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U.S. eyes Russian Reliance on unsophisticated heavy-weaponry in Ukraine

• belter 5y ago
  Some capabilities are notably absent so far from the Ukraine war: The T14 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-14_Armata https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-14_Armata the Russian Mi-28 Havoc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-28 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil_Mi-28 and extensive use of Russian Spetsnaz. "Tankspotting: T-90As in the Donbass (2017)" https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2017/04/02/tankspotting-t-90as-donbass/ https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2017/04/02/tan...
  • NicoJuicy 5y ago
    With only 10 of those tanks and some of them experimental variants, even including those aren't going to make a lot of difference. Russia mostly sold their "high tech" equipment for much needed money.
  • mariuolo 5y ago
    Has the T-14 actually been mass produced?
• simonblack 5y ago
  In WW2, Germany had the most sophisticated technologically advanced weaponry. However, that also meant those weapons were hard to make, and were very expensive. Consequently, the Germans didn't have many of those 'Wonder Weapons'. On the other hand, both the Soviets and the Americans were able to make overwhelming quantities of 'good enough' weapons that were able to swamp the Germans in all the later battles of WW2. As Stalin is famously reputed to have said: "Quantity has a quality all of its own." The US is making the same mistake the Germans did: putting too much emphasis on very expensive, fragile, technologically advanced weaponry. (Sometimes denigrated as being 'Hangar Queens')
  • eveningcoffee 5y ago
    Actually US strategy is right. Current state of affairs clearly shows that US could simply wipe out all the Russian invasion forced from above. It does not make sense against coat herders on coats but is perfect fit against army massing up huge amount of steel.