What the fuck happened to the VDV? are airborne tactics a meme?

What the frick happened to the VDV? are airborne tactics a meme?

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  1. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The VDV actually did their job very well, they just fell victim to the classic story of “Airborne units are unable to be resupplied and end up wiped out”

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      also no reinforcements or fire support

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They got scattered even before the Army convoy near Kiev convoy stalled. They took Hostomel, made the security forces flee, and then came under fire and had to flee themselves. All while the airport/aircraft they intended to capture were shelled. For a successful linkup there had to be impeccable timing, and that is rarely worth the risk.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's a cool fanfiction you wrote after the fact. Is it yours?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Who holds Hostomel?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          There was a brief period where the VDV held the airport. Preparing to begin shuttling in planes, men and equipment.
          The Ukrainians shelled the airport and put a stop to it. Before they were able to move back in and recapture the airport from the Russians.
          https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rg7wecErGKY

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous
          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Please delete that picture.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            thats not mriya idiot, it literally says 124 on it

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I thought the image itself looked off anyway. The 225 had its engines attached since I remember videos of the fan blades spinning while destroyed.

              https://i.imgur.com/054Uds1.jpg

              >VDV held the airport
              After the shelling of the grounded aircraft (without a secure area of about 40 km.) They withdrew outside the airport right? Couldn't find much about that I have some vids of them being in below ground.

              The timeline confusion for me comes from when the fighting in the two happened. Was that stopping more forces from getting into the airport, or was it engaging the paratroopers who had evacuated it?
              Some images from the time showed a fair amount of planes and trucks on the ground. Which were caught in the Ukrainian counterattack.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >VDV take airport
                >The clip of "we're lucky their stupid" is that they collected their forces to Gostomel on open target that can be seen from drone/satellite
                >this leads to shelling of said equipment
                >VDV have to engage in counter battery
                >targets are hit still
                Its more of a repeat when looking at maps.

                >they did well defending in Kherson and around Bakhmu
                Kherson and the flanks around Bakhmut are doing famously well right now

                A boat force tried again in Kherson recently its the third one recorded. But tell me what is the fanficiton about Kherson now?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            fun fact: the plane was destroyed by hohol artillery

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >VDV held the airport
            After the shelling of the grounded aircraft (without a secure area of about 40 km.) They withdrew outside the airport right? Couldn't find much about that I have some vids of them being in below ground.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Bro, why do you have to act moronic?

          We literally have day 1 footage from CNN with the VDV holding the airport, it's not
          >MUH VATNIK FANFICTION
          Watch any analysis of the initial assault and it'll tell you the same
          " Kings and Generals " or whatever that Youtube channel is came to the same conclusion

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Airborne exist to be the bravest, boldest and dumbest lemmings around. Sometimes they achieve mission success, too.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Looks like we got competition, Marines!

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Airborne types are too proud to eat crayons however. Meanwhile you could shove horse shit and crayons into a retort pouch and the USMC wouldn't know any better.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Airborne units are unable to be resupplied and end up wiped out”

      This only seems to happen to Russian airborne troops though. Others have been encircled, sure, but the 101st didn't cease to exist after Bastogne.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        The Americans had tanks, artillery, dug in positions, etc… these weren’t guys who just came down under silk. Even still the battle of the bulge is famous because of how desperate it was.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >The VDV actually did their job very well
      Kek. Did you actually see the footage of them taking the airport? Fricking amateur hour.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not they didn't, how are you so new that you don't remember the start of the war?
      Fricking hell you people are dumb

  2. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The returned home on their own power.

  3. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    STANDING

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      ON THE EDGE

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        OF THE CRATER

  4. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >are airborne tactics a meme?
    Not really. Airborne troops can hit hard, but they're fragile. They can make surprise attacks and seize priority targets from the enemy, but they can't really hold them without conventional reinforcements showing up to help.
    What the ziggers did was just send the VDV to take airfields and shit.....then just leave them there to get flattened when the Ukrainians counter-attacked with artillery and heavy armor to which the VDV has no defense.

