Europe ‘must prepare for war’ & how Russia rebuilt its armies | Ukraine: The Latest | Podcast
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- Day 752.
Today, we bring you the latest news from across Ukraine, discuss diplomatic updates from the EU and the US and we interview the former British defence attache to Moscow and Kyiv on the Russian war machine, the fight for the Black Sea and the challenges facing both armies in the months and years ahead.
Contributors:
David Knowles (Head of Audio Development). @djknowles22 on X.
Dominic Nicholls(Associate Editor, Defence). @DomNicholls on X.
Francis Dearnley (Assistant Comment Editor) @FrancisDearnley on X.
John Foreman (Former British Diplomat and Royal Navy Captain). @exexpat19 on X.
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The Telegraph has proven itself epistemologically deranged on the question of Ukraine. Ideological capture is complete. I will await the announcement that Victoria Nuland is being appointed Editor-in-Chief. RIP my old Telegraph.
Get well soon Francis. P.S. I love the podcast, and the interesting topics raised.
Honestly this is the best podcast I've ever listened to.
Pittsburgh Proletariat profoundly appreciates this perceptive, prodigious, phenomenal podcast.🎉🎉🎉
Not my war...Neocons war...
Neo cons dont want war.
I’ve been listening to your podcast since 2023 and find it very interesting and informative, especially with the input from your many guest’s sharing their expertise. I live in Manila. Many here support Ukraine. A friend of mine lives beside the Russian embassy located in one of the gated communities. Around 2022 the embassy burned down. Funny thing was the Russian staff refused entry to the local fire brigade. So the fire fighters had to try to put out the flames from the roofs of the neighbors. And the Russians were drunk and seated on the sidewalk gutter. We heard rumors that they burned their own embassy.
The mental picture of that made me laugh, though. Oh, the absurdity.
Hope, no neighboring properties were damaged!
This fiction can easily be disproved. Photos in news articles of the fire , show firefighters in the street outside the embassy directing water at the second story fire: there are no civilians or Russian embassy workers present, just fireman. Furthermore, the embassy adjoins other buildings meaning there is no side access. In order to fight the second story fire, some firefighters had to access a nearby flat roof so they could help direct water at the flames. This also is shown in the news article photos.
Pathetic lies that someone already disproved, not surprising though since the entire narrative of the Ukrobots revolves about manipulating and lying on everything be it numbers (casualties, casualty ratios..), their mobilisation process (The fact that they have made well over 8 mobilisations yet are still critically low on men and that we can easily find videos of young Ukrainians running away from enlistment officers) or even something as simple as the ideology of their own government and "elite" brigades (otherwise they would not have the support of the Western European leftist bots)...
Sunaks voice at the beginning makes me cringe.
When I listen to this broadcast I forwards it to one minute to avoid Sunak & Zelensky's stupidity. Cringe is accurate.
When they started these podcasts it was a powerful speech by Boris now it's this unelected weak man . We need a Churchill figure but now we've got a Chamberlain
The intro makes me cringe
I though it was Julian Clary talking tough on his tools 🔧
The young generation of the UK and Europe would have to be mad to fight for governments that hate them. I don't want Putin to win but I'm not willing to fight for *this*
Well people said the same in WW2 as there were massive protests against that before it started.
The Germans who were brainwashed by Hitler for example soon fell in line when war was declared... ppl flock to powerful leaders like bees to a beehive.
Never fails to amaze. Well done guys
This podcast, as well as Jake Broe's and Denys Davydov's are my daily triple consumption of Ukraine news. Keep up the amazing work. And get well, Francis!
Denys davidov is a draft dodger who fled Ukraine so quick as not to serve in the armed forces. Nobody is Ukraine respect that guy.
My daily go-to for Ukraine news, too. Weekends are rough, not hearing from these experts. Wish we heard from them everyday. Hello from USA 🇺🇸
Shout out to Silicon Curtain too, aye, these lads i have notifications on.
And Artur Rehi!
I agree; also Anders Puck Nielson, and Perun. For the very latest on Ukraine, Suchomimus is good. So many very capable pro Ukrainian TH-camrs out there.
