Russian Military News, Reports, Data, etc.

meckhardt98 said:

I second this, critical resources will have to be redirected to sectors of the military that are being depleted by the ongoing crisis. As it is Russian MIC isn’t that stable and the conflict in Ukraine is going to put unnecessary strain on the entirety of all military complexes for at-least a few years; not to mention the potential that sanctions have to hinder any developments if they have to import certain components. We’ll have to wait and see what happens.

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This is not how the economy works.

Lot of worker will be free from Gazprom/Rosneft, they and the suppliers could employed to accelerate the military programs.

Export decrease, means more hand needed, and there will be lot of import substitution project that will mop up the resources.

Anlsvrthng said:

This is not how the economy works.

Lot of worker will be free from Gazprom/Rosneft, they and the suppliers could employed to accelerate the military programs.

Export decrease, means more hand needed, and there will be lot of import substitution project that will mop up the resources.

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Still it’s going to take time to redistribute resources to other sectors of the economy, if they already have subliminal production before hand hindered by constant delays they aren’t going to solve that problem over night or they would have done it a long time ago.

The Russian defense industry suffers from a lack of workers and engineers, with over 50% of their engineers being at a stage where they are well into what can be considered a retire-able age by most; the same can be said for their workers as-well, with a noticeable lack of “young” people in the defense sector due to poor wages and sanctions.

There’s only so much they can do, even if they important they have to initiate serious reforms to fix their issues.

meckhardt98 said:

Still it’s going to take time to redistribute resources to other sectors of the economy, if they already have subliminal production before hand hindered by constant delays they aren’t going to solve that problem over night or they would have done it a long time ago.

The Russian defense industry suffers from a lack of workers and engineers, with over 50% of their engineers being at a stage where they are well into what can be considered a retire-able age by most; the same can be said for their workers as-well, with a noticeable lack of “young” people in the defense sector due to poor wages and sanctions.

There’s only so much they can do, even if they important they have to initiate serious reforms to fix their issues.

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I am afraid of you use old, outdated infomrations.

The bulk of retirement of the Soviet MIC employees behind uis already, and there was a huge increase in defence industry over the 2010-2020, means they have now a fresh pool of workers.

Again, there will be lot of free resources, so they will be able to afford to start R&D for import usbstitution.

And in term of defence/critical infrastructure it already happened since 2014.

The videos I saw on Combat Approved of manufacturing plants of the Russian MIC typically have people in their 20s with oldest in their 40s. The exception is plants which were basically stale and only recently got any contracts at all like the one which made the Il-112V prototype. But tank factories, fighter factories, etc seem to have young workers.

They have schools and programs and contests for people with these kinds of technical skills.

The Su-25 has combat proven itself over and over again in conflicts from today extending back to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Proof of its usefulness comes from its incredible sortie rate, ruggedness and mission availability.

This article dated end of 2021 has been proven right in the past and still getting proven today.

Tu-214 production increase will increase to 10 aircraft per year and 19 further Superjets from already in stock parts.

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“The plant has already fully prepared production. Therefore, today we will discuss how we can gradually reach at least 10 Tu-214 aircraft, - said Yuri Borisov. “The urgent issue is to restore the production of domestic models in the required quantity so that we do not experience difficulties with the transportation of Russian citizens both within the country and abroad.”

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The ban also applies to the Sukhoi Superjet 100 short-haul aircraft, but thanks to the available stocks, 19 aircraft can be built by the end of the year. There are a few more aircraft that have not been sold to customers. They will be finalized and then delivered to Russian airlines.

Certification of the imported version of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 is scheduled for 2023, after which their mass production will begin in 2024.

As for the aircraft developed in the Soviet era, the agency expects an increase in the production of medium-haul Tu-214 from 3 to 10 units per year. They are used by state-owned airlines.

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Bizarre how Russia is losing so many generals. Many have specukated it's due lack of moden communication equipments and they are forced to use smarthones to communicate with the frontline.

Anyhow, as I was speculating years ago Russian military is too big for their economy... it's on same level as larger EU countries economically but has far larger military and they are abandoning equipment as result of overstretched military.

If you want to play in same league as China & US you gotta have same economy as those two.

Do you really believe those reports? I would not put much credence on them. While there have been reports of troops using cellphones (or civilian telecoms in general) in the field in previous conflicts, including US troops, in certain conditions (where for example the short wave radios cannot operate reliably because of terrain) the truth is the Russians have no need to use cellphones in this conflict.

While it is true that the Russian army currently lacks all the modern encrypted short wave radios they wanted to have in the original armament plan because of production issues in the Russian radio industry the truth is they have enough to supply even to some of the frontline troops. So the idea a general needs to use a cellphone to talk with his troops is nonsense. Especially when you also have reports all the Russian troops got their cellphones taken out before the operation started. So do you still think this argument makes sense? It does not compute.

While it is true a lot of the Russian troops on the field are using commercial hand held short wave radios to compensate for lack of the planned military grade encrypted Russian radio equipment there is no evidence they are using cellphones. And if you think this situation is exclusive to the Russian army then you don't know the situation in global military forces that well. Most European armies have the same problem and still have military radio equipment from the Cold War era which transmits in the clear in service. So in a way the Russians are even ahead of that since at least they have modern hand held civilian shortwave radio which also transmits in the clear in basically the same frequencies.

At best the Russians could be using the cellphone network to communicate with the Ukrainian local governments on the field trying to negotiate their surrender or to collect information. But the idea they are using it in large scale to communicate with their own troops or central government is ludicrous. Especially if you know the paranoia the Russians and the Soviets before them always had with using either encrypted communications or coded speech.

Broccoli said:

Bizarre how Russia is losing so many generals. Many have specukated it's due lack of moden communication equipments and they are forced to use smarthones to communicate with the frontline.

Anyhow, as I was speculating years ago Russian military is too big for their economy... it's on same level as larger EU countries economically but has far larger military and they are abandoning equipment as result of overstretched military.

If you want to play in same league as China & US you gotta have same economy as those two.

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Maybe they have a lot of generals...

If you believe these Ukrainian reports the Russians grow generals on trees or something.