Their GDP will grow a little bit, but is falling behind their rivals, significantly. The Russian deficit is also going to balloon this year. They're expected to spend north of $200 Billion usd this year, after Putin signed a military spending bill of $52 Billion usd for 2023. Combined with...
Perfect! The more money Russia has to spend on expensive military equipment destroyed by cheap drones, the greater their deficit grows and the less money they can afford to spend elsewhere. Keep in mind that Russia does not have a large economy. They have a really small GDP and the people are...
The United States 🇺🇸 will announce another military aid package to Ukraine next week. The package's value may be as high as $375 million usd according to a source. The package will consist of a variety of goodies, but notable among them are 120mm M829A2 depleted uranium rounds for M1A1 Abrams...
Per Politico it has been confirmed that Ukraine will receive the first 10 of the USA's pledged 31 M1A1 Abrams MBTs in September. It appears Ukraine will receive the tanks in two batches of 10 and one batch of 11, throughout the fall.
The West is doing a nice job of making timely deliveries to...
More news on weapons deliveries for Ukraine...
Britain 🇬🇧 has delivered 23 Scimitar Mark II AFVs to Ukraine. They have several hundred of these units in storage and are going to modernize them and send them in batches.
Australia 🇦🇺 will donate 160 Slinger anti-drone systems to Ukraine...
Interesting article from David Axe at Forbes, who has been doing an excellent job of covering the details of equipment deliveries to Ukraine.
Per Axe, Ukraine's experienced 93rd Brigade has rotated to the rear to train on the use of Swedish CV90 IFVs. Sweden publically donated 50 CV90s to...
Ukraine is losing what you would expect to lose on the offensive and is having it backfilled, accordingly, from Western stocks. If you lose 20 IFVs and 20 MBTs in one sector, over a week, they must be replaced in order to keep up the offensive.
New military aid package for Ukraine from Germany 🇩🇪... The package has been announced as delivered.
- 10 Leopard 1A5 MBTs
- 1 TRML-4D RADAR for IRIS-T
- 16 Vector Reconnaissance Drones
- 4 Heavy Trucks
- 4 Heavy Trailers
- 13.1 million rounds of mixed ammunition.
Note: This is the second...
Russia is absolutely panicking down there. Ukraine has caused soooo much attrition to their artillery in the south over the last 3 months and Russians have no clue how to fight a war without simply using artillery to destroy a settlement before trying to capture it. They're such low skilled...
This general is an obese clown... Like seemingly 90% of Russian military leadership. What an embarrassing slob. 🤡
By his logic, I guess the West should supply all the munitions neccessary for Ukraine to flatten Minsk in Belarus, considering they've been allowing Russia to attack Ukraine from...
Hopefully they can keep this up. Continually sending swarms of cheap drones (by the dozens and hundreds) to strike Russian airfields and important infrastructure, makes this war incredibly costly for the Russian military and better yet, the Russian tax payers.
Their economy is showing signs of...
New USA 🇺🇸 $250 million usd aid package for Ukraine contains the following...
- AIM-9M air defense missiles for NASAMS
- Additional GMLRS for HIMARS
- 155mm artillery shells
- 105mm artillery shells
- Javelin Anti-armor systems
- AT-4 anti-armor rockets
- Ambulances
- Mine clearing equipment
-...
This is highly misleading. The West is nowhere near "exhausting" their stockpiles of 155mm artillery shells. There is a huge difference between their total inventories and what they are willing to send. Every country has a limit in terms of what they are willing to send based on their own...
Germany 🇩🇪 and Greece 🇬🇷 are working on a deal that will send 100 Greek Leopard 1GR MBTs to Ukraine, ASAP. In exchange, Germany with buy 100 Leopard 1A5 MBTs (stored in Italy) owned by Swiss arms dealer Ruag. Germany will upgrade the armor and sights on those Italian Leopard 1A5s (at their cost)...
They brought nearly 3000 vehicles of all types to the Southern front. Losing 120 of them during a multi-week offensive is normal. They've also recovered quite a few heavily damaged vehicles as they've advanced, and have managed to send many of them for repair. For example, of the Leopard 2 MBTs...
Russian S-400 air defense system proving to be underwhelming and overstated once again...
Why do I get the feeling that if the U.S. wanted to they could use F-22s and F-35s to comfortably cleanse a large region of S-400 systems, without fearing any kind of significant losses?
Shhhh.... Don't tell the Russian simps, but things are getting dire for them in the South. It's a slow process, but gradually, they're getting thinned out and they're not destroying Western donated armor at a sufficient enough rate. They're getting absolutely hammered by artillery that outranges...
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A combination of stupidity and propaganda. Ukraine is not running out of military aged men (18-65). They've drafted fewer than 1 million men at this point in the conflict. The Ukrainian population consists of between 9-11 million military aged men. They are nowhere near running out of...
Perfect! Some of the most competent military minds in all of Russia, dead in one tidy crash. You love to see it!
There is nothing better than watching this war continue to be an abject failure for miserable Russian people. Sadly, the plane wreckage did not land on some infrastructure, but this...
Nothing better than watching Russians drool all over themselves for damaging a Patriot air defense battery in Kyiv, only for it to be back online hours later.
Yet Ukraine destroys Russia's vaunted S-400 air defense system and it will be crickets out of the Russian side, while some rocket...