What an excellent guest, great insights there and his final words quite profound..
Great podcast.
Get better soon Frances .
When I visited the Himalayas,( Nepal),in the 1980s the Chinese paid for planes for Nepal,and India a road Kathmandu to Pokara....a tug of war decades old.
your work is very important to getting the word out.
Bless Ukraine and Bless the AFU
My heart is breaking for the peaceful people of Ukraine.
May Ukraine have all defense systems to protect itself possible
saint javelin
#CrimeaIsUkraine
saint Himars
#WhatWeAreFightingfor
#Ukraine #War #Ctrl_Z
- "getting the word out"... please point me to a contrarian news outlet in the West, I would very much like to get out of this echo chamber ?
Why didn't your heart break for the people of Donbass who were subjected to air attacks and shelling by Ukrainians since 2014?
Hashtags in a comment and "saint javelin" just scream idiocy and cringe
Thank for yor excellent interview ❤️🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦❤️.
Telegraph editorial staff volunteer on mass.
interesting from Charles Michel to talk about investing in war effort, when Belgium is sitting on one of the lowest spending of all NATO members with only 1,13% .. Luxemburg being worst. This is 6B€, of which 4 are going on the next years to 34 expensive F35. It would be interesting for The Telegraph to investigate a bit more on the strategic cost of having smaller nations in Europe, ie Belgium, Portugal, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Romania, Finland, etc buying the most expensive US planes, and callign for more european independance. They are so many european alternatives. What a disaster for the european military industry !
Their support has been so pathetic that the UK gave up Belgium giving promised artillery systems and literally bought + sent them to 🇺🇦. But from what I understand, this in large part down to political divide similar to the one in the US. The population is divided into two camps that hate one another and makes passing anything incredibly difficult.
Belgium hates the military so much they now send trouble youth to the military. Just another hassle on their underfunded hands. They do it to intentionally deter people from trying to join the military.
Well Luxembourg don't have a army and don't really have any territory to do any proper exercise. With a population of 640,064 organizing a army is not really a point at all. Almost all NATO countries are in direction to reach the 2% or go above it. Personally i would like the Norwegian army to use the swedish Gripen jets, rather then F-35s because of price, ease of maintenance and proximity to production.
Luxembourg does have an army, it even used to have a brigade of which a reinforced company fought in Korea, it also has the highest GDP(per person) in the world. On average 1% of the population under arms is certainly achievable, if so inclined, which would equate 6400 personnel.Half of the NATO countries are below the 2% mark, Armies don't fly jets and Norway is filthy rich and can easily afford their F-35A's, it's the Swedes that should up their production of Gripens and expand their Airforce up to 120 E's and F's and donate their C's and some D's to the Baltic states.Other NATO states and/or the EU should compensate the Swedes for that. If not donate them to the Ukrainians.@@kristiansandsmark2048
Thanks for the podcast. Hard to believe a so-called intelligent species just cannot learn from our past
We are just animals with thinking. We know almost nothing compared to all there is to know.
Learning from the past could be "do not go up against Russia."
Big thanks to everyone at Telegraph team for providing essential information - stay always independent (from any buyouts) 🙏
During worst times of my life (which isn't even close what Ukrainians are going through) I am happy for the fact I can listen your episodes - especially when everything else is going south.
Best from Finland 🇫🇮🤝🇬🇧🙏🇺🇦
I'm happy the British people have never "bogged down" not even their darkest ours. Respect!
russia wont go into europe thats for sure.
Greetings from Denmark, 🇩🇰🇺🇦💪
Suspicious side glance to my fellow Brits - oh hello there, jutts anglians fraisii and saxions we have very little gold BTW
PS next time, just wave at Us, from across the English channel, ok
Danes wouldn’t last two seconds against the Russian military. 😂
What's all that supposed to be?
That's coming from the nation that holds the historical world record for the fastest capitulation in the history of mankind ? LOL the Russians must be truly scared of the 1000men strong Dannish army with no industry whatsoever and which uses tactics proven to be outdated
John Foreman is an impressive commentator ... wisdom born of deep experience coupled with the ability to condense complex issues to understandable paraphrases! R (Australia)
I love this podcast ❤😂
"We shall go on to the end...we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our [homes], whatever the cost may, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender..."
