*Actually Russia started to lose customers for Russian arms when Turkish military made weapons started to destroy all kinds of woeapin in Syria, Libya, Azerbaijan and than Turkish weapons helped Ukrainian with heavy weapons to destroy Russian military when almost all other major powers was slow or refused to supply Ukrainian*
In terms of Russia's weapons industry, only the NUKE and the AK-47 are really world class achievements. Unfortunately, the world's most beloved, most reliable, and GENERALLY most effective gun, the 10th grade-based tech AK-47, is largely produced outside of Russia.... so Russia doesn't even get credit for it. The Su-35 is a distant 3rd. While it is Russia's most formidable fighter jet, less than 4-6 of the world's big militaries use it, other than China and Russia, that is. But China doesn't have more than a few dozen of it; and Russia likely doesn't have more than a few dozen of it, either. Fast, powerful, extremely maneuverable (in slow-motion, public air show stunts anyway), and deadly...but the Su-35, like the AK-47, as a weapon... is a bit too crude to deal with 2024/5's more stealthy, more super computer based fighter jets...
I'm not shaving myself. Old dudes like me are expected to wear beards. I would have chewed tobacco too and smelled accordingly, but I have scrapped tobacco.
@@christopherh2570 NATO tanks don't throw their turrets, they're designed for crew survivability. Unlike ruSSia's zippo tank rubbish. You ruSSian cope bots really are comically ignorant.
That's why you should not be confused between the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation. The Soviets were the superpower. Current Russians are just...wel...embarrassing.
You might reconsider that after learning about a few pieces of Soviet tech and/or history. Personally, I recommend starting with the TU-4 and TU-22, and as for a slight spoiler, the fact that the latter was actually called "The Supersonic Booze Carrier" _by the Soviets_ kind of tells you all you need know. Still, if you are really interested, check out the channel Paper Skies. In fairness, there were certainly some genuine good examples from the Soviet era (such as Training Center 1521 - a.k.a. Soviet Top Gun), but you will find that they were only slightly more frequent than with the current Russian era.
The Soviet union wasn't all it was cracked to be either. They were a superpower mostly because of the enormous amount of arms they built. Not so much because of the quality.
During the cold war I worked at NATO HQ. I remember the financial collapse of the Soviet Union. Pooty is doing the exact same thing, based on history forgotten. It's doomed to be repeated.
@My grandfather was born in 1929 when the stock market crashed. I read how people were sleeping in tents in New York ' s Central park. Uncle Sam pumped some $12 trillion in freshly printed money, and was giving it for free in order to prevent downtown riots during the COVID crisis. That money was not in the budget, and after that the inflation barely moved up a couple of points. The US of A owes much,much more than the publicly declared amount of some $ 36 trillion. According to Ray Dalio, an American billionaire, every time an Empire had to spend more in paying interest than to support it' s military,the total collapse was irreversible .The USA now makes more than $ 1 trillion in interest payments per year.The good news is, recent Western Empires lasted about 150 years from the beginning to end. The USA became global power after the Spanish war( 1896), or after WWII, depends on how you want to look at it.Fast forward about 150 yrs.and around 2045 - 2065 the USA will be just another country. That being said,, before that the USA will lose the capability to run the world the way it has been the case since WWII.
Fascinating perspective. If you really look at the whole scope of this, it is absolutely insane. Syria gone. US forces are taking over Russian bases as we speak. Africa: France wins all the blood and treasure once again Georgia: Are we witnessing a color Revolution? Grozney round three? Someone’s gonna open up a second front with Russia. (China?) There’s blood in the water hang onto your hats.
@@dpelpal You Russians brought this nonsense upon yourselves Russia could have been a rich and prosperous nation with freedom and democracy after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Instead you Russians chose war, death, suffering, anarchy, and chaos Russia could have joined the western world in peace and unity but you people chose Vladimir Putin as your lord and savior. You Russians chose to make us in the west your enemy Russia could have had it very good by joining the western world you Russians made a very poor choice by choosing otherwise Russias 3rd collapse in its history is right around the corner.
