/AKM/ - Guns, weapons and the art of war.

>>3121
Sideism and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race

>Lessons from the war
Mobile warfare is OVER.

>>3134
The age of the moleman is at hand. ISR is king.

Honest question: what is the point of historical materialism if the proponents don't actually adhere to it and call all dissent to their opinions as idealism? And why are ziggas so susceptible to this?

>>3196
The point is to kill hohols and lib-nazis

>>3196
So first there always were revisionists in the communist movement, and on the other hand there was a lot of falsifying in the soviet union. Turns out when materialism is your only authorized school of thought you end up with an academic world far from being materialist because opinions/facts that diverge from assumed axioms and dogmas or are embarrassing for the ruling clique are put under the carpet while on the contrary false theories that go with the interests of the power are put forward. Hard to study and report on the diversity of religious and social practices of the rural world in Belgorod during the 17th century if the official party line is that they were oppressed backward people that were saved from ignorance suffering by the revolution.

Paradoxically - but likely for practical reasons - military science didn't suffer as much as, say, genetics, and the soviets were quite good at analyzing the weaknesses and strengths of their enemies during the cold war, even though their works were always traversed by the official Marxist Leninist precepts and party line of the moment. They knew that the United States was an industrial monster because they knew the specs and general numbers of each weapons they produced, they knew the Viet Minh didn't beat the French with "nothing but a rifle", they knew the Viet Cong failed their Tet offensive and generally lost against the US but won a battle of will, they knew how themselves lost tens of millions of people during WW2, and how much a conflict against western Europe would cost.

In short the limits self imposed by the USSR's ideology were trumped by pragmatism in key crucial areas. And the need to reform that to stop the general stagnation was well understood in the 80s. Of course Gorbachev and his gang failed in this endeavor and were hailed as traitors. All this is important to understand the mode of thinking of ziggers.

So the USSR already had a form of cargo cultism vis à vis of Marxism and historical materialism, and now the ziggoids entertain a form of cargo cultism vis-à-vis of the USSR. Only they don't have any of the pragmatism, most likely because they have no practical reason to assess if the intelligence about their enemies is good, and what lesson history can teach them so they will succeed in their struggle. Because you see their struggle is fundamentally cultural, their fight is on internet, their enemies are other posters, the worst thing they have to loose is a bit of pride, and they can leave whenever by the push of a button. There are no stakes. It is a fight to prove the USSR was good so the K/D ratio of the WW2 is made up by nazis, that "communism" is inherently superior because it is the "most advanced mode of production" which means the NVA/Viet Cong crushed the United States militarily, and that the United States is a paper tiger producing nothing more than hamburgers and the occasional "wunderwaffe" - which doesn't work by the way because it's an imperialist weapon.

In short it's because they are turbo online cargo cultists.

>>1345
>What can we learn from the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Fighting against 2x(now)-5x(before the russian mobilisation) manpower advantage is hard

>>3196
People here have at most a vague idea of what those words mean, they just picked them up and thought they were cool so they just drop them in conversation whenever they get the chance to seem smart
>And why are ziggas so susceptible to this?
Why are terminally online retards susceptible to retardation? A mystery.

>>3220

→ >>>/edu/7295

>>2642
>The idea of it going to 2025 is laughable
Ahem

Ukraine is bringing back old soviet artillery because they're running out of more modern Soviet ones and more modern NATO ones are being destroyed or lack ammuniiton.
Украинские артиллеристы начали применять на фронте 100-мм советские полевые пушки БС-3
https://topwar.ru/228619-ukrainskie-artilleristy-nachali-primenjat-na-fronte-100-mm-sovetskie-polevye-pushki-bs-3.html
These are literally WW2 artillery pieces

>>3876
And Russia still can't win against that, another lesson of the war: WW2 era gear is enough to keep the second army in the world at bay

>>3877
im pretty sure they're winning, they control 20% of ukraine

>>3878
They controlled more one year and a half ago which means they are loosing.

>>3879
>They controlled more one year and a half ago
No, they didn't. having troops in an area =/= controlling it.

>>3877
>Ukraine is literally supported by the stockpiles from all of NATO on top of old Soviet stockpiles and in spite of this failed to break through even the first Russian lines and are losing equipment so rapidly that they're dragging out decommissioned weapons.

This is the same retarded narrative that burgers use regarding Afghanistan and the Mujahed/Taliban fighters, ignoring that they were literally armed and trained by the CIA with immense US budget and the Pakistani airforce supporting them.

