Why Russia is Struggling With Gaining Ground
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The same could be said about Ukraine's summer offensive which recaptured some 1 or 2% of their 20% of lost territory in over 2 months of bloody battles.This whole war is now clearly a bloody stalemate that nobody is winning. At this point I don't think it will be over soon.
While it is too early to call Russia weak. They could be considered as "second best" only prior to 2022. Russia could not easily recover from looses they stained and they population is only equal to population of Mexico and definitively in worst shape. While combat ability of Chinese may be actually worst then Russians (who at least occasionally show some combat sills), purely with the numbers China would steamroll Russians. I would argue that even India may be more capable then Russia at this point. The question is how bad situation really is?
@@Hauggyful You clearly do not know how war work. Too much HoI4 I see...
I once read someone saying about the initial push for Kyiv that the Russian army treated it like a military exercise. Everyone should just show up, do as their told, work down the checklist, and everyone is happy. There were no contingencies, like what if the VDV fails to take Hostomel Airport, what if the fields turned out to be a huge mudpit forcing all the vehicles along the roads where they were sitting ducks, what if the locals resisted in huge numbers, what if the logistics turned out to be a complete disaster... In short, there was no Plan B, which is completely unforgivable for a military operation.
Skill issue
They really lost so much man power and equipment from the incompetence of their leadership.
Russia will struggle this coming years because of that. That being said it seems some of them(soldiers) learned from their failures. They prepared the best they could the frontline to stop any offensive from Ukraine. Russia has shortages of weapons and they are out numbered 2 to 1.
Sadly Ukraine needs at least a 3 to 1 advantage so they can stop any Russian advance & be able to push the Russians.
This decade is an interesting one, so much has changed in the world in just 3 years.
@@LOL-zu1zr its because the FSB planned the operation no the military
@@deskejtx6211The FSB provided only intelligence
They basically assume Ukrainians simply going to get scared, drop their guns and run away... ohh an locals will treat them as liberators - "Kick the door of rotting shacks and it is going to fall over by itself!" On 1-10 scale how wrong one can get it, this was 11!
And I am not even joking, they sent OMON and SOBR (which is not even military) with batons and riot gear in first echelons expecting to deal with civilian uprising. In their trucks Ukraine found dress uniforms for parade and victory flags. That is how easy they thought it will be. And this is not even some sort of assumption or speculation - SOBR commander was one of the first high ranking commanders who surrendered to Ukraine and was captured, there is interview with him and he cooperated with Ukraine, the shows the trucks, found no weapons... this is 50 km away from Kyiv. So they sent unarmed policemen to storm the capital!
Even on the face of it, days before the invasion I didn't believe they will invade, because plan did not make sense on the face value. they has ~220,000 troops to invade country with ~500,000 troops and 40 million people. Most basic military planning would require at least 1.5 million troops for invasion and another 2 million just to control the population (1 solder per 20 people). There was no way they taking anything with what they had and that was pretty much what has happened.
A lot of people are noting the superior crew survivability of western tanks, but they are also forgetting one another very important advantage they have over Soviet designs: the existence of actually good reverse gears. How many times have we seen Soviet tanks either struggling to back out of a minefield or artillery strike or waste time trying to turn around and show their vulnerable rear to the enemy and get an ATGM up their tailpipe for their trouble? Western armor is much easier able to extricate themselves from sticky situations and fire and maneuver more quickly. This helps with crew AND tank survivability.
Good luck going in reverse when you can't see what's behind you, though. And you're in a minefield. And Russians are hitting you with artillery, ATGMs, and/or drones.
@@AndrewVasirov If you got to a point going forward without hitting a mine, then reversing straight back is a lot safer than trying to turn around and risk widening the surface that you cover. We see the benefits from the footage of the column ambush where the Bradley’s quickly got away after picking up the crew of the knocked out vehicles.
@AndrewVasirov no tank would survive such a situation but those are rare. Most tanks are only engaged by one of those things and aren't in open fields, those are the situations where a good reverse gear will safe your life
Reversing is the best survival feature indeed, more importand than going forward 😂 comments on military stuff on internet is hilarious, we need these kids to replace the general with all their parroting out of context knoledge!
@@malokegamesNobody said reverse speed is MORE important than forward speed. And I'm going to take the word of actual experts who all say reverse speed is vitally important to survivability of armoured vehicles, and the snail paced reverse speed of Russian armour is a major weakness.
I think one of the biggest benefits of modern western tanks, over models from 40 years ago, would be crew survivability.
Yup, and unlike what it seems Ruzzia thinks, the crew are more important than the vehicle itself
@@Yuki_Ika7 they corrected that with new designs, but they are unable to produce them in huge quantities
@@deskejtx6211 They're not counting on huge quantities. They're counting on quality.
@@Yuki_Ika7 that is true only f you have more vehicles than crews.
Like for the US, for example, especially in the WW2.
If you save all your crews but lose all your vehicles, you're still in a worse position than someone who still has thousands more vehicles crewed by conscripts.
Drones don't even have crews...
I note that while expensive western armoured vehicles are still vulnerable to mines and artillery, the crews of those are far more likely to survive than in Russian armoured vehicles.
It really depends on the tank, the t-72 is not the best but the t-90ms appears to be quite survivable and they are being used more and more as we see the war progress
@@tinydestroyer4672what should make a t-90M better in terms of mine survival? Isn't the hull basically the same as for a T-72?
@@M4xFr4gg Heavy upgrades to crew survivability such as spall lining and ammo separation and various other things you can find online if you wish
@@tinydestroyer4672 it's "used more" because the numbers of other tanks dwindle. The number of available T-90M is likely pretty much unchanged to before the war. They produced about 50-60 while there are 34 confirmed losses (plus an unknown number of undocumented losses and additional maintainance due to wear). They still only make up a negligible percentage of the Russia tank force.
And its only more survivable in that it has better passive armour protection and is less likely to suffer a catastrophic cookoff from regular munitions. It is still unergenomic, hard to escape from, and very vulnerable to mines.
@@M4xFr4ggnot exactly the same hull, so the T-90 tank is designed to handle explosions from hidden mines better than the older T-72. The T-90's hull has a V-shaped design, which is sometimes referred to as a "mine-resistant" or "blast-resistant" hull. This shape helps to deflect the force of an explosion away from the tank. When a mine detonates beneath the tank, the V-shaped hull directs the blast energy outward and upward, reducing the impact on the crew compartment and the tank's critical components.. It can even find mines and has systems to stop them from causing harm, making it a much safer option when traveling through areas where there might be hidden explosives.
The Western tanks and armored vehicles may be vulnerable to ATGM's and other tank killers just like their Russian counterparts, but they still have a huge advantage in crew suitability. Their operators can live to fight another day and learn from mistakes. That's why Ukrainians love them and want more.
