Just wow, and i mean WOW…

So the Ukrainian Military is the little engine that could….

https://defence-blog.com/ukrainian-troops-capture-russias-new-electronic-warfare-system/

On August 6, the Ukrainian Military launched an offensive operation and invaded Russia…. Read that again, but slower. The guys that can’t stop Russian attacks in the Donbas

region of the country just went on the offensive, and it’s GLORIOUS.

I usually bounce around military blog sites like THE WAR ZONE, THE DEFENSE BLOG, and surf You Tube and frequent TASK AND PURPOSE to get up to the date I for on what is going on in the wide wold of war sports. I’m a fiction writer and need some nightmare fuel on occasion to jumpstart my creative process.

Long time readers know I have an affinity for the Stryker family of combat vehicles fielded by the US Army and older ones have been donated to Ukraine as battle taxis. If you have ever deployed, fought, or commanded Stryker units, the 8 wheeled beast are sort of an enigma. Using them in Iraq to fight a counterinsurgency was a great way to get around the battlefield and provided a shit ton of .50 freedom seeds on demand to break an ambush or punish any insurgents dumb enough to try and stand their ground when the Ghost rolled up.

The Stryker is just a way to protect the guys in back from battlefield effects until they can close with the enemy and shock and awe them into the afterlife. It’s the grunts that make the difference. Being able to roll up and put thirty or so barrel chested freedom fighters ON the objective is quite a way to start an attack. Dismounting the grunts out of sight and sound of an objective and walking up to set a support by fire allows stealth. Once the 240s kick off the party, bringing four 30 ton armored trucks up to the SBF with four heavy machine guns just adds more “spice” to the equation. When you start using advanced optics and talk 50 guns just makes John Moses Browning smile down from heaven… it hyper-lethality in it’s truest form.

https://defence-blog.com/us-army-upgrades-its-strykers-with-lethal-weapons-system/

Now, US striker’s are getting needed weapon station upgrades that have the ability to mount Javelins… the premiere Anti-Tank system in the free world. That is a lot of firepower for the mounted platoon. Kongsberg, the company that designed the common remotely operated weapon system also designs turrets that can mount 30mm bushmaster cannons and the M230 LF, a link fed 30mm weapon just like the gun that arms the AH 64 helicopter. Just think if the Strykers all had 30 mm cannons, and half of them mounted a Javelin in a ready to fire configuration…. Sweet dreams are made of this stuff.

https://www.kongsberg.com/kda/what-we-do/defence-and-security/remote-weapon-systems/protector-rs6/

Cannons and guns that go “boom boom” are really cool and soldiers love the absolute shit out of them. It’s like a really dark episode of “Rick and Morty” with tons of direct firepower. I want you to understand that the US gave the UKA “old” Strikers that probably spent ten years in Iraq with tons of blood, sweat, and tears that dripped into the hulls. To say the new ones are better is a biblical understatement. More power and better armor provide the tools that soldiers need to survive on the modern battlefield and take the fight to the enemy. Look at You Tube videos and see how MANY variants there are of the Stryker to serve every purpose imaginable, from infantry carrier, ambulance, breacher, and new science fiction Strykers with directed energy weapons. The sky is the limit with DARPA figures g out new ways to protect our Army and make them more lethal.

I write fiction and I didn’t predict the Ukrainian Army pulling off an assault into Russia. They used Strykers to get there and fight and that warms my heart. Noe get some more Abrams and Bradly Infantry Fighting vehicles in there to keep what they took, and this new “offensive” may have some legs. It certainly embarked old Vlad, and thats a really good thing for NATO and the rest of us.