@@dpelpal You Russians brought this nonsense upon yourselves Russia could have been a rich and prosperous nation with freedom and democracy after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Instead you Russians chose war, death, suffering, anarchy, and chaos Russia could have joined the western world in peace and unity but you people chose Vladimir Putin as your lord and savior. You Russians chose to make us in the west your enemy Russia could have had it very good by joining the western world you Russians made a very poor choice by choosing otherwise Russias 3rd collapse in its history is right around the corner.
True, but you also see the opposite problem with western weapons. Most NATO powers would have fared worse than Ukraine. Too much quality makes quantity unaffordable for most countries.
@@romainperello554 in the early days of the war, 4th gen fighter jets would have wiped out the entire invasion. So most NATO countries would have been far more effective before their NATO allies even got involved.
@@romainperello554That's why they're in NATO. If you can't have quality in quantity on your own, you can share it with your friends. The Dutch would never be able to have an army strong enough to defend themselves against an enemy like Russia. But the Dutch fighting alongside the Germans, Belgians, Norwegians, Swedes, Finn's and Danish? That's a force to be reckoned with. And adding all the other nations, France, Poland, turkey, the US, Canada, Australia, etc etc, there's no place in the world that cannot be protected by NATO and no enemy on the planet that's able to be an actual threat to that alliance.
russia will survive , no 1 is invading , dont think any 1 wants to , and the russian people will make the call , hopfuly realising , a strong man isnt what you want or need , its a smart man
@@stevensmith797 But they CAN leave. The people of Siberia would like to be the Republic of Siberia for one. All they need is a referendum and international recognition.
A fellow UA-camr stated, that at the 2023 Dubai Military Show, there were over 250 Russian arms vendors. Nobody (countries) was buying. China, and India wants their money back, after seeing the quality of Russian equipment being used in Ukraine.
More importantly, both the countries you mentioned have their own defense industries that are making huge advancements to their technology. Especially India. They may be the only people to mess up an AK pattern rifle, but at least they don't keep Eldritch abominations in their aircraft carriers unlike the Russians they bought them from.
'FOR A LONG TIME'... when Ukraine was still a 'slave/buffer' state to post-USSR Russia, their best arms were produced in Ukraine. After Ukraine declared independence, Russia lost access to those companies, their assets, and their production capabilities. They're getting 'down to the wire' now... running out of the crap they make themselves.
What matters in arms is to defend ones integrity. With such poor quality arms why had NATO to gang together so afraid of them?? More than 50 so called highly modernized countries with cutting edge weaponry struggling against one MAN?
Russians also take credit for winning WWII "singlehandedly", despite most of the fighting and dying being done by Ukrainian/Belarusian/Baltic people, and a huge amount of their equipment coming from the US.
This is definitely a part of the war and current events that is grossly underreported. Putin just made US arms makers, as well as Ukraine and the rest of Europe’s, much wealthier and much more prepared. Putin is soooo hilariously dumb and I love it. 😂❤🇺🇦🇺🇸
It is not all of the equipment that is bad, it's all about how it's used. The same weapons are used by the Ukraines and they beating the living hell out of the Russians with it. But, they are decades behind western equipment.
To be fair, you do have to take Purchasing Power Parity into account. You can get a lot more from Russia with 8 billion than you can from the west. Still, it wouldn't make it nearly enough of a difference to compete with the gaming industry lol
Russia's annual military budget was $70 billion dollars per year before invading Ukraine. Their total annual budget was around $ 300 billion dollars. But, due to lower wages, that went about twice as far as long as it was limited to labor performed and products produced inside russia.
Russia has been at war in Ukraine for 3 years. In that time NATO has expanded 2 twice, Ukraine is now more militarized than ever before and Ukraine is currently occupying Russian territory in Kursk.
In conflicts to occupy a few sq km does mean you won the war. Remember NATO occupied Afgnastan for 2 decades but later the owners took it over. Imagin a coalition of more than 30 countries against a poorly equiped Taliban Militia
Until we see some blue and yellow flags planted the world will beg to differ. Power is reality. And the reality is Ukraine has no ability to take that land back.
I know this is slightly off topic, but another major problem with each tank or aircraft destroyed (particularly in the beginning) is a loss of the crew. An extremely talented and motivated tank crew is arguably more important than the equipment they're being put in.
