The Ukraine is barely fighting anymore hence the non existent counter offensive. In reality Russia has already won and now nato are just sending weapons straight to Russia while decreasing their own standard of living. It’s based as shit.
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Devil is in the details.
It would be perfectly valid theory about "rearming" and "modernisation" of NATO arms stockpiles if there was some evidence of appearing something really new on duty in NATO countries. But I can't find anything new at all. Only same old things that are differ from what is sold (no, it is not donated! it is sold for a money US transfer to Ukraine) to Ukriane only by manufacturer, and not by any properties important. Sometimes I even see something that makes thing worse in terms of mainteinance complexity and cost of ownership.
Where is TR3B planes, force shield AD, laser rifles and so on?
Replacing AK with M16 of MIG/SU with F and Eurofighter have nothing to do with modernisation in miltary power or advancy sense. It is all about just making money.
Do you think they'll press it. But it is occurring on huge levels, as war machines and production turns. Factories are manufacturing. More are getting involved. I don't know what you've been reading or where. Find it. Start with the MiGs donated, what did these upgrade to f35s? What about the old s300 systems? Now tanks and artillery. What about new ships and subs building? Etc.
Outside of the munitions, shells, and components. These are seeing places like South Korea, Japan manufacture etc.
Tell me about UK's latest package. Industrial scale, factory. Not simply stock. Where is Denmark buying the rockets from? What about Holland, buying the munition. Tell me about German manufacture. What about the new contracts for ships and subs? What about Israeli?
You're not reading much. Russia has similar demands and production, rockets, munitions, drones, components, from quite a few places, and it also has the Chinese producing more.
F35? Are you serious? It is a maintenace nightmare comparing to the MIGs.
There is something weird with all that.
Look, for the real battlefield you need a reliable and easy repairable devices that does not need a weeks of maintenance for a hour of work. What is the point of military equipment if it could show any results for only few first shots and then it is unuseable? It is very good for sale demonstrations and profits, but it is completely senseless for a real battle.
Look at Ukraine battlefield - none of Western weapons show any success at all. That old S300 and Grad MRLS do much more damage to the Russian forces than all western weaponry combined. So exchanging really working military equipment to the "modern" one have nothing to do with military power.
What is the problem for the West to start manufacturing S300 rockets for example, to empower NATO allies who have S300 legacy from Soviet Union times? Don't tell me that Western factories could not copy that old, but reliable things. If so, West is already fucked completely and there is no any sense in all that military pride parade at all.
152mm shells mistery is a good example too. All 155mm NATO howitzers do not survive fire rate needed for real battle at all. Heavy maintenance after 30 shots when you need 300 a day means that things just unuseable, regardless of their "modernity". Old USSR stuff sustain that without any problems. Ok, it is not easy to start manufacturing of some soviet howitzer copy from scratch. But what is the problem to adjust factory that manufacture 155mm shells to 152mm? Tuning fucking 3mm down is now a lost knowledge? What the fuck is going on?
This insane approach of making hugely overpriced overcomplicated and unreliable weapons infested the minds of Western MIC long ago.
There is definitely something else behind that new weapons race. And it have nothing to do about real battles at all.
You're chatting shit. That is uncalled for speculation outside of the point raised.
They upgraded their fighters and choppers in many Eastern European countries to newer western equivalents. Hence they donated older Soviet stocks. Older Soviet Anti Aircraft systems are upgrading. Tanks are upgrading. Artillery is upgrading. Some nations have larger orders of new ships and subs of various descriptions. As well as drones and other equipment rockets, shells, etc.
Meanwhile there are huge debates currently on Russian capabilities with the whatever nonsense about hypersonics being shot down. Tanks and other equipment. With Western missile defenses suggested to be beating hypersonics, tell me what happens to those sales. Tanks again were shown and suggested to have problems.
I am not getting into what you assume is better. Rather I am stating facts, bigger spending into the Nato front is occurring. As suggested it isn't donated, it's also upgrading new equipment. Meanwhile factories globally are manufacturing increasing arms and munitions. This has become for both sides, as this conflict continues.
