Russia just tends to stock their stuff with too much ammunition. — Count Timothy von Icarus
It's not exactly classified that there is a trade off between how many munitions you pack into any vehicle and how likely it is to suffer catastrophic cook off if it is hit by an explosive. — Count Timothy von Icarus
At least now (with the Baltic gas pipeline sabotage) Gazprom can refer to force majeure and not be worried about fines from not holding up gas deals — ssu
Because Russian arms manufacturers are incompetent and tests likely get rigged. There is plenty of other evidence for this. Putin is pounding the table about nuclear war and mobilizing old men, yet the Su-57 and T-14 are nowhere to be seen except parades. This implies they don't actually work. Why would you be using T-62s if you have functional stealth super tanks? — Count Timothy von Icarus
Cook off after a top attack weapon strike or big bore mortar strike that would likely be fatal anyhow is less of an issue than having a tank that appears to have survived an indirect 155mm shell explode a few seconds later. In the latter, it is the cook off that is destroying the tank and killing the crew. — Count Timothy von Icarus
If there is a high incidence of this effect in combat vehicles that are supposed to be able to sustain such attacks, then you appear to have a problem. Although it might just be with armor quality for the tanks. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Also why the Moskova went down to a fairly small payload (Iran hit a much smaller Israeli ship with a similar payload and it sailed home under its own power, but of course where the hit occurs matters a lot). The Moskova had a ridiculous amount of ordinance for its size and I suspect this is what killed it — Count Timothy von Icarus
You could also come to this conclusion comparing the damage sustainable by the Stark when hit by an Exocet, versus the damage to a larger ship hit by a Neptune (similar payload), although impact site matters a lot. — Count Timothy von Icarus
These "problems" were already called out, when Siemens did provide the services. But of course this is just theater, basically.Gazprom already declared force majeure earlier this year, apparently due to its "problems" with turbines. — SophistiCat
Everybody agrees with that. The majority also believe that Putin is ideologically committed to expanding the Russian empire. :smirk:So you're not on board with the idea that Putin is ideologically committed to expanding the Russian empire militarily? — Isaac
Hence the theory isn't that Putin chose a crappy army. More like the crappy Russian system couldn't make it any better — ssu
The problem with authoritarian systems is that over time the leader often gets very disconnected from reality. I would not be surprised with the Russian command had no real idea how many men they've lost, nor that they lie to Put in about how many they think that figure truly is. The information he receives is going to be fair removed from reality. On top of that, he's an old man who supposedly has cancer and a degenerative brain disease. I'm not going to assume his decision making is entirely rational. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Putin faces the nightmare scenerio for dictators, his interests in winning the war, even at extremely high costs, are rapidly becoming more divergent from Russia's national interests. — Count Timothy von Icarus
even if he wanted to have a strong military, the political organization he has fostered is not designed to create one. A strong military requires cutting edge technological innovation, which requires an open society and an ability for people to dissent. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Developing good strategy and tactics also requires a meritocratic system and an ability for people to dissent. — Count Timothy von Icarus
Russia modernized and had a per capita GDP more in line with say Spain, it would be able to create a more effective military. — Count Timothy von Icarus
You just hold your racist hints to yourself.Ah, that generalised Russian uselessness we hear so much about. An entire nation just generally a bit crap. — Isaac
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