If anything, considering the relatively small number of forces Russia has deployed its a demonstration of Russia's capabilities in a long-term war, wherein their stockpiles are being refilled and upgraded while NATO is literally losing division's worth of munitions, expensive modern weaponry and platoons of soldiers serving unofficially.

>>3880
>No, they didn't.
Yes they did
Btw NATO has deployed exactly zero troops in the front lines, although likely there are some delta glow assholes out there working as "voluntaries", this is just not something that can be hidden. In Afghanistan the Soviet Union deployed a fraction of the personnel Russia is deploying in Ukraine although they had a better industrial base, a way more competent military and a kinda friendly central government here. "Kinda" because they still assassinated its leader on paranoiac grounds which wasn't taken well by everyone and fueled accusations of imperialism - something China used to justify helping the Mujahedin.
The lack of troops Russia has deployed and their reliance on unreliable PMCs showed major issues in intelligence assessment of what would be needed, a fragile political system - which is expected from a hollowed out reactionary rump state - and a general inability to properly mobilize military forces, not a masterful genius plan.

>>3882
>posts the same retarded maps without understanding the context of what a defensive line is
>Doesn't understand how these
Again, that's not what CONTROL means. Being present in the area is not the same as controlling it in military terms. This is like saying the US controlled the Afghan territory back during the war, except they didn't because Talib insurgents were all but freely running about in that area. A controlled military area would be something like the territories we see in the October Map, those areas were and remain in Russian CONTROL, because Ukraines military is nonexistant and unable to even penetrate those areas. Whereas the majority of the "lost territories" were places that were literal hotbeds of fighting and were going back n forth from Ukrainian to Russian hands and back again over the course of days, because they were areas of disputed control and Russian offensive manuevers.

>NATO has deployed exactly zero troops
Hundreds of soldiers from British SAS, US Marines ,Polish military service members etc. are operating directly on the frontlines and even film video of themselves, and Russians post photos of their IDs and corpses. If you think that they're not there with the sanction of their respective NATO militaries, you're either an idiot or a glowie posting in bad faith.
>In Afghanistan the Soviet Union deployed a fraction of the personnel Russia is deploying in Ukraine
The number of Soviet soldiers deployed in the Afghan war over its decade, was 130K, the SVO has deployed about double that, so 1/2 is not a small fraction. Moreover the Russian military is fighting against what still remains of the largest military in Europe, excluding itself, which itself had a significant industrial base and which has direct financial and supplies from all of NATO. The USSR was still beating the Mujahed's because at the end of the day they were still a bunch of terrorists with some CIA training and supplies, and not a formal military.
>The lack of troops Russia has deployed and their reliance on unreliable PMCs
Wagner troops have been reliable. Prigozhin was immediately removed as soon as he began his delusions of grandeur. Moreover Wagner's deployment is no more than 50K, compared to the Russian militaries 300K or so. Many of Wagner's forces did not follow Prigozhin either and quickly integrated back into the Russian army.
>a fragile political system - which is expected from a hollowed out reactionary rump state
Oh boy it's this shite again. You got BTFO on this so many times on leftypol, so you bitch about it in any other thread. It's tiresome to hear this nonsense. Russia's government is by no means ideal, and I have many problems with it, but this description is beyond hyperbolic and is just nonsensical libshit.
>a general inability to properly mobilize military forces
>major issues in intelligence assessment of what would be neede
This applies to the first 6 months wherein the Russian military relaxed too soon because of Ukraine apparently opening to peace talks, and withdrawing forces from the North, only for Ukraine to renege on this, execute its diplomats and go full nazi with NATO support and encouragement. And yet the Ukrainians are the ones losing far more troops, the Ukrainians are the ones that have lost key strongholds and the Ukrainians are losing all cohesion in military and economic areas. Without NATO support (ranging from US drones providing targeting information, to NATO military stores of ammunition and vehicles being plundered for use in Ukraine, to unmarked NATO military personell fighting there) Ukraine would collapse overnight. Ukraine's government has literally admitted this as fact and US DoD agrees.

>>3886
This is insane delusional cope, if you're not paid by the Kremlin writing all of that I recommend seeing a psychologist.

>>3893
>Ur Kremlin shill
Yeah yeah, go back to your 4/k/ope threads and stop posting here already, your no-argument concession is accepted.