    TL;DR : Airborne troops aren't a meme. The russians just got all of theirs killed because they don't know how to use airborne troops.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't factor in that the Ukrainians would counter-attack. The VDV and other airborn units were to take airports, and then ferry in more troops to make the fast attack on Kiev. But then the conventional forces got bogged down fighting, and airborne were stranded alone. Literally Russian plans were like "we will attack so fast and from every directions they will simply put down their weapons and run".

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Well, that does kind of make an (incompetent) sort of sense.
        But what makes no sense at all is that they just kept sending in more VDV to replace the ones who just got wiped out down to the last man by the ukies. And they did it over, and over, and over. It made no fricking sense at all.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >they just kept sending in more VDV to replace the ones who just got wiped out down to the last man by the ukies. And they did it over, and over, and over. It made no fricking sense at all.
          what are you even talking about?

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Hostomel.mp4

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don't think they got really wiped out properly at any point, they had to retreat (is that even confifrmed?) but in the end they did hold or at least recapture the airfield once the ground troops linked up. So there was no wiped out and reinforced cycle.

              They did get properly fricked on their initial probes out of the air port, the kino ambush on that column by spec ops and volunteers.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >they had to retreat (is that even confifrmed?)

                Farmers killed some of them as they fled.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Imagine training for years and then this kek

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                17 navy seals were killed when their helicopter was shot down by a moronic goat herder. It's just war. Hell, there was probably some poor samurai who was trained and endured hardship for all his life and then died of diarrhea before ever getting to a battle.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >died of diarrhea before ever getting to a battle
                I remember reading that a majority or at least a significant portion of soldier deaths in the old times used to be from diseases and shit. Comparatively few people died in actual combat.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Especially in very successful armies, anon. Think about it: if you're mogging everyone else in battle, you're taking fewer casualties, except for the one enemy ancient armies couldn't beat for the longest time, disease.
                Thus some Roman campaigns reported casualty ratios of 1:4, enemy action vs disease.

                And the Royal Navy of the Napoleonic Wars took 90% of its casualties during the period from accidents and disease, only 10% from combat.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Barbarossa
                >Build an empire
                >Launch a massive crusade for the holy land
                >accidently drown in a river on the way there

                What did he mean by this?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You know, naming a military operation after him probably should have been a hint to how it would end up.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                That applied well into WWI for many forces.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                In Afghan there was a scimitar that went off a bridge into a river and the commander drowned like frick at least let me get turned inside out by a rogue RPG that just sucks

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you will never hunt ziggers with pa's old over-under
                suffering

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you will never hunt ziggers with pa's old over-under
                suffering

                Not to ruin everyone's fun, but I believe that's just a territorial defense analysing the dead AFTER the battle. They weren't killed by farmers or sadly an over-under, but by regular Ukrainian troops. Sadly. I wish it were true.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                The farmer killed them and called the military to report it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Looks like the farmers are farming vatniks.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I just realized: this is fricking payback time for ukros.
                The Russo paycheck for Stalin&Co.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                this goes way back then Stalin. All they way to Kievan Rus (ukranians) being back stabbed by muscovite turncoats (russians) fronting as the mongol tax collectors

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Who specifically hit the Russians at the airport? Was it a chaotic mix of anyone who could fight?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                A small reservist unit was guarding the airport. After VDV landed, units from the Ukrainian army came.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                And when I saw the outcome, I came.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Was it a chaotic mix of anyone who could fight?
                Yes
                Reportedly, it was a mix of the NATO-trained Rapid Reaction National Guard unit, other militia units, police, civilian reservists grabbing shotties from home, and instrutors and students from the military academies in Kyiv

                Not surprising really: they were the nearest Russians to Kyiv, so I can imagine people just grabbed a gun and flocked there

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          Hostomel.mp4

          >But what makes no sense at all is that they just kept sending in more VDV to replace the ones who just got wiped out down to the last man by the ukies. And they did it over, and over, and over. It made no fricking sense at all.
          That literally never happen

          There were two waves that attacked Gostomel
          >first wave landed and captured
          >then ukrainian counterattack happend
          >second wave landed to try and buy time
          It was a total of like 600 troops

          Please stop taking twitter memes as reality

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >they just kept sending in more VDV to replace the ones who just got wiped out down to the last man by the ukies. And they did it over, and over, and over. It made no fricking sense at all.
            what are you even talking about?