Modern optics and fire control technology also enable them to find the russians and accurately target them much quicker than older soviet tanks could.
a crew which can learn from mistakes and accidents is also infintely more valuable than a green crew which replaced the previous roasted potatoes
Tanks are so 1943. Against a well-equipped NATO force tanks won’t even get close it the front, much less engage in offensive actions. Every platform we have, from individual soldiers with Javelins and NLAWs, artillery systems, most tactical helicopters, jets and even C-130s, as well as drones, drones and more drones have anti-armor capabilities.
Russia is fielding T55s, doesn't take too much to hit ammo storage on that 1950's tank. I think a M72 could probably even kill it. Modern tanks have a very high first hit probability. A T55 must have a good crew, I'm not sure anyone alive has even ever driven one before.
The Soviet union made a mistake by prioritizing fire rate instead of crew safety
I'd forgotten that 540 odd days ago one of their stated objectives was to demilitarise Ukraine! Ukraine is now one of the most heavily militarised countries in the world.
They should have stated the objectives were to commit as many war crimes as possible before retreating in haste to set up defensive lines, lose 250,000 plus men, have an international arrest warrant issued against your leader, inadvertently initiate a military coup against your own regime and all whilst desperately trying to cover up a tanking economy. Then they would have achieved 100%.
Demilitarize meant attrition. Not all tactics in wars are American style wars. Air superiority is not the best way of winning a war when you have millions of shells lying around, you use the shells. It's cheaper and it actually makes sense. The US couldnt bomb Vietnam to oblivion but it had use atilery the war would have taken longer but they would definitely stopped the vc. Russia is not like America, they don't mind seeing their boys getting killed to protect the motherland. Remember America has not won a war since ww2.
Remember, Russia wanted negotiations and Zelensky as well. Boris Johnson stopped Zelensky twice.
@@siboniso4420 bollocks, only war america ever won was grenada.
@@siboniso4420" america has not won a war since ww2"
South Korea still exists despite the north invading.
Kuwait is a independent nation despite Iraq invading
Sadam aint in control of Iraq no more.
@@RK-cj4oc North Korea still exists despite the US invading
Kuwait is a independent nation after the US spent 2 trillions buying influence and the locals still hate American
Sadam aint in control of Iraq no more; now it's ISIS
@@siboniso4420 Dude stop with the rationalizing bullshit. Demilitarize has failed by any definition. If by attrition you mean Ukraine is now 10 times stronger than it was compared to the beginning of the war, then ok Russia has attritted Ukraine. Russia also attritted Ukraine by letting Ukraine capture hundreds of pieces of Russian equipment during the blitzkrieg.
Also Russia wanted to negotiate? Negotiate what? Have Ukraine surrender in order to be "DE nazified", or whatever nonsenical crap the Kremlin proselytizes? Or give up Donetsk and Luhansk? Whatever negotiations Putin had in mind, they were likely preposterous. I mean would it have been fair for Ukraine to demand Belgorod in order to guarantee its security from Russia? Russia was the aggressor, plain and simple. And no, the fact that some diplomat might have suggested back in the 80s that NATO wouldn't expand doesn't mean Russia was betrayed.
Also how the hell does Boris freaking johnson have ANY say in those supposed negotiations that were blocked. That's one of the dumbest things i've ever heard. Boris Johnson has no authority at all over Zelensky.
"Russia is not like America, they don't mind seeing their boys getting killed to protect the motherland. Remember America has not won a war since ww2. "
This is just so wrong and stupid. Putin doesn't mind seeing their boys get killed, and the motherland isn't being protected at all. Putin is invading freaking Ukraine. This would be like America invading Mexico and then claiming that our soldiers are dying to protect our constitional freedoms. That's how stupid it would be.
Also what about desert storm as just one example? It was an absolute ROFL STOMP of Saddam in Kuwait. You just have absolutely no clue what you're talking about.
I still detest the idea that drones are new. When the US invaded Iraq in 2003, unit level drone usage for recon and spotting was common. Drones were being used regularly in western force before then. Small drones became a staple in the post-invasion Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Recon & Intelligence became the key combat components beyond firefights or artillery. It's more shocking how Russia lacked this in 2022, when basically every other military was using drones at the unit level.
they have drone in 2022, I saw Ukranian showing what is inside a captured Orland drone.
@@anchorread68 yes but they showed it was a pretty cheap cobbled together drone, which is fine when you are improvising and using all the resources you can, but it is nothing like a industrial military would produce and they should have been more prepared and practiced using.
I think it depends on the definition of drone. They go back to other ages of history, far beyond the modern era, depending on your definition.
Cheap expendable drone and long range expensive drone are effectively not the same type of weapons system.
ruzzia uses meatshields as drones. If you think about it...Ruzzian men are mindless drones.
On drones, if I were a betting man, I'd wager that the next step in active protection would no longer be intercepting HEAT shells and missiles, but quick-reacting net launchers that intercept incoming drones and short-range jammers that would try to throw off loitering munitions.
Short range jammers for tanks, apcs, etc were shown in some Russian military expo, they said that soon they will be in the battlefield, maybe they already are.
those are a great way to show your position on the battlefield. I saw a video about the problem with all APS on tanks and why nobody really deploys them in huge numbers right now.
The radar in the APS Is visable to even older military radars for hundreds of kms. they could track the position of you unit in a few minutes if you activate the system and any radar observation plane is online. Same problem with jamming devices they emmit a lot of noise that can be picked up by cheap sensors and give away your position. so you maybe are safe from drones but now an artillery batterie shoots at your position
The net launcher may be a good idea for the smaller drones.
Tbf it seems like anti drone tech will be the main stages for advancement as drones cause such danger through direct attack and artillery spotting.
@robiiify let see literally every major military is trying to get aps including the usa who recently got trophy and is upgrading their Bradley's for Iron first. There is no were credible saying the the very short range radar on an aps can be seen for hundreds of kilometers. This is just making things up
Russia is no longer the second biggest arms exporter in the world. They were until 2021 but were overtaken by France in 2022. Russian arms export have been constantly dropping for several years and this trend was speeded up by the invasion of Ukraine.
Actually, in term of value, russians exports were stable and even slighly growing until the war. It's just that France, among others, grew faster. And the war marked a net decrease for Russia.
Armenia were incredibly unimpressed by the quality of Russian military hardware in action during the 2020 Nagoran-Karabakh war
@@felixprime8291I thought Armenia ask but Russia didn't give them any? 🤔
@@alioshax7797 terms of "value" is high because ruzzia keeps buying their own products in wartime. Their exports are 0.
@@felixprime8291Yet they lost
Saying that russian military presented itself on the good side during the first few weeks of the invasion is some kind of total misunderstanding. Utterly failed to dominate the skies, daily (EDIT: monthly, I know I miswrote) casualties in the 1000s, infamous supply issues(60km convoy lmao). Don't even try to disagree, they abandoned 2 attack vectors
“Daily casualties in 1000s”
lmao no. It wasn’t great but it was nowhere near as bad
And thats what ukraine are doing now, a failed counter offensive. Whats the use of new western equipment if your soldiers are slowly dying from failed counter offensive.