Way late but I wanted to note that the Ukrainians found many Western arms sent to be inferior to older Soviet equivalents, particularly in armor or speed of deployment, with only a few systems being actually liked.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/germany-italy-french-weapons-unsatisfactory-ukraine
>The Italian Mod63 120mm mortar, for example, were described in Ukrainian reports in late 2022 as follows: “They are much worse than their Soviet equivalents from WWII… Today we are barely able to fire two rounds per minute that do not fly beyond 3-4 km, less than half of what we expected.”
>In April 2023 the Ukrainian Defence Ministry found that not a single one of 20 recently delivered Italian produced M109 self propelled howitzers were usable.
>German weapons have also come under criticism, with Der Spiegel reporting in late July that Panzerhaubitze 2000 self propelled guns, considered by several Western sources to be the most capable in the world, showed significant signs of “wear and tear” after just a month in service.

Capture of a complete Storm Shadow missile is going to make them entirely useless. The Russian SAM and EW forces have been fairly effective at taking them down, but a few of these semi-stealth cruise missiles have made it through, with some devastating impacts, so the technology within the missile will be helpful in improving counter-measures, which is noticeable in the increase in their destruction.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/europe-top-cruise-missile-captured-russia

On the use of the D-1 and other older guns by Russian supported forces, primarily by the LNR and DNR autonomous units.

The Lugansk forces posted photos of what they fired from the D-1. Shells manufactured in 1939! They spent the entirety of WWII somewhere. They wrote that it was scary to shoot, but everything worked out. There was a TV report from the D-1 position. The shells looked simply ancient, from the Second World War. Shooting these from something long-range and high-pressure is dangerous. So it’s “business as usual” - a good old howitzer in use and a supply of shells that you can’t shoot with anything else. Why waste the life-resource of modern self-propelled guns if most of the tasks of artillery are not pinpoint strikes or counter-battery warfare, but work along the front line, through enemy minefields in the event of an attack? Let Msta, Coalition, Pion work in the rear, and D-1 can perfectly dismantle fortifications, for example at Avdeevka. In addition, we should not forget that we must have serious reserves in regions far from Ukraine. So not everything new goes to the front. That's the same reason T-55s and T-62s are being pulled out of storage, letting them rot for too long will make them pointless, so they may as well serve as extra armor and gun-power and let the Russian military spare their newer tech for such tasks. It also provides a good resource to give to the Donbass militias as a localized military force, capable enough to provide defense behind the front lines, even if not cutting-edge combat capability.

https://topwar.ru/229097-znachitelnye-poteri-v-amerikanskoj-presse-kommentirujut-primenenie-gaubicy-d-1-rossijskimi-vojskami.html

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-102723-ukraines-prospects
>There are several important Russian breakthroughs in Avdeevka, which are now being bitterly confirmed by Ukrainian sources. It’s now without doubt that both sides have gone “all in” and Avdeevka has in fact become the de facto central battlefield to define the latter part of this year.
>Before I wasn’t certain whether Avdeevka may just be a ruse or misdirection from Russian command, or perhaps even a ‘testing of the waters’ just to see if it’s worth committing a large force there, sort of how Ugledar was in early 2023. They never meant Ugledar to be a massive “all in” committed operation, unless the early tests proved that Ukrainian defenses there were weak.
>But here, it has become clear that Russia has gone all in and will not stop until it’s captured, no matter how stiff the Ukrainian defense is. In short, Avdeevka is set to become the new Mariupol, Lisichansk-Severodonetsk, and Bakhmut.
>But some have correctly pointed out that there’s actually another, more distant battle which Avdeevka resembles much more closely. That of 2015’s Debaltsevo—famed for its unprecedented defeat of Ukraine’s JFO/ATO troops in what became one of the first big ‘cauldrons’ which placed the term on the map for a new generation of would-be armchair generals and war historians.

Russia has been following OG Soviet tactics, rather than just raiding as some people seem to think, they encircled and cut-off the only roads and railroads that can supply the Ukrainian fortifications. These areas are hard to traverse off-road, making any off-road supply lines or escape impossible, even without the constant drone surveillance and missile strikes. This, with constant pressure from armored and mechanized brigades pushing in and artillery barrages battering the positions, means that Avdeevka is an inevitable Ukrainian loss. Unless the ВСУ manages to break-through the encirclement, there is no way for it to hold out against Russian forces. This is similar to what the German Wehrmacht did in the first months of the war with the USSR, which the Red Army returned years later when driving back the fascists - cutting off highways, railways and supply lines, pinning the army groups and battering them from all sides, without fully committing to an all out offense, wearing down the defenders and slowly crushing the encircled groups.