Never surrender isn't always the solution. Violence will beget more violence and just get increasingly worse.
When the Japanese surrendered in WW2 they had the "It's an honour to die for our cause" mindset until they knew in the end surrender saved literally all their people.
Peace should always be on the table before war if we want a future to live for
@@bengaltiger1289 Ukraine is not the aggressor. According to your logic putin should surrender.
British defence 😂😂😂 who don’t even have enough ammunition and soldiers to fight 😂😂😂😂
Boris Pistorius is such an amazing supporter!
Merci pour cette capsule! C’était très intéressant.
Continuez svp!😊
Hola from Costa Rica. I almost slavishly follow your podcast which is the most in-depth and varied reporting that I am able to find. I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Nichols. Since 2014, the "western" response to Russian aggression seems to have been to surrender in advance. Every initiative, although supportive of Ukraine, has been too little and way too late. If the trend continues, or even stalls due to the USA losing its collective sanity and re-electing Trump, Putin has no incentive to stop his attempt to reconstitute the Soviet Union. Russia, a country that is nothing more than a mafia run petrol station, only seeks to steal from others what it cannot produce itself. A much more aggressive policy is needed including NATO involvement.
Вам нужно больше читать книг и меньше смотреть телевизор . 😅
The step was likely placed there by an FSB agent
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Get well soon Frances!
Battlegroup Getica is with the legions in Belgorod. Romanians ❤
Your news is great
Amusing
No Russian called me gammon 🤷
What does that mean?
@@namesurname624 it means we have an invasion at home to deal with before looking at Russia
@@dominicrooney5638Then Congress really oughta pass the Senate Bill that provides aid to Ukraine and Israel and also drastically increases immigration enforcement. Take "Yes" for an answer already!
Sorry to hear about Francis, hope he gets better soon!
Bloody step! Get well soon lad 😁
Levada center. Look it up.
One important difference in Russian tactics is that, due to critically artillery shortages, they know Ukraine can’t afford to target low value targets. So, they’ll send 1-2 men at a time forward and build up forces piecemeal extremely close to the line of contact before Ukraine can afford to begin hitting back.
No ur just incompetent
Stop eating all this bull$$it from MSM
@@RyanBrown-nx8dw Your reply made no sense. Also, I’m not Ukrainian.
Yes, it's 'Si vis pacem, para bellum'. The only European country taking the threat seriously is Poland; its defence spending has grown from 2 per cent in 2019 to 3.1 per cent today, though some news reports claim 3.9 to 4.1 per cent. Of course, a boost today will not increase capabilities tomorrow, but Poland is on the right track. Nato's two per cent was based on Russia maintaining the status quo of 15 years ago. That's no longer relevant.
A week ago Polish president Andrzej Duda called on Nato members to raise defence spending to 3 per cent of GDP.
The problem is Nato has sponger members like Canada that spends 1.38 per cent. The Washington Post, quoting leaked documents, reported last year that Trudeau had told Nato allies _Canada would _*_never meet_*_ the two per cent target_ . This is not a recent phenomenon. It's not even a post-Cold War one. Canada was at less than 2 per cent in 1973. It blipped above 2 per cent during the period of '83 to '87 and fell continuously since then.
Nato's internal threat isn't Trump, its leaders like Canada's Trudeau, Germany's Scholz, Spain's Sanchez, Denmark's Frederiksen, et al. The reason for the finger pointing at Trump is because much of Europe doesn't want to spend the funds. Has Germany resolved its defence procurement 'problems'? No. Why not? Because the 'problems' allow an excuse for failing to make the investment. Berlin announces it will increase spending - 100 billion euros supplemental funds - but then doesn't spend them. It's a ruse, a performance for optics.
Everyone wants out of NATO in Europe and this is how they're doing it.
One issue doesn't exclude the other , be in no doubt, Trump is a threat to NATO.
One dimensional view.
Yearly military spending for most EU countries is already well over the 2%. This is because all the money now goes to Ukraine instead of to building our own military.
