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Yeah, it's all about the neighbors, please ignore the massive ongoing war, nothing is going on except neighbors being hostile for no reason at all.

In a move surprising to no one with a clue, within days since the election circus, Russian officials announce creation of a massive amount of new military units, which can only mean an incoming mobilization wave. For those with no idea of military terms, those units mean at least low hundreds of...

If i was them i would screw with the thin and blurry line between radars and EW systems. Kessler syndrome would imply kinetic at least in part. If it's nuke based, whatever its given designation, it breaks some serious treaties, and if it's set up to cause Van Allen pumping, using it would make...

A big chunk of the losses were on frontline airfields (which Russians aggressively use to increase loiter time of helicopters) rather than in the air, as with the famous first ATACMS strike, that took a bunch of helicopters, including a tenth of whole Ka-52 fleet with cluster warheads.

They do use attack helicopters now. At least the ones that weren't destroyed. Which recently was quite many. So they use a lot less than they did.

Knowing their electronics supply problems, it won't be "fully modern", it will be kinda sorta freshened up, and might pop up new "surprises" that will not get caught in testing on account of hastily found replacement components for too old/no longer available ones not working well together.

Of course not. It would be a comedy version, where they try to defect because they heard that when they return to port they will be sent to Ukraine as infantry, but their submarine has technical problems all the time which makes escaping the Russian Navy harder, luckily their ships break all the...

This is getting dangerously close to turning The Hunt for the Red October into a real life event to come.

BMP-1 is most infamous for that. There are also solutions like wet ammo storage containers meant to prevent ammo fires or at least slow them down enough for extinguishers to kick in or crew to escape, individual armored containers to keep fragments out, and of course, the gold standard - Abrams...

With modern less sensitive HE, you could be mostly right... But consider the fact that tank ammo, in addition to HE, if it's not just a metal penetrator, also need a propellant charge. And those things can't be made that insensitive, as you cannot use many of the tricks used to make high...

That was the same exact story with T-62's, and we all know how those ended up. If it's artillery, it's gonna be shitty artillery, and eventually someone will notice and just turn them into "recon by force" as with many other things. They just don't have much more range than a relatively easy to...

Soviet Union had a lot of its higher tech stuff made in other WP\Soviet parts and bought at voodoo economics prices. Particularly Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Ukraine. Now they don't have these industrial bases and had to try recreate them locally with... limited success. Secondly...

Ironically, the post-Soviet production is often plagued with quality issues worse than the Soviet era, sometimes even within the same models of equipment, while the Soviet kit may have extra issues from poor storage conditions depending on who was storing it and where. And the very hi tech...

Museum? That would imply making it look nice and ensuring it stays floating. Some people suggested turning it into a filming location for horror movies.

Yes, specifically the tech-heresy of improper application of sacred maintenance rites.

This shit is why no one takes him seriously. He's virtue signalling to the hardliners, and the hardliners love the myth of Russian military superpower status more than ever (disregard their inability to defeat Ukraine all of NATO mercenaries pretending to be Ukrainian Army).

Hey, it is preemptively named "Navy Day", doesn't mean it *has* to be about Russian Navy specifically :D How nice of them to celebrate the US Navy instead. Guess they prefer carriers that aren't permanently stuck in port.

Frenemy, not ally. Even if Russia wouldn't mind China having its new missile tech, it sure as hell would love to get paid for it. Even if UK was stealing tech from USA, that would still not be considered ok.

Donbass is a hot potato now. Whoever holds it, it won't be pleasant due to how much of a shithole in need of rebuilding it is, hence it is unlikely to be formally integrated into anything anytime soon. The status quo achieved is a win-win situation for Russia - Ukraine's government cannot...

If its not, then we're going to see some shit along the lines of massive protests, insurgency or terrorist attacks happening in Ukraine, particularly the regions Russia is interested in, in order to excuse their intervention. Until then, there can be no intervention.