I remember we laughed when they put the defensive missile systems on the rooftops in Moscow but now it makes sense. Most likely you could easily fly past 500km of Russia's land straight to Moscow if you have the capability...Apparently that is exactly what they did
A €100 drone lands on a ~€300m plane after a long and slow flight in enemy territory without any problems. Just take some explosives with you next time.
That's easier to say than actually do. How quickly can all this equipment be built?
A €100 drone lands on a ~€300m plane after a long and slow flight in enemy territory without any problems. Just take some explosives with you next time.
Exactly. Taiwan is rich and can afford a big investment in military because of their semiconductor industry. Just tell Xi that Taiwan gets all the new shiny toys if we see one chinese weapon in Ukraine. People like Putin and Xi only understand real threats. Every appeasement policy is seen as weakness by them.
A €100 drone lands on a ~€300m plane after a long and slow flight in enemy territory without any problems. Just take some explosives with you next time.
Exactly. Taiwan is rich and can afford a big investment in military because of their semiconductor industry. Just tell Xi that Taiwan gets all the new shiny toys if we see one chinese weapon in Ukraine. People like Putin and Xi only understand real threats. Every appeasement policy is seen as weakness by them.
Lavrov just keeps on giving. Soon he will demand the Nobel Peace Prize for Russia.
The US certainly does and it's current military is pretty big
That’s because it is. The British Army might last a month in a conflict as intense as what’s been seen in Ukraine. It’s a very hollowed out force.
Late 80's, early 90's the Soviet army had a fleet of over 50,000 main battle tanks, all the tanks we see getting destroyed in Ukraine now are leftovers from those days.
Some of those numbers look pretty low on the Russian side, I'm pretty sure they have more than 20 Air tankers and less main battle tanks than NATO doesn't sound right at all
Great Britain is an island, it didn't need a huge tank army. Other countries had much more. For example in 1990 the German Bundeswehr had 2125 Leopard 2 MBT in active duty, after the collapse of the Soviet Union this was reduced to just more than 300 (and this doesn't even include the T-72 fleet of the GDR army). Russia simply stored their excess vehicles somewhere and are now trying to reactivate as many as possible of that stock.
Don't forget that NATO vs Russia means 950 million people living in the most wealthy states on the globe vs 140 million people living in a mediocre shithole.
Actually they only have 19. Ilyushin Il-78 is the only specialized tanker in the Russian air force and only 56 planes have ever been built of which 19 is currently operated by Russia.
Specialized tanker yes - probably should have listed it like that as there will be modified versions like the West sometimes use
Lower quality definitely but they had 50K at the end of the cold war and I doubt NATO ever had close to that number, but I don't know, mind you the US would have a heck of a job getting 6K tanks to Europe!
For example, over 100 million AK 47s were made overall. Soviet conventional military doctrine was brute strength with numbers, especially on the ground. Overwhelm NATO was the goal.
Yes that is true, was their tactic in WW2 as well which is why their casualty numbers were many times everyone else
But there's no excuse for having an ill-equipped under resourced one
Only other ones I know of are some of their fighters that are able to perform buddy-buddy refuelings. I think it's the Mig-29 and some of the planes from the SU-27 family but i'm not certain. Those planes can of course carry very small amounts of fuel compared to a real tanker plane.
