The War in the Ukraine
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So, if they started building them today, that would be less than a howitzer built a month.
Then people think Europe still has the industrial capacity for a full blown war, when at this point it's a jobs program, for the shareholders.
Without enough energy, they can’t do it even with a proper industrial base.
Soon enough Europe will be 100% dependent on US military imports after deindustrialization. I wonder how the production of Typhoon jets will change in the coming years.
Video of overturning and collision of two BMP-1s of the Ukrainian army. The incident occurred during the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian army in the Kharkiv direction. For an unknown reason, one of the crews of the BMP-1 began to reverse and hit another combat vehicle. After that, both cars began to back up and one of them turned over.
Ukraine received 35 FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers from England. Combat vehicles have already been seen at the front. The FV103 armored personnel carrier was adopted by the British Army in 1978, and in 2007 it began to be withdrawn from service. The armored vehicle is designed to transport special teams and anti-aircraft groups. Armament - one 7.62 mm machine gun. An anti-tank version of the FV103 armored vehicle was also produced; it was named the FV120 Spartan MCT. The aluminum armor of the vehicle provides protection in frontal projection from armor-piercing bullets of 14.5 mm caliber from a distance of 200 meters, in lateral projection from bullets of 7.62 mm caliber. Crew - 3 people, landing group - 4 people. The speed on the highway is 70 km / h, the cruising range is about 500 km.
Rare footage of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber dropping FAB-500 bombs in Ukraine at low altitude. Despite the presence of an armored titanium capsule for the Su-34 crew, it was a bold enough bombing, since the aircraft at such a low altitude could easily be shot down by MANPADS.
Footage of the strike of Russian Ka-52 helicopters on the amphibious assault of Ukraine. The attack by helicopters with Whirlwind missiles was carried out in the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, where the Ukrainian army tried to land an amphibious assault on a barge.
Ukraine received 35 FV103 Spartan armored personnel carriers from England. Combat vehicles have already been seen at the front. The FV103 armored personnel carrier was adopted by the British Army in 1978, and in 2007 it began to be withdrawn from service. The armored vehicle is designed to transport special teams and anti-aircraft groups. Armament - one 7.62 mm machine gun. An anti-tank version of the FV103 armored vehicle was also produced; it was named the FV120 Spartan MCT. The aluminum armor of the vehicle provides protection in frontal projection from armor-piercing bullets of 14.5 mm caliber from a distance of 200 meters, in lateral projection from bullets of 7.62 mm caliber. Crew - 3 people, landing group - 4 people. The speed on the highway is 70 km / h, the cruising range is about 500 km.
Rare footage of a Russian Su-34 fighter-bomber dropping FAB-500 bombs in Ukraine at low altitude. Despite the presence of an armored titanium capsule for the Su-34 crew, it was a bold enough bombing, since the aircraft at such a low altitude could easily be shot down by MANPADS.
Footage of the strike of Russian Ka-52 helicopters on the amphibious assault of Ukraine. The attack by helicopters with Whirlwind missiles was carried out in the area of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, where the Ukrainian army tried to land an amphibious assault on a barge.
Russia has no strategy in Ukraine. At first they were hoping that Ukraine would collapse within few days or weeks but that didn't happen.
And now Russia doesn't seem to be capable of significantly increasing their troop numbers, probably because a good portion of the Russian military are conscripts (possibly bigger than the official numbers) and they don't want to send conscripts.
If Russia wanted to depopulate Ukraine then they would have done it already by carpet bombing every city so the civilians would run away, They didn't do that.
Russia is still hanging to the dear SMO hoping that the use of limited force while being vastly outnumbered will win them the war...
There news now of Georgians making a move over Abkhazia. If its true, along with the resurging conflict between Armenia and Arzebaijan could point as one of the reasons why Russia might have decided against going all in and might have expected NATO to reignite conflicts were Russians were already involved in.
As a matter of fact, the Ukranians a few days ago asked the Georgians(as you do when you are totally winning) to open a second front. Of course, is still Russia's leadership fault for pussyfooting around when it should have gone for Ukranian leadership and entire infrastructure from the start.