![]() ![]() The movie didn't leave a particularly lasting impression with me. And while "Ambush" certainly was interesting enough, the movie was ultimately sort of nondistinctive, and it sort of feels like a movie that snuck in under the radar and will just as quietly fade into oblivion. Writers Mark Burman, Johnny Lozano, Michael McClung and Dillon Slack put together a fair enough script for the storyline here. ![]() So I wasn't sure what I was in for here, aside from it being a Vietnam War movie of sorts. However, prior to sitting down and watching this movie from director Mark Burman, I hadn't even heard about it. Intelligence estimates suggest that Russia is using T-90s, T-72s and the possibly even their new, highly advanced T-14 Armata tank in Ukraine.When I sat down to watch "Ambush", I figured that chances were that it would prove a good movie since it had the likes of Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Aaron Eckhart on the cast list. A file photo of the assortment of Ukrainian anti-armor weapons being used in the current conflict. If the social media battlefield weighs on the outcome of this conflict, at least in the west, Ukraine is leveraging both battlefield tactics and social media tactics to craft what appears to be the impression of effective resistance. While there are videos from state-sponsored media of Russian successes in Ukraine appearing on YouTube and in other social media, the traffic numbers on that media has been miniscule compared to the number of views, shares and impressions of Ukrainian shared social media of “kill TV” videos and imagery like this one. The Ukrainians have not only been effective in employing small unit tactics, as illustrated in this video, against Russian forces, they’ve also been successful in employing another lethal and modern weapon on the battlefield in Ukraine social media. The trailing vehicle in the Russian armored column is hit by a second anti-tank missile, trapping the column on the road in the middle and fixing the vehicles in the kill zone. From there, all the Russians can do is fight back against an unseen enemy and likely “die in place”, or dismount and run for it, almost always another lethal alternative. The ambush is initiated when an anti-tank missile strikes the lead vehicle in the Russian armored column, halting their advance.Īnti-tank crews maintain the initiative by firing another missile at the vehicle at the rear of the column, effectively trapping every vehicle between the front and the back of the column in the kill zone. The armored column is trapped in the kill zone. In this case, attacking directly into the direction of fire proves to be impractical for the Russian column because of the buildings on either side of the road. Once disabled by an anti-tank missile, the following vehicles have only two choices attack directly into the ambush, a common counter-ambush infantry doctrine, or, reverse out of the kill zone, a much less viable and potentially deadly alternative since this escape route is almost always covered by another anti-tank missile team. The first target is the vehicle at the front of the column, the “point” position. Obstacles placed in the single road slow the advance of the vehicles through the urban area. The vehicle column is constrained to one road, hemmed-in by buildings on both sides with limited or no escape routes. It shows what is likely 10 Russian heavy tanks and additional, lighter armored vehicles entering a Ukrainian village. 9, 2022, on the ukraine_defence social network channels. The Ukrainians are throwing the anti-armor kitchen sink at the advancing Russians, and according to most western media accounts and the maps of Russian progress in Ukraine, these anti-tank weapons and the tactics used to employ them are proving to be at least somewhat effective, perhaps highly effective, in slowing the Russian advance. Ukrainian forces are using a broad assortment of portable anti-tank weapons ranging from the old and relatively small 66mm M72 Light Anti-Tank Weapon (LAW) to the lethal and highly advanced FGM-148 Javelin, and nearly everything in between. A small number of skilled and daring infantrymen can take on a large column of heavy tanks and win. This is the tipping point on the fulcrum of asymmetrical warfare for small units that are well-drilled and well equipped with modern anti-tank weapons. ![]() Opposing force anti-tank units can easily cover both escape venues when initiating an ambush with lightweight, portable anti-tank missiles. Heavy tanks in a closely spaced column with buildings on each side have only two directions to move, forward or rearward. Any time an armored column is forced to move through an urban environment surrounded by buildings and constrained to driving on a road, the vehicles in the armored column loose one of their biggest advantages the ability to maneuver.
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