Russians inability to get future foreign arms sales means that Russia won’t be able to spread R & D costs over more units; therefore, individual unit cost will increase. The increased unit cost makes it easier for countries to choose another supplier.
All the smart people fled the country. Economy of scale long gone, innovation gone, capitol gone. France will soon have full control of Africa and its colonies once again. Undisputed now that Russia has lost its warm water port in Syria. The equivalent would be if the US lost all aircraft carriers, had a demographic crisis, 30% inflation, no cash flow, and Comcast, Spirit Airlines, and Dollar General were the hub of our military industrial complex China is likely just as vulnerable as well, and now they know that we know.
Meanwhile, the whole world has seen the importance of drones and will see “Made in Ukraine🇺🇦” as a sign of a high quality product for the price. Apparently they helped the Syrian rebels take their country back.
You Russians brought this nonsense upon yourselves Russia could have been a rich and prosperous nation with freedom and democracy after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Instead you Russians chose war, death, suffering, anarchy, and chaos Russia could have joined the western world in peace and unity but you people chose Vladimir Putin as your lord and savior. You Russians chose to make us in the west your enemy Russia could have had it very good by joining the western world you Russians made a very poor choice by choosing otherwise Russias 3rd collapse in its history is right around the corner.
I am Russian, I am from Samara. Many in Russia know the war cannot be winned. And EVEN thinking that Russia tooks all of Ukraine, Russia government cannot even pay to keep RUSSIA in good order. Much less Ukraine!!!
No, they didn’t have poor choices all around, they could have decided not to invade and continue to make billions of dollars every year on gas and oil to the rest of the world.
@@4362mont not at all, I just think they should have stayed in their country and continued to make money off of their oil reserves. No need to invite another country, just do good business and live in peace. That’s all I meant. That was one of the choices they had, but they didn’t take that choice. They opted for war. Maybe you meant to say Russia made the poor choices all around?
Pretty incredible to see just how far Russias power and influence has declined since 2022. People used to genuinely believe that Russia could defeat NATO single handed. Possible go on to become the worlds superpower very soon. Now that seems like pure fantasy. Russias a regional power at best, perhaps not even that.
But Russia IS destroying Nato singlehandedly. The west is running out of arms to continue this war and the European economies are in a death spiral whilst Russia is experiencing the strongest growth of any European nation.
They do have some problems. But you seem to be blind to the numerous US ones, as long as the US want to maintain it’s hegemony. The US have to keep a strong advantage to keep China at bay across the Pacific. The current US debt is unsustainable, while the US at peace can’t replace it’s subs fast enough to sell a few to Australia as they promised. Same problems for replacing destroyers, and soon for carriers. Plus, if China simply get to partially close the gap. Drone, missiles and small ships can provide a kind of firepower that is hard to match with a blue navy accross the Pacific. And the US economy would litterally stop if a war was waged over Taiwan. China would loose the war rn. But even high ranked US amirals, thought China would recover faster than the US. The truth is that the price of US made weapons had got so high, that even the US would have problems to maintain a war economy against a near peer.
@@fredyyfredfreddy Seriously isn't, It's not even in the top 10 Syria & Ukraine showed it for what it really is it completely disgraced itself in Ukraine. The modern advanced features are just propaganda Western weapons even older ones & aircraft or drones have no problem penetrating it's so called impenetrable bubble knocking out S400 systems with alarming regularity. While not useless it's clear it's capabilities such as detection/intercept range even it's ability for self defense have been vastly overstated by the Kremlin propaganda machine.
A big issue they're gonna run into is that we're being shown that Russia's mentality of lower cost higher production doesn't stand a chance against NATO's higher cost lower production mentality. It doesn't matter if you can make 10 tanks for the cost of 1 if that 1 tank can take out all 10 of them itself it's kind of pointless. Russia is showing that they're at least a generation behind.
Russia never got the memo that they weren't fighting World War 2 any longer. Hell, at this point "fascist" to them just means "anybody who is at war with Russia".