You say that. But you have to acknowledge that they took an area nearly half the size of the UK in less than two weeks. That's not to be sneezed.
they literally destroyed most of the ukrainian air force in a week. But unlike Iraq and Afghani goat herders, Ukraine has very powerful SAMs
@@johnmarcodugos8047 Calling it a failing offensive might be a bit harsh, it's slow and underperforming (UA leaders and western intelligence said as much) but confirmed losses favoring UA, small-scale nature of attacks and continous push probably means that UA utterly failed at first and now does Kherson strategy of cautious pushing
Ofc no one knows for sure but seems likely
To the guy above, yeah I had a brainfart and confused it with monthly lol
"Is it worth giving western tanks to Ukraine"
Well, western tanks have proven to be much more survivable than Russian tanks. Same for the APCs. That footage of destroyed Bradleys and Leopards?
Ukraine released footage of the loss, and it showed the crews bailing out, and that specific Leopard was recovered and fixed, meaning the crews that survive can be given a new tank and use it immediately instead of needing to train another crew once more. You don't see that with Russian tanks.
The troops who bailed out of the APCs were then turned into mince meat by Russian Artillery and mines.
@@matthewbarry376 Please provide pictures or drone footage from the russian side IF what you say is true.
Yeah that makes sense because Ukraine have a surplus of tanks at the moment
@@matthewbarry376 ...the video literally showed them getting on the surviving Bradley IFVs and pulling out of the fight untouched... did... did you even watch the footage Ukraine released? One Bradley is seen getting *hit* by a landmine, so the serving Bradley engages the tree line as the other Bradley's crews bail out and hop on... like... bro, this is public information.
@@SargentGunnery idk why uk fanboys get angry at facts, there are videos of uk men being destroyed by russian artillery and leo tanks blowing up. both sides are taking hits..... its not a video game
To your question about whether multi-million dollar tanks are worth it... You have to remember that the drone revolution isn't over. Unmanned Ground Vehicles will also be coming... and that's the eventual shape that the "tank" will evolve into. It will be a semi-autonomous unmanned field-piece. Lightly armored to withstand small arms, but nothing more... after all there are no crew to protect. Without most armor, and without a crew compartment, but with the same engine, same gun, and same all-terrain capabilities it will have a lower profile and a fantastic power to weight ratio making it much faster, much more maneuverable, and much lower weight and thus able to maneuver in boggy or other mud-conditions.
Those nightmarish robo dogs of Boston Dynamics could be scaled up.
Gun might be more powerful, faster, more rounds per minute, and better fire control with more advanced computers running in synch with other units.
Russia has risen to being the absolute 2nd best army in Ukraine. Its capabilities were vastly overstated possibly for political purposes.
Agreed but we'll see ground drones last. First the air vehicles will be developed more fully, then unmanned naval vessels, and then maybe ground vehicles. Ground vehicles are just too easily trapped and destroyed or captured. You'd have to counter their drone bulldozers long before drone tanks are viable. And then there's the problem of tanks really only being good at crossing plains.
The problem with your thesis is that that equipment will be expensive and take time to make so it's better to build for survivablity and restore damaged vehicles than risk losing it out right and it becoming a battle of attrition wheretoo many vehicles lost will sets your nation back to the stone age... Look at Russia rn and how much it's losing and how they'll struggle to get it all back and the costs involved.
Also, what's the alternative right now? not bring a tank? well, the enemy brought one. shitnuggets, what now?
Hard to gain ground when you keep losing it.
Why is is so difficult to understand the goals of Russia in Ukraine when they said it clearly...they are not interested in land...they are interested in denazification
The mighty Ukrainian offensive really hasn't conquored much. Really paid for every inch, and those loss's hurt Ukraine more than Russia. Russia has also been Launching thier own Offensives, on the Northern end of the line. I dont care pro Ukraine or pro Russia but dont believe the narrative that Russia is just loosing because the west said so. Really Russia just has to Hold, they have what they came for. Without the western supplies Ukraine wont last to long, how long will our will last when we have the "economic" problems we have. Our own people are divided on the issue and see anither dollar amount going to Ukraine (even if its not hard cash, people dont look indepth to it) when they are struggling or feel defeated here at Home.
@@danielechessa2862 Yes, and it works - Utkin, Prigozhin and somewhere between 100,000 and 250,000 russians have been already successfully denazified.
@JJ-sd1xjJoined TH-cam 10-02-2023. Another FSB sock puppet.
@@thomasb7464 cool story bro,same as if I say 400,000 Ukronazis are dead....sources or that story is just propaganda
The great benefit of modern tanks over decades-old tanks is that the crews will likely survive a strike that disables the modern tank, and the modern tank is also more likely to be reparable after such a strike.
Not really. Disabled tank is in huge danger to get a large HE shell deliver on it's roof.
Of course, when you are fighting against 3rd world country or guerilla, that is not a problem. Or at least, that WAS not a problem.
@@BojanPeric-kq9etexcept of course, what he said is actually what happened in a lot of cases, confirming that the additional survivability is real, while you are arguing of a worst case scenario, where anyone no matter what could be killed.
I think millennium7's video summed up the situation perfectly. His concept of the transparent battlefield is dead on. The reality is modern technology has recreated WW1.
Haven't seen the video but you and they are correct. Cavalry is again nearly obsolete. Luckily counter battery fire is easier than ever. I don't think you can move fast enough in any war between any two armies that are anywhere close to state of the art
I don't remember WWI having IFVs conducting assaults and troops jumping out to conduct modern CQB tactics to clear trenches.
@@somebody700you are correct. Without the trillion dollar intelligence assets provided by the USA+Nato Ukraine would be done for.
@@ChucksSEADnDEADpedantic
Other than getting everything wrong, it's OK I suppose. Russia is winning the war. Russia for now is not fighting the US nor is Russia facing the US's best weapons.
You argument about going to older tech vs the leopard 2 has some points you missed. Ukraine according to Oryx, and Osint compilations, and western governments has had a total of only 5 Leopards lost/destroyed after 6 weeks of breaching operations. They have had dozens damaged and abandoned initially, but all of those have been recovered and repaired or are being repaired. None have been captured. The Bradley has been noted for its high crew and troop survivability. And now the Counter offensive is starting to gather some steam with about 10km taken around Robodyne and Verbove, with several widening breaches in the lines in the vicinity over the last 2 weeks. While moving 10km in the month previous While yes one would prefer 10km a day but that may be unrealistic. Ukraine's gains since going on the attack in June are dramatically more than Russia's from its December to May push of this year. That cannot be ignored when talking about why "Russia can't advance" and chalk it up to the enviroment of warfare has changed while Ukraine, has to some degree, in the same environment.
People also forget for Ukraine's case about the Kherson Offensive last year. That was a 4-month campaign with relatively static lines until Russia just couldn't hold it anymore and the lines collapsed. Ukraine played a battle of attrition and won and appears to be going through the same strategy in the south. With the recent gains begs the question if the Russians are starting to give out under the pressure. No one but the Russian's know, and we will only know after the campaign is over one way or another.
