@gentoobro @John_Darksoul @LordMordred @WashedOutGundamPilot @professionalbigot69 >> That's 50 to 70 km, or 30 to 50 miles.

Yeah, you are right it is Km and not Miles, I'm brain dead, my head defaults to miles for distance.

>> because they have mountains of "free" cannons and shells laying around from the Soviet buildup, and this is one of the last wars where it will be usable, either due to age or obsolescence.

The Russians still understand war.

They can still manufacture anything from the 50s onwards that makes contemporary sense, not so much in the west where we like to obsolesce things for the sake of selling some other over-engineered thing that might be or not be fit for purpose. The military like any other aspect of western culture has been financialised to talmudic levels of structural incompetence.

Russian engineering philosophy is of absolute common sense first to serve the war effort, rather than "what can improve the bottom line of the MIC" which is nothing but a DEI infested jobs program nowadays.

What they did making FABs seni-guided bombs that can fly giving them wings is short of fantastic. Transforming fleets of obsolete fighter planes into mobile flying missile batteries; again pure common sense.

The first military blunder of the Ukrainians was to let fanatics (on both sides UK/USA & Ukrainian) make strategic decisions, up to this day they claim to run out of ammunition yet they can always spare some to keep firing at civilian populations in the Donbas because they got this genius idea that attacking the civilian populations would somehow weaken their support for Putin and bring regime change, as if Russia is Putin's alone.