And the Abram’s battle tank is a US supplied game changer… oh sorry, thats wrong… And the F16 will defeat Russia… oops… moonfished that one… but the truth? Bit by bit, Russia is taking what it wants and nothing can stop it.
Just to zero in on one example, it is actually worse for Russia with India than most think. Yes, there is how India is one of the two countries that is currently squeezing oil and gas out of Russia at prices that can only cover Russia's operating costs for their fossil fuel production, which was covered on this channel, but that is not what I am referring to. No, it is not just that Russia is not really exporting arms to India much these days, but rather that Russia is actually _importing_ arms from India - and not artillery shells of poor production and maintenance quality like with North Korea, but _their own aircraft,_ namely the MiG-29. The MiG-29 is arguably one of the best airframes Russia (or the Soviets, if you want to be pedantic) ever made, but during the collapse of the USSR, they had to cease most of their production of their aircraft. For their then-latest fighters, they had to choose between keeping the lines for the MiG-29 and the Su-27, and they chose to keep the Su-27 line. Today, India is the only country that is actually producing the MiG-29 (the K variant, specifically), so if you see a MiG-29 with Russian markings flying today, odds are it was actually recently built in India and sold to Russia. Yeah, that is how bad of a situation Russia is in right now, where they even have to buy some of their own weapons because they cannot actually produce them themselves, and if what India and China are doing to buy Russian oil and gas are any indication, it is practically guaranteed that India is not going easy with Russia on their pricing for their "new" MiG-29s. I think there are one or two other examples of this sort of arrangement, but this one about the MiG-29 is what I know about.
Where are you getting this info? MiG-29 hasn't been an important part of the VVS or VKS for the better part of the last 20 years. Su-27, Su-30, & Su-35 cost about as much to make due to twin engine, so Ru AF favored Flankers since the 1990s. MiG-29 has been shot down every time it faced a Western fighter or Su-27.
dude , soviet era anything would be simply crushed by any modern system , be it jets tanks or even artilary , the world moved on , and so did the tech , their new stuff cant compete , their older stuff even less
Yeah. Except we have never produced the MiG 29K. The only Russian fighter we have been producing for last 10+ years is the Su-30MKI. Only other programs have been electronics upgrades for MiG 29 and 21s.
Remember, when this year, Russia went to Chinese military show with they "5th generation" SU-57.... And it was on full display, so Chinese made dozens of videos.... And laughed for weeks at its design and how its called "5th generation fighter".... :D :D :D
@@jsuwirbdbeu3i282 ruSSia also said reports they were about to invade Ukraine were a western provocation. Only an utter fool would place any credence in claims from Goebbels 2 in the Kremlin.
That’s when you watch western propaganda which nobody follows any more . Millions of people stopped paying their tv licence to BBC because of their propaganda
Wow, 250.000 shells a month is half of what is lost at one himars strike on a russian ammo depot in a few seconds. Really impressive. Well there defence industrie does make a big part of their GDP, and their army does make advances on the battlefield, while they still have a lot of military personal. But numbers and maps are quite deceptive. The German army was close to Moscow, most of Europe was under their control. At the surrender in 1945 the German army still had more than 1 million men. So other things might be important behind these numbers and maps. The German logistic was basically broken, their army was either very young and unexperienced man or very old and often severe wounded. Most important: the will to fight was broken as nobody believes the war could be won. Moral has been an issue in the Russian army for more than a hundred years. They have a habit in treating ordinary civilians and soldiers very bad, which lead to serveral mutinies during WWI and finally the Germans put a final nail in the coffin by sending Lenin back to Russia, which lead to a civil war. During WWII Ukrainians first welcomed the Germans as their liberators, and a lot of them joined the fight against Russia. Russia has treaten them very bad. Until they learned that Germany was as worse as Russia during that times. And today we see some provinces at the brink of rebellion. I say: This is your opportunity, a better one will not come even if the war in Ukraine is ended. The Russians need to be forced out or nobody will have freedom. Russia is weak, lets break the chains.
The invasion destroyed the Russian arms industry, and if we are not careful the US industry will also suffer if we abandon Ukraine. The Europeans and South Koreans are going to increase arms sales.