As for the retards that have no understanding of armored tactics, bitching about "muh Russian losses" and "stupid tank rushes" don't seem to understand that the videos we see are excerpts of the actual combat situation. Russian forces move forward under covering fire by artillery, drones and airforce support but it is impossible to completely suppress counter-battery fire and enemy artillery. It is impossible to clear every minefield, especially under-fire. Thus tank columns must move through specific bottlenecks and support infantry as they are supposed to and are inevitably going to take losses, sometimes heavy ones, as is the nature of storming a defensive line. The Russian army is breaking through the Ukrainians; the Poles, the Germans, the Italians and the US military analytics have admitted that Russia has been advancing, meter by meter.

https://topwar.ru/229027-russkie-vernulis-k-vypolneniju-slozhnyh-mehanizirovannyh-manevrov-v-italjanskoj-presse-podvodjat-itogi-boev-za-avdeevku.html
https://topwar.ru/228991-russkie-operedili-ukrainskuju-rotaciju-polskij-voennyj-jekspert-priznal-perehod-iniciativy-na-vsej-linii-fronta-k-vs-rf.html
https://topwar.ru/228983-na-ukraine-konchilis-zhelajuschie-voevat-polskij-general-zajavil-o-podgotovke-rossii-k-zimnemu-nastupleniju.html
https://topwar.ru/228868-ukrainskie-istochniki-vs-rf-udalos-prodvinutsja-k-severu-ot-avdeevki-i-zanjat-uchastok-shirinoj-do-kilometra.html

>>3882
> paranoiac grounds
amin was a deranged pol pot tier demagogue and the khalqists were pashto chauvinists who fucked up so bad in response to tribal unrest that they started a near 50 year continuous war.

>>3937
im pretty sure amin was straight up working with/for cia, though i would have to dig for the source

As I was saying since the news about their delivery came, the HIMARS are by far not a magic weapon and its been proven yet again. This flight, the delivery and repair is going to be a large expenditure of resources.
https://southfront.press/wounded-himars-go-back-home-to-us/

>>3915
>OG Soviet tactics
Are about maneuvering fast and avoiding urban areas to not get stuck into attritional quagmires. Russia obviously failed their initial offensive and ended up stuck doing the exact opposite this entire war.

>>4495
>/k/ope faggot got btfo on /ukraine/ so he came to /AKM/ thinking he wouldn't get dunked on
LMAO.
>maneuvering fast and avoiding urban areas
Absolutely meaningless, vague statement and not even a correct one.
>Russia obviously failed their initial offensive
Russia was literally around Kiev and retracted its forces after Ukraine acquiesced to sitting down at Minsk, and then it proceeded to treacherously heel-face-turn on the peaceful conflict resolution and attacked Russian forces, forcing Russia to slowly take and hold land which is an entire different strategy compared to rapid force projection.

>>4496
So Russia was outwitted by Ukraine which is why they failed their inital offensive, got it

>>4499
>I have no argument so I'll create a strawman to prop up my retarded assertion
You're /k/oping as usual, got it

>>4495
"OG soviet tactics" is just not a thing. WWII was fundamentally different from Afghanistan or Chechnya and also these differ from Ukraine and the cold war doctrine.
Russia is chiefly using Russian tactics, which are the result of the last two decades and exercised yearly, then changed in Ukraine. There is not much Soviet left in this.

The two years mopping up operation

>>4512
You forgot bukmoot stallin'

One of the Ukrainian channels published photos of a new Russian planning module for unguided aerial bombs with a turbojet engine and fuel tank.
The markings on the hull say that it is a UMPB (Unified Planning and Barrage Module). The production date is February 2024.
By its concept - it is a direct analog of the American PJDAM announced only in the past. Except that we have already used our engine bomb.

In terms of range, the situation is as follows:
The Americans have a conventional JDAM - 15 miles from maximum altitude
JDAM-ER - 40 miles from maximum altitude.
PJDAM - 300 miles from maximum altitude.
The maximum recorded range of our JDAMs is about 30 kilometers from the front + distance from the launch site.
At the end of last year there was news that there were plans to increase this distance to 200-300 kilometers and, apparently, today's photos are just a consequence of these developments.

Advantages of UMPB over UMPK (in theory):
1. Increased range.
Possibility to put bridges in Zaporozhye cheaply and tastefully.
Possibility to launch a bomb into the building of the Supreme Council from Bryansk region.
2. Possibility of participation of new platforms: SU-25 in theory can become a carrier of this system and slightly unload other platforms.