Something that never gets mentioned is the inherent bias in the drone videos. Despite having a thousand-mile front, and half a million troops going at it and according to RUSI up to 1000 drones per KM of front going at one time, you only see maybe a dozen successful drone attacks on any given day, and many of those are unsuccessful but the video cuts off before that is made clear. A huge percentage of the drone dropped munitions videos are going on already disabled equipment and not maneuvering units.
These drones have not taken out active western tanks, and attacks that have occurred have caused only light damage and occasionally temporary disablement. This needs to be repeated. ATGMs and mines are the responsible party for all of the destroyed Leopards.
Also Ukraine is a unique environment for this. Driven by Russian ineptness in the early war, its propensity to do mass human wave assaults in the midwar, its complete lack of effective air doctrine, and Ukraine's relative weakness early on causing a stalemate and these mass fortifications and static defenses to keep everyone in place. This partially mirrors the Iran- Iraq war and all wars after that did not turn out to emulate that either.
Armored Vehicles and manuever warfare is the answer to drones. Some times exact format of these vehicles may need to change. But it is the answer.
Doesn't Oryx have only have like
@@lukebruce5234Yes Oryx is always inherently biased towards a lower number, purely based on how it works, for example it's currently showing only 2274 documented Russian tank losses. But as far as I'm aware it doesn't categorise these by the offensive weapon used, it groups them by equipment type destroyed. And it won't add multiple angles of the same destroyed tank, neither will it count farm equipment as military armour
@@lukebruce5234 So your argument against Oryx, a database which the stated purpose is to show the MINIMUM amount of equipment losses is... **checking notes** saying some might be higher? Because... **checking notes again** you saw some random, probably unverified videos on the internet?
@@lukebruce5234 To be honest, it's hilarious to see Russian trolls melt when they see verifiable facts. I'm sure they love to throw around random numbers, but most people don't.
Oryx is bullshit. You can make 10 different pictures with the same dead tank. First let’s start with a disabled tank, will take a picture. Next will hit it with a few extra RPG’s take a picture from another angle. Let’s then put it on the tractor and move it up the road a bit take a picture from another angle. From there let’s go ahead and light it on fire and will take a picture from another angle. Next will put a couple pounds of explosives in it and blow it up again and take a picture from another angle. Oh no the Russians blew up one of our tanks. Let’s draw a V on it and take a picture. Next will let it on fire and take another picture at a different angle. Wow Oryx tells me the Russians lost thousands of tanks It’s completely accurate because pictures hur dur
7:28 I’d say crew survivability is a good reason to go for a leopard over t-72, even if everything else was equal.
would you? How many crews could be saved if three T72s were on the battlefield versus a single Leopard? You never thought of it that way did you? A leopard might take a hit better but could you stop that hit if you had three times as many tanks shooting? Three times as many on the move? Also which is easier to work on? If your leo is broken waiting for parts how effective is it then at saving troops its not even in the fight. There is more than armor to consider.
@TP-ie3hj well lets say that the leo gets 1 kill and then gets destroyed if they were equal. The crew of the leo would get out, and the crew of the T-72 would be in a space flight with the turret. So you would save 4 crew members. Now in real live the leo would be able to see and target the T-72's way earlier and possibly destroy 2 before getting shot at and even then there is a good chance it gets all 3 of em.
Well if only all things were equal I guess? One cant argue against that kind of dreamy logic. But the fact remains "real life" things are never equal and tanks dont fight alone. Reality is the leopard 2 is on a battlefield and its not performed any better than a T72. Its being destroyed long before it makes contact with a single tank. ( also a T72b3m3 has every bit the equal sighting ability and thermals that a leo has) In war any tank is better than no tank. The crew may be better protected but without another tank to get into who gives a shit. You lose the war. If it were all about protecting the crew then save the crew by not fighting. Its about killing the enemy and winning and three easy to fix operate and fuel tanks are better than one. Opinion sure. Just like yours. Your leopard crew may survive only to be forced to get into a MTLB next for lack of another tank. In the end a tank is a Tank and price, numbers, easy to use replace and repair are every bit the equal of armor or gun caliber. No tanks are surviving hits from Javlins or Kornets or KA 52s etc, no tanks. Hell they are not surviving mines or arty. This is what tanks face, not just other tanks. Comparing tank to tank is simply flawed logic. So you better have some spares in a war of attrition as numbers are everything. @@funkymarco4411
@@TP-ie3hjI would prefer to not be roasted alive if my tank gets hit. That's why I prefer the Leopard 2. I know it's pretty selfish of me....
The fact you and your leopard will be alone while those trying to kill you have a three or four to one advantage and the fact that after, if you survive your hit you will have no other tanks around you and walk through a battlefield on foot..should you make it through that you will be put into a pick up truck with a man with RPG in the back to replace your one and only leo. you wont last long anyway. your problem is you are focusing on only one aspect. Defensive armor. That is not always a plus. It can have a massive down side. when ammo detonates leopards explode in massive fire balls throwing their turrets same as any tank will when 25 120mm plus shells erupt. look for kurds blasting turk leopard videos or houthis roasting saudis in m1s. You simply believe in a falsehood. Which is odd considering how much proof their is showing the reality. Tanks a tank. T 72s survive hits all the time, they get destroyed all the time, any tank used on that scale will have similar results. There is no argument that a leo at nearly 60 tons is better armored that a t72 at 46 tons. The facts are that does not always make for the better tank. @@chaosXP3RT
Those initial declarations - "still #2 or #3", some form of "desirable exports" - are some serious leaps of faith.
how so?
@@delfinenteddyson9865 Well for starters you can't call yourself 2nd or 3rd most powerful if you're currently losing ground to what was at the time the 27th most powerful army.
Plus I mean they can't even instill the slightest meager droplet of discipline in their soldiers.
Building off Supplice -
Plus, how can you even rate their exports at all when they had to delay a ton of contracts, they can't even make most of it any more due to sanctions, and countries have been cancelling orders after seeing how poorly some of their equipment performs?
Plus France was the second arms exporter on last year, for the first time.
@@TonyBustaroni Simply selling a lot doesn't mean that the stuff you sell is good. That would be like saying McDonald's food is great because they sell more than most other restaurants. What it shows, if the data is accurate, is that there is a market for Russian arms. And if you look at the buyers, you might get the impression that they buy Russian weapons not for their inherent quality but because they are a) affordable/cheap and b) quite some of them wouldn't get weapons from many other sources. Also, the question is what do they actually export, is it high-tech cutting edge stuff or rather basic mass production goods. As always with such statistics, one has to take a closer look.
Always exciting to see another video. Thank you for your work.