Demand for advanced US weaponry has never been higher. The major foreign military sales programs are backordered due to high demand. Fighters, missiles, air defense, UAVs, precision munitions, cruise missiles, FLIR, armor, transports, ASW platforms, net-centric systems, ships, submarines, vehicles, and small arms are all in extreme high demand all over the world.
when it comes to weapon , the americans have shown again and again , there,s work , and are devastating , even if ukraine falls , nothing changes that optic
@@stevensmith797drones might actually we need battery production in the US but we have it to China BAD move. We are moving to remedy that but it might be to late we’ll see
I have a feeling that thanks to Trump Europe is going to start being more self reliant and start producing and designing a lot more. They've already decided Mr Musk isn't the best to be dependent on in the satellite department.
Listen, attitudes are hardening everywhere now the full extent of Russian sabotage and interference is coming to light. Putin's grab at world power, not just Ukraine, is starting to alarm people. Politicians may still be trying to pacify audiences, but behind the scenes, expecially the military professionals are doubtless working overtime. If Russia folds in 5-6 months as some are saying, then that may abate, but if not, then the rest of the world is getting ready.
We (EU) are mostly up to speed at the moment. But you dont wanna overspend like 5% GDP i guess. Orderbooks are full , workers are hired etc. But when RU is coming down or the war somehow magically ends , there wont be no need for big production. some spare factories keeping their lights on on the other hand. Midterm there will be some rare earth mines openend (SWE / DE) and more chipmanufacturing (DE) --> TSMC and maybe Intel . Reneweables are going up. Id say we are partly (over 50%) decoupled from outer shocks as a continent.
Yeah, today I was entering Costco and a grandpa was coming out with a giant toy tank. I think it was called “Mega Blaster.” Anyway, I said to him, “Excuse me, but Russia needs that tank a lot more than your kid does.” Which he found quite amusing. Putin wouldn’t be laughing, though.
It is kinda crazy how terrible most new russian platforms are. If they don't fail tactically then they definitely fail strategically. 20 of you platform doesn't matter when the opponent has 2000 of an equivalent or better platform. This applies practically across the board in the T14, SU57, S400, BMPT72, RS28, KH47, and 3M22. This is just a fraction of the new platforms but the old stuff hasn't faired much better because it is no longer competitive against western weapons as a whole and that is assuming that it was maintained properly. Given how much the US spends on our nuclear program compared to Russia I wouldn't be surprised if some generals decided to give themselves a pay raise instead.
You can add Ka-52 heli to that list and their supposedly more recent BMP/BMD models/upgrade packages, all have gone all but extinct, oh and their A-50 awacs, from what we know they lost enough of them they can't actually run them in a full rotation anymore. I think their most modern actually deployed/produced SPGs are mostly gone too.
During the Cold War, I worked at NATO Headquarters and vividly remember the financial collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin seems to be following the exact same path, repeating mistakes that history has long warned against but is often forgotten. As the saying goes, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Dude, you have your map wrong. Crimea is occupied, and not part of Russia. The same as Donetsk and Luhansk regions. So either draw them as occupied, or as part of Ukraine
Back when those tanks where first developed that was actually a good spot to protect the ammo from exploding. It was difficult for other tanks to hit it in combat. Thing is though top down precision anti tank weapons like the Javelin where invented in part to turn this strength into a fatal weakness
The ammunition carrousel was an efficient part of the auto-loading system and had some advantages. War back in those days was expected to be short, sharp, and head-to-head. The ammunition is low down and also protected by the frontal armour in such conditions. Anything that penetrates the crew compartment is highly likely to be lethal anyway. Flying turrets are poor advertising, but Russian tanks have worse problems.
Shittt, they were shocking levels of dilapidation when the USSR collapsed 35 years ago. I can only imagine today. Nukes are NOT the sort of thing you can leave on a shelf.
@@piotrd.4850 If it's Russian, it hasn't been maintained for over 30 years and is as dangerous to it's origin when used as it is anywhere else. Haven't you been paying attention? 🤣
Back in the 1970's there was a saying in tournament chess: "Facing two connected passed pawns is like facing Russian tanks.". Two connected passed pawns are still greatly feared, Russian tanks not so much.
