Biden should spend coupla billions to pay 10-15k PMC and end this fucking shitshow already. Put Blackwater veterans on Ukraine's payroll and arm them , simple as. This is a frozen conflict and will just fuck up the economy more if let alone
>This is a frozen conflict and will just fuck up the economy more if let alone
Not really. All that Russian oil not being sold just means more American oil gets sold instead.
>India buys cheap Russian oil >Makes diesel >Sells diesel worldwide including to USA at market rates >American producers can't compete
Not sure how this is a win for Team Burger
>India buys cheap Russian oil >Makes diesel >Sells diesel worldwide including to USA at market rates >American producers can't compete
Not sure how this is a win for Team Burger
America outproduces Russia on oil but actually has an economy to use it, they aren't desperate to sell. It's pretty much just Russia's petrol station economy getting butt fucked while poos and chinks benefit from being fair weather friends and only buying at dirt prices. They of course are still getting railed by wheat prices similarly to Africa, but fuck them (and Africa).
Shills implies we’re getting paid, shitting on Russia for being violent degenerate filth is a time honored NATO pass time that dates all the way back to the Berlin Airlift. This entire war is a huge investment for the USA because once we can rebuild Ukraine and get their economy up to snuff, they get to pay us back as per the lend lease agreement. The only way the USA loses money in this conflict is if Ukraine loses, which isn’t happening.
PMCs are not equipped to fight a state military head-on by themselves, even one as incompetent as Russia. PMCs fill the following roles:
1. Providing security for countries where the state military is poorly trained and equipped (West and Central Africa, etc.) Generally fighting against terrorists and guerilla groups.
2. Filling in gaps for state militaries (i.e. guarding bases, diplomatic buildings, infrastructure like power plants, etc.)
3. Eliminating high-value targets and conducing high-risk operations, with intelligence and support provided by the state that is employing them (and any allies, like the US).
4. Supplementing state military forces. This is the one area where PMCs could help at the current stage of the Ukraine War.
>Biden should
Biden is a spineless zionist puppet and Hunter Biden took bribes from Ukraine for this dirty war, they want another forever war and they are having trouble convincing America that Americans should die in it
It doesn't seem like much but these kinds of offensives is what saved Moscow in 1941. Similar to the Germans, the Ukrainians have been softened up for a major Russian offensive.
Please man the fuck are you even saying, the Russians were invaded back in the days and they had the entirety of the USA and their own industry completely war focused, now they are invading without being able to resupply if not in limited amount and with no allies and no war industry. This is not 'like Moscow in 41'.
>IT'S JUST LIKE LE SOVIETS IN LE GREAT PATRIOT WAR
This isn't HOI4 dumbfuck. These "gains" are pathetic for the amount of men and materiel that is being expended. >BUT UKRAINE ISN'T TAKING GROUND EITHER LOOK AT THE MAP
Soon vatshit soon
>These "gains" are pathetic for the amount of men and materiel that is being expended.
Kek you literally know nothing about the Eastern Front in WW2 if you think these losses-to-land-gained ratio are terrible. To give some perspective, the Soviets didn't even push the Germans out of the USSR until the middle of 1944 by which point they had something like 10 million casualties
I'm not sure what point you're getting at tbh, but in WW2 each plane could carry only a tiny amount of ordinance compared to today.
The IL-2 Sturmovik, the USSR's most numerous bomber of the war, could only carry from 200 to 400 pounds of bombs.
The SU-25, Russia and Ukraine's most numerous CAS aircraft, by comparison can drop over 9000lb worth of bombs in just a single flight
the vehicles USSR had in WW2 completely dwarfs of Russia has now. at least by 10 to 1. There isnt going to be a major offensive from Russia... there hasnt been one since feb 2022... keep dreaming
This isn't WW2. The human capital being mulched by these offensives is massively more valuable than a Soviet peasant back in the 40s, much more money is expended per capita on education. The equipment is orders of magnitude more expensive and the US isn't funneling tons of free stuff in to support it.
In WW2 Russia has the majority of the world's industry supporting it in one way or another. Now it's the opposite. Even if China did decide to start arming Russia, China's arms industry output is a great deal smaller than the combined west especially if it gears up for a prolonged rearmament.
the Russian govt won't even admit that this is a war at all and you expect us to believe it is reasonable to compare bodycounts with the WW2 eastern front
>the Russian govt won't even admit that this is a war at all
obviously that's very gay but USA does the SAME exact shit. Vietnam and Iraq 2 weren't wars, they were "police actions", or did you already forget about that?
