Russia has war economy. Capture a few, reverse engineer, mass produce. Iran reverse engineered and mass produced TOW.
Ukrainian War Developments
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Russia has war economy. Capture a few, reverse engineer, mass produce. Iran reverse engineered and mass produced TOW.
They still could be confusing... I would duct tape that yellow line for DPR militias and Russian troop uses. They will throwing them aside after use anyway...
They could use their warships to bombard the shore defenses, use naval Su-30SM jets to take down any remaining shore defenses, then land at Odessa.
good portion of former soviet military industrial complex is outside of russia’s direct control. it would be interesting to attempt to reconstruct just how much of the established supply chain for each type of military hardware is either accessible to russia now or for which a russian substitute has been established.
I suspect Russian capacity to domesticate the manufacture of many types of weapon s is not nearly as strong as memories of the capabilities of the former soviet military industrial complex might suggest at first glance.
India using Yuan ??? Well not worse than Russia using Us dollars...
Good old fashioned mines still proving effective. Note the 3 tanks hanging back whilst the 'pawn sacrifice' is sent forward.
They can use gold. Russia has lot of gold.
They've been doing it for quite a while. e.g R-77 productions are in Russia now. R-73 missile seeker which was previously in Ukraine is now also In Russia. They seem to do very well in this respect. Some parts however are apparently in Belarus like Krasnopol and Luch.
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