A hell of a lot of artillery misses. It would be interesting to know what sort of arty fire it was. Looks fairly random and not more than one battery of guns.
To really to to work you'd expect them - with the artillery superiority they are supposed to have - to use a number of batteries at once. Even as many as three or four. I don't know how many guns per battery they use but let's say 6. Four batteries would be very potent. 24 rounds landing at once.
Target well registered - you know what that means? - it means located and all the guns have the exact settings to put on that gun for the shot to land at that place. AND 'ranging rounds' fired. Know what that means? It means they fire some rounds at those settings and see where they land. Rarely exactly as predicted by the calculations. So then they make the fine adjustments.
Then settle down and do something else.
Then when required that target can be engaged simply by instructing the guns to engage it, quoting the number, the reference, whatever.
And the guns are onto it within a minute or two.
So: 24 rounds landing in close proximity all at the same time.
That's barrage fire. That's like a broadside from the old warships at sea.
Even traditional artillery ought to be able to land their rounds within 100 metres or so I would have thought at say 5 miles (8km)? I don't know the ranges they typically fire at in these Bakhmut type situations.
that today a cep of 0.02% of target distance or 35m at 40km seems achievable.
Well in that case we can imagine 24 rounds landing within the area of one high rise apartment building all at once. It would bring it down. Obliterate it.
Or to move out into the field 24 rounds landing easily within 100m or 200m of country road with a convoy of trucks, armoured vehicles, tanks, troops proceeding down it.
I have in fact never seen any pictures, videos of either action.
In short, what I'm trying to say, the much vaunted artillery advantage of the allies isn't clearly evident in what we see/hear.
A hell of a lot of artillery misses. It would be interesting to know what sort of arty fire it was. Looks fairly random and not more than one battery of guns.
To really to to work you'd expect them - with the artillery superiority they are supposed to have - to use a number of batteries at once. Even as many as three or four. I don't know how many guns per battery they use but let's say 6. Four batteries would be very potent. 24 rounds landing at once.
Target well registered - you know what that means? - it means located and all the guns have the exact settings to put on that gun for the shot to land at that place. AND 'ranging rounds' fired. Know what that means? It means they fire some rounds at those settings and see where they land. Rarely exactly as predicted by the calculations. So then they make the fine adjustments.
Then settle down and do something else.
Then when required that target can be engaged simply by instructing the guns to engage it, quoting the number, the reference, whatever.
And the guns are onto it within a minute or two.
So: 24 rounds landing in close proximity all at the same time.
That's barrage fire. That's like a broadside from the old warships at sea.
Even traditional artillery ought to be able to land their rounds within 100 metres or so I would have thought at say 5 miles (8km)? I don't know the ranges they typically fire at in these Bakhmut type situations.
I find here: https://www.spslandforces.com/story/?id=151
that today a cep of 0.02% of target distance or 35m at 40km seems achievable.
Well in that case we can imagine 24 rounds landing within the area of one high rise apartment building all at once. It would bring it down. Obliterate it.
Or to move out into the field 24 rounds landing easily within 100m or 200m of country road with a convoy of trucks, armoured vehicles, tanks, troops proceeding down it.
I have in fact never seen any pictures, videos of either action.
In short, what I'm trying to say, the much vaunted artillery advantage of the allies isn't clearly evident in what we see/hear.
All very puzzling to me.
Terrifying to imagine being in such conditions...