Out of all the videos you’ve made on this conflict, this is your best one so far. You might just have explained why President Biden was so hesitant to give Ukrainians the greenlight to properly defend themselves. As the US government is deeply tied to defense contractors, I can only guess that they decided together to let things play out slowly to show the world how poorly the Russians are at making weaponry.
There's another problem facing Russia's arms industry. Research and development costs are huge. In the end, Russia only has (more or less) the GDP of Italy. If you cannot spread the R&D cost over a big number of (sold) tanks or planes, the R&D cost per unit is staggering and comes on top of the actual production cost. Without enough foreign buyers, Russian arms production will look like their civilian aircraft production: dwindling.
I think it hilarious that russians hate post all western military channels while also getting destroyed on every battlefield they walked onto for 50 years in a row😂
The problem that seems to always get overlooked here is that arms exports also allow for production scaling that dramatically reduces and/or offsets the costs of developing and producing them in the first place. High tech equipment has gotten so expensive to manufacture that the only way to really make it work is to get buy-in from countries across the globe. If there is none, the cost per unit is too high to even properly equip your own military.
Very nice and comprehensive summary with intelligent analysis. I knew all this stuff already after viewing many other videos from the likes of Joe Blogs, Jake Broe, Perun and others, but you put it all together into a nice, neat, focused, well-moderated package. Thank you!
Many of the Russophile comments here remind me of Comical Ali (information minister of Iraq: “no, no, there are no enemies here, Baghdad is strong, every Iraqi is supporting saddam, no, no, there are no explosions here)
And also. Many of our western leaders need to … how do you say it English … grow a pair. What the … are they so afraid of? Russia is on her knees. It should be possible to support Ukraine to a solid win in this war. 🇺🇦🕊🇳🇴
Comical Ali won some respect, that's for one. For two, people who actually understand who, what, how and why failed aren't "Russophiles'. Ukraine has been fighing on Soviet hardware for two years. Worked good enough.
@Unitedwestand_2024 Maybe from US - but truth is, that Ukrainians are mostly keyboard warriors, covering coffes and malls in Poland. Their unit in Poland saw whole 30 volunteers, while dessertion and corruption are rampant. They are not much different from Russians.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released the latest GDP data calculated by purchasing power: China ranks first with a total economic output of 37 trillion US dollars; The United States ranks second with $29 trillion; The EU ranks third with $28 trillion; India ranks fourth with $16 trillion; Russia ranks fifth with 6.9 trillion US dollars; Japan ranks sixth with $6.5 trillion; Germany ranks seventh with a score of 6 trillion US dollars; Eighth is Brazil, ninth is Indonesia, tenth is France, and eleventh is the United Kingdom
The Russian S300 and S400 have an impeccable record against civilian airliners!!! When faced with an enemy that is very capable then the results head the same way as most Russian tanks in this war!!!
Who wants equipment that always does worse than expected? and shows it loses to older equipment that actually does its job? As a result 2010 era Russian tanks lost to a 1970s support vehicle from the front, and have shown to be rather junk in comparison to modern methods; especially in the basics like the armor and ammunition designs. People who analyzed knew Russias tech was hype or could speculate a lot of that was hyped to be better than expected, but Ukraine has only provided solid evidence of it all, and confirmed it was 'even worse' than anyone could have expected. Not only that but when paired with an inadequate force that fights like a 1950s-1970s era military, the result was they could not take a 3rd world neighboring country that fights with just a few modern methods and 'actually working' older techs that far outperformed Russian ones. Even when considered #2 strongest in the world, if so, it just demonstrates how much of a gap there is between their military and western militaries where their stuff actually works. If you say Russia has a laser, and they did it by spamming 10 lasers and hoping it was enough, I'd believe them, but I'd trust that '1' western laser currently works and destroys all of that. Russia is literally stuck in hte old ages and it reflects in their faked mentality that they were some kind of world war 2 heroes (false in itself) and also that they have no human rights in 2024. They believe that Soviet arsenal equipment will suddenly win the day and that it's a war of attrition.
