What a huge day for Ukraine in the equipment department. News that EU 🇪🇺 USA 🇺🇸, Italy 🇮🇹, Turkey 🇹🇷, Czech Republic 🇨🇿 Slovakia 🇸🇰 and Germany 🇩🇪 are providing additional military aid, all dropped within the same 12 hours. For those that missed it, here is a collection of what was announced...
Ukraine has likely suffered close to 150,000 casualties (WIA, KIA, MIA and POW) since the outset of the war. I'd say the range is probably 120,000-160,000. They've also lost a lot of armor, artillery and aircraft Namely, at least the following...
MBTs: 700-900
IFVs / AFVs: 800-1000
APCs /...
Poland 🇵🇱 would just send more Krab 155's or Dana 152's if anything. Ukraine already uses both systems and placed a big order for additional Krabs with Poland last year. Makes more sense for them... That said, Poland is also supplying 24 M120 RAK self-propelled mortars. It's hard to ask much...
The United States can easily send 500-700 of them. They have several thousand M2 ODS models that they are phasing out, with the new M4 taking their place. It's costly to store them. Might as well send them to Ukraine, they're already paid for.
They'll continue to send them in battalion sized...
USA 🇺🇸 has announced a new, $800 million. USD aid package for Ukraine. The package is robust and contains some new capabilities.
- 32x Bradley M2 ODS IFV
- 32x Stryker APC
- 31x M109 Howitzers
- PAC 2 / 3 Patriot Missiles
- AIM-7 air defense Missiles
- 155mm artillery shells
- 155mm DCIPM...
Italy 🇮🇹 will send additional M109-L Howitzers to Ukraine. You can see them being prepared to be shipped here. Italy had 221 M109-L in service, however, they retired them in favour of the Panzerhaubitze 2000. They previously donated 60 M109-L to Ukraine and have 160'ish left in storage. It's...
He was running out into the road anyways, they should have pushed him out in front of the convoy, rather than pulling him back from it... Problem solved.
Czech Republic 🇨🇿 will send an unknown number of MI-24 attack helicopters to Ukraine, with 100,000 pieces of "large calibre ammunition".
Nice little donation from the Czechs!
https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/czechia-ukraine-helicopters-help-train-082148654.html
If you think Russia has 20,000 MBTs in reserve that can be fielded in this war... Then I have a bridge in New York to sell you.
Here is the real story. Russia had between 10,000-12,000 tanks at the start of the war, including those active and in reserve. Those numbers have been accumulated by...
The U.S. has 3 million of them in storage and no real use for them. Might as well send them to Ukraine and let them rain hell down on the Russians with them.
1. They're already paid for and will cost extra to be decommissioned if they're not donated and used. It's literally cheaper to send them...
F-22 was / is so advanced and ahead of what the U.S. adversaries have, that they built enough of them and don't need anymore. Between F-22 and F-15EX, the U.S. will continue to have the best air superiority fighters in the world for some time.
Storm Shadow was a capability gap weapon, created...
What's crazy is that Storm Shadow is a 30 year old cruise missile, developed in 1994. It's obsolete and Britain 🇬🇧 and France 🇫🇷 are giving them away because they're replacing them with newer, much more advanced systems.
Meanwhile, Russia thinks they've struck gold and can share some serious...
During a July 4 hearing in Parliament, British Defense Chief Admiral Tony Radakin said that Russia had lost nearly half its combat capability in Ukraine.
"Russia has lost nearly half the combat effectiveness of its army," Radakin said. "Last year it fired 10 million artillery shells but at best...
The flanks of Bakhmut are slowly falling under Ukrainian control. It's going to be absolute hell for the Russians inside the city itself (as it was for the Ukrainians previously). Especially when Ukraine starts using cluster munitions, JDAMS and M31 GMLRS shells on the city. It took Russia 8...
BS. This war is about two things. Period.
1. Putin's desire to expand westward and cut Ukraine's access off to the sea. Historically, Russia has continually expanded westward until somebody stands up and beats them back for another generation. He miscalculated that this invasion would be easy...
We all are. Do you know that my country alone (Canada) spent nearly $500 Billion on Covid-19? That's more than twice what the entire West has spent on aiding Ukraine so far. When you look at the way Federal debt works vs personal debt, the 35+ countries supporting Ukraine (including Ukraine...
Media from all countries are full of shit, for a variety of reasons... But make no mistake about it, Russia is losing equipment in Ukraine FAR faster than they can replace it. Even with their factories working around the clock to produce new armor, weapons and missiles, Russia's stockpile is...
Considering that war numbers are almost always in line with a 3 to 1 WIA to KIA figure, and considering the 50,000 number that people are referencing is already a couple months old...
My best guess at Russian casualties (including Wagner) is about 60,000 KIA , 180,000 WIA and 5000 POW, for a...
Make no mistake about it, the West isn't actually running out of anything critical, it simply comes down to the political will to support things. Here are some examples.
Main Battle Tanks
The United States 🇺🇸 has more than 5500 M1A1 and M1A2 Abrams MBTs. More than 3000 of those tanks are being...
Everyone is doing their part. Lithuania 🇱🇹 will send two NASAMS air defense launchers to Ukraine. For those interested, a full NASAMS battery consists of 3 launchers, each with 6 AIM-120 AMRAAM, AIM-9 Sidewinder, or IRIS-T SLS missiles. Therefore, Lithuania's contribution will be combined with a...
