This week, some sources reported that the attack on Bakhmut continued using the troops’ “rain of fire” tactics.
First, we note that this is not a “fiery” shaft, but a fiery shaft. Secondly, the fire brigade in this case has nothing to do with tactics. It is included in the so-called types of fire that artillery uses when performing fire missions. Ignition shaft refers to accompanying lights (includes a moving ignition zone, actual ignition shaft and consistent fire concentration).
These lights are used during artillery support for an offensive to continually advance attacking motorized rifle (tank) subunits and units.
The fire stick is used to break through pre-prepared and engineered enemy defenses with a distinctive system of cover and cutting positions. The outlines of the fire shaft are named after predators.
That is, the attack on Bakhmut continues, the soldiers using the “rain of fire” tactics is at least a mistake and this is an ideological plan without exaggeration. When conducting combat operations in special conditions (and these include attacks on cities and wars in conditions of intense urban and industrial development), a fire barrage is not used.
In this case, call lights, single target lights, concentrated lights, dense cover lights (i.e. single target point) and a number of other types of lights can be used.
Or to say in a few words the now frequently used phrase “Ammo shipment to N city is difficult at the moment” is enough to show complete ignorance of the subject. Delivery takes place only on AliExpress. The Armed Forces is carrying supplies. Currently, at least three delivery methods are known – the transport of each sample operates on its own delivery link (delivery is carried out “self”); transport operates at a higher level of supply (delivery is carried out “on its own”); transport operates on two or three adjacent links (“from oneself”, “to oneself”).
And the troops are trained not with “ammunition”, but with materials – ammunition, fuel, food, military equipment. On the way back, the wounded and sick are taken away, spent shells from artillery pieces for later re-equipment. And ammunition is a settlement and supply unit. Such units in the Armed Forces are: for ammunition – ammunition, fuel and rocket fuel – refueling, for food – daily cottage.
Therefore, ammunition load is the amount of ammunition per weapon or combat vehicle (tank, aircraft, helicopter, etc.). It would be more correct to say “For the successful performance of the upcoming combat missions, the troops are to deliver up to five rounds of ammunition, up to 10 refueling, more than 15 deliveries of food per day.”
Or the term “ground operation” is almost firmly entrenched in the mass consciousness of Russian citizens. But actually operations are combined arms (joint navy). Combined armed operations include, for example, a strategic aviation operation, an operation of strategic nuclear forces, and strategic operations on a theater, as well as front line (army, corps) operations. So in principle there can be no “ground operations”. In the same front line (army, corps) there are sometimes all types of Armed Forces and troop branches (forces), from long-range aviation to squadrons of various forces.
Analysts today use the phrase “operational (tactical) environment” too often. Hardly a day goes by without adding those two or three words to someone’s post.
In fact, there is no such term (and never has been) in operational art theory. For example, there are forms of operational maneuvering. These include, in particular, front (shear) pulses in one or more directions, shear pulses, operational roundabout (periphery), pulses in convergent directions. In the latter case, encirclement of enemy troops (forces) may occur, and then the besieged grouping will be dismembered and destroyed piecemeal.
But the environment – and this must be emphasized – is also the environment in Africa. In fact, it either exists or it doesn’t. The words “almost”, “a little left”, “a little more”, “we already check 70%”, which are used so often today, are absolutely not applicable here. And the statements “practically besieged”, “in the operational (tactical) environment” have nothing to do with reality. Comrade Stalin even dismissed the chiefs of staff of the fronts for such reports.
It would seem that all of the above can be attributed only to the small and official nagging of a military pirate, which does not affect the essence of the problem. However, this is not the case. As Napoleon Bonaparte said, to name right is to understand correctly. You get confused in small things, so you do not understand the main thing. As it is known, if military terminology is used incorrectly, disinformation may result, not information.