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New Syrsky Interview Sheds Light on Upcoming Russian Operations + Recruitment Figures
As rasputitsa winds down, rumors of Russian offensives are gaining strength.
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Bombshell Reports: "German Weapons Not Made for War"
Spiegel published a quite eye-opening piece yesterday, which reveals the long-kept truth about the performance of German weapons systems in real wartime conditions:
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https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ukraine-krieg-deutsche-waffensysteme-offenbar-nur-bedingt-kriegstuechtig-a-6aaeafa2-6802-418d-b7ce-feb1c9193b67
Before we delve into it, here is a summary of what the article found:
A German military assessment exposes major issues with NATO weapons in Ukraine.
The PzH 2000 howitzer, while advanced, is so technically fragile that its combat usefulness is in doubt. The Leopard 1A5 tank is used mostly as makeshift artillery due to weak armor. The Leopard 2A6 is too expensive and complex to maintain at the front.
Air defense systems also face problems. The IRIS-T works well, but ammo is too costly and scarce. The Patriot system is called “unsuitable for combat” because its MAN carrier vehicles are outdated and lack spare parts.
This information was revealed in a transcript of a lecture given by the deputy military attaché of the German embassy in Kiev. The summary of the paper is very clear: “Hardly any large German piece of equipment is fully suitable for war.”
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A German military assessment exposes major issues with NATO weapons in Ukraine.
The PzH 2000 howitzer, while advanced, is so technically fragile that its combat usefulness is in doubt. The Leopard 1A5 tank is used mostly as makeshift artillery due to weak armor. The Leopard 2A6 is too expensive and complex to maintain at the front.
Air defense systems also face problems. The IRIS-T works well, but ammo is too costly and scarce. The Patriot system is called “unsuitable for combat” because its MAN carrier vehicles are outdated and lack spare parts.
This information was revealed in a transcript of a lecture given by the deputy military attaché of the German embassy in Kiev. The summary of the paper is very clear: “Hardly any large German piece of equipment is fully suitable for war.”
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The report found the T-90M superior in virtually every category, including—most shockingly—the T-90M’s fire-control and detection capabilities, i.e. the quality of its optics.
Full translated report.
Read the full tank report to see other comparisons the institute did, such as T-72B3M vs. Ukrainian T-72AG and T-64BV. Also, here is the full original Russian report.
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Ultimately, today’s findings merely reinforce what I’ve been writing about since the beginning. Not that Russian weapons are magically “better” than those of the West—in fact, in many, if not most, circumstances they are slightly subpar on a purely one-to-one basis. But they are generally made with a design philosophy which reflects actual total war, rather than some combination of MIC corporate profit maximizing with the shift toward ‘counter insurgency’, which mostly privileges high-cost, high-precision weaponry.
But as I explained in the below article, this does not mean Russia merely makes “cheaper” weapons, but rather the entire design philosophy revolves around weaponry which can be picked up and used effectively by ‘relatively untrained’ conscripts, given that a total or ‘people’s war’ scenario presupposes that high casualties will attrit much of the initial highly trained ‘professional’ corps, leaving farmers and miners to handle weaponry meant for taking out tanks and planes. The same goes for the ability to repair these weapons on the fly, in DIY fashion, once your logistics rear has been badly ravaged by war. NATO weaponry, for the most part, would be incapable of being serviced once the logistics rear is even slightly degraded.
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Lastly, speaking of expensive NATO weaponry, it was just announced that another of the much-vaunted American hypersonic missile projects has now been cancelled:
Just a week ago Popular Mechanics declared Russia as ahead in the hypersonic race:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a64323224/dark-eagle-hypersonic-missile/
The subheading correctly notes:
I recall a time when the Western press world was a jamboree of jeering about Russian hypersonics not “actually” being hypersonic, for a laundry list of arbitrary reasons.
