Originally Posted by
NutLoose
and in such an action are cutting their own throats and their war funding.
in the meantime a sign of the desperation felt in Kherson since the bridges were cut, attempting to resupply, although limited by helicopter.
https://twitter.com/WarMonitor3/stat...52685869031425
Didn't work well for Von Paulus in '42.
The Luftwaffe was unable to fulfil the promises of capability for uplift that Goering made to the Putin muse,
Governor Tarkin Hitler.
The Luftwaffe’s Aerial Resupply of the Sixth Army at Stalingrad
The 6th Army required around 900 tons/day. they got barely 10% of that. [averaged 114.6 tons/day). Russian forces on the "Right" bank (a term recently learnt) are predominantly mechanised, so their needs in supplies are much higher per person than the amount that was unsupportable in 42. For 25,000 troops, which are around 30 BTGs assuming full strength... their daily needs per person are estimated as 440lbs/soldier/day... 0.2 Tons/soldier/day. That's... 5,000tons resupply/day for the Redex's. An Mi-17 carries... about... 4 ton internally, 5 ton sling, but of course external kind of makes transit speed suuuuuck. Giving the Redskins the benefit of the doubt, they carry 5Ton/chalk, 2 copters per mission, and flying constant, around the clock... thats... 1,000 flight, being 500 missions with 2 choppers.... 42 flights per hour... 21 missions of 2 choppers per hour... say 20 minutes to load 5 tons, 10 minutes to offload, 10 minute transits each way from a forward depot.... (which would be under attack fairly promptly... ) thats... roughly 36 Mi-17s operating around the clock. double that for 12 hrs ops per chopper per day... 72 machines. At any time there would be 4 being loaded, 2 outbound, 2 unloading, 2 inbound, and a couple being refuelled. That is about 1/3rd of the number needed to lift the payload. That is looking like a gaggle, and gaggles attract duck hunters, would be Mi - open season I would think.