Like the EU can't go ahead and buy military equipment for itself. It now just primarily does so for Ukraine. That's where the money is going to.
Trump is a very serious potential additional threat. His proclivities regarding Russia and NK and CCP are in plain sight. He views these countries as real estate opportunities. That's the limit of his geo-strategic grasp.
Good to see many comments calling out this neocon clown show
Why do supporters of Ukraine announce the number of and timing for arms deliveries?
- hope... cope...
Most likely to let Russia know no one is walking away from this (apart from the US). Also, complains about not being transparent otherwise.
@@Deathadder90 - the EU will run out of money far far quicker than the US did...
@@sebastianforbes1 Well the EU has already been spending more money than the US did. 🤷 But, given that the aid is spread out over years and the fact that the economies aren't going to suddenly stop running. The money will keep flowing.
@@sebastianforbes1aid isn't only coming by the way of money, nor has the US or EU run out of money or are close to. US has run of political will, which might change, might not.
When Ukraine retakes all it's territory, Belgorod plus other areas may be the buffer zones needed to protect Ukraine from invaders.
Not just Ukraine. Suvaski Gap is widely known weak spot that can be used by Russia to cut off NATO countries (Latvia, Litva, Estonia). Recent russian act of jamming gps over the international water area near Kaliningrad (Koninsberg) is a warning ⚠️ call.
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Europe must what????????? We won’t be your cannot fodder
Protection really means protection from his own paranoia.
Is it paranoia if they station NATO troops in a country that is not part of the NATO alliance? Everyone is preparing the ground with the story that European citizens should go to war with Russia over Ukraine (which is not an EU country, nor is it in the NATO alliance), but I don't think they will succeed in that idea.
Part of this podcast headlines is "how Russia rebuilt its armies". If Russia is using it's rebuilt armies in Ukraine I'd hate to see what they were like before.
Well they were able to grab a small bit of Donbass back in 2014. So that was it for them back then.
The West has certainly disinvested in terms of knowledge of Russia. The university library in my city has what seems like about a quarter of a floor of Russian studies material, mainly in the Russian language produced during the 50s to the 80s, but they have stopped all Russian language courses past first year.
There are many options available on the internet. Free and paid.
These guys should work the heavy bag like macron,,, eye of the tiger
😂😂😂😂😂 those are Photoshopped photos of Macron. He's gone off his nutter.
Please throw some pictures/videos up that correlate to the audio. It would be an incredible upgrade and would get much more people to sit and watch on youtube.
I find the audio easier. I can listen while getting on with life. As with football on the radio, the text carries the descriptions. Otherwise I would be tied to the screen so not to miss what they are talking about.
There are videos with map references elsewhere.
Can't hear what John Foreman says
we are the actual baddies.
Yeah. Think about how evil not allowing Putin to get away with genocide and occupying a foreign country is!
So many vatniks.
They're speaking truth amidst western brainwashing, while all them Dmytros are getting salty.
So salty that they become blind to the fact that it's not Russia who's been screwing with them all along...
It is a sign that information here is very relevant.
@@toughr1506*disinformation of this propaganda shithsow that is.
- anyone who disagrees with us shouldn't be allowed to listen to this valuable podcast
Churchill's speech is always put forward in situations like this. One needs to follow this by saying: 1, the UK was sufficiently on its knees for Hitler to step back on trying to take the land which would have caused many problems because of UK's island geography. That was actually a miscalculation as the allied forces used it as a stepping stone for the eventual invasion.2: in talks Curchill was always the underlying partnet, not quite the powerful leader people made him look like. Both Roosevelt and Stalin determined the outcome. The overwhelming force of the Russian eastern front army eventually broke Hitler's back. If not the western allies would have been defeated.
So, Churchill was the right moral leader, albeit a weak one at the time. After the war they couldnt wait to kick him out of office.
Everybody only remembers the war speech. That is how shallow people think.
And now those same shallow people pose that Putin=Hitler. Mindbogglingly idiotic..Useful idiots in a powerplay i guess. Wake up, people!
Hitler never actually wanted to fight Great Britain and offered peace terms on multiple occasions - Churchill refused all of them.