Disadvantages of UMPB compared to UMPK:
1. Price.
2. Speed and volume of production.
It would be simply unprofitable to make a rain of fire out of them as in Avdiivka. Therefore, UMPB is more of an analog of cruise missiles and ballistics, which will:
1. Less long-range.
2. But much cheaper means for destroying targets from 0 to 300 kilometers behind the LBS and for overloading enemy air defense.

https://southfront.press/russia-has-developed-its-own-small-diameter-bomb-photos/
https://t.me/prolivstalina/9968

The results are already visible in 2024, with Ukrainian sources complaining about 16x increase of strikes by Russian bombs
https://southfront.press/16-times-more-russian-bombs-pounding-ukrainian-military-in-2024/

>R-Russia is running out of tanks in storage
Satellite photos say otherwise
https://topwar.ru/239127-v-zapasah-ostalos-nemalo-tankov-opublikovany-sputnikovye-snimki-odnoj-iz-baz-hranenija-vs-rf.html

>>3911
Ukraine is using a lot of relics from the WW-2 era. Other than Maxim machine-guns and Mosin rifles of course.
https://topwar.ru/237609-antikvariat-na-sluzhbe-vsu.html

So a month or so back NATO decided it was time to finally react to their rapidly depleting stockpiles, with the EU making a grand announcement about ramping up production. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-plan-war-ready-complex-european-defence-industrial-strategy/

This has already run into problems as many production lines haven't been operating at high capacity in decades and have lost the capability to ramp up. The lack of technical specialists are forcing the re-activation of retired technicians, mechanics and other people that have the experience and knowledge necessary to execute this plan, and there is a critical shortage in willing people, both because many have died and because teaching new cadres takes time. This is on top of the fact that many production facilities were shut down some time ago, with some being lost, destroyed or sold (such as the M-113 production line) and others being poorly preserved and requiring a lot of repairs and maintenance to bring back into service.

A recent study on ammunition production and restoring stockpiles found a lot of critical issues, pic and link rel.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/rebuilding-us-inventories-six-critical-systems

>According to the leaked document of the US Department of Defense, it turned out that the radioactive vehicles were sent to the Foxtrot military base in Germany before they were transferred to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
They didn't even need to wait for the DU APFSDS rounds, the Ukrainians are already being irradiated by the armored vehicles themselves. Ironic.
It reminds me of Centurion 169041 which was used in a nuclear bomb test and then used in combat operations afterwards and its something the Aussies are proud of; sending their troops to fight in an irradiated tank. As a reminder the Centurion lacks CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear) protection and the Bradley only got NBC protection in the M2A1 variant, and it was always ad hoc as fuck because it doesn't use over-pressure, only filtration systems and lacks integrated radiological protection that every Soviet IFV had.

https://southfront.press/us-supplied-ukrainians-with-radiologicaly-contaminated-m2-bradley-vehicles-beregini/

https://tankhistoria.com/cold-war/169041-atomic-tank/

>>4769
Wow, that's dishonest garbage journalism even for southfront standards. Just read (and understand) the fucking document.
Worthy of a reminder that Russia sends men to die in Desertcross 3000 offroad buggies every day. I'd take the irradiated Bradley.

>>4798
>Muh southfront baaad
>I'd take the Bradley
>Le offroad buggies!
<ignores that radiation is radiation and an IFV shouldn't be releasing it
<Attacks article while explaining nothing
<Thinks fast, unarmored vehicles used for flanking recon attacks is something new when Russian and formerly German/US armies did this as part of their doctrine in high-speed reconnaissance in conventional conditions
Considering that F-35 and Abrams wankery in the main thread I should have expected this retarded take would be posted
>I'd take the irradiated Bradley.
<Admits they're irradiated
<Would still get in the blatant mine-unresistant death trap which screams "target me" rather than a small fast vehicle
LOL, fucking /k/opers, retarded every time.

>>4800
Document recommends the radioactivity (not great, not terrible) shall be decontaminated according to host nation standards before anything else is done with that Bradley.
Reading is easy, try it.

>>4801
>reading is easy
Yes, but as your face-value takes demonstrate, comprehension is not.
>the radioactivity (not great, not terrible
<it's not that bad guyz cuz it doesn't instantly give you cancer!
How compelling, lol.
Not even going to touch on how irradiated metal reacts to high kinetic/thermal impacts
>decontaminated according to host nation standards before anything else is done with that Bradley
Which in reality means jack shit because the Ukrainians aren't going to bother doing so, and the Germans are only transferring the units. Hell, basic decontamination protocol just gets rid of surface radioactivity by removing particulates, which requires the removal of sensitive equipment prior, and reinstallment after. Fucking retard.

>just gets rid of surface radioactivity
What do you think how the radioactivity got on that Bradley? Likely some radioactive dust collected on a firing range.
Hell, even some Chernobyl machinery got returned after a good scrub down.
Decontamination literally is just cleaning until the thing reads background levels.