France exports 8B a year, USA is exporting more than 50B. I think Russia was never a BIG country for arm sale, compared to others types of export 8B is almost nothing. The total GDP of the world in 110000 billions = 110 Trillions. So 8B was well 8/110000 %= not much.
It's really interesting that some people haven't considered the inverse statement is also true. While the US public is terrified of losing their influence, the irony is that the US influence on the global stage is becoming more relevant, as more and more countries rush to procure US military systems. There's simply no real competitor for the F-35 that's available for purchase on the open market. It's only marginally more expensive than the French Rafael, a plane designed to be cheap, but it offers dramatically more features and performance. Yes, it is more expensive, but countries are clearly voting with their wallets by choosing to purchase the F-35. So at the same time the US is "losing" influence in certain areas, they're also substantially more than 50% of the global arms trade, with their only real competitor suddenly melting down. Every other western arms exporter is allied with the US an integrates their systems with US systems. Being the single and primary arms exporter for the entire world is the type of influence that gives you unrestricted power. So yeah, I'm not expecting the US to lose power on the global stage.
@@peterflohr7827 but these are still allied with the us/the systems intergrated with us systems there are not many countries outside the "western world" with big (hightech) arms industries i think india is building one right now or trying to we will see then there is maybe china iran and north korea are the other i can think of with some significance
The Nlaw (Robot 15) is developed by SAAB-Bofors in Sweden for the Britisch and Swedisch armys . So it is a Swedisch missile even tough components are made in GB and mounted by Thales factory in Northern Ireland. Thales air defence group is a French company.
Unlike the US, Russia do not have natural allies that can afford to share the development cost, purchase and maintain advanced weapon systems. Russia's clients are mostly small dictatorships. These dictatorships have only one type of enemy, their own citizen. Which means, they don't need SU-57 to suppressed the population, the good old AK-47 will do. The US and its allies on the other hand, have very serious nation state enemies, and will required F-35 to fight them. In the end, selling weapons is not just about money. It's also about advancing your technology through real world applications. The more it is used, the more you'll learn and improve. Russia has no chance or reason to improve. Who's gonna buy their SU-3000 decades from now, if ever.
The S-400 is perfectly capable of intercepting a Western missile. You know, just the one 😉 This was one example in what context the Russian military equipment is talked about these days.
The Russian arms industry was viewed as one of the best in the world? You mean the Soviets. The Russian Federation and the Soviets are two VERY different entities. But even then, the Lazerpig loop is real
The argument that sales dropped just because Russian weaponry sucks, is dumb since the vast majority of Ukrainian arsenal is also from Soviet/Russian origin, it's not Patriot the system shielding all of Ukraine, but Buks and Osas. And western equipment has also been destroyed pretty quicly from the 140 western tanks recived by Ukraine at least 80 had been destroyed (acording to Oryx Blog).
It is quite misleading to say NLAW is British. Sure, production happens in Great Britain, but the design is actually Swedish. It's like saying that Eurofighter is German/British, because production happens in those countries.
The acheivments you list in the beginning, the MIGs etc, where not Russian but Soviet acheivments. Russia manage to skate on what the Soviets built for a while.
Okay, quite a bit of this is just complete cope. First off, the Abrams does not have superior mobility or armor. At 70+ tons they get stuck a whole lot easier than the 50 ton t-80 as mentioned by Ukrainian tank crews who have complained about its shit mobility. Also the hull armor is a joke, it was a joke in the 80s, but has not recieved any hull upgrades until SEP v3 which made it even heavier. Lastly, claiming that our bloated MIC is somehow more efficient than Russia's is really splitting hairs. Considering we spent how many billions of dollars and years on Littoral combat ships that were found to be useless. And the sheer amount of military programs that go nowhere or turn out half baked ideas like the XM5.
For one, Ukrainian crews never had 70t variant of M1 - they had 60t one M1A1 which actually has LOWER ground pressure than advanced T-72B and T-80 derviatives and better power to weight ration. Anyway, US trains tank platoon leader for at least 3 years. Ukrainians just destroyed two Leopard 2s in Poland and were using tanks badly and decided to blame it on tank.