HIMARS, what about other missiles, missile systems. Tanks. Drones. It stands to reason. Outside of capabilities. If I get rid of a warehouse, what do I fill it back up with? It doesn't sit there empty. It sooner opens a new factory. Sell more and replace stock. Read the news. Not simply the propaganda. Donated to the Ukrainian weapons charity's. Hahaha.
Upgrading with what? Some electronics shit that adds nothing to reliability if not worsen it? Catalysators to the tanks exhaust? Replacing glass optics with camera and LCD?
It's impossible with anything today. If you have something that maneuver at hypersonic speed, no existing system could do that. You need hypersonic missile more meneurable than hypersonic target and have at least same speed.
Seems nobody here get the main thing about Russian hypersonic missiles. Main thing is not that they are hypersonic. Main thing that they constantly maneuver approacing the target at hypersonic speed. That was the main breakthrough and main achievement, not their speed. Many ballistic missiles have hypersonic speed approacing the target. But they could be easily shot down because their trajectory is completely predictable. Just blow something with ton of nails on the trajectory, ant hypersonic ballistic missile is done. Same with 60s variants of hypersonic cruise missiles. They are fast, but can't maneuver at that speed.
Maneuverring at hypersonic speed is very complex problem. It was more complex than solving problems with maneuverabiliyt that appear with transition from subsonic to supersonic speed. Same thing with supersonic to hypersonic. Old tricks does not work at all. And this is the key feature of hypersonic missiles. They are unpredictable. You can't catch them with a trick that works with ballistic missiles, that are hypersonic too. You could blow something on its way, when it is dozens miles away, but it just will not pass that cloud of debris. And since it moves too fast and change course also too fast, no existing AD system can even reliably target and track them. Even S700 that is in development had no success in shooting maneurable hypersonic targets, AD missiles have to be much more maneurable than target at at least the similar speed and for hypersonic speeds it is a very complex problem.
You could shoot AD missiles randomly, in the hope it occasionally hit the target, but as a circus with Patriot in Kiev shown, that does not help at all. Yes, I know that Patrion is far from gold standard of AD, but things will not be any different with any other system including S*00s.
Laser systems have a chance, but there is no radars fast enough to make tracking of hypersonic possible to target laser beam on the hypersonic for noticeabe time to burn it through. And all that weather things like clouds, fog and rain with snow don't make things easier for laser weapons.
And that retarded Russian missiles use old style inertial targeting, so to jam their targeting system you have to invent something that changes gravity and inetrtial mass. TR3B anyone?
And still can't produce fucking dumb 152mm shells for only reliable howitzers that really work on battlefield.
I see that as something completely insane and as a giant flashing sign with "something is totally wrong!" text on it.
NATO could make as many 155mm shells as it want, but there no single 155mm howitzer that could survive long enough to utilise them. But at the same time each old soviet howitzers from 60s easily shoot 152mm shells in quantities more than all NATO howitzers cobined shoot during that war in total. And they, suddenly, don't need maintenance, they don't freeze in winter and overheat in summer, their optical sight don't need batteries and electronics replacement after the rain or ford. They just shoot, as howitzers should do.
There is something broken in the core of Western MIC. It can produce "advanced" weapons, overcomplicated, with bells and whistles, but completely unable to make reliable, working ones. They make Lamborginis and Bentleys instead of Toyota 4WD pickups with lifted suspension, completly ignoring all that mud and lack of roads.
Western car and agricultural machinery industry have similar problem. Even web development suffer from that bells and wistles problem, It is something very wrong in the very core of all Western industry. If presentability and modernity becomes much more important that reliability, repairability and simplicity, than it is regress, not progress.
That is the main goal - sell more. Nothing else matters. Don't you see a huge and fatal problem here?
And you didn't name anything that could be named modern western weapons that have some really useful features of the scale of maneuverability at hypersonic speeds. Force shields? Completely new propulsion system? Adamantium or neutron matter? Anything?
PS: And meanwhile, radiation levels in Khmelnitsky seems have new background level. https://redata.jrc.ec.europa.eu/chart/timeseries/daily/UA33429 Stays around 0.15 uSv/h since May 12 with same variations as earlier. Seems sensor is fine. So, only two possibilities left - some local uranium glass vase near sensor or something slightly radioactive was blown with warehouse.