>but america
just say it, russia is performing like shit
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No problem: Russia is performing like shit, but refusing to declare this a war isn't uniquely Russian in the slightest. USA/Brits did the same shit.
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And I only mentioned it to point out one way in which it is ridiculous to pretend this war is analogous with WW2 in terms of scale.
Losing tens of thousands of soldiers KIA in one year in what was basically a colonial venture is absolutely horrendous
To pretend that it is somehow sustainable to take these kinds of losses for literal villages in a world where there is no Soviet-tier mass mobilisation and to attempt such would be political suicide is crazy. Russia is throwing away resources for no goddamn reason, the best excuse anyone can come up with is that he wants to wrap this up before western tanks arrive in useful numbers but that is a paper-thin reason to expend literally tens of thousands of troops
USA was never pretending the Vietnam War was the same as fuckin pearl harbour
And even for the Soviets, pissing away a division to take one of thousands of eastern front villages would raise eyebrows
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>USA was never pretending the Vietnam War was the same as fuckin pearl harbour
USA literally mobilized the population and dropped more bombs on Vietnam than they did Imperial Japan, the fuck are you on about
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Yeah okay I get it you're trolling
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You're pretending that Vietnam didn't matter to the US government, meanwhile they literally drafted the population for it
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Not that guy, but I think his wording was just hella bad. I don't think he means what you think he means and who the fuck knows what he means.
People do this terrible thing where they project what they think other people's mental image of different conflicts is, without proper research at all.
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I know what he means, he means that the USA never acted like the Vietnam War was existential. But they literally did pretend it was existential, domino theory and all that, hence why they were able to draft the population for as long as they did.
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Fuck *that* was what he was trying to say?
I mean you don't even need to know who Robert McNamara is to know the US was motivated by what it saw as long-term existential threat. Albert Speer levels of technocrat-retarded. Everyone's gotta know that if they know about the Vietnam war, right?
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Vietnam was not WW2 and this is also not WW2, countries were willing to expend everything for victory in WW2 because it was a total war where the losers couldn't even be sure they would still exist at all if they lost, the same is clearly not true in the cases of the USA in Vietnam and Russia in Ukraine
Now stop trying to get me to talk about Vietnam as a distraction from the actual topic here
I don't remember people being fined or imprisoned for calling either of those a war.
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>Goal post status: moved
US government refused to call Iraq 2 or Vietnam a war. And though they never jailed anyone for calling it a war, they sent people to prison for exposing war crimes.
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You're the one moving the goalposts you stupid fuck.
I still chuckle how that one image that predicted the Russian encirclement growing ever smaller with each month became true. It's literally just the city of Bakhmut now
I'm saying imagine if the AFU had 8000 tracked APCs in the logistical mix across their fronts, that could navigate the changing circumstances of the terrain better than most, and they were more or less the same make, and when and if required, were highly adaptable, and Ukrainians were already trained on how to use them. Imagine if the provision of that capability put the US well in front financially, because they wouldn't be holding on to shit they didn't want to use.
I want Biden to pick up the phone and order the Pentagon to kick out Russia. The war would be over instantly, the RuAF are only pretending to fight if they had to face the US they would literally rebel and refuse; the Kremlin knows this and they’d pull out on day one.
I want to watch the third-worlders on here seethe so hard that they all but die.
one would think that Russia would cut their losses and leave when they already lost ALL of their tanks and 67% of their infantry. do you really believe that those numbers aren't complete horseshit?
>one would think that Russia would cut their losses and leave when they already lost ALL of their tanks and 67% of their infantry. do you really believe that those numbers aren't complete horseshit?
Everyone knows the Ukrainian numbers are right. If you don't know how many tanks Russia had in serve per invasion and its 'r4eserves' that its pulling junk from like defective unmodernised t62s and T72s that cool but shut the fuck up. The Ukranains won the debate a long time a go by telling the truth and their figures predicting Russian mobilisation, something putin swore would never happen when he did his invasion speech. The Russian conventional military is vanishing before our eyes
>something putin swore would never happen when he did his invasion speech
well, you made me rewatch the speech. do you think blatantly lying will benefit Ukraine? apparently you do
don't blame me because you don't know in what speech he (supposedly) said it. post his speech where he says it and don't talk out of your ass in the future, retard
3300 were the tanks that were earmarked for the invasion. Since then Russia has brought T-62's from storage and started building 2022/23 variants of T-90's, T-72's and T-62's. That means there are more than they started with. If we go off paper numbers, Russia has 9,000 more tanks minimum, ignoring stuff they could build.