>>4804
>just radioactive dust
Really trying to undersell it, huh? This reads like the idiots thing to claim DU is 'totally' safe.
>Hell, even some Chernobyl machinery got returned after a good scrub down.
I knew you'd bring that up, in no way is that comparable.
1) Most Soviet vehicles in close proximity to those operations were abandoned at Pripyat in open air lots, where they stayed until the Ukrainians grew desperate to use them a few years back.
2) Scrubbing procedures for Soviet vehicles were extensive, and along with their CBRN protection such as overpressure,, filters and outer+inner radiation lining using Boron and lead negated the radiation. Bradley's are poorly protected from radiation to begin with and proper scrubbing would require full ammunition and equipment removal to properly clean it all, which is a hell of a lot more complicated than on soviet vehicles.

>>4805
You are just beyond clueless. Why should they clean the ammo, tech and disassemble other shit?
They take a geiger counter, identify the contaminated area, and clean only there. After the first cleaning cycle, they measure again and continue cleaning if necessary.
You never ever just randomly disassemble and clean without measuring beforehand because that just creates a bigger mess than targeted decontamination of the affected areas.

>>4806
>You are just beyond clueless.
Ad hominum
>Why should they clean the ammo, tech and disassemble other shit?
<Why clean ths insides of an irradiated vehicle
Gee billy, I dunno!
> identify the contaminated area
That's not how decontamination works. You're decontaminated all over if you have a 'patch' of radioactivity when working at a nuclear plant, scrubbed thoroughly and for a long time.
>You never ever just randomly disassemble and clean without measuring
I never said that you strawmanning fuck.

>>4629
>"Tornado-S" with the help of a D-30SN "bomb missile" defeated a warehouse in Sumy. The first photos of the consequences of a D-30SN UMPB strike that hit a large warehouse in Sumy appeared on the World Wide Web. According to information from the Russian military, the 300-mm glide control unit was launched using the 9M544, better known as the Tornado-S multiple rocket launcher. It was she who launched a hybrid two-stage projectile at an important military facility. The TG channel “Russian Weapons” wrote about this.
>"In general terms, it worked like this: the upper stage on solid fuel elements was launched first, after which the D-30SN warhead was thrown to an altitude of up to 23 meters and received a speed of Mach 000. As soon as the high altitude ceiling was reached, the solid propellant accelerator was discarded automatically using built-in squibs. After which the flight was already carried out along a flat motion vector with a progressive reduction in speed. As soon as the warhead slowed down to speeds of 4 km/h, the retractable wings switched into activation mode, having previously been hidden in the body. After which the projectile itself went into planning mode. The latter, according to indirect data, can fly 1100 kilometers at this stage of the flight. And if we take as the starting position, where the length of the first stage of flight with a working solid propellant upper stage is up to 140 km in the early modifications of the D-60SN, then the total maximum launch range of the UAB will be equal to an effective 30 km. What makes this type of guided munition extremely dangerous for the Ukrainian Armed Forces."

https://dzen.ru/a/Zhydu_MAtgZV-7Fw
https://t.me/RussianArms/6349

>>4693
- The US DoD published its first National Defense Industrial Strategy report, detailing major problems preventing America from mobilizing its industry to out-compete Russia and China;
- Most problems identified by the report stem from the DoD's dependence on private industry, yet private industry itself was never identified as a problem;
- The foreign and domestic policy is based on profit-driven prioritizing, creating industry that pursues profits at the cost of fulfilling that industry's role in providing goods and services for society;
- Russia and China maintain massive state-owned enterprises not only to manufacturing arms and ammunition, but also downstream suppliers for providing raw materials and goods;

References:
>NEO - Fatal Flaws Undermine America’s Defense Industrial Base (February 15, 2024):
https://journal-neo.su/2024/02/15/fatal-flaws-undermine-americas-defense-industrial-base/
>US Department of Defense - The National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) (2023):
https://www.businessdefense.gov/NDIS.html
>NY Times - Russia Overcomes Sanctions to Expand Missile Production, Officials Say (September 2023):
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/us/politics/russia-sanctions-missile-production.html
>RFE/RL - Satellite Images Suggest Russia Is Ramping Up Production Capacity For Its War Against Ukraine (November 2023):
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-ramping-up-war-production/32658857.html
>RUSI - Russian Military Objectives and Capacity in Ukraine Through 2024 (February 13, 2024):
https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/russian-military-objectives-and-capacity-ukraine-through-2024
>The National Interest - MBT-70 - The German-American Super Tank That Never Came to Be (April 2021):
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/mbt-70-german-american-super-tank-never-came-be-182224
>The Guardian - ‘A lot higher than we expected’: Russian arms production worries Europe’s war planners (February 15, 2024):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/15/rate-of-russian-military-production-worries-european-war-planners

