| ▲ | NicoJuicy 7 hours ago | |||||||
Russia has ego projects funded with oil revenue. Their 5th stealth fighter => isn't stealth Their naval fleet => literally has tow boats following them on missions Newest tank => T90 => barely build... 60? Practically all their tanks are build a long time ago. The engine was a bad engine copy of the Germans. Nuclear arsenal => they forgot maintenance like with everything else Rocket missles => yes, it was still used a lot. Not reusable and was still based on a design from the 1960's. Lada => taken over by Renault to make it profitable ------ Sure, during the cold war, Soviet Union was powerful, their facilities were all funded by the US during the world war, this is where they got the tech ( see reason of Holodomor). But it's only 2 modern cities and the rest is shitty to stay in. Additionally, their invasion is just similar like the past. It ain't tech, it's literally meat grinder tactics. | ||||||||
| ▲ | Nexxxeh 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
There was a wild video of a Russian group mocking a tank and then discovering it was a Russian T-90 and its reactive armour was literally a construction brick. https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport/comments/1gt1... They also had to chase their latest stealth prototype drone (S-70) over Ukraine with a pseudostealth fighter (Su-57 Felon, one of only about 30) to blow it up themselves. Almost certainly due to the drone being so faulty they tried to destroy it. They didn't even do that effectively, the large intact portions surviving and being collected for UA intelligence. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/why-russia-shot-down-s-70-... Russia couldn't manage to get naval superiority against Ukraine, a country with effectively no functional navy vessels. | ||||||||
| ▲ | geysersam 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
They're still producing more artillery shells than Europe and US are able to provide Ukraine. That seems to be the determining factor in this war. | ||||||||
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