@@piotrd.4850 Once again you're wrong, the model sent to Ukraine is the A1SA which weighs in at over 67 short tons. Also the t-80 still has a ground pressure that is lower than .95 kg/cm2. So you're embarrassingly wrong LOL. Also, not talking about Leopards, don't know why you brought that up. But nice to see that you're attempting to shift blame away from the bloated and poorly armored tanks that you sold to them. Lets not even talk about how much of a maintenance hog and fuel slut they are. Which makes their use in the Ukraine east questionable. Even US leaders have mentioned how pointless they are in the current environment.
This war shows weak places not only in moskow weaponry. For example it would be crazy to buy anything from South Korea or Switzerland, because I don't want to depend on countries that have laws that forbid export of military equipment to countries that are in a war state. It means that during a war you can't rely on these countries.
Your presentation is always laid back and down to earth. Your streams remind me of kicking it with a ridiculously informed friend without an ego. Just having fun explaining your unique take.
I believe it was an honest mistake; the map was meant to show where putin could attack from, not a recognition of russias illegal occupation of Crimea. It probably should have been made clear though
NAFO armies. I wonder why Ukraine keep hauling people off the street and keep losing Kursk dan other regions day by day. Also, Russia still have an arms industry and produces more equipment than Europe's.
None of the Russian systems were ever considered the ‘leading’ capability. They may have been considered cost effective. You got something perhaps 80-90% the capability of western systems for 50% of the cost. However, when the robber hits the road, the 10 to 20% shortfall in capability makes all the difference.
Perun said this in a video last year. A war economy functions until it doesn't anymore In 1944, Germany had the highest output of war material during the entire war, a few months before the end.
You can't compare Russia with WW2 Germany. Why? Russia produce the resources (namely food, iron and oil) to keep the war going, while Germans don't have access to oil and attacked from both sides. Russia only need to contend with their west while their east (china) is still friendly
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*Actually Russia started to lose customers for Russian arms when Turkish military made weapons started to destroy all kinds of woeapin in Syria, Libya, Azerbaijan and than Turkish weapons helped Ukrainian with heavy weapons to destroy Russian military when almost all other major powers was slow or refused to supply Ukrainian*
In terms of Russia's weapons industry, only the NUKE and the AK-47 are really world class achievements. Unfortunately, the world's most beloved, most reliable, and GENERALLY most effective gun, the 10th grade-based tech AK-47, is largely produced outside of Russia.... so Russia doesn't even get credit for it.
The Su-35 is a distant 3rd. While it is Russia's most formidable fighter jet, less than 4-6 of the world's big militaries use it, other than China and Russia, that is. But China doesn't have more than a few dozen of it; and Russia likely doesn't have more than a few dozen of it, either.
Fast, powerful, extremely maneuverable (in slow-motion, public air show stunts anyway), and deadly...but the Su-35, like the AK-47, as a weapon... is a bit too crude to deal with 2024/5's more stealthy, more super computer based fighter jets...
“The Russian arms industry…”
You’re confusing Russia with the Soviet Union. Russia is not and never will be the Soviet Union.
Thought you might have had a 20% OFF coupon for maybe a T-90M Proryv-3 or S-400 Triumf 🤣😂🤣😜😜
I'm not shaving myself. Old dudes like me are expected to wear beards. I would have chewed tobacco too and smelled accordingly, but I have scrapped tobacco.
"Tank turrets are flying so often that they are getting more airtime than the russian airforce" 😂😂
Savage... but accurate.
@@christopherh2570 You didn't watch the video, why comment?
@@christopherh2570 Just watch the video as the most entertaining level of cope it is, and enjoy.
@jayspeidell well I didn't site the video did i? Did you read my comment?
@@christopherh2570 NATO tanks don't throw their turrets, they're designed for crew survivability.
Unlike ruSSia's zippo tank rubbish.
You ruSSian cope bots really are comically ignorant.
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Very funny
LOL
Now that you told us, it’s no longer a secret.
@@bills6946 not a lot of people know it yet, so I guess we can call it an open secret lel
That's why you should not be confused between the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation.
The Soviets were the superpower.
Current Russians are just...wel...embarrassing.
You might reconsider that after learning