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Idk, you can't go to military academy with GK <500 One things which grounded a huge part of their airforce is lack of... brake pads. They ran out of their pre-1991 stocks, which would've lasted them many more years of peace time use otherwise, but melted in wartime. Bad news, their sortie...

I also seen it. An interesting detail about it: the swashplate is hidden deep inside the hull, and not exposed on the rotor.

SAM superiority is > air superiority in this conflict. Both sides have done good job hiding their SAMs, and not losing them to the most trivial employment of antiradiation missiles. One of the universally adopted tactic to kill bombers when you care about killing the bomber more than protecting...

There is a speculation that RU forces haven't been moving around for more than a month now. They just hold static defence, and push piecemeal attacks where they do, without new forces coming to plug holes left when they expire. Avdiivka been the sole notable exception, and it might've been done...

It's important to specify it further Russians who are forced to fight without clear reason given Russians who fight voluntarily on their own for unclear reasons they never revealed The later are way more dangerous for Russian regime than former, but two coming together are super dangerous I...

The count outsiders have is very imprecise. For example, I noticed there are UA brigades out there which seem to have not ever been sighted anywhere. One can think that they were put into deep deep reserve, if they exist at all, or were a part of disinformation campaign. On the other hand...

That one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarmook-class_corvette

They don't need to fight Russian fighters as much Russian SAMs. Here F35 gets tens of extra kilometres of safe space from S300

I visited ships at NAVDEX today. There was a Romanian built Yarmook corvette (more close to frigate in size) from Pakistan. Bahraini cutter built in Germany by Swiftships. A minesweeper HMS Bangor. And multiple UAE's tiny landing crafts, and boats. My strongest impression was from deck visit...

His risk to be blown up by his own regime insiders far surpasses a chance a foreign entity doing the same, thus an armored train makes much more sense.

Do you want me to make any photos tomorrow?

I went there, and it's zuper boring this year: drones, drones, drones, drones, drones, drones, drones, drones, drones, drones. In terms of exhibitors, it feels one half of the expo is Turkish companies, and another is Chinese, with the rest of exhibitors being squeezed in the middle.

One loss category which seems to not to be noticed by anybody is engineering equipment, and how irreplaceable it is. Russians, as I understood, never produced any new engineering vehicles since 1991, unlike tanks, which are a big name item, which can be exported. They just likely thought they...

The conflict will continue until UA tanks will roll on the Red Square

Russian mechanised effort is dead. Russian reinforcement rate of 2 battalions per week more or less kept constant, but their armour resupply is only 10-20 vehicles per week, many times less than rate of losses. I predict that at some point next summer, the war will start to look like WW1

The 3 million losses line is not unreal for Russia, and this info is unjustly discounted. You don't need officers to just herd draftees LPR/DPR style, street mobs do suffice Russia has deep reserves of weapons of up to WW1 vintage, even WW1 Nagant is firing ammo Russia still produces, and it...

Russians say they rallied 300k extra troops. UA intel says Russians managed to only mobilise 240k by January. You need as a minimum of 4 COs and NCOs per 30 people for the most bare bones infantry company to function. That's 40000 people if Russians have really amassed 300k, and 32000 if...

The problem with NATO member countries military expenditures in the past 30 years was that almost all downsizing was eating into readiness component, and not for "food." The result was that some NATO member had sizeable militarises, which was important psychologically for politicians, but they...