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Radio War Nerd EP #390 — Armored Vehicles in Ukraine's Counteroffensive, feat. John Griffiths (Patreon)

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2023-08-11 01:42:49
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Guest: John Griffiths, Totally Tanked podcast

Recorded: August 9, 2023

John Griffiths follows up his last RWN appearance on tanks in the Russo-Ukraine War with a look at all the other armored vehicle weaponry assembled like sampler boxes for Ukraine's 2023 counteroffensive, from IFVs and APCs to MRAPs and mine-clearing equipment. And we ask: Does (or can) any of this work against the sort of landmine-intensive defensive works that Russia constructed?

*Check out John Griffiths' podcast Totally Tanked on all things-tanks.*Listen to our previous episode with John Griffiths, RWN #364, on, you guessed it, tanks.

Total time: 1:08:58

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 

Sound production by Telescope Audio Studios

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Gengeros

Any chance we could get some episodes about the eastern front of World War II for us angloids? I know the western front of ww II is talked to death in the Angloid world, but the eastern front is a completely different beast. We are talking 100s of thousands of death and causalities and POWs in just single battles. Like something like the Rzhev Meat Grinder is a huge battle that is hardly known outside the former ussr and Germany.

Doug Cartel

hell, even Kursk isn't well known in the west and that was essentially the moment germany was doomed to failure, and it wasn't even 1944 yet.

Totally Tanked

This weekend’s Totally Tanked is going to cover the Panther with a lot of discussion of the eastern front. Also our episodes on T34, KV1, and IS2! But agree people should know more!

PostmasterFenian

KV1 was a beast of a tank as was the IS2 didn't the soviets basically do some type of OR analysis and just go with the T34 due to logistical problems with super heavy tanks. Think they could have kept producing and iterating the super heavy models but chose not to after doing some type of cost benefit analysis

PostmasterFenian

I feel seen and heard and therefore valued as a patreon customer by hearing that the m113 is a death trap pretty sure most of the APC's sent by the west were those at 400 (around 1/2 to 2/3rds I believe). Thank you aussie john

Totally Tanked

They had a good idea that the next generation of German armour would be a struggle for the T-34, hence getting IS2 into the field. The 122mm gun had selected itself at kursk where it was used as artillery and it was noticed they didn't have to hit a tank twice with that gun. The amazing design of IS2 was getting more armour and a bigger gun into a low profile and relatively lightweight tank, albeit with some ergonomic issues. IS2s duelled tigers and king tigers and while they didn't always win, they didn't always lose either.

Jon

Great work from a clearly under-the-weather Brendon, is the RWN purple heart in the mail?

David Andrews

Excellent episode. One of your top guests.

JoR

I hope they do some episodes too but don't hold your breathe waiting lol. They both loathe WWII, so unless they get some knockout guest it probably won't happen

T

Perfectly timed episode drop for all us dads who have a weekend full of yard work ahead of us.

drizzly_november

Great episode, such an affable and knowledgeable guest in ways most hardware conversations aren't. Would love something similar to Totally Tanked about boats.

William

Tanks for the great episode

Sam Zeng

I was in the Engineers, mine and IED clearance is mostly done by hand. To clear a mixed AP/AT mine field at night it took me 1 hour to clear a 1m x 20m lane and it was the most miserable thing I've done in my life.

Jaime Christley

If I remember correctly the Bangalore torpedo makes an appearance in SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, but Samuel Fuller's THE BIG RED ONE (1980) builds a longer scene around it. Basically the sergeant sends out one buck private at a time to build this long, erector-set chain of pipes; when the enemy kills that soldier, the sergeant blows his whistle and the next boy goes out there, and, after enough dead GIs are scattered over the beach, they have a working contraption. It's a great movie - "episodic" as they sometimes say. In the scene, Lee Marvin is the sergeant and the last young man who completes the device is Mark Hamill, same year as THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK. (I believe he's 2nd-billed under Marvin.) There's great tension when Hamill's GI shows great (and understandable!!!) reluctance to take up the project, and the sarge begins to fire rounds over his head; Hamill looks back and they have this wordless conversation that goes something like (Hamill): You're just enough of a sonofabitch to kill me if I don't get a move on, aren't you? (Marvin - you can imagine his stone face): Yep. The D-Day sequence in TBRO obviously was outshone by Spielberg but, on what was probably a tiny fragment of the later movie's production budget, it's pretty darn harrowing, relying on a lot of low-budget ingenuity and suggestion. Maybe you guys have seen it and talked about it previously, but if not, strongly recommended. Also, Hamill gets a love scene with the late great beauty of French cinema, Stephane Audran. She plays a resistance leader who gets her pick of which of the virile young men in Marvin's unit she gets to take to bed, and she picks ol' Luke Skywalker. (It's way less corny than that sounds - the prevailing mood of the film is melancholy with a lot of wry, macabre humor.)

ElGatoMalandrin

I would just drive on the parts of ground with no mines unde rthem

Fartmaster

as i look up as my vision turns to black after getting sploded. I see you, "skill issue, git gud"

Ander Pierce

Thanks for the correction and the episode!

James

You guys talked about drones but I was surprised you did not talk more about how well Lancets work in combination with mine fields. They can be used precisely to target Armoured Breaching Vehicles, and in my untutored opinion they are harder to thwart than artillery or Ka52s. I think that minefields+Lancets are the biggest innovation of this war.

James

Terrific guest by the way

Jimothy Realname

Attack helicopters are extremely vulnerable. now defence helicopters on the other hand...

Doug Cartel

imagining dumbfuck NATO officers shouting AUDACITY AUDACITY AUDACITY as they try and fail to chase conscripts towards the enemy trenches

Mark Ames

that's the one, I think we did some eXile prank on the IKEA that had something to do with the IKEA billionaire's origins in a Norwegian neo-Nazi group and those tank traps but I don't have a lot of memory cells living from those years, just the fossilized imprints...

A P

Great episode but missing a lot. The Ukrainian successes in the fall of 2022 were primarily due to a tactical Russian withdrawal. And even during the early part of the war when the Russians suffered larger amounts of casualties they still destroyed much of the Ukrainian military’s combat power. The Russians have always had dominance when it comes to ISR and strike. There is nothing Ukraine can do to win this war. Nothing.

Sex With Ted Cruz

In an interview an AFU soldier said that when they asked their German trainers what to do about mines, the Germans said "just go around them".