For all the talk of corruption in Russia, Ukraine takes the cake, even if it people now wants to pretend that isnt the case
This has made sure that they dilapidated all the industrial and technical base the USSR left them with and havent been able to expand upon it in any relevant capacity. Which is why they can make one or two prototypes and then things fall through.
The loss is more evident in the AFV deparment, an area we're they still retained a lot of the know-how but fulfilling the Thai order was a struggle, or the embarassment of the cracked iraqui BTR hulls.
This is made worse by the fact that in every area, the market offers more proven and reliable alternatives. Why buy an ukranian transport plane with no existing line nor tooling and unproven performance when you could buy even chinese alternatives who perform better?.
This left them too cash strapped to finance or build anything, along with whatever gets stolen.
Is not like they are that many ATACMS left in the first place nor like the Russians don't have the means to shoot them down.
And it isnt a wunderwaffen, like none of the previous weapons delivered were
Thats a lot of assumptions.