            What actually happened according to Ukrainians that were there is that the first wave got wiped out which is where the helicopters that were shot down happened, they noticed this and started dropping in the woods behind the airport and moving to the airport on foot. Eventually the hoholinas had to retreat and left the VDV to be shelled and bombed by aircraft and on the second day they raided the airport and the surviving VDV retreated to the woods, the Ukrainians left and the VDV survivors came back the day after because the ground troops convoy arrived but heavily depleted due to combat and indirect fire. More Russians arrived from the road later. They never managed to use the airport for more air landings due to the damage and interminent shelling.

            The shelling, sniper fire and ambushes outside the airport happened after this till the Kiev feint happened.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Kyivians obliterates the vdv lol, so many dead russians

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              This is what I heard. The initial helicopter landing was broken up by territorials and a quick reaction force, but the airfield was then taken by another landing of VDV + advance elements of a Motor Rifle unit (the army guys who escorted in the Interior Ministry troops that got slaughtered on the bridge to Kiev). Then all the BMDs were unloaded for the bumrush into the outer Kiev suburbs where they got massacred by territorials.

              The first 2-3 days were fricking wild.

  5. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >are airborne tactics a meme?
    At first i thought they were in modern day fighting against anyone who isnt a farmer in a sandbox.

    But now.. i feel its just Russia who is the meme here.

  6. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They reenacted Market Garden with surprising speed and zeal.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You're about to see Market garden on steroids

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >You're about to see Market garden on steroids

      kek

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Their objectives were much simpler than Market Garden. This is like a basic airborne operation. Take one objective and hold it for a bit until a main force arrives, and they failed. The biggest issue is the Russians just did not expect meaningful resistance at all.

  7. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Overall VDV and marines have been really the only effective russian troops. Too bad they ended up just being used as regular ground pounders. Its really the regular army mechanized units that shit the bed really hard. At this point I'd imagine that a russian mechanized batallion could not conquer a undefended mcdonalds without few divisions worth of artillery supporting them.

    LDR and DPR had some really experienced units, but by all accounts they have been bled dry.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >"Ramirez & The Burgertown" was a documentary

  8. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >are airborne tactics a meme?
    Always have been. Combat drops were a risky maneuver in their heyday and are nonexistent in modern times. Nowadays they're just air mobile light infantry.

  9. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  10. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's called reality check and as a wise man once said:
    >the dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed

  11. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Muscles and fancy hats don't stop bullets

  12. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Russian airborne tactics are a meme.
    Going in with support on they way is risky.
    Going in with the Russian regulars as your support is a bad idea.
    Going in, expecting conscriptovich to link up with you, in an incredibly time sensitive operation, with no immediate support, deep in enemy territory, with no air superiority, is suicidal, and whoever came up with this operation should have been shot for gross incompetence.
    That said, if Russian commanders were actually executed for incompetence when they fricked up, there wouldn't be a Russian military command structure left.

  13. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    VEH DEH VEH
    THEY SHOT DOWN OUR JET
    I LOOK AROUND MY SQUAD IS ALL DEAD
    MY SQUAD LANDED SAFELY BUT GOT HUNTED LIKE SPORT
    WHERE THE HELL IS OUR GROUND SUPPORT?!

    VEH DEH VEH
    IN HELL I MEET
    THE FALLSCHIRMJÄGERS FROM THE BATTLE OF CRETE
    THIS OPERATION IS A FRICKING DISGRACE
    UNSUPPORTED DROPS IN CONTESTED AIRSPACE

  14. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >are airborne tactics a meme?

    For the last fricking time, NO. Russians are just moronic.

