(February 1, 2023 at 6:03 am)Belacqua Wrote:(February 1, 2023 at 5:08 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: The Russians still have whatever is left from the Soviet-Union. So they are still a great adversary. But I still don’t see why they wouldn’t just sit down and negotiate
Russia has enormous industrial capacity. They produce more tanks than any other country. They are NOT just using up old Soviet stocks. That's why they are not begging other countries for weapons, unlike some people we could mention.
lol, once more, a little fact-checking:
Quote:“It is obvious that Russia's army is in catastrophically short supply of almost all types of equipment,” an employee for Rostec, a state-owned defense conglomerate, says. “This is why the government orders the factories all over the country receive are so urgent. It seems as if the new priority now is all about quantity, not quality. In simpler words, it's unimportant which tanks are being sent to the frontlines: the newest T-90M models or the recommissioned T-62 ones.”
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“Everyone was unprepared for a war. Launching any sort of production requires time. First and foremost, all suppliers, selectors and allied manufacturers should be dealt with,” the Rostec employee says. “Producing tanks requires metal, guns, engines, electronics, communication devices and all sorts of other complex mechanisms and integral units. All those things were purchased based on the actual contracts and cannot be acquired in a snap of a finger. There were no stocks, too; we have a lean manufacturing policy.
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Uralvagonzavod used to deliver tanks in dozens but handing in a batch of 5 or 10 tanks to the army is somewhat common these days. The factory is now focused on producing T-72B3M tanks, although a set of modern T-90M appeared on the Internet recently . Ukraine's servicemen have already captured some of those. It's difficult to make up a worse marketing campaign than the newest Russian tanks getting put out of action using old rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles.
Russia's Defense Ministry might be in possession of up to eight thousand tanks of different models, from T-62 to T-80, preserved in storage, as per Volya, a Telegram channel. Volya tried to figure out how many tanks are in Russia's use, and found out that up to 90% of the depreserved vehicles require mandatory modernisation. According to the channel's calculations, Russia's tank industry is currently capable of producing up to 250 new vehicles and modernising up to 600 old ones each year.
That's only going to get tougher as the sanctions bite deeper ... and I'd be surprised if a smilar set of circumstances doesn't obtain in the aviation industry. Reduced to replicating forty-year-old designs at a pace too slow to replace losses is no way to fight a war, but if you[re happy with their efforts, bravo. I'd suggest you broaden your readngs.