I do not want to sound like the Russian version of a NAFO fella that hyped up Javelins, Excalibur shells and leopards as game changing but some upcoming game changing weapons for Russia will soon extensively be used in the battlefield.
“We lost five people for every one they did,” said Ihor, a 30-year-old platoon commander who injured his back when the tank he was riding in crashed into a ditch.
Ihor had no military experience before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. He made a living selling animal feed to pig and cow farms. His replacement as platoon commander also has no previous military experience, he said.
Oleksandr said the Russian artillery fire was relentless. “They were just hitting us all the time,” he said. “If we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return.”
This was when Ukraine was given over a million shells from the US alone besides Europe and as of now the stocks are nearly out, Europe is having difficulty finding shells and the shell production rate is still rather low. So what has Ukraine done to ensure their own survival or what has the west done to ensure their survival? When this conflict started to become longer than expected Russia took measures to ensure longer survival for their troops. The only thing I think Ukraine has done for their increased chance of survival was laugh at the cages Russia was using to only use them to some degree later. There is literally nothing in this weapons package Ukraine is receiving is anything new from what they have used before to improve their survival.
When Russia bombed an airfield in Lviv, a few days later news reports came out of Ukrainian military officials downplaying the F-16s before they even got them. And Putin was interviewed what happens if a 3rd party country was hosting Ukrainian F-16s and he stated those airfields would get destroyed with missile strikes. There are conditions that F-16s can land on roads but Eastern Europe or rather Ukraine does not have the best roads to do this before they get trucks with fuel and ammunition to them before they fly off again.
So, what we are looking at is the same spending with the same kind of equipment and possibly another failed spring 2023 counteroffensive set for 2025 according to multiple sources which is assuming Poland and Lithuania's defense ministers find enough Ukrainians to get sent back to Ukraine. Anyone have a convincing argument Ukraine will win the war at this point?
- T-14 Armata as quoted by the head of Rostec is too expensive to use in the battlefield so it wont be used in the operations.
- 57mm Derivation on an April 8 2024 source stated they are doing everything they can to get these systems to battlefield(sounds like it has high importance) They are like Pantsir systems but shorter range versions of them with shells that can engage cruise missiles, drones and helicopters and shells that can deal with armoured vehicles from 15kms away. Uses optics and radar to engage targets.
- Koalition-SV howitzers entered service but mentions what the numbers are, its production per month or the production of special longer range krasnopol shells for it.
- EW systems for persone, equipment and drones are shown to be extensively used.
- Cage layouts and turtle tanks to deal with drones
- February 2024 Telegram source states Hermes is going to be put into service in the coming months. Think of these 100km missiles as mach 3.8 drones engaging armored vehicles or helicopters and than imagine it got improved as Klevok-D2 with twice the warhead weight as mach 5-6 drones with more range as its future development down the line
- Pantsir production got doubled accroding to the Russian General's annoucnement with the latest SM version announced with it and the 48 quad missile design to deal with cruise missiles, MLRS rockets, ATGMs and drones. two versions of S-500 systems to come this year into service.
- A lot of news recently of their different ground drones being used in the battlefield with machine guns, explosives, EW systems and demining purposes.
- Kurganets-25 and Boomerang IFVs that have increased survival against drones with newer armor and EW systems. 3 days ago they are being put under tests on the training grounds.
- TOS-3 with EW systems, newer ammunition and a further range in development for large range area destruction.
- Tornado MLRS production on full blast since 2022.
- Increased production in rockets, missiles, shells,glide bombs, drones and military equipment as war continued
“We lost five people for every one they did,” said Ihor, a 30-year-old platoon commander who injured his back when the tank he was riding in crashed into a ditch.
Ihor had no military experience before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24. He made a living selling animal feed to pig and cow farms. His replacement as platoon commander also has no previous military experience, he said.
Oleksandr said the Russian artillery fire was relentless. “They were just hitting us all the time,” he said. “If we fire three mortars, they fire 20 in return.”
This was when Ukraine was given over a million shells from the US alone besides Europe and as of now the stocks are nearly out, Europe is having difficulty finding shells and the shell production rate is still rather low. So what has Ukraine done to ensure their own survival or what has the west done to ensure their survival? When this conflict started to become longer than expected Russia took measures to ensure longer survival for their troops. The only thing I think Ukraine has done for their increased chance of survival was laugh at the cages Russia was using to only use them to some degree later. There is literally nothing in this weapons package Ukraine is receiving is anything new from what they have used before to improve their survival.
When Russia bombed an airfield in Lviv, a few days later news reports came out of Ukrainian military officials downplaying the F-16s before they even got them. And Putin was interviewed what happens if a 3rd party country was hosting Ukrainian F-16s and he stated those airfields would get destroyed with missile strikes. There are conditions that F-16s can land on roads but Eastern Europe or rather Ukraine does not have the best roads to do this before they get trucks with fuel and ammunition to them before they fly off again.
So, what we are looking at is the same spending with the same kind of equipment and possibly another failed spring 2023 counteroffensive set for 2025 according to multiple sources which is assuming Poland and Lithuania's defense ministers find enough Ukrainians to get sent back to Ukraine. Anyone have a convincing argument Ukraine will win the war at this point?
