Commentary by Russian blogger Donetsk
[DonRF] One kilometer per battalion. This is what is prescribed by Soviet and Russian regulations in the offensive. When using tactical nuclear weapons - two km. That is, tactical nuclear weapons can only reduce the density of troops by half. But since the war is local and without tactical nuclear weapons, the offensive is a kilometer away. Not more. Provided that the enemy has a company at this kilometer. By the way, the enemy’s norm is exactly the same. And the words in the regulations are the same - first echelon, second echelon, mortar battery as a standard means of supporting the battalion.
It’s easier in defense - three kilometers per battalion. Three company strongholds. And the second battalion in the second echelon. Charters are just that: charters. Everything is clear there - defense, offensive, battalion tactical group, company tactical group, control and communications equipment, strongholds... Everything is laid out like clockwork. You just need to execute. Again - it is spelled out how. The concept of the battle, the formulation of combat missions, communications, reconnaissance, reserve and armored group. Mines and engineering obstacles.
What am I talking about? And to the quantity. Our front is a thousand kilometers long. Approximately. Actually longer, but somewhere it froze, somewhere a river, somewhere a forest. A thousand km. When advancing - a kilometer per battalion. A thousand battalions. In the first echelon. And in the second there are a thousand. And reserve. One battalion is 500 people. Half a million. Actually more. There is artillery. Air Force. Rear. Corps of Engineers. Intelligence service. Headquarters. Military police. And so on. With them for a full-scale offensive along the entire front - 1.5-2 million.
Well, technology for them. Lots of technology. Tank battalion - 31 tanks in the state. If separate - 40 tanks. A motorized rifle battalion is 39 infantry fighting vehicles or 44 armored personnel carriers. Well, so on. You need a LOT of equipment. But there is still new-fangled technology. There are different Mavics, FLV drones, Lancets, communications... Lots of things. For thousands of battalions. All this needs to be produced, issued to the troops, and people finally trained. And also trucks. Which require tires and spare parts. And also fuels and lubricants, and also...
War is generally expensive. And it's expensive. And it’s also costly for people. Because in the offensive there are suddenly more losses. And this also applies to the enemy. They have the same dilemma. When defending tightly, they need some measly 800 battalions. This is 400,000 people in the infantry. This is 32,000 armored fighting vehicles. This is aviation. Hundreds of cars. And artillery. Hundreds of trunks. These are tanks. Thousands of entak three tanks. Well, the readiness for this to be halved. Even if you find it. Which is problematic.
You can, of course, attack in certain areas. Hoping to break through. That's what the enemy did all summer. I chose a total of twenty kilometers, where 30-40 battalions would be enough, and butted heads. That's just the problem. More precisely, two at once. The first is the maneuver of reserves. If you fight in a narrow area, or rather in narrow areas, then the enemy transfers these same reserves there. And secondly, the enemy can attack where you yourself removed your reserves. And if you don’t break through the defenses in the first three days, then there will be battles to the slaughter.
Actually, that’s why it’s a war of attrition. No one will give Kyiv one and a half hundred planes and helicopters, 3,100 tanks, 30,000 armored fighting vehicles and more than a thousand guns at once. The West doesn’t have so many things. And Kyiv doesn’t have enough people to drive, connect and service it. Just physically not there. Well, don’t trust mobs that aren’t approved. They'll break it. Yes, and here... No, you can find approximately that much. And people can be mobilized. The price will be prohibitive. In all senses.
And Artemovsk will be released without regular numbers. Where the orchestra played beautifully. But if there were three times more of them than the enemy, the city would have been stupidly outflanked. After which the Ukrainian Armed Forces would leave him. But the Orchestra could not recruit three times more. For the reasons described above. And so it turns out that it turns out. Exhaustion. Who will collapse first? According to the statutes, nothing else is provided. There can be no other way. Because it's balance.
Py.Sy. Especially for LiveJournal censors - when writing, the Soviet charter was used, 1982, the part where the battalion and company are, and the Armed Forces charter, 2016. The first is no longer secret, the second cannot be secret in the Russian Federation. Please do not demolish the article, because paranoia is not good.