Russia’s army, which relies heavily on trains to move munitions and human muscle to load them onto trucks, has created big depots close to railheads. That was fine until the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System turned up
ammunition dumps are quite possibly the most unsafe places in any war zone,” explained an American army handbook published in 2016. Munitions were not stored safely, it noted, and many dated from the Soviet era, close to their expiry dates, creating “a tinderbox ready to explode”. “Priority targeting of these areas will cause a serious logistics strain on the Russian system,” it concluded. Ukrainian generals are now putting that theory to the test.
On July 11th a Russian ammunition depot in Nova Kakhovka in southern Ukraine exploded in spectacular fashion. Satellite images showed that the entire facility vanished overnight. It is thought to be the latest victim of the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System , which America began sending to Ukraine in late June.
America has provided eight launchers and on July 8th said it would send four more. Each one carries a pod of six-guided missiles accurate up to 84km or so—nearly three times the range of the howitzers sent earlier. American officialsof providing more of these weapons until it was clear that Ukraine would use them effectively.
So far, Ukraine appears to be passing that test. The Nova Kakhovka facility was probably the 19th such depot to have gone up in flames since June 27th, according to a tally by Kyle Glen, an open-source analyst. A strike on a command post in Kherson province on July 10th is said to have killed the commander of Russia’s 20th Motor Rifle Division and several of its senior officers, along with the chief of staff of the 22nd army corps, a major-general.
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