Karkiv is a 1.5 million town stretching in the largest distance over about 23 kilometers. It is located in the flatlands at a river crossing and the town is devided into industrial and housing estates. There is a main stadium, large industrial halls, small one family houses and several floors appartement houses placed in a squared block system depending on the two rivers with many straight lines and few turns or corners.
In general this is Tank terretory with heavy infantry taking positions and drone surveillance quite comperable to the Battle of Baghdad in the Iraq war.
Classic main force attacks would be by a spearhead strategy in which the attackers choose an entry point for heavy tanks sourrounded by infantry with heavy guns and sniper weapons that has as much cover as possible for the attackers and as easy as possible to spot position opportunities for the defenders to head into town as far as savely possible to create first strongholds as forward positions to have more troops advance spreading out into town and into firefights.
In opposite to Irak both fractions have a good understanding of drone use in all reccon, suicide and bomb dropping ways. Actually, this battle ground would be perfect IPV race drone terretory to spot enemy positions, but that is the elite of drone operators.
At night infrared systems become important to see heat signatures to directly or indirectly spot positions by hotter than usual survaces in tactical spots for further reccon.
Towns like this are Special Forces terretory that can approach silently in good situational awarness understanding off fear or anger what they do working their way slowley but steadily through empty roads, pathways and buildings until attacking positions or giving position coordinates to precision artillery.
Considering the past pictures, they will just shell all each other turning other regions nicely quiet.
Bulldozing or Scalpel
What would you do?
