6 thoughts on “Russia’s Arms”

1. I fear that were today’s US military to become similarly engaged in a serious battlefront we would find gaps in preparedness, materials, capabilities, and interoperability. Is it possible to identify and remedy those gaps today short of a serious military engagement?

   1. Well one thing to note is that of weapons innovation. We seem to be still doing that, for good or bad. It’ll be interesting to see how effective the “Phoenix Ghost” is on the battlefield. Contrary to what Rand says, I still feel this is WWIII w/o the US casualties. If you grant that WWI was a World War.

      1. 1914-1918: “The war everyone thought was Great at the time, but was really no greater than the Napoleonic Wars.”

         1939-1945: “The First (and we hope Only) Atomic War.”

   2. We chewed through so much equipment and gave away even more to friends and foes, is the condition of our remaining vehicles that bad?

      Ukraine has shown that if our main battle tanks, other armored vehicles, and air superiority had all been crippled that our unit levels weapons would still do really well against Russia. This is great news because our generals and admirals are idiots.

      However, assuming we have the ability to communicate and target, then artillery and ground launched missiles would have done a number on Russia too.

      We use some old stuff but even A 10’s get new wings.

2. More so than their arms themselves sucking it is Russian training, leadership, maintenance and logistical capabilities that suck. Ukraine is fighting them with largely the same weapons the Russians employ, just much more efficiently.

3. What, you have some problem with the Russian space manager who drove around in a car encrusted with diamonds?

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