Also in my opinion, many soviet vehicle designs are technologically dead ends that shouldve been abandoned ages ago, but russia cannot do that, cuz if they did, they would not be able to replace em in appropiate numbers
And so, troops have to put up with T-72 with exploding autoloaders, BTR-80s with horrible troop hatches and BMPs that offer degraded troop protection for the sake of a barely working amphibious capability
Russia cannot even afford to develop new designs already. And that capability certainly didn't get better.
In the end Russia turns into a massive North Russian Korea.
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Are you aware that NATO tanks don't have great armor either, once you look further than front of a turret? Slapping few tons of DU alloy is not very "advanced", it is pure brute force.
It was T-64 with autoloader and it was decades ahead of any NATO tank. Why US doesn't use autoloader? There were attempts, but they were unable to make it work.
You are probably not aware that most Soviet tanks in their time were comparable to most of NATO tanks and were available in much larger numbers? But then "happy 1990s" happened...
@@jantjarks7946 and EU will turn into massive Northern Africa due lack of wheat. But that is not a problem, EU showed that they can accept millions of refugees (unlike from Syria), so next few waves from Africa should be peace of cake.
The quality of Russian tank autoloaders wasn't acceptable in western countries, ask Lunar 25 and the turrets on the moon it was supposed to pick up why that is.
Furthermore, every autoloader was slower with the second shot capability than a human loader, including Russian junk tanks. Only these days the French developed a somewhat acceptable autoloader in serial production.
Learn what the heck you are talking about before bragging about Russian junk. Wait, Soviet junk, but Russia cannot even afford the throw away mentality from the time of the Soviet Union anymore. Russia just learns it the hard way.
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EU is exporting wheat themselves and self sufficient.
Now go to your handler and pick up your two potatoes. Or is your troll farm already running low on manpower? Well, Russian demographics already were bad before the war, now it's catastrophic. Congratulations.
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The biggest advantage of modern, more expensive Western tanks is their improved crew survivability, which allows trained personnel to get back into the fight. Oh and I guess it saves lives or whatever
In large war it is better the opposite
Crew survivability doesn’t matter if the platform is trash. Dumb to say it’s the biggest advantage, biggest advantage of western tanks is far better optics and fire control system. They’ll see, fire upon, and destroy a T-72 accurately far before it can. Doesn’t matter how survivable the T-72 is, the more that come out the more get destroyed.
Reliability, ease of maintenance and parts availability make a huge difference.
As does reliable ammunition.
@@charlesharper2357 exactly , and Russian tanks are made with that in mind , as most of their vehicles use similar parts , as well the design of the t72 for example , is as simple as it gets so it's easier to get large numbers of conscripts to drive them easily. the Russians are the best at attrition warfare out there. well know so far thought history.
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Nonsense. This is a typical myth of rugged Soviet equipment.
"The war began good for Russia" - I would qualify that by specifying it began well on the eastern front. Their main decapitation strike at Hostomel Airport - on which practically their entire plan depended - was a disaster from Day One.
They destroyed all main military airports and radar/SAM stations that allowed taking the south, were the russian population is. These analysis are misleading when they say Russia tryed to take WHOLE Ukraine, they already took their objective and are on defensive since then.
Actuly the vdv took the airport easily
But they widthraw beacuse of no supplies
@@ali-haider5788 You are correct, they took it fairly easily. But that is basically all the success they could claim that day. All supporting elements of the plan failed utterly and completely, with no contingencies in place. Hence why I'd call it a disaster. And by all accounts they did not withdraw - they were routed.
Hats off to the brave Ukrainians who faced that initial onslaught with a kind of courage that we should all look up to.
@@lukasmalan3024 How romantic 😆
great video,well say well explain 👍
Can't wait for the next count video!
I remember when every news channel was predicting that Ukraine would fall in like 2 days. A year later, Ukraine still stands. I hope they can have their victory soon enough.
Tanks like the Abrams can still be taken out by mines and missiles, but one huge advantage they have over Russian tanks is how/where the ammo is stored.
RU tanks have the crew sitting on top of the ammo, Abrams the crew is safe. Leo and Challenger still store some ammo in the hull, but not all underneath the crew.
Yes, but they're not that much better than Russian tanks like we have been told. Both Western and Russian tanks have their pros and cons based on their views and military doctrine.
Western tanks are heavier, better armored thus higher crew survivability. The Challenger 2 was the most robust tank in the world and it got annihilated at first deployment just this week.
Russian tanks are built to be lighter and more mobile and lower profile, also cheaper and easier to be mass produced.
The Ukraine war has showed us that any type of armor can be easily destroyed when your enemy is well equipped.
Oh look how far the mighty have fallen. From 'Our superior tech is invincible and are going to sweep away the untrained Russian mobiks leading blitzkrieg Ukrainians to a beach party in Crimea' to 'Oh, our tanks got wrecked. At least the turret is still attached to the tank' 😂😂
@@oconnor6456 More like at least our crew survived rather than being burned alive.
@@HuseinB58 This isn't a War Thunder game where kills matters. In real warfare, all that matters is crew survivability. What good is a tank crew if an ammo rack explosion kills them all? Westerns tanks are not invincible by any means, I don't know where you got that from and anyone that told you that is a complete idiot. But in a Western tank, getting disabled doesn't spell death for the crew, they can simply get out and abandon the tank and simply get in another one.
This time, they are ready to fight another day with the experience they learned from their previous sortie.
Interesting video) Will there be another how-many-tanks-left video any time soon?
Video idea......The graphic at 0:26 showing the arms exportation. I am so curious about the smaller percentage countries like Italy and what it is that they export. Care to do a video on some of the smaller exporters and what they sell? Thanks keep up the good work!
If there is anything to learn from wars in Russia - it is the fact that territory is a last thing one should care during war.
Russia is a joke army the world over at this point. They're examples of how you _dont_ conduct a war lol
What else is there?
Remove/replace the head of state? Hard to do if they can rule from exile.
Destroy as much military equipment as possible? Not very effective if it gets replenished from outside the country.
Glad we are on the same page so, all the ukriane fanboys should stop sh*ting their pants from joy after the ukrianains capture a village.
@@Jehty_ Where you speak about Ukraine, motivated solders is the most limiting resource of Ukraine if you ask me.
Yeah in order to actually win you need a lot of goals. What did Hannibals top general say? You know how to win a battle, but you don't know how to win a war.
In this case Russia doesn't know how to do either.
Even if Russia took over all the major cities tomorrow? I am pretty sure they would be stuck fighting a massive gurellia war. It would just be a bloodier Iraq with Ukrainian gurellias backed with Western weapons causing havoc... It would be hell for them for a very very long time.
This video literally just rehashed the problems that we already knew...
excellent video as always
keep it up ma man
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Lol who cares
So much Vatnik cope in the comments
I counted 6 NAFO bots coping, you included
@@conqueror_the_basedhow is commenting on russian cope a cope in its self ?
@@gingernutpreachertheir comments can be considered to be a reply to a cope only if the whole video is a vatnik cope. Cry about, bozo 💀
@@conqueror_the_basedVatnik cope x2
@@LBlazer169 yeah, NAFO bot cope x ♾️
Fast forward 7 months and the shovels and washing machines have started flying......
