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The problem with Gerpards is that now they have to use hastily produced Nammo 35mm HE rounds for surface targets, which have low sensitivity detonators, which often fail to detonate when hitting things like drones made from fibreglass. What I believe is coming from the production line now is...

Ukraine is having losses of armour as well. Even if they will cannonfodder UA into spending 1/3 to 1/2 of its current armour fleet, they can potentially hold on for a long time with much less need for own armour. Russian replenishment rate of 2 battalions per week stayed more or less constant...

35mm is also used by a lots of new IFVs weaponry. Some CV90s are converted to 35mm.

Is this MQM's doing?

UA intel claims that Russian leadership has set the pullout line at 3 million losses. Another remarkable "achievement" RUAF staff got is that they lost nearly all auxiliaries from the initial force. Military police, national guard, militarized SWAT teams, KGB, military lawyers + untold amount...

On the paper, Russians have gazillion of junior lieutenants.... but those lieutenants never actually served in the army. They are all in reserve. I am puzzled how in the world that was supposed to work. It is those middle aged buys who are now reportedly commissioned en masse to lead mobilised...

Think almost the entire pre-war staff. The initial invasion force was 240k, with only 170k being Russian regulars, and only around 80k of them being from prime rib staffed units. With 1500 officers lost, Russian army will have to be recreated from scratch as even military academy officers were...

Given what's happening in Ukraine, do people think that using artillery against point targets will get more important? A frequent comment is that excallibur often leaves even minimally hardened targets intact in near missies, requiring multiple hits until a direct hit is scored. It's ball...

If we will use the "man portability" criteria of that guy, even Hellfire is man portable (six men portable to be correct)

They haven't even stressed their money printing press yet, and we do see they try to preserve their FX stash, and make it last longer. RU economy is fatally wounded, but nowhere quite yet dead. In defence of correctness, the biggest killer of armour in this war is artillery, seconded by field...

That sums up Kharkiv offensive very well. While most firepower was delivered by artillery, tanks weren't even second. Long before tanks ever reached their targets, smaller groups on civilian cars were already penetrating Russian rear, and harassing Russians out before they can organise a...

In other news, I read russia put Viagra replacement as a tier-1 national importance medicine to replace Talking of priorities, and the class of demented geriatric hedonists in power CPC is just like that too

First mass produced batch of 120 drones is already in Ukraine. Unfortunately, first few hundreds will have these conspicuous pink motors. They will have to be repainted in the field. The old black ones were way too expensive for no performance difference. Changes: Two circularly polarised...

You will be surprised, Boeing buys a lot of parts manufactured by General Atomics in India

They can't possibly be cutting so little as they can't be exporting all the stuff they previously been exporting to Europe through the pipe through their ports. Mostly for the reason that these oil wells are physically not connected go infrastructure going to their ports, and secondly due to...

Russia can keep sending infantry on civilian vehicles with few mortar tubes per battalion in amount of 2 regiments per month pretty much indefinitely. This is around the average common estimate. Russian replenish rate so far been around the loss rate, to half of it. Russians lost around...

Nuclear weapons for the win. If they can restart 2 intact Chernobyl reactors, they can make at least 100kg of plutonium per year. Moscow goes boom, Russian history ends. As I been arguing many times, people are better calling Russia the State of Moscow. Without Moscow, the rationale for...

@Ali_14 why are you angry? I think just any Iranian versed in regional politics knows that Iranian North is the only place where a regional minority outnumbers ethnic Persians. There are more Azeris in Iran, than in Azerbaijan itself. Were you let Russians into Azerbaijan, they would've...

Their maximum hypothetical production rate is 60-80 T-72Bs per year. If they focus on refitting tanks in storage, they can probably double that, but they will be getting nothing more than a seventies era vehicle out of that. The amount of tanks they have in storage in different states of...

France is an extremely confused player on the world stage. They had 3 completely different foreign policy alignments over the last 10 years, yet kept doing basically the same. The disconnects in between what they say, and what they do is giant. See what they were doing in Egypt for example...