>The first-ever US Department of Defense National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) confirms what many analysts have concluded in regard to the unsustainable nature of Washington’s global-spanning foreign policy objectives and its defense industrial base’s (DIB) inability to achieve them.
>The report lays out a multitude of problems plaguing the US DIB including a lack of surge capacity, inadequate workforce, off-shore downstream suppliers, as well as insufficient “demand signals” to motivate private industry partners to produce what’s needed, in the quantities needed, when it is needed.
>In fact, the majority of the problems identified by the report involved private industry and its unwillingness to meet national security requirements because they were not profitable.
>For example, the report attempts to explain why many companies across the US DIB lack advanced manufacturing capabilities, claiming:
>Many elements of the traditional DIB have yet to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies, as they struggle to develop business cases for needed capital investment.
>In other words, while adopting advanced manufacturing technologies would fulfill the purpose of the US Department of Defense, it is not profitable for private industry to do so.
>Despite virtually all the problems the report identifies stemming from private industry’s disproportionate influence over the US DIB, the report never identifies private industry itself as a problem.
>If private industry and its prioritization of profits is the central problem inhibiting the DIB from fulfilling its purpose, the obvious solution is nationalizing the DIB by replacing private industry with state-owned enterprises. This allows the government to prioritize purpose over profits.
>Yet in the United States and across Europe, the so-called “military industrial complex” has grown to such proportions that it is no longer subordinated to the government and national interests, but rather the government and national interests are subordinated to it.
Literally the process of how Nazi Germany the German Industrialists collaborated with the Nazi Party in the 1930s to the point that the word Privatization was coined. To replenish Westoid stockpiles and weapons, they'll be forced to supply their private Military Industrial Complex enterprise with the cheapest labor possible, probably prisoners. Nazis were forced into forced labor not because they just wanted to be evil or they lacked labor per se, but because their labor was highly inefficient because German private MIC enterprise refused to make any improvements. Hell, they forced an entire nation to adopt a "healthy diet" which saw a decreased consumption of meat* - hence the myth about vegetarian Hitler. He did that policy because he was a fucktard who made people starve for the reason of decreasing labor costs. It's really fucking reminiscent of what Europeans are going through, the insect proteins propaganda, saving on electricity and water bills not by improving the industries but making consumers consume less, shit like that

*Source: The Nazi Economic Recovery 1932-1938, R. J. Overy. Table XV: Consumption in Working-Class Families 1927 and 1937 (annual)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrlMFFXmbxQ
>The Fatal Flaw Undermining America's Defense Industrial Base Embed

>28 Febuary 2024 Pentagon report on National Defense Industrial Strategy:
>It is clear that the European armaments industry is in a mess - the chaos of arms deliveries set to continue
>This report from the Pentagon shows that it is much the same in the US
>“Fatal flaws undermine America’ Defense Industrial base”
https://journal-neo.su/2024/02/15/fatal-flaws-undermine-americas-defense-industrial-base/
https://www.businessdefense.gov/NDIS.html

Recognition spreads in US that significant industrial scale re arming of the on shore production of the range of basic products to equip and sustain an industrial scale army is an fantasy – even or especially at the Pentagon. Nothing new, but the DOD is increasingly prepared to admit failure

Brian Berletic writes:
>“The report lays out a multitude of problems plaguing the US DIB including a lack of surge capacity, inadequate workforce, off-shore downstream suppliers, as well as insufficient “demand signals” to motivate private industry partners to produce what’s needed, in the quantities needed, when it is needed. In fact, the majority of the problems identified by the report involved private industry and its unwillingness to meet national security requirements because they were not profitable. For example, the report attempts to explain why many companies across the US DIB lack advanced manufacturing capabilities, claiming: Many elements of the traditional DIB have yet to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies, as they struggle to develop business cases for needed capital investment. In other words, while adopting advanced manufacturing technologies would fulfill the purpose of the US Department of Defense, it is not profitable for private industry to do so. Despite virtually all the problems the report identifies stemming from private industry’s disproportionate influence over the US DIB, the report never identifies private industry itself as a problem.”

NDIS
>“Many elements of the traditional DIB have yet to adopt advanced manufacturing technologies, as they struggle to develop business cases for needed capital investment.”
>“Over the last decade, the DoD has struggled to curtail adversarial sourcing and burnish the integrity of defense supply chains. Despite these efforts, dependence on adversarial sources of supply has grown. DoD continues to lack a comprehensive effort for mitigating supply chain risk."
>“The labor market lacks the required number of skilled workers to meet defense production demand while driving innovation at all levels. This shortfall is becoming exacerbated as baby boomers retire, and younger generations show less interest in manufacturing and engineering careers.”