    The United States has conducted major airborne drops in every conflict since WWII with exception of the Persian Gulf War and every last one of them has been a success (Market Garden doesn’t count because the British were the ones who dropped the ball there). We were the last major power to create an airborne force and we are somehow the MVP of it.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the British were the ones who dropped the ball there
      Frick you, it was the Americans who couldn't fight their way to Arnhem

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Last time I checked, we were the ones who died in the hundreds to take Nijmegen and your beloved Horrocks and his band of merry morons proceeded to sit on their asses for the next two days, while 1st Airborne was massacred, Bong.

        Horrocks and his entire command should have been executed for their incompetence.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >sit on their asses
          cope by Stephen Ambrose and the anti-bong cabal

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            The anti-bong cabal exists for good reason, Nigel.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              You seethe; we know.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      What's this obsession with confederate soldiers saving pregnant Anne franks?

  15. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    VDV have done a good job so far and they have a good track record
    >There's zero proof they lost any transport planes
    >they took gostomel but didn't get reinforcements in time
    >they did well defending in Kherson and around Bakhmut
    The VDV are literally one of the only decently performing Russian units, I don't get the hate on them

    The rest of the Russian Army is garbage though

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >they did well defending in Kherson and around Bakhmu
      Kherson and the flanks around Bakhmut are doing famously well right now

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      No, they didn't lose any transport planes because they didn't use them. They used helicopters in Hostomel and lost at least 2 of them, one carrying a regimental commander.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        didn't ukrops shoot down an antonov with 200 vdviggers on it?

        also the one plane that dropped all the most of the vdv ziggers into the freezing black sea in the night?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      >There's zero proof they lost any transport planes
      We only have US glowie leaks about it, and that particular part of the battle was very confused. The kill was claimed by a UAF Su-27 pilot, and given the weapons they were armed with, it's unlikely he would mistake an Mi-8 for an An-26.

      Personally I think it's definite that something was shot down, likely that it was a transport plane, but who knows if it was really a big one with 250+ VDV in it. Helicopters were falling out of the sky all over so the fact that something went down, that's not surprising at all. If the allegedly downed transport plane went into the Dniepr or went down in Belarus, as is likely, we'd never know.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        >We only have US glowie leaks about it,
        No we don't. Stop making shit up.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          >two US personnel in Ukraine with knowledge on the ground
          You figure that one out then.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            >source: (you)r crusty butthole
            I figured it out.

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Not my fault you're an ignorant frickhead.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I see you failed to provide the source of this cropped image. Is it because the source is shit and known for making shit up? Couldn't be! You're not that dumb, are you?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Associated Press
                I just love watching you vatBlack folk flounder desperately

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Care to link the article there?

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why bother? You've made up your mind.
                Go read TASS, that's more your reporting standard.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I just wanted to see how honest you were, noting that the article prefaces that segment by saying there is a bunch of disinformation going on, and these were just claims, not actual verifiable facts.

                And you didn't disappoint my dear hoholshill.

                https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-europe-media-united-nations-kyiv-3500e852f1a812a23dc9ff492ca2af08

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                Did I say they were facts?
                From the start I said they were leaks by US glowies. Not official in the least.
                You claimed I was
                >making shit up
                and got hilariously BTFOd by your own ignorance.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                It also prefaces it by saying Russian, Ukrainian and other sources. So it's not even certain these were actual US glowies.

                Remedial English class buddy.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >and other sources
                gee I wonder what "other sources" mean

                It's so cute to watch you seize on to every tenuous lifeline to save your narrative.
                The fact remains that you are an ignorant Black person who thought
                >No we don't. Stop making shit up
                and was proven dead wrong.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >we have glowie leaks
                >literally just hoholshills online starting rumors
                You're either dumb or intentionally lying, that's all there is to it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Ukraine’s military said Friday it had shot down a Russian military transport plane carrying paratroopers near Vasylkiv, a city 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Kyiv, an account confirmed by a senior American intelligence official.
                And the Black person continues to lie, hoping nobody would check.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                >anonymous sources say
                t. the most honest hoholshill

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You may dispute the source, but the fact remains that you were hilariously ignorant even of its existence, shot your mouth off, and got BTFOd.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                No, the source clearly states there is misinformation going on and leaves it vague as to who came up with it.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                You may dispute the source, but the fact remains that you were hilariously ignorant even of its existence, shot your mouth off, and got BTFOd.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I accept your concession.