We must consider that we didn't knew how a war between regular forces would be with the current tech, maybe we are now at a similar position from pre WW1 where defensive weapons are "stronger" then offensive.
Once again technology has led to the debunking of current tactics.
👍🤝 Everything this channel puts out is great content🙏
CC coming in clutch! I was about to go mow the lawn but now I gotta stay in my chair and watch this. 😃
such hardship! We all appreciate your sacrifice, you'll have to enjoy mowing the lawn later
So brave. Thank you for your service.
Hasn't this been proven many times already, in Finland, Vietnam and Afghanistan, that the size of the army does not matter if the large attacking army does not have as much motivation as the defender.It's quite a different thing to fight for a piece of land than to defend yourself for existence
in case of Finland, it wasn't just motivation. Finnish men were slaughtering Ruzzians 1 to 20. While Vietnam and afghanistan were actually losing every battle they had and with more loses than USA had. In fact USA lost less men within 20-years in Afghanistan than ruzkiez within single week in Orkaine.
The afghan troops who gave way to the Taliban were not attacking. The South Vietnamese forces who gave way to the North Vietnamese were denied supplies by the US while the north continued to be supplied by China and Russia.
Russians were fighting for their existence, just like USA thought it was when it objected cuban nuclear missiles placement
Afganistan and Vietnam are poor examples as neither manged to defeat the enemy in the field
@@Tespri Ukraine had more than one million soldiers, most of them are dead or wounded.
Ukraine inherited thousands of military vehicles from the Soviet Union, most of them were destroyed.
Ukraine got thousands of military vehicles from NATO, most of them were destroyed.
Excellent video!
I've been hearing that, while western tanks are more expensive, their capabilities and most importantly crew survivability are much better than what Russia fields. So ya they might get taken out by a cleverly placed mine, but the crew will likely not get incinerated in the blast and can fight another day.
I can't believe you didn't say "Quantity has a quality all its own" especially in a video literally about russia! :O
wake up dumbo, Russia was outnumbered this whole time until recently
L when you have neither
He missed an obvious trick.
So you're saying Russia not so stronk?
Yes
Stoned while drunk? Probably, russian soldiers have to cope in some way while still alive.
The Russian soldiers aim and main goal is to loot houses, steal washing machines, carjack vehicles, and be cannon fodder to Ukrainian drone bomblets.
After 60 years of drunken, old corruption: YES.
This just show it.
I wonder how so called military experts look at a war like this and say oh see Russia is not so strong. There's a reason why it's called a proxy war. Tell me one mighty country that was able to defeat another country backed by similar support? You're fighting supply lines, intelligence bureaus, weapons factories, etc that you can not hit, not because you don't have the means to, but because technically they're not part of the war yet make all the difference
Lots of cool B-roll on this one!
You opened my eyes
Thank for letting me know
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The short and skinny: they underestimated the Ukrainians
Yes Abrams, Leopards and Challengers are just as susceptible to land mines as 40-year-old tanks. I think the difference is, those modern tanks offer greater crew survivability and rarely suffer the catastrophic effect of secondary explosions which in turn, allows them to be recovered, repaired and re-introduced into the fight. Is that plausible?
Apart from the tanks themselves, we've also sent a lot of recovery vehicles. It doesn't get as much attention, but it's a major force multiplier.
Are those Type 99 MBTs at 9:37? Where is that footage from?
Conventional military theory has it that an attacking force needs 14:1 ratio of men and equipment over the Defenders. Of course in very specific circumstances that ratio can be reduced, at risk of losing or at the very minimum sustaining unsustainable casualties.
Yea. Its a very resource intensive venture.
Time = Money in alot of cases. A significantly underfunded military can rival a larger military if it was given enough time to prepare.
If we froze time and gave Taiwan 100 years to prepare to invade China, and execute immedietly right when time begins, they would succeed
7:25 The Leopard 2 (especially older variants) is the most vulnerable of all NATO main battle tanks, that's not necessarily true of others that have been supplied. As others noted, even then, survivability of the crew is much better than on any russian tank, as the ammunition is stored in a separate compartment.
7:47 russia does operate glide bombs, most notably the KAB-500, albeit in somewhat low (but increasing) numbers.
8:30 It's not hard to verify russian army corruption, those affected talk about it all the time. Only, they appeal to their dear leader for more effective genocide tools, rather than ask for the russian army to pull out.
Why would they pull out? If Russia retreats now then NATO will be in Ukraine by tomorrow and that in Russia's view is an existential threat
@@KingdomRepublic They said Finland and Sweden joining NATO was an existential threat. What did they do when that happened? They said it didn't matter anyway, and pulled most troops they had at the border. Red lines are just a sophisticated form of intimidation not backed up by will to act on them.
@@_tyrannus agreed but some red lines are more serious than others, I think we both know that if Russia had done better in Ukraine and reached the Polish Border within the first 1 or 2 months of the war then Finland would never join NATO as Russia would be able to make a move...
Russia will not pull back, because their leadership understands the simple fact so many common folk in the west can't get in their heads. This is not about Ukraine. It never was. It is about Russia. The west wages proxy war on Russia, through ukrainian hands, through sanctions and more. Much better to fight in forward positions, than on the russian heartland.
Only simps would suggest Russia will get anything by just retreating.
You do exceptionally fine work Sir! It's a pleasure to watch your well-researched videos.
Good analysis..
7:30 Hell yes it's worth it, survivability of the crew. - Trained personell is priceless.
Whatever happened to switchblade loitering munition(s)? Less effective than cheaper drones?
Expensive and easily jammed by the Russians. Lancets are much cheaper yet harder to jam though I'm not sure if that's because Ukraine lacks this technology or if Russia's electronic warfare capabilities are that much superior to the wests.
I think that's the main issue with the west being able to support Ukraine in this war. You can make fun of Russia's reduced military capabilities but the west will bankrupt itself on all its expensive high tech weaponry when much simpler weapons and technology can get the job done just as if not even better. The west is a paper tiger in its own way not to mention the entire developed world is suffering from population decline that makes calling up motivated troops that much harder for everyone.
@@rogerc6533 Demographically, Russia is in the worst shape for military age youth. The 20-30 year old category is thin for a country with half the population. I blame feminism but urbanization is probably a better explanation. Also, 40 millions of Russians are minorities whose enthusiasm for the war is doubtful. If Russia breaks up, I expect China to take back greater Manchuria and Japan to take back the Sukuku Islands. It will be interesting. Oh, and "paper tiger" - Russia has that "in the bag". Maybe Russia will end up calling this the "Grandpa's Great Patriotic Special Military Operation". ("Grandpa" being both Putin and those drafted into the SMO...).
@@marvinegreen Our problem is that woke culture and neo liberal economics is trying everything it can to destroy our rural youth who are the only ones who can be counted on as good soldiers whilst most of the city dwellers are degenerate serial criminals, drug abusers or rich liberal poofters.