It is about time ! I always heard from my grandfather about the London Blitz, U-Boat Peril, El Alamein and Normandy and thought I would never live through such an exciting age. But it is finally happening ! I just hope we get some leaders like Churchill who are up to the task. Right now only Boris Johnson seems ready for the coming maelstrom. He needs to be brought back into the government and made First Lord of the Admiralty, or whatever is the equivalent these days. The home fleet needs to be based in Scapa Flow as soon as possible. This is something that will bring the UK together and unite the lads under the King's colours: "Over the Hills and Far Away, King George Commands and We Obey!"
There is absolutely nothing glorious not existing about any of this
Winston Churchill
The mastermind behind the Dardanelles fiasco
And then there’s Boris the man that scuttled the best peace deal Ukraine could ever have won
panglayman - war is not a game 🎮. It's horribly real.
yeah, warmonger BJ is the one that forced Ukraine to reject peace offer that they already agreed on.
@@user-br1bg6ld7ipretty sure CIA was already at work on Ukrainian soil at that moment.
Watch Piers Morgan interview Professor Jeffrey Sachs. Painful but instructive.
Piers the original Propaganda stooge
There aren't many podcasts that get things wrong more often than the Telegraph. At what point do any of the regulars on this podcast realize that they just aren't very good at their jobs? They really do try to squeeze any drop of positivity out of the Ukraine situation that they can, but i do sense a depressed tone in their delivery of this nonsense. Perhaps reality is finally starting to take over from their delusion.
The chicken will come home to roost.
It's time for the US to repair Nordstream
... they will not even allow their German slaves to do it ...
just a piece of junk;
Pointless.... no one wants to use it. Russia had already cut off supply, and Europe no longer wanted it. It's scrap at this point
@@harryhole5786 stupid comment
Putin should quadrouple the price of gas through the one remaining pipeline and not bother using the others. It would still be cheaper than buying from America.
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This channel loves the thought of war but the people talking will not be there i know that
Well some of them have actually been in shooting wars.
@@anthonyhulse1248 - your response does not disprove the original statement ?
@@anthonyhulse1248 only one dom nichols
No.
Europe should prepare for peace
Win or lose in Ukraine standards will go down
Europe needs to prepare for war if they want peace. Putin only respects power and force.
@petergreenwood7731
A Russian win woukd mean Ukraine no longer exists. Democratic Europe as we know it neither.
Refugees escaping ruthless authoritarian regimes would have nowhere safe to escape to!
Other autocratic dictatorships are taking note. Anyone that thinks the USA and every other freedom loving country will not be affected by such a monumental defeat is delusional.
@petergreenwood7731
Loose and they no longer exists. It gets no lower than that!
@@Kath-nd6pjrussian troll, illiterate as per usual 🤡
@@Kath-nd6pj - don't be such a drama queen...
44:10 no! Like any abusive pattern behavior, ru knows but use to manipulate. Dialog just gives them info. Total pattern.
47:23 trauma is a 0lausible explanation. I wish Carlson had had the nerve to ask Putin if he would consent to trauma therapy!
I hope the west will help more and wake up from their dream. Because without involving things will not get better. Slava Ukraine.
We don't owe any of these crooks a damn thing. GTFO out of here with your pathetic guilt trip.😂
NATO must help, as simple as that! De mining, training, logistics in Ukraine!
There is no imaginary Red Lines - we made them for convenience.
Ukrainian armed forces could be released from other areas and moved to frontline.
WTF is the Pope doing?
On the evening of March 18, the MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance UAV of the US Air Force, which operated almost on a daily basis near the Russian Kaliningrad region, lost contact and control from the ground in Polish airspace. As a result, the aircraft crashed.
According to the Brigadier General Ireneusz Nowak, inspector in the Polish Air Force, the UAV crashed during a training flight. The UAV took off from a military base in Romania and was supposed to land at the Polish Miroslavets airfield.
According to Novak, the US military in Romania lost control of the MQ9 Reaper around 18:00 local time. After that, they tried to transfer control to the Polish side, but they failed to do so. The area of his possible crash was cordoned off, there were no civilians there. As a result, the drone was found nine minutes after the fall, Novak said.