Look again at what? My point remains.They've pulled up reserves and built new ones. That's if we believe it to be true (it isn't) anyway. Officially T-62's are not part of the Russian active forces, therefore activating them does not count for the total of the armed forces. Same as the 300 or so T-55's that are in 'reserve' that Russia has. They could call those up too if they worked.
3300 were the tanks in service, not just intended for invasion. the Russians certainly didn't produce a significant amount of tanks since the invasion and even to restore tanks in reserve takes a lot of time. if they did lose the bullshit amount of tanks in the Ukrainian source, then most of it it was their active reserves
Right now Russia is capable of making 20 of their T-90 monkey models per month and refurbing another 60-80 T-62/T-72 hulls (they don't have T-90 hulls in storage to refurb). They're losing around 150-170 tanks per month. They're scaling up production but it will take a couple of years, and by the time they're there they will certainly have run out of T-72 hulls and probably T-62 hulls. Nobody really knows how many serviceable tanks Russia actually had in its Siberian boneyards.
I don't know how many BMP-3 they're building but I do know the situation after sanctions was bad enough the government inquired about producing BMP-2s instead if it could be done more easily, but it sounded like Kurganmashzavod was tooled up for BMP-3s and it was easier to build sanctioned monkey models of those instead of going back to simpler vehicles. They've had issues scaling up production for a long time though.
All of this is important though because the key to Russia actually taking the land it claims is having enough armored vehicles, unless they can cause the Ukrainian army to rout you can't make meaningful advances or perform maneuver warfare on foot or with just light vehicles.
Yup warm winter, which is funny when all the Russian shills were scream that “General Winter will save us just like 1941 and Europe will freeze!!!” and when it didn’t they started blaming American weather control machines.
Biden should spend coupla billions to pay 10-15k PMC and end this fucking shitshow already. Put Blackwater veterans on Ukraine's payroll and arm them , simple as. This is a frozen conflict and will just fuck up the economy more if let alone
>This is a frozen conflict and will just fuck up the economy more if let alone
Not really. All that Russian oil not being sold just means more American oil gets sold instead.
>India buys cheap Russian oil
>Makes diesel
>Sells diesel worldwide including to USA at market rates
>American producers can't compete
Not sure how this is a win for Team Burger
>Russia sells much less oil to niech less clients for a much smaller price
>This is a win for them
Ok
Yes it is.
>Russia sells oil to India at firesale prices
>India refines said oil and put the refined products back in the markets
>Rest of the world buys said oil.
Because the russian oil is still in the markets the oil price is stabilized.
There's no shortage of oil for the consumers.
India gets most of the profit for oil sales.
Russia gets nothing because is selling almost at cost.
This was the objective of the oil cap, cut oil revenues and it's working.
America outproduces Russia on oil but actually has an economy to use it, they aren't desperate to sell. It's pretty much just Russia's petrol station economy getting butt fucked while poos and chinks benefit from being fair weather friends and only buying at dirt prices. They of course are still getting railed by wheat prices similarly to Africa, but fuck them (and Africa).
How exactly is this bad for the economy anon? Seems like a big money maker for the US. Gas being sold, oil being sold, MIC is producing nicely.
The level you waste of space shills go to wanting to prolong this bullshit truly is astounding
Shills implies we’re getting paid, shitting on Russia for being violent degenerate filth is a time honored NATO pass time that dates all the way back to the Berlin Airlift. This entire war is a huge investment for the USA because once we can rebuild Ukraine and get their economy up to snuff, they get to pay us back as per the lend lease agreement. The only way the USA loses money in this conflict is if Ukraine loses, which isn’t happening.
Anon I just had a stroke what the fuck are you saying?
High energy costs are bad for every sector besides energy. Also it hurts the USA's most important allies - Europe.
>muh blackwater
they already tried that, the pussy americans ran away when they realized what real war is
some grunts wont make any difference, Give UK 50 F-16, longe range HIMAR missiles, 100 Abrahams and training, and we would see serious UK gains.
PMCs are not equipped to fight a state military head-on by themselves, even one as incompetent as Russia. PMCs fill the following roles:
1. Providing security for countries where the state military is poorly trained and equipped (West and Central Africa, etc.) Generally fighting against terrorists and guerilla groups.