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                There is no concession here; you've been conclusively proven wrong.

  16. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Russia is the meme, they have no tactics

  17. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    For those who haven't read it yet, give this a look. It's a pretty in-depth interview about what happened that day.
    https://teletype.in/@tysknip/HostomelEN

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      I aint clicking that homie

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's a legit link, it has already been posted if you check the archive.

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous

          that's exactly and specifically what someone posting a virus would say.

          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Google " The Only Easy Day Was Yesterday. Hostomel. Special Unit "Omega" ", it's the first result, ffs

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        here

        archive. ph/jdIeS

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        the last resort of the vatnik in denial

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

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  18. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why didn't they just surrender instead of getting kill

  19. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They fought pretty well.
    >are airborne tactics a meme?
    No, but Russian commanders are.

  20. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh look, this thread again where a bunch of tards parrot the false narratives put forth by the okrainians.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      If the VDV didn't want Ukrainians to be the only ones to be able to give their side of events, why didn't they all just not die out?

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Who do you think's been piloting all those Lancets?

        • 11 months ago
          Anonymous
          • 11 months ago
            Anonymous

            Lancets stop being a problem in two more weeks?

            • 11 months ago
              Anonymous

              Implessive. Kxhoxhil offensive litelally ovel!

              • 11 months ago
                Anonymous

                I know, right?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Who won Hostomel? Hint, NOT YOU.

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        Then why feel the need to tell lies?

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Post Kiev

  21. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What the frick happened to the VDV?

  22. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  23. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >are airborne tactics a meme?

    Yes

  24. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Russian elite military training:

    1) Be gay
    2) ???

  25. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Z E S T Y
    E
    S
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    Y

  26. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Russia is keeping alive the "Lions led by donkeys" trope.

  27. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    airborne tactics? debatable
    VDV as an elite force? absolutely a meme

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      That guy’s take is dumb as hell. It’s vexing watching people with no prior knowledge of military matters talk out their ass since Ukraine kicked off.

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      Huh? Wasn't the VDV the reason for Kherson holding so long and responsible for some of the Bakhmut breaktrhoughs (which made Prigo mad)

  28. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    Reminder:

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      i still think this is the single coolest photo from the entire war so far, that's some warhammer shit

  29. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    So why does everyone in Russia wear the Popeye shirts

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's just tradition going back to the imperial navy. They wear an open jacket and the telnyashka undershirt instead of a collared shirt

      • 11 months ago
        Anonymous

        At least the Imperial Navy were capable of mutiny.

  30. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    They got to meet the paratroopers that landed in Crete and Arnhem, for the exact same reason as those guys, too.

  31. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    The VDV are merely the least moronic 'tards in the remedial toilet training class....at the Institute for the Intellectually Unfortunate....

    All their orders were scribbled in crayons on drool-proof paper by drunken waterheads.....and the VDV were still stupid enough to obey those orders. "Who's the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him?"

  32. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't know what's a worst look
    >The modern (Russian Federation) VDV were never good, they were just a peawiener propaganda unit made to make Russia look strong and manly and the first time they went to a true peer war they got a brutal reality check
    or
    >The modern (Russian Federation) VDV WERE good, but Russia's strategic and tactical dumbassery has resulted in them bleeding some of their genuinely best troops because they severely underestimated their enemy's will to fight and thought they could just drive down main street to link up with the deployed VDV voices no problem

    • 11 months ago
      Anonymous

      those two aren't exactly mutually exclusive.
      the VDV were their best troops, but average by international standards. and also dressed up as propaganda super soldiers.

  33. 11 months ago
    Anonymous
  34. 11 months ago
    Anonymous

    >are airborne tactics a meme?
    Wrong airborne tactics.
    Airborne landings shouldn't be used in areas were enemy can quickly bring reserves.
    Basically area of viability of airborne troops is an area were you can by air deliver larger force than enemy can deliver by all means (by default land way and other ways like its own airborne). Fro example landing on to the island or mountainous area without roads.
    Hostomel landing is textbook failure of wrong strategic choice of airborne landing area.

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