How Russia with its Soviet-era weapons is losing to modern military tech
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Yet we are now nearly six months in to the fight, with every major Western nation having invested massively in the effort to repel Russian forces (which are always "on the verge" of losing, of course), and yet Russia keeps not losing. They keep claiming more territory, despite everything the West can do to repel them.
I don't know whether Russia will ultimately be repelled or not, but whatever this thing is they're doing, they're clearly not "losing"
Also, ‘losing’ is perfectly fine to use in-lieu of ‘taking a beating’ especially when title length is limited.
Russia went through its supply of modern materiel in the first weeks of the war and is fielding old tech and are only able to keep some momentum because of said artillery warfare, because it's both ruthless and destructive as well as low in technical requirements. They are in addition having to reconfigure their economy for total war over what is a fraction of a far smaller neighbouring country which was utterly unprepared and one of Europe's poorest.
The West sending some of it's military surplus is far from doing everything they can.
Russia having some minor gains recently is very much a matter of winning the battle but not the war. The only way they keep that up is total self destruction, which is not winning.
Russia was originally planning on winning in a week; and if it wasn’t for their massive corruption and general incompetence they would have.
Russia has the odd 100 million citizens more, so you'd think that'd make a difference too.
As sibling writes, were discovering the depths of Russias problems which seem to be far greater than most of us knew.
Russia is "winning" because it is willing to turn contested area into barren wasteland. But is it really "winning" if what you're taking over is completely destroyed?
now they are just burning everything down with their own ship ,possibly to hide their crimes against humanity
1. Ukraine had an antiquated military at the start of the war - old Soviet technology with old Soviet ammunition.
2. Ukraine has used almost all of its ammunition compatible with these weapons, and lost a huge amount of manpower (30000+) including their best troops, and lost 50%+ of its fielded equipment.
3. Prior to the losses and exhaustion detailed in #2, European and NATO backers collected and distributed ammunition and equipment compatible with Ukraine's existing weapon stock.
4. Since exhausting existing equipment and possible sources of Soviet ammunition, Ukraine's backers have switched to supplying Western made weapons. This isn't because they are "better" but because they can be maintained and ammunition will be available for protracted war this is projected to be.
5. Ukraine right now is in a very challenging situation. It has limited equipment of either kind. Their soldiers do not know how to use and maintain the new equipment and don't have much time (due to manpower shortage) to get trained up on completely new equipment and standards.
6. Either way, switching to new weapons platforms is necessary since Russia isn't about to supply Ukraine with more compatible ammunition.
7. Because of the necessity, Ukraine's leadership is "hyping" Western weapons to its people. It's got to tell a story about how victory is around the corner so that morale isn't lost during this transitional period.
8. Western media is picking up on this "hype".
HIMARS aren't going to win the war. This isn't a war of tech superiority. This is a war of grinding attrition. Russia has Ukraine outmanned and outgunned. Western equipment is the only path forward so that Ukraine's force posture doesn't completely atrophy.
The course of the war will be dictated by how either side's logistical, supply, ability to direct and surge force, and the strains on these outlast the other.
And that goes back to the different approaches highlighted during the space race. While the US spent millions developing a pen that would work in space, the Russians just used a pencil.
The evidence so far in Ukraine does not support your first statement either.
They used wax pencils, or crayons as we call them, until they got the space pen technology without spending on it.
"The evidence so far in Ukraine does not support your first statement either."
The evidence in the Ukraine is that Russia is making ground. Steadily, slowly at the speed of the replacement mechanisms within their production systems.
Who's believing the tropes?
It looks like both the Soviet Union and NASA got their pens from Fisher:
>...the Fisher pen was developed using private capital, not government funding. The development of the thixotropic ink cost Paul Fisher around $1 million (equivalent to $8.6 million in 2021).[4] NASA – and the Soviets[3][5][6] – eventually began purchasing such pens.
They won't win them alone but they will make a big difference. Theres a reason that the number of ammo depots hits in the past week have gone up drastically, HIMARS has allowed Ukraine to hit targets that would have otherwise been reserved for the few Tocha-U's that they have.
If Ukraine is successful in starving Russia of ammo then they win the war.
I've been following operational analyses of the war pretty closely. While everyone acknowledges the great value of the new surveillance capabilities, there is an emerging consensus that the "new shiny thing" weapons haven't had nearly as much effect as anticipated. Even Ukrainian officials have been emphasizing to the West that they really need more of good old fashioned artillery rather than more gadgetry. So, articles saying "We're winning because of tech." seem to be going against the message that the leadership is now trying to put out.
I don't think this article is that much aligned with media spectacle about “good guys” vs “bad guys”. It's not even strictly focused on current war, many mentioned topics go further, and provide food for thought for people everywhere.
Also, there are other non-shallow articles on the website that are worth a read, in my opinion.
I don't think there's a consensus. The things are all different: some underperform, some others are awesome, and sometimes this even depends on the environment.
For instance, these high-tech anti-tank missiles (NLAW, Javelin, Stugna-P) were awesome around Kyiv (many places to hide in a forest or urban environment), less so in a prairie. South and East of Ukraine is a prairie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontic%E2%80%93Caspian_steppe
I mean, the aren't using T62's for giggles.
FTFY.
The only difference is what all "not good" for the UKraine videos are mostly self-censored by the platforms out of existence.
Actually the ones getting a beating are the people fighting against russia, otherwise russia wouldn't be able to penetrate further in ukraine and specially the donbas
Some weapons the West sent were already sold in the black market to russia, they now able to reverse engineer them, congrats!
Communication, economy, battlefield, russia so far is winning, boris johnson had to resign!
These mythical advanced Russian weapons are so well hidden and only kept for alien invasions, only a fool falls for that Kremlin propaganda. Nobody else is buying their gear either, and deity knows they need the cash.
Then again, this line is literally in the troll factory guidelines, so that is almost certainly where it came from.
Why would they need the cash given that they have their own currency? Isn't that fixed exchange rate Gold standard thinking rather than the modern free floating currency approach?
Russia has no need of dollars or Euros because it can't buy anything with them. So it swaps them immediately for Rubles, so that oil companies can pay the wages of their staff, which then increases the exchange rate of Rubles against dollars and Euros.
And that's what is happening. Russians need Rubles because that's what they pay taxes in.
Russia is perfectly capable of driving its own output using its own internal monetary system.
The propaganda isn't coming solely from where you think it is coming from.
That's what Reagan would say, in fact, that's exactly what he said to justify his satellites, looks like they found some aliens since the US kept advancing their troops, i mean their vassals
They never said they'd invade Ukraine and move past the donbas, that's what the US want you to believe