RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 30, 2024 at 10:15 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2024 at 10:35 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Nonsense. Russia produced a grand total of 210 tanks in all of 2023, a sevenfold increase from the year prior.....according to russia....and no one believes that number. Certainly not the russian soldiers. Their ability to replace tanks is not an indication of a huge war industry, but of a huge stockpile of soviet era gear in armored boneyards. If those 5/6/7 series tanks were brand new, fully functional, and not stripped for parts, they would still be obsolete. Their armor can be defeated by 20+mm depleted uranium rounds and their main cannons are outranged by contemporary shoulder fired AT systems. Ukraine has destroyed ten times as many tanks as russia can produced in the course of a year...and this is limited only to independent visually confirmed losses. In sum, russia has lost decades of it's own production, and decades of the production of a country that no longer exists which it has no hope of matching, all so that it can launch mechanized meat assaults with a horrific cost to crew - which are even harder for russia to come by and take even longer to produce than a decent tank. Ironically, ukraine was the heart of soviet war production, and to this day makes the most modern and combat capable version of the ubiquitous 7 series soviet tank. For Some Odd Reason™ the russian forces haven't even tried to take out their refineries and production facilities. Choosing to level apartment blocks instead.
Fun fact. The Bradley is credited with more tank kills than any contemporary mbt, and not by a little. In the battle of 73 Easting two Bradley IFVs from ghost troop, separated from their Abrams, ambushed 9 T72 tanks. They destroyed 5 of them, crippled the others...and then just left without a scratch. If we're looking at boneyards as "production" the us has 3700 in storage, all of them better maintained than any active armor in the russian military, and it's cheaper to send them to ukraine than to dismantle them, as already ordered by the dod. This is why putins regime feels that the most crucial factor in their invasion of ukraine is buying off republicans in the united states, and even there, the dipshit is overpaying. They're so far up the donalds asshole they'd fuck ukraine for free.
Fun fact. The Bradley is credited with more tank kills than any contemporary mbt, and not by a little. In the battle of 73 Easting two Bradley IFVs from ghost troop, separated from their Abrams, ambushed 9 T72 tanks. They destroyed 5 of them, crippled the others...and then just left without a scratch. If we're looking at boneyards as "production" the us has 3700 in storage, all of them better maintained than any active armor in the russian military, and it's cheaper to send them to ukraine than to dismantle them, as already ordered by the dod. This is why putins regime feels that the most crucial factor in their invasion of ukraine is buying off republicans in the united states, and even there, the dipshit is overpaying. They're so far up the donalds asshole they'd fuck ukraine for free.
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