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> Russia can easily produce all of the steel and all of the explosives needed Russia might be able to produce a lot of steel, but it is struggling to produce m
by lostlogin 3y ago
> Russia can easily produce all of the steel and all of the explosives needed
Russia might be able to produce a lot of steel, but it is struggling to produce military grade, hard steel.
Half way down this article: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/6/2179504/-Ukraine-Update-Russia-doesn-t-have-a-backup-plan-when-it-runs-out-of-artillery https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/6/2179504/-Ukraine-U...
- bluGill 3y agoMore importantly Russia is unable to produce the electronics needed for modern weapons. They can build WWI level stuff well, and even WWII level stuff in many cases, but 2020s level technology is much better in many ways and there Russia struggles.
- paganel 3y agoThis has been mostly a WW1 war, the West thinking that the next big war would bec a technologically-advanced one where they’d be able to have the edge thanks to its better tech is a big factor behind the current clusterfuck represented by the West’s involvement in Ukraine. The Ukrainians would have been way better off had the West been capable to send millions of artillery shells their way instead of more advanced HIMARSes and what have you.