Ukraine War Thread Part 2

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Originally Posted by antheads

ahem that counter offensive, where is it at again? oh wait it's nowhere sqm at a cost of x ukri lives, not that you old pommy warriors care about that https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-robotyne.html

Gallipoli comes to mind.

As to the counter offensive. I read a few news bits about the "break through" and remembered an old reminder from an Armor Branch colonel who I once worked for.
"When you make a break through and try to exploit it, you have a ticklish risk assessment to do since you now have two flanks as you penetrate and try to exploit the breakthrough."
He further went on to observe
"Here is where I appreciate the aviation units in the Cav...when the weather is good. "

Which takes me to:

1. How well have Ukraine established local air superiority in the vicinity of the breakthrough" ... and ...
2. How well have Ukraine established EW spectrum dominance / superiority in the area (let's say 10-20 nm radius) around the breakthrough?
3. For Ukraine to exploit this they need to be able to spoil and/ or stall various counterattacks. More importantly to interfere with the sensor-to-shooter links between local Russian forces and Russian artillery.