He added that the investigation of the incident will be handled by the United States with the help of Polish specialists.
In the afternoon of March 18th, there were two two MQ-9 Reaper drones operating in the airspace of Poland, WILEY22 and WILEY33. They both took off from a military airfield in Romania.
During the day, both UAVs faced technical malfunctions. According to the official claims, the crashed drone was WILEY22. There is still no information about the fate of the second MQ-9 with the call sign WILEY33.
Early in the morning on March 19, the Poles closed the airfield from flights and the Polish military department has also suspended MQ-9 flights.
Western media blamed the Russian military for the incident; but the Polish Ministry of Defense denied speculation in the media about the involvement of Russian electronic warfare systems in the incident.
It's a tradgedy that Richard Nixons speaches were not taken seriously. They are absolutely brilliant and lays out clearly the two directions the west could take. One to welcome Russia into the family of nations the other direction is what the west took and we have the results...Nixon totally predicted what has happened...disarster !
Nixon was smart enough to get out of town after whitewater
The MAGA republicans support Russia. I support the US Constitution 📜🇺🇸👍
We, maga Republicans have our flaws, but those people?
Really?
The Russian federation was welcomed into the family of nations. Billions of dollars were spent inside Russia to stabilise and grow the Russian economy. Billions of dollars and Euros were invested inside Russia since the collapse of the soviet union.
Putin ended Russian democracy, putin chose to militarise, putin chose war in Europe. This is all on the Russian federation.
Putin believed that the west is weak, that he could intimidate and threaten the west, while he invaded Ukraine.
The West did embrace Russia.
In 1991 Russia (along with Ukrsine and others) chose independence.
Gorbachov opened up Russia.
Only after so many years of communism they found it hard to adjust. Oiligads practicly stole the countries assets and created so much unemployment.
This enabled years later Putin to take such a hold. From the onset he followed his plan to reverse the path to Glasnost. His model was Stalin and his aim to regain the Soviet regions. He wrote about it in 2021 and Kremlin Rhetorik currently reveales his true intentions.
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
Ruzzkiy Mir is the peace of the grave.
Dom, I love your dry humor: English Patient😊. But Francis: Truly, I hope your tooth gets fixed, good as new. I have face-planted too. It's embarrassing 😳
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Someones bin teabaged
The guest sounds like he is hiding in a closet.
Where are the F-16 planes.
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Always funny to listen to English propaganda 😂😂😂
The Russian side has information that France is preparing a military contingent of 2,000 troops to be sent to Ukraine, Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) Sergey Naryshkin said.
"The current leadership of the country (France - TASS) does not care about the deaths of ordinary French people or about the concerns of the generals. According to information coming to the Russian SVR, a contingent to be sent to Ukraine is already being prepared. Initially, it will include around 2,000 troops," he said.
According to the Russian foreign intelligence chief, the French military "fears that such a large military unit cannot be transferred and stationed in Ukraine unnoticed."
"It will thus become a legitimate priority target for attacks by the Russian armed forces. This means that it will suffer the fate of all the French who have ever come to the Russian world with a sword," he stressed.
After a conference on Ukraine in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron did not unequivocally rule out potential sending Western land troops to the zone of the special military operation in Ukraine. He also vowed that Western states would "do what is needed" to prevent Russia’s victory in this conflict.
Our leaders want us all dead and the world to burn…
The World Bank estimates that up to 55% of Ukrainian's residing at home could be living in poverty by the end of 2023 and net border crossings remain negative (albeit on a much lower scale than in 2022).
That's ridiculous
wow, what a forecast ...
... even before the "operation" the average wage was ... how much? the most important thing young people in Ukraine wanted - and I speak from ~2017 - was: leave this corrupt oligarchy - and go the "west" into another corrupt oligarchy :-) ...
- they did ask for it...
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They sure did
Again, what is your point?
