I followed the insurgency in Iraq. I remember one attack damaged and destroyed a number of Blackhawks.
https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30311101.html
Best to be prepared. China has massive production capability in every item.
Frozen. I bet they will be realised in the future. Sanctions on Russia wont be there forever.
I be shocked, if Iran does not purchase any of these captured weapons. Reverse engineered Javelin would be a key asset for Hezbollah. Trophy anti atgm system is not effective against top attack weapons.
Russian at start of war refrained from publishing photos or videos of captured or destroyed UA forces. Now "hearts and minds" policy has been abandoned. Once enough civilians have been evacuated, they gonna drop 9000kg bombs on urban areas. We might see "FOAB" being deployed.
Agree with first part. Russia thought war would be easy, however initial failures does not mean war is lost.
The second part, NATO might be supplying weapons against Russia today, but when NATO invades another country then Russia will do same.
Destroying statues and books, when it happened with Taliban and Isis, the world rightly condemned it. Eastern Europeans consistently destroy their "communist" history and west applauds.
Ukrainians are actually burning Soviet era books, regardless of subject and content.
Donbass separatists are expanding control. A militia member admitted facing unexpected heavy resistance. Putin needs to funnel more men and material to these groups because they more ideologically committed then average Russian army conscript.