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75mm and 155mm are used literally since WW1. And even steel alloys for the casing are the same. The only difference is now we have more powerful explosives instead of Melinite

Germany at one point in WW1, managed to pump 20 millions in 1 month, and it was not just sanctioned, but blockaded.

No, long left for UAE, leaking back financial wounds from both that, and dishing out a ton of my work time and money in Poland with Ukrainian drone factory.

There is a lend lease act, which gives Biden a complete carte blanche to supply anything, and which he never used yet. All that drama is completely aimed at internal audience, oblivious of the politics involved. In reality, it feels there is as much animosity with Biden in his own party as...

Disposable engines for missiles are not normally made of single crystal alloys.

It's very interesting to compare USA with other powers now in the news abroad. What is VERY unique about USA is that the executive decree is exceptionally strong by standards of democratic countries. US presidents have complete control over the executive branch, in theory, the power to randomly...

SAM is very reliable for missile defence, it's just you have to have tons of them, and really there is no other option than thousands of land based SAMs on watch to defeat mass drone/missile launches of hundreds at a time, day after day. A long range surface to air missile cheap enough to be...

Turkey has been trying developing its own tank engine for how many decades now? Having to note, even Koreans haven't managed to field their own tank engine either. Their licensed MTU diesel is still worse than the original, and their transmission adds to that. Japanese tanks are way more...

Russians already have DJI aeroscope, which is a DJI transponder receiver

AIM-260 looks to be very boring AIM 120 upgrade with no evidence of anything groundbreaking being used. Novel materials, very likely high carbon fibre grades Higher impulse grain Electronics and batteries got smaller over time. Batteries are often the single biggest, and heaviest part in a...

Both Russia and Ukraine had thousands of S300 missiles in store. If you add SHORAD missiles that will go beyond 10000 for side. I know of no NATO country with that amount of air defence ammo to spare. 10000 Patriot missiles with launchers and radars will cost a GDP of a small country to buy...

Another seemingly big thing in Ukrainian media space is a stinging critique of Ukrainian defence minister. If everything I read is correct, the guy is as useful as a piece of furniture. Ammo was procured around the MOD through the Ministry of Strategic Industries exactly to work around...

Missiles don't explode inside targets

but then the shrapnel holes would've had edges pointed outwards

On the brilliance of Zaluzhny: I would say UA GHQ is doing everything as conservatively as possible after the initial months, they are not betting on the lower level officers being able to pull out anything extraordinary. They do however bet on them eventually be able to sever the land bridge...

I think shrapnel traces are a very evident giveaway to SAM being used.

By accounts in telegram, the fighting wasn't that heavy, but advancing under artillery fire in places advantageous for ambushes was. Russians had scattered firing positions flooded with levies, and draftees, with regulars very far away. Levies stood to death, but did little, and regulars fell...

5% of population is proportionally way less than WW2 losses, when most of them were working age men. If it would be just the silo based missiles, it's will be far less. I am by no means encouraged by that, but leadership must evaluate nuclear scenarios with brevity. A coordinated launch gives...

Rheinmetall is already producing more shells per month than the entire US industry

I think the discourse is very much warranted here, but the conclusion is very obvious: NATO is 1 billion people, more than a half or world economy, and an industrial capacity far bigger than that of China and Russia, if all NATO economies combined. Full scale nuclear exchange, worst case...