2. Filling in gaps for state militaries (i.e. guarding bases, diplomatic buildings, infrastructure like power plants, etc.)
3. Eliminating high-value targets and conducing high-risk operations, with intelligence and support provided by the state that is employing them (and any allies, like the US).
4. Supplementing state military forces. This is the one area where PMCs could help at the current stage of the Ukraine War.
Then you’d have 5k dead blackwater and the vets who come home would blame the president.
Blackwater bitchfags wouldn't last a day in Ukraine
>Biden should
Biden is a spineless zionist puppet and Hunter Biden took bribes from Ukraine for this dirty war, they want another forever war and they are having trouble convincing America that Americans should die in it
when was the last time PMCs fought a real war against a peer force?
It doesn't seem like much but these kinds of offensives is what saved Moscow in 1941. Similar to the Germans, the Ukrainians have been softened up for a major Russian offensive.
>the Ukrainians have been softened up for a major Russian offensive.
And the Russians have also been softened up for a Ukrainian offensive.
Please man the fuck are you even saying, the Russians were invaded back in the days and they had the entirety of the USA and their own industry completely war focused, now they are invading without being able to resupply if not in limited amount and with no allies and no war industry. This is not 'like Moscow in 41'.
>IT'S JUST LIKE LE SOVIETS IN LE GREAT PATRIOT WAR
This isn't HOI4 dumbfuck. These "gains" are pathetic for the amount of men and materiel that is being expended.
>BUT UKRAINE ISN'T TAKING GROUND EITHER LOOK AT THE MAP
Soon vatshit soon
>These "gains" are pathetic for the amount of men and materiel that is being expended.
Kek you literally know nothing about the Eastern Front in WW2 if you think these losses-to-land-gained ratio are terrible. To give some perspective, the Soviets didn't even push the Germans out of the USSR until the middle of 1944 by which point they had something like 10 million casualties
>To give some perspective
To give perspective, during WWII, USSR had +10k military aircraft
I'm not sure what point you're getting at tbh, but in WW2 each plane could carry only a tiny amount of ordinance compared to today.
The IL-2 Sturmovik, the USSR's most numerous bomber of the war, could only carry from 200 to 400 pounds of bombs.
The SU-25, Russia and Ukraine's most numerous CAS aircraft, by comparison can drop over 9000lb worth of bombs in just a single flight
>could only carry from 200 to 400 pounds of bombs
corsair could carry ten times that
Who cares? Corsairs would get absolutely chewed up over German-controlled skies. You should have said P-51 or P-47.
as 60% winrate bf109k4 pilot I am more worried about the Corsair than either of those
The il2 typically carried about ~500kg with rockets early war, the fuck are you smoking?
the vehicles USSR had in WW2 completely dwarfs of Russia has now. at least by 10 to 1. There isnt going to be a major offensive from Russia... there hasnt been one since feb 2022... keep dreaming
too bad Ukraine is saturated with AA and russia doesn't have the ability to SEAD properly
>The IL-2 Sturmovik, the USSR's most numerous bomber of the war, could only carry from 200 to 400 pounds of bombs
Korea and Vietnam era prop aircraft that carried more ordnance per average combat sortie than any current Russian jet.
>UN hygiene aid
This isn't WW2. The human capital being mulched by these offensives is massively more valuable than a Soviet peasant back in the 40s, much more money is expended per capita on education. The equipment is orders of magnitude more expensive and the US isn't funneling tons of free stuff in to support it.
In WW2 Russia has the majority of the world's industry supporting it in one way or another. Now it's the opposite. Even if China did decide to start arming Russia, China's arms industry output is a great deal smaller than the combined west especially if it gears up for a prolonged rearmament.
the Russian govt won't even admit that this is a war at all and you expect us to believe it is reasonable to compare bodycounts with the WW2 eastern front
>the Russian govt won't even admit that this is a war at all
obviously that's very gay but USA does the SAME exact shit. Vietnam and Iraq 2 weren't wars, they were "police actions", or did you already forget about that?
>muh Vietnam
Every time
except I also mentioned Iraq 2, which happened in this century, retard.
I stopped reading as soon as I saw Vietnam.
>but america
just say it, russia is performing like shit
No problem: Russia is performing like shit, but refusing to declare this a war isn't uniquely Russian in the slightest. USA/Brits did the same shit.
