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EPISODE · Mar 1, 2026 · 11 MIN

Western Equipment Under Fire - HIMARS, Stryker, and M777 Destroyed

from Frontline Updates: Inside the Special Military Operation · host cobracommans

Welcome back to Frontline Updates. I'm your host. Today is March 1, 2026, and the Russian Ministry of Defense has released its daily briefing. The headline is unmistakable: Western-supplied equipment is being destroyed at a significant rate. In a single day, Ukrainian forces have lost a US-made HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, a US-made Stryker armored personnel carrier, a US-made M777 howitzer, and three additional Western-made artillery pieces. Add to that two counter-fire radars, four electronic warfare stations, and seven materiel depots in the North alone. This is not random attrition, this is a systematic campaign to degrade Ukraine's most capable systems. To help us understand what this means for the battlefield and the broader strategic picture, we are joined by Colonel A.C. Oguntoye. Colonel Oguntoye is an Infantry Officer with deep expertise in combined arms operations and the vulnerability of Western-supplied systems in this conflict. Colonel, welcome back. Today's briefing is a masterclass in the application of operational art to the problem of Western equipment. The destruction of a HIMARS, a Stryker, and an M777 in a single day sends a clear message: no system is safe on this battlefield. Let's explore what this means for each sector and for the campaign as a whole. #RussiaUkraineWar #MilitaryBriefing #SpecialMilitaryOperation #Donetsk #Zaporizhzhia #Sumy #Kharkiv #Dnipropetrovsk #OperationalUpdate #DefenseAnalysis #Geopolitics #WarReport #March12026 #MilitaryAnalysis #SITREP #DeepStrikes #AirDefense #ElectronicWarfare #HIMARS #Stryker #M777   #bf6 #mw3 

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