Ask those Leopard 2 crews in Zaporozhye about western mbt's survivability :) Or the Challenger crew, they'll tell you all about it :D
Well yes they do. Cause they survived
9:38 I just love that lone Buhanka in the back
There was a meme at the start of SMOX, Buhanka-chan. Lots of NSFW manga of Буханочка-тян was made, look it up
And in the very last seconds of the video we see the highly armoured Scooby Doo van for high ranking officers 🤓👍
I doubt that Russia is still the second largest exporter of weapons. Not only do they need all of their production for themselves, but their equipment hasn’t exactly attained a reputation for excellence on the battlefield.
You doubt because you only listen to propaganda 😉😂 their equipment proved thats not only it's on par with western gear, it's cheaper and more effective. And they are only the second exporter in USD, in numbers they are the first 🥇 US tech is absurdly priced, only US can buy such expensive gear, not even Europe
Yeah, like the US F-35 flying brick. Who wouldn't want some of those to bankrupt their country and then crash?
Crashing the ruble is a genius Russian innovation.
@igorpve Doing good if you think 5,000 rubles not buying a Prigozhin hot dog is good.
numbers are misleading, the traditional soviet era method of just looking at the ruble is no longer sufficient to capture quality of life which in many cases is probably dramatically lower for all russians... they stopped publishing a lot of data but even what we can see shows people eating less, buying less stuff, working with shittier products in almost every category, and overall not really having a good time
@@Chuck_Hooksguys, the Russians are dribbling the sanctions like Messi dribbled Bilbao players in the Copa del Rey final of 2015, you guys thought that they would collapse within a year, so taking into account this fact, they are doing well in the economic war or at least better than you who stu-pidly thought that it would destroy them.
@renanvinicius6036 Vladimir Solovyov, Russian TV host, said the world is laughing at Russia and the crashed ruble.
Try again.
A lot of Americans are hurting too… this war is a disaster for all involved.
Everyone is talking about crew survivability, but operational availability and combat awareness is a huge bonus for western vehicles as well. Compared to Russian equipment, they have superior nightvision, detection, and communication equipment. Even if training and unit readiness were equivalent, the ability for Ukrainians to fight effectively at night or in adverse conditions gives them real combat advantages over the vehicles they are facing, and if those combats are occurring in the attacks on Russian fixed defenses then a 2:1 or 3:1 numerical advantage can be enough to carry the position, where otherwise 4:1 or greater numbers might have been required.
Good lesson for other militaries
Title should be: "Why Russia is struggling to hold land taken in the invasion."
Title should be: "Why Russia is struggling to hold land taken in the unprovoked invasion."
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Have Ukraine made it to the first defensive line, must have missed that.
@@peppipoohductionswakashunt3157they breached it today
@@TankswillRule that wasnt first defensive line
@peppipoohductionswakashunt3157 they breached the defensive line. There are expert interviews discussing a possible Russian rout now.
You made many great points but left out one of the most important factors...pure Russian incompetence lol
yeah, when I heard/saw that part of the video, I was wondering if this was a video made before the war when everyone had an elevated sense of Russian military power.
Thanks!
Well a difference with Leopard tanks and Western armoured vehicles is that when you hit the mines or get shot at the crew can survive and fight another day in a repaired vehicle. The Soviet/Russian vehicles explodes beyond repair with the crew dead. Numbers is important yes but only if they have some minimum standard.
Excellent photography! I wonder how much steel trash and mines have been scattered across Ukraine?
funny thing the more advanced army enemies have, the more they can deny others, like air superiority (that leads to tranches wars ww1) or jamming everything, the closer conflict lead to direct man to man fight lol (like for example dune warriors with literally swords)
The biggest problem of Russia is lack of any empowered Senior NCO corps, who are real backbones of any modern military. Russia is still a conscript based army and no conscript based army can have a bottom up structure with empowered NCOs and empowered junior level commissioned officers. Conscript based armies are essentially heavily top down in their structure. Even if NCOs are present , they are not given any real powers and everything has to be top down
Apparently I see alot of vatniks in the comments. Keep up the great work Corvert Cabal! I watch your every video from start to end :)
Covert Cabal is the best OSINT channel on TH-cam, thank you for your work bro
Russia plan came straight from Hearts of iron where making a mad dash to the capital leads to victory, when it didnt work they went full pika face
Where have you been?
KREMBOTS ARE LOSING THE FN MINDS IN THE COMMENT SECTION😂😂😂
While Ukrainians are getting massacred on the battlefield.
About Ukrainian air defence - it is now in 'survival' mode. What does it mean?
Radars are directed inland (but not towards the enemy) so it makes it risky to fly too deep into Ukraine and comeback safe. Such tactic keeps those radars safe from antiradiation missiles.
Just another form of war of attrition but in the air.
It’s mean that Ukrainian SAMs and AA flaks are on defensive mode until it’s air power arrives.
Last time I checked, Russia was losing a bunch of aircraft. Something close to 700 since Feb 2022.
@@toby9999 yeah 700 planes, 400 helis and 1 death star. sounds plausible lol
@@toby9999where u get that 700 number from?
@@toby9999hard to trust wiki, but today its better than socmed bullshit 😂
Love this.
There are other things like poor armor and helmets that can't stop rounds like 7.62 which is a standard sniper rifle round.
After Ukraine wins the War, the Russians should be forced to clear the mine fields they have laid themselves. just as the German Kriegsmarine was forced to clear the seas of the mines they laid. Seems fair to me 🤷🏼♂
😂, that was a good one!! Make Ukraine Russia again!
if the russian people were half as responsible or accountable as ukraine's other neighbor's they'd already be there helping to clear mines in liberated territory. plenty of foreign volunteers are already clearing minefields in a civilian volunteer capacity. you'd have to probably drag them kicking and screaming to get them to help out even a little.
sure, right after they arrest Putin, right?
Ukraine will not win the war, "the true second army on the world" is not capable of even penetrate the first main defensive line hahahaha
On what planet you live
You put the RAD in comrade bro 😎👍
0:52 lol that box cutting out the old promo code might be the laziest photoshop I've ever seen
Murdering the only man that made any gains probably wont help their case
that guy has mercenary troop across the globe, he is dangerous.
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The advantage of the new tank's is Crew Survivability
Why doesn't both sides try using tunnel boring machines to dig under the ground like Beneath Hill 60 in ww1?
It’s too easily detected.
Geee…. It could be they’re all drunks and drink in their trenches and dugouts, they don’t get paid, they have little to no medical care, and hardly any food….. you wonder why nobody wants to fight
Wonder how ukraine can't beat those incompetent drunks... Are ukrainians even worse warriors?
Ivan: Nikolai, did you finish planting the mines?
Nikolai: Da, no help from you cyka.
Ivan: Well, this is great, they’ll be stuck for 6 months trying to get past it and we can just sit here and not do anything.
Nikolai: I almost fucking died!