And I only mentioned it to point out one way in which it is ridiculous to pretend this war is analogous with WW2 in terms of scale.
Losing tens of thousands of soldiers KIA in one year in what was basically a colonial venture is absolutely horrendous
To pretend that it is somehow sustainable to take these kinds of losses for literal villages in a world where there is no Soviet-tier mass mobilisation and to attempt such would be political suicide is crazy. Russia is throwing away resources for no goddamn reason, the best excuse anyone can come up with is that he wants to wrap this up before western tanks arrive in useful numbers but that is a paper-thin reason to expend literally tens of thousands of troops
USA was never pretending the Vietnam War was the same as fuckin pearl harbour
And even for the Soviets, pissing away a division to take one of thousands of eastern front villages would raise eyebrows
>USA was never pretending the Vietnam War was the same as fuckin pearl harbour
USA literally mobilized the population and dropped more bombs on Vietnam than they did Imperial Japan, the fuck are you on about
Yeah okay I get it you're trolling
You're pretending that Vietnam didn't matter to the US government, meanwhile they literally drafted the population for it
Not that guy, but I think his wording was just hella bad. I don't think he means what you think he means and who the fuck knows what he means.
People do this terrible thing where they project what they think other people's mental image of different conflicts is, without proper research at all.
I know what he means, he means that the USA never acted like the Vietnam War was existential. But they literally did pretend it was existential, domino theory and all that, hence why they were able to draft the population for as long as they did.
Fuck *that* was what he was trying to say?
I mean you don't even need to know who Robert McNamara is to know the US was motivated by what it saw as long-term existential threat. Albert Speer levels of technocrat-retarded. Everyone's gotta know that if they know about the Vietnam war, right?
Vietnam was not WW2 and this is also not WW2, countries were willing to expend everything for victory in WW2 because it was a total war where the losers couldn't even be sure they would still exist at all if they lost, the same is clearly not true in the cases of the USA in Vietnam and Russia in Ukraine
Now stop trying to get me to talk about Vietnam as a distraction from the actual topic here
I don't remember people being fined or imprisoned for calling either of those a war.
>Goal post status: moved
US government refused to call Iraq 2 or Vietnam a war. And though they never jailed anyone for calling it a war, they sent people to prison for exposing war crimes.
You're the one moving the goalposts you stupid fuck.
I protested the second iraq war
>yet I appear to be free from imprisonment
>Soon vatshit soon
Two more weeks?
>the Ukrainians have been softened up for a major Russian offensive
in 2 weeks?
>This is literally Stalingrad 7.0 -Z
>Russia is literally collapsing, this is their Verdun and 1917 combined in one
Just like they were softened after Severodonstsk right?
>have been soften-ACK
>Here's your-ACK!
whats that red area down there at the bottom?
Hyperfortress Pissky, iirc
that meme is very innacurate, anything that frames this war as anything other than utterly humiliation for Russia might as well be propaganda
>trying to memoryhole Kyiv, Kharkiv, snek island and Kherson failures
Wow, collapse of northern front, Kharkiv and Kherson are memoryholed already?
Yup. The new propaganda line is “This is just an attritional war the whole time!”
I still chuckle how that one image that predicted the Russian encirclement growing ever smaller with each month became true. It's literally just the city of Bakhmut now
All 40km of it.
Now imagine if US gave Ukes all their m113s.
m113s are magical, but they are not a magic bullet.
What am I actually saying?
I'm saying imagine if the AFU had 8000 tracked APCs in the logistical mix across their fronts, that could navigate the changing circumstances of the terrain better than most, and they were more or less the same make, and when and if required, were highly adaptable, and Ukrainians were already trained on how to use them. Imagine if the provision of that capability put the US well in front financially, because they wouldn't be holding on to shit they didn't want to use.
Deep battle operations comrade
More than I expected tbh. Wonder how long it will last.
Just two more centuries and Russia will have at least HALF of Ukraine
>it is the 41st millennium and the battle of Bakhmut twin artillery shell mountains rages on
I want Biden to pick up the phone and order the Pentagon to kick out Russia. The war would be over instantly, the RuAF are only pretending to fight if they had to face the US they would literally rebel and refuse; the Kremlin knows this and they’d pull out on day one.
I want to watch the third-worlders on here seethe so hard that they all but die.
Russia will literally nook if nato gets directly involved. I hate vatnigs but this is the reality, otherwise they would have done this already
Russia hasn't any functioning nukes. Why else would they call off the inspections?
