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/davidhambling/2023/05/22/ukrain...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2023/05/22/ukrain...
This is what $500 delivers in the field https://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1706705383220191290 ~$3mil T-72B3 obr. 2022 going in smoke https://gagadget.com/en/osint/324992-a-500-fpv-drone-destroy...
Few days earlier 2S9 Nona-S 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-42... Son of the de facto owner/ceo of the company currently works at UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) in Geneva.
I don’t see Russia running out of tanks.
Currently there are 2500 tank and >4000 armored carrier losses documented on video/pictures 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/
~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_...
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
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.
Oryx literally counts visually documented losses on both sides it’s likely to be a lower bound with rather large confidence on both sides of the conflict.
But it’s still a lower bound.
How is that “proven to be false”.
> 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
But those numbers are very different to the pentagon documents, so they must be false right?.
> 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.
Because Russia isn’t dug in and not moving they are constantly trying to counter attack.
Not only that dug in tanks and tanks behind the front line are still vulnerable to drone borne weapons which are very popular in this war.
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.