Ivan: I’ll get the Vodka *leaves*
Nikolai: Did he even listen to me?
Vasily: He’s always like that.
Who is killing Ukrainians in droves then? Trees and bushes?
@@user-me5oq3kl4h Landmines
The myth of Russia having a large population to draw from continues to linger. A pre-war population of appox. 140 million (this included the occupied Ukrainian territories) is comparable to the population of Mexico. Factor in those Russians that fled conscription and unrelenting meat grinder tactics resulting in daily losses in personnel nearing 1000 men per day means that they're fast draining their resources, human and material.
3% of russians left Russia, 40% of Ukrainians left Ukraine.
Russia isn't losing 1000 per day, they are losing 100 per day...which is about same as Ukrainian side...which for Russia is nothing. Also "losing" as in wounded or dead, not just dead.
Russia could wage this war for literally 100 years if we only calculate the population.
Hi I had an interesting vid topic, since you seem like your keeping up with the loses, could you maybe trying doing a vid on how much Russian $ have been spent/destroyed in this war? Like how much did all those tanks cost ect.
Excellent
Thanks for this perspective. Like most long-term dictators, Putin became increasingly isolated and detached from reality, leading to poor decisions. When you snuff out all political opposition and surround yourself with yes-men, you become infatuated with your own personal infallibility. Ukrainians love Russia, they will welcome us, our superior military will roll into Kiev within a week, Ukrainian military is nothing, Zelensky will flee the country -- and so the decision for war. Sorry Vladmir, you got your assumptions/facts wrong, and now Russia will feel the consequences for generations to come.
Putin isolated??
Russia's economy is growing in spite of sanctions, the Russian oil-fixing the west tried didn't work. His new friends are the (unfortunate) leaders of tomorrow; China, India...
I'm not sure Russia as a society can adapt the same way Ukraine can. They simply don't allow their officers and soldiers to question things, to publicly state when things aren't working. Because free thinking is dangerous to their leadership. Ukraine has to fight smarter than the Russians, and I think that's exactly what we're seeing.
Ukraine doesn't like to be criticizedjust as much as the Russians. Plenty of fired generals, some even branded as traitors, to prove that.
Sounds like your describing American leadership and generals on msm that the public take as gospel instead of looking into it
I don't know if it has since been rectified, but small unit Initiative was a large lacking factor in the Russian Army early in the war. Orders had to come right from the top down before any actions could be taken stagnating units. In contrast Western squad and Infantry section commanders etc can act with a large degree of Independence from their main orders if it means seizing the Initiative. The Ukrainians previously trained in and adopted Western doctrine and tactics before Russia invaded and it has served them substantially well. Much can be owed to the doctrine of Independent small unit Initiative in the successes of the UAF, something the Ukrainians did not previously utilise under the Soviet model and something to my knowledge that the Russians still lack.
Manpower issues, mostly
It's hard to fight against someone who have constant mobilization and don't have to worry about economy
A conscript army is decent for manning trenches, but offensive operations take a higher degree of training.
"The best thing about Hello Fresh is you can skip weeks"
You're a natural salesman, Covert
During the 3 months of the offensive of the Ukrainian army, the tactical flexibility of the sergeant command did not yield results when breaking through the Surovikin defensive line.
But it did yield massive results around Kharkiv and kherson.
At present there are enough troops to hold the current extended front and to likely replace losses and relieve the odd tired units. Considering the front is now static, the only way for the Russian army to launch a successful operational offensive is to initiate a second mobilization of reservists. What numbers would be needed? Depends on the goals. If you ask me for an operational level success at least 250,000 troops would be needed. If Russia did mobilize another wave , where could they strike? In my humble opinion, their best bet would be to hit south of Kharkov and aim for Pavlograd. This would cut off the Ukrainian armies in their well fortified areas in the south. As for a march on Kiev, this is fantasy unless a near full mobilization occurs.
If Putin decide a second round of mobilization it will remove more workforce from the economy so they may have a gradual losses in oil revenue and it will make the ongoing labor shortage in Russia worse
9:34 here on the right you can see the legendary Russian military vehicle, the BUHANKA
Its interesting to see russia still being considered a top 3 military power. I thought theyd be quickly reassessed as a paper tiger.
So its generally agreed that they just had terrible planning? I know its easy to say this as an armchair general but man that makes them sound really dumb.
I get that Russia feel cornered by America/ NATO (understandably) so they were getting desperate but...'we assume they wont resist' isnt a plan. Didnt they at least learn that from the winter war with finland?
Putin was likely being told that the Ukrainians would welcome the Russians with open arms, that's how deluded he is
Well, it is the second most powerful army in Ukraine.
Russian paratroopers took the military airport of Kiev in 2 hours and USA needed 15 days to take the military airport of Bagdad!..Ukraine has Stinger, S-300, BUK...and despite that hundred of helicopters landed near Kiev and they were there for a month
It is probably a combination of still having ludicrous amount of hardware in storage (even if of questionable quality), industrial base capable of building equipment of every category (wven if not in large enough numbers and with iffy high tech components, because of sanctions) and R&D to develop for it (even if with not stellar track record). There is not many countries with all of this abilities present domestically.
From what I've read, planning and execution of the initial operation was ok-ish shock and awe attack, without any real contingancy plans in the case of a failure. The grand strategy level was especially atrocious, Russia pretty much sacrificed all influence in Europe for like a few months of delay in western heavy equipment support. In the gaming term, it was YOLO charge, without Putin knowing it was a YOLO charge.
top 3 military power by the raw capability generated from the amount of stuff they have, not by their ability to use it... right now britain or germany alone would not have enough forces to conduct such a large-scale invasion but if several of the european nations cooperated in such an effort they might do better
planning is hard and even slight inaccuracies can completely ruin a war, we obviously don't really have a clear picture but it's been rumored that putin dramatically overhauled his intelligence services after last year's memery
it's probably not just the shitty decision making that they've demonstrated though, their entire system needs to be reworked to decrease politicking by leaders at all levels and improve the troops' general ability to do their jobs (which again is quite lacking at all levels rn)
im sorry but i used to highly respect your channel, totally understand that you have an audience to cater to as most us military expert channels. but when the war started putin literally said he was not conquering all ukraine but liberating the russian speaking areas in the east and south east land bridge. Watch the progress map, as russia withdraws from outside kiev, they literally consolidate the territories they were intending to grab, there was a couple cities in donbass that was not strategically needed. By all means russia won military, you can argue all day about diplomatically/economically or that russia lost the social media campaign. But its a fact that russia achieved military what putin said in his FULL invasion speech
There's a video on youtube uploaded 10 years ago of a toy plane shooting down another toy plane with a BB gun. It's incredible that we aren't already making drone bombers en massd considering "you could drop a bomb from that" is the first thing any boy thinks of when they see an R/C plane.
Good video
Its kinda ironic to post this in the middle of the much hyped ukrainian offensive which is failing
You mean russia second army in Ukraine?
Now wagner left they are the second best army in ukraine again yes.