>Can't let Joe see how pathetic we actually are.
Unfortunately nato intelligence disagrees with you, otherwise we would have seen the kremlin blown to bits by now
>Here's your winter offensive, bro
one would think that Russia would cut their losses and leave when they already lost ALL of their tanks and 67% of their infantry. do you really believe that those numbers aren't complete horseshit?
It's not about Russia ability to fight, it's about monke keeping his position
you're either a retard or a shill
>thinking russia would cut their losses
who's the real retard here
>It's not about Russia ability to fight, it's about monke keeping his position
"They know about my position. Just saw a post on PrepHole"
uh oh, stinky
>one would think that Russia would cut their losses and leave when they already lost ALL of their tanks and 67% of their infantry. do you really believe that those numbers aren't complete horseshit?
Everyone knows the Ukrainian numbers are right. If you don't know how many tanks Russia had in serve per invasion and its 'r4eserves' that its pulling junk from like defective unmodernised t62s and T72s that cool but shut the fuck up. The Ukranains won the debate a long time a go by telling the truth and their figures predicting Russian mobilisation, something putin swore would never happen when he did his invasion speech. The Russian conventional military is vanishing before our eyes
>something putin swore would never happen when he did his invasion speech
well, you made me rewatch the speech. do you think blatantly lying will benefit Ukraine? apparently you do
watch this you will see at about the 53 second mark but you are just lying because you are a russian and it is what you do
don't blame me because you don't know in what speech he (supposedly) said it. post his speech where he says it and don't talk out of your ass in the future, retard
>only 1,000 POWs
>600,000 casualties
They are intentionally keeping that number vague, so vatniks won't know how many switched to ROA
>3395 tanks lost
>3300 total tanks in the entire Russian military
something doesn't add up...
Look up Russia's reserves.
3300 were the tanks that were earmarked for the invasion. Since then Russia has brought T-62's from storage and started building 2022/23 variants of T-90's, T-72's and T-62's. That means there are more than they started with. If we go off paper numbers, Russia has 9,000 more tanks minimum, ignoring stuff they could build.
look again
Look again at what? My point remains.They've pulled up reserves and built new ones. That's if we believe it to be true (it isn't) anyway. Officially T-62's are not part of the Russian active forces, therefore activating them does not count for the total of the armed forces. Same as the 300 or so T-55's that are in 'reserve' that Russia has. They could call those up too if they worked.
3300 were the tanks in service, not just intended for invasion. the Russians certainly didn't produce a significant amount of tanks since the invasion and even to restore tanks in reserve takes a lot of time. if they did lose the bullshit amount of tanks in the Ukrainian source, then most of it it was their active reserves
Paper numbers are 100% fake as shit, but Russia probably has a few thousand more rusty shitboxes they can refurbish
Right now Russia is capable of making 20 of their T-90 monkey models per month and refurbing another 60-80 T-62/T-72 hulls (they don't have T-90 hulls in storage to refurb). They're losing around 150-170 tanks per month. They're scaling up production but it will take a couple of years, and by the time they're there they will certainly have run out of T-72 hulls and probably T-62 hulls. Nobody really knows how many serviceable tanks Russia actually had in its Siberian boneyards.
I don't know how many BMP-3 they're building but I do know the situation after sanctions was bad enough the government inquired about producing BMP-2s instead if it could be done more easily, but it sounded like Kurganmashzavod was tooled up for BMP-3s and it was easier to build sanctioned monkey models of those instead of going back to simpler vehicles. They've had issues scaling up production for a long time though.
All of this is important though because the key to Russia actually taking the land it claims is having enough armored vehicles, unless they can cause the Ukrainian army to rout you can't make meaningful advances or perform maneuver warfare on foot or with just light vehicles.
But aren't those huge tank losses mainly from the first months of the war? Do we have an idea on the loss rate of the last months?
psyop russian winter offensive so then you can claim it didn't work. ingenious, but it doesn't win you the war.
Looks like Russia is making gains, what is the issue here?
>YOU'RE NOT WINNING FAST ENOUGH!!!!
LOL.
So the ground never froze or what? I thought both sides were waiting for that so they could launch their new offensives.
Yup warm winter, which is funny when all the Russian shills were scream that “General Winter will save us just like 1941 and Europe will freeze!!!” and when it didn’t they started blaming American weather control machines.
Ukrainians were saying that the Russians will start a massive offensive, but they didn't. just like there was no new recruitment wave in Russia