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Atomicfrog said:

Maybe they have a lot of generals...

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@Atomicfrog or maybe the Western MSM misconstrued, after seeing the Russian rank Insignia even a Non Com officer had star on it...lol

Soviet military traditionally relied much more on commissioned officers serving in roles which would be filled by NCOs in western militaries. This probably engendered a greater tendency and habit for commissioned officers to lead from the front than might be the case in western militaries.

In addition, the tactical defects the Russian army appear to exhibits could perhaps also be attributed to shortage of highly experienced NCOs leading soldiers at the front. If these gaps are partially filled by relatively inexperienced junior commissioned officers just out of military academies, that might explain such symptoms as tanks advancing in tight columns down unsecured urban streets. If lower level leadership are inexperienced, than that put more pressure for field officers to keep tighter watch and frequently visit on front line units to make sure they know what they are doing. This may reflect all the way up the chain to general officers, leading to excess general officer casualties.

One of the interesting things I have discovered is that the Russian defence industry is dependent on Taiwan for their chips. It will be interesting to see how they will move forwards with the new sanctions. China may not be able to provide chips to them out of fear of secondary sanctions. Until China has her own domestic UEV machines it cannot afford to act independently in the semiconductor sphere.

They are not. This is Western BS. The Russian military's most advanced chips use like 90nm process. Russian chip making factories can manufacture up to 55nm. If they do import any semiconductors for the MIC those chips would be so common they could be easily replaced.

They had some Western semiconductors in some export versions of the Flanker. But the Russian Air Force never bought aircraft with Western dependence.

Russia's MIC has been under Western sanctions since 2014. They did not stop producing military equipment.

When they cut access to TSMC for Russian chip making companies this basically stopped production of chips which are used by the Russian civilian government and civilian contractors. But they have enough stockpiles, due to low sales, that stock will likely last two years. Which will be enough to switch production to a different factory.

Franklin said:

One of the interesting things I have discovered is that the Russian defence industry is dependent on Taiwan for their chips. It will be interesting to see how they will move forwards with the new sanctions. China may not be able to provide chips to them out of fear of secondary sanctions. Until China has her own domestic UEV machines it cannot afford to act independently in the semiconductor sphere.

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You're generally better read than the rest of us but 16-64 nm chips are being churned out fine afaik and not dependent upon TW.

Very interesting video. The most interesting bit starts at 12 min. Its relates to what I posted earlier.

Satellite imaging shows the completion of the new dry dock in Murmansk has been completed; built in response to the flooding and subsequent sinking of PD-50; after years of construction and it is expected to service large vessels of the Russian navy such as the Admiral Kuznetsov and the battle cruisers Pyotr Velikiy and Admiral Nakhimov respectively.

The dry dock has been flooded in preparation for movement and further maintenance of the Admiral Kuznetsov as reported by the ministry of defense earlier this month.

Yes. From what I heard the dry dock was completed ahead of schedule and the Admiral Kuznetsov should be moved there next quarter.

@Franklin Russia's military and space industry has been banned from purchasing Western military grade semiconductors since 2014. What you see is basically consumer grade electronics. These chips are so common, you can easily source them in the open market. Production of these units will be in the low hundreds, so it can easily be done under the table. It is not that Russian industry cannot make these chips, it is just that it is cheaper to buy them abroad. Russia's semiconductor manufacturers focus on custom semiconductors like CPUs and DSPs. Russia's drone industry only started picking up recently so of course not all the components have been substituted yet. And it shouldn't even be necessary to substitute everything. Probably only things like engines.

Russians will laucnh new GLONASS-K sats, but there is no information about them since 2016.

In practice all semi development happens now in dark, they don't make comments about them.

But, as we can see the launch schedule, the Russians managed to repalace the radhard electronics in the satelites.

Russia signed a deal with China to merge GLONASS and Beidou satnav into one network.
This will reduce the need to make those satellites in the future.