Arestovich's rather insightful analysis of the tactical reasons Ukraine's counter-offensive not only did not achieve results but failed catastrophically.
TL;DR: Battalion Tactical Group retards BTFO by Soviet large-scale combined arms doctrine.

>aTranslated Interview START
1. - Avdiivka was stormed by three Russian armies + a tank division*.
These are permanent units with a unified logistics and management system.
With us, everything above the brigade is assembled management bodies.

2. We saw elements of operational camouflage when creating a grouping/outfit of forces.
Deception and cunning are in the best traditions of the Red Army.

3. Massing of forces and means.
The Russians are strengthening the artillery capabilities of their formations and associations - even before the creation of artillery brigades as part of the combined arms army.
The number of cabs used is growing every month.
In the Avdiivka defense area, 250 units arrived in one day.
The irretrievable losses of the Russian group during the capture of Avdiivka are ~ 30% of the group.
At the same time, they took the fortified area.
Soviet norms are 12-20% for an army operation.
Avdiivka is their first success at the operational and tactical level, associated with the drift towards the Soviet system.

The deadlock at the front, which Valery Zaluzhny spoke about in the article "Economist", has been overcome not by technical methods, but by organizational ones.
When they fully enter the Soviet system, we can expect that they will begin to gain success at the operational level, because it is ideal for this type of war - under their given initial conditions. And they need about five such operations in order for us to lose the entire Left Bank.

They are increasing their capabilities and reducing the time between operations, which a year ago amounted to up to six months for concentration and preparation, will be reduced to four months or less if there are no strategic black swans (you need to plan based on what will not happen). I am not the only one who has been saying since the very beginning of the war that Russia's problem in this war is that they set Soviet goals without having Soviet capabilities. And now they are gradually pulling up the possibilities to the Soviet ones, as far as possible.

And all our (and their, by the way) dreams about Western structures, Western technology and Western strategy are complete fornication. We currently have neither Soviet nor Western capabilities, but they are catching up to the Soviet ones. What is our answer?

Valery Zaluzhny was never allowed to form divisions and armies - formations and associations of permanent personnel, with their own logistics and permanent management bodies, capable of solving the task of breaking through long-term, layered enemy defenses and creating/maintaining such defenses.

"This is against NATO standards!"
Idiots, instead of creating a national military school, under our specific conditions, choosing the best from different systems, are killing the army under a concept that:
- we will never see,
- which is not suitable for large-scale wars on its own.

In the near future, we will see the consequences these "… NATO standards" in full.
>Translated Interview END

As he bitterly explains, NATO standards aren't for fighting peer countries, but inferior militaries with quick precise shock and awe strikes and with minimum expenditure, a policy that began with the Vietnam fiasco and influenced US (and so NATO) doctrine for decades to come. However, even against an inferior military, if they can pull NATO forces into a protracted conflict, NATO will not be able to establish control. In essence NATO tactics are pure Aufstragtaktik autism.

All this is without even mentioning Ukrainian criticisms of Western tech being either inferior to Soviet contemporaries/equivalents or being ill-suited to the Ukrainian environment, with the best tech having little difference to Soviet tech, only with Ukrainians have to train to readjust to NATO standard equipment as opposed to Soviet standard. >>3900
Ukraine recently received a batch of M1117s. Several have already been destroyed and have basically no superiority to the much older BRDM-2. Even the Abrams gets such criticism, and the F-16 is already seen as such, with Ukrainian pilots that have flown them calling it inferior to the Soviet Su-27 and a glass cannon, an opinion even the USAF shares. https://southfront.press/us-pilot-warns-kiev-regime-about-f-16s-deficiencies-calls-it-prima-donna/
https://topwar.ru/238635-silno-ustupaet-sovetskim-ukrainskie-voennye-raskritikovali-amerikanskie-tanki-abrams.html
https://southfront.press/ukrainian-pilot-find-performance-of-western-fighters-inferior-to-russian-jets/

This isn't even going into the fact that Ukraine does not have the facilities to repair Western tech, being forced to ship Leopard 2s and Bradleys back to Germany and the USA, if they can recover them at all. >>4486

*See >>3915

There's a lot of unusual weapons used in this war, but I think this one is kinda strange despite logically making sense. It's a heavy (4 tons!) anti-ship missile made to sink the largest ships like Aircraft Carriers from long range in a single hit, so it's not really made for ground targets.

https://topwar.ru/238532-rakety-3m44-progress-v-specoperacii.html