Nice bit of work in the Washington Post today about Russia’s logistics issues.
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Europe under extreme duress
- Thread starter Randy Daytona
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EOD nightmare.
I am reminded of the old late 70s British TV series Danger UXB. I remember liking it very much. About an EOD crew during the blitz.
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Blue jeans is strike strike fighter. Inclusive politics, where man in blue jeans means as much as other man in $5K suit, is an aircraft carrier that fighter took off from. Kinda symbols everywhere
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Yes the stage for that real Hurt Locker, aside from minefields, both on land and at sea.
One thing the article doesn't mention that I've read is that the Russian military's design also doesn't provide large enough numbers of trucks for logistics. So even if they had enough logistics and maintenance personnel, they don't have the vehicles to do it with. I don't know how many here have seen it, but there was a Twitter thread by a retired civilian DoD employee that went into detail about tires being a major problem for the Russian vehicles as well, as by just leaving the vehicles sit in storage and never driving them, the tires rot, and especially if exposed to the Sun for long periods, and then it also appears that the Russians have cheap Chinese knock-off tires on their vehicles.
I was also reading that due to the corruption in the Russian military, that a lot of stealing from equipment happens. For example, they're pulling tanks out of storage and finding that they don't have engines, or critical electronic components stripped out for the raw materials. So I'm wondering if the same has been done with a lot of the ordnance, critical components stripped out. And then there's the corruption in the manufacturing process as well, such as using substandard components.
I was also reading that due to the corruption in the Russian military, that a lot of stealing from equipment happens. For example, they're pulling tanks out of storage and finding that they don't have engines, or critical electronic components stripped out for the raw materials. So I'm wondering if the same has been done with a lot of the ordnance, critical components stripped out. And then there's the corruption in the manufacturing process as well, such as using substandard components.
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Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
Brimstone. Neither Goodyear nor Fulda, Pirelli, even Nokian use Russian crude oil to produce tires, since main Russian Urals oil brand contains near 6% of brimstone. Of course just heavy fractions are in use for tire manufacturing but namely this trash contains most of brimstone/sulfur percentage.
I personally always use Kelly tires despite RU and BY local brands are times cheaper but those all are merely crap.
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By the way…daring (but small) strike by two Ukraine helicopters against a Russian fuel farm, in Russia!
Most economists say the dollar will remain as the unchallenged global reserve currency, but after watching not only the US financially destroy the Russian economy but also Trudeau and Canada weaponize financial institutions against their own citizens, how many nations will start to hedge their economies to prevent similar attacks?
www.ft.com
Opinion Foreign exchange
MARTIN WOLF
A new world of currency disorder looms
The Chinese renminbi can be a challenger to the US dollar, but it won’t replace it
Opinion Foreign exchange
A new world of currency disorder looms
The Chinese renminbi can be a challenger to the US dollar, but it won’t replace itMARTIN WOLF
Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
UA forces neither confirm nor deny. Since Mi-24s fight both sides, that quite could be Russians, either drunk or provoking. Until the radio chatter is published we cannot tell for sure.
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Max the Mad Russian
Hands off Ukraine! Feet too
If those two Hinds were Ukranian, the juicy targets for them are two Russian atomic stations nearby, Rostov and Novovoronezh.
Well the U.S. and NATO overall could respond by launching conventional attacks to completely annihilate Russian forces in Ukraine.
I’d imagine attacking a nuke plant “a bridge too far.” Not a great strategic decision at this point in the war.