‘T-100’ Incoming: Russia Confirmed to Be Preparing a New Tank Class For Production
Much like the next generation of the T-72 was named T-90, so too is it highly likely, and in keeping with prevailing trends in Russia’s naming of its main battle tanks for a new T-80 variant to be re-named. The designation ’T-100’ or ‘can be speculated and would make sense chronologically, and given the apparent preference for names which carry dramatic weight. Unlike the T-90, which directly succeeded the T-72 in production, and for a brief period was even produced alongside it, there will be an approximately 30 year gap between production of the last Soviet designed T-80s and the new production model. This means that the difference in capabilities is expected to be much greater than that between the last T-72B models and the baseline early T-90. It remains uncertain to what extent the T-80’s design will be modernised, however, an in particular if and to what extent elements from the ‘Black Eagle’ design will be incorporated.
The most extreme case for the new T-80 program could see an effort funded to develop a next generation tank based on the design, which could be more promising than the entirely clean sheet T-14 design produced by Uralvagonzavod. Extreme delays to the T-14’s development mean a competing tank could provide a valuable hedge against the T-14 program, while placing increased pressure on Uralvagonzavod to see it through. Nevertheless, with Uralvagonzavod now owning Omsktransmash, and thus having a total monopoly on Russian tank production, options to increase efficiency through competition remain limited. It is highly likely that the new T-80, likely with a new designation, will produce Russia’s most capable tank other than possibly the T-14 itself.
Source Military Watch Magazine
No need for western troops. Only crews and pilots, for air defence systems and combat aircraft
NATO reduced to fighting an insurgency. 😮
No talk about the collapsing front line? 🧐
I think it's fair to say when speaking of dictatorships and throwing stones at other peoples systems that noone (zero) Brits voted for Liz Truss, Boris Johnson, or Rishi Sunak. The last elected leader, Theresa May, is stepping out of politics. So our system seems to have questionable accountability at best.
What a disingenuous bot argument.
actually in fact noone voted for the last 3 leaders of the UK.@@The_ZeroLine
In the UK we vote for the party, the party chooses the leader. I feel that sentiment though
People from a tiny country, with a tiny army which was kicked out by Taliban peasants chatting on how to defeat Russia.. The mice that roared!!
Too many ads unwatchable
Russia vs Poland and Germany and France
That's weird Russia has never wanted war with these other countries, nor talked about it.
It's like the EU is looking for a fight, because they HAVE been ordered to do so.....Sad state of affairs in the EU.
OK, Sergei
Why did he invade then? Or was that column of tanks with a replacement for Zelenskyy headed for Kyiv Feb.2022 just a TV show?
No, of course not. They just want to send their army to occupy other countries and receive flowers. They need a "sanitary" zone up to Berlin like before. Or even more...
That‘s weird, Russia never talked about a special military operation yet they conducted one. It‘s like they were looking for a fight.
Europe must remain in peace and start avioding the NATO Narratives and CIA Operations in Ukraine. This war was over when it startet and wester politics ended in Afghanistan.
The Czech initiative...i would wager some money is being made there...hahaha
- supply and demand - it'll be an auction ?
Slava ukraini
Military diplomacy ?
If they havent yet theyre stupid?
Has the word 'peace' become toxic to this podcast ?
Ukraine shelling Belgarod indiscriminately with cluster munitions ?
Russia Free Legion...It's NOT Ukraine, it's RUSSIANS doin it......
It doesn't fit the pro-Ukraine narrative😊
Good idea !
yea, every day
What I really want to know is whether Francis has been deemed worthy of a gold tooth.
War isn't a side joke people,
neither is giving in to dictators!
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Hey Robert.
Just got done walking my dog in our pristine mid western town full of conservative republicans.
GO President VLADIMIR PUTIN 🤠💪🇷🇺
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Hey Robert,
Try not to get mugged on the way to the store tonight.
Stay safe
@@robertl4824yeah, to dictators like Zelensky that denied elections and closed off borders.
Wow , so many trolls and soon , no bridge.
- still coping the bridge, eh ?
A disorderly mob is no more an army than a heap of building material is a house
The Matlot geezer's sound quality is awful, it's as if he's in the heads with a duvet over his head...
Who is agressor by UN charts?
Ukraine
In what way? Russia invaded.
The invader is the aggressor.
Aggression ends once invasion ends