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Russia appears to be spending most of their budget on the EW side, as seen by the incredibly heavy Ukrainian drone losses. https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidha

• rasz 3y ago
  Those are disposable $500 suicide drone numbers, no one is losing 10000 Mavics a month.
  • vGPU 3y ago
    Does it matter what they’re losing? It’s all our tax dollars going poof either way.
    • rasz 3y ago
      Are you really arguing about ~$5mil a month in drones? Thats around the cost of ONE PATRIOT interceptor or 5 HIMARS salvos. Its not going poof, its splattering invaders. This is what $500 delivers in the field https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1706705383220191290 https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1706705383220191290 ~$3mil T-72B3 obr. 2022 going in smoke https://gagadget.com/en/osint/324992-a-500-fpv-drone-destroyed-russias-newest-2022-model-t-72b3-tank-at-a-cost-of-3-million/ https://gagadget.com/en/osint/324992-a-500-fpv-drone-destroy... Few days earlier 2S9 Nona-S https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1705852827233300773 https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1705852827233300773 ~$1mil If you really want to get outraged by something read about russians behind Lancet suicide drones https://www.sensusq.com/blog/sensusq-analysis-on-the-zala-421-16e-zala-421-16e2-and-zala-421-16em-reconnaissance-uavs https://www.sensusq.com/blog/sensusq-analysis-on-the-zala-42... Son of the de facto owner/ceo of the company currently works at UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva.
      • vGPU 3y ago
        And yet we see headlines like “UK out of tanks to give Ukraine” - that was this morning, I believe. I don’t see Russia running out of tanks.
        • _kbh_ 3y ago
          > I don’t see Russia running out of tanks. There’s evidence they are running out of tanks, like activating T62’s and using Indias T90S’s. They aren’t out of tanks altogether but they are clearly going through tanks faster then they can make them.
        • rasz 3y ago
          russia is a big country with huge soviet reserves, still they started renovating T54s https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/07/07/mammoths-crap-more-obsolete-t-54-tanks-arrive-in-southern-ukraine-as-russian-forces-grow-desperate/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/07/07/mammoths-cr... Currently there are 2500 tank and >4000 armored carrier losses documented on video/pictures https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-documenting-equipment.html https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02/attack-on-europe-docum... while UA claims double that in the field https://index.minfin.com.ua/en/russian-invading/casualties/ https://index.minfin.com.ua/en/russian-invading/casualties/ ~10 tank loses a day while ru barely makes under 10 new tanks and refurbishes tens per month now. https://en.defence-ua.com/industries/how_many_tanks_a_month_russian_uralvagonzavod_can_produce_really-5921.html https://en.defence-ua.com/industries/how_many_tanks_a_month_...
          • vGPU 3y ago
            Oryx has been proven to be providing false numbers well over a dozen times, including in the pentagon documents. Re: Ukraine claims - is that the one where they claimed to have destroyed 4,700 tanks out of 3,500? MediaZona, an organization run by strongly anti-Putin, pro-Ukraine owners in partnership with the BBC, is going to be the most accurate casualty information you can actually get: https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng https://en.zona.media/article/2022/05/11/casualties_eng And please, enlighten me: how exactly are they taking that many tank losses when they’re literally dug in, not moving, and have pulled the tanks back? They don’t even have to fight, the Ukrainians are doing a fine job tripping every land mine in the region by themselves.