scenario where there is already a sustained presence and they have the ability to send infantry, undetected, to place explosives on enemy assets. This isn't a video game. Drones and constant surveillance exist. Going behind enemy lines isn't like it is on xbox. I think you've watched too many movies.
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@kimweaver1252 If they're going to use $2 million dollar per strike munitions on a train then don't you think it would make more sense to hit them in-station? Just a thought.
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