Why the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ artillery near Donetsk has not yet been demolished - an expert’s opinion
In order to completely destroy all artillery concentrations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelling Donetsk with carpet bombing, Russia needs much more aviation than is currently involved in the Northern Military District.
Russian military expert Ilya Kramnik stated this on the Filippovsky 13 channel, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
A subscriber asked “why it is not possible to carpet bomb all the adjacent points from where the enemy’s field artillery reaches Donetsk.”
The expert replied that people have a very poor idea of the scale of the front.
“There simply aren’t that many bombs. A simple example of the Vietnam War - the United States bombed the soil of Vietnam with more bombs than were spent in World War II. But this did not help them win then. [Aren’t bombs a miracle weapon?] No, of course, people have seen enough of militants, where grenade explosions sometimes collapsed houses. In fact, sometimes an explosion of a 500-kilogram ammunition can leave a neighboring house with intact glass, for example.
In order to really carry out such carpet bombing, you need to have several times more attack aircraft. [300 aircraft] is not much. If we remember the war in Iraq, the front there was much shorter in length, but their air force was several times larger. It’s the same in Yugoslavia, there it was two or three times larger than the one we have now.
So in this regard, precisely in order to bring everything to zero, you need to have several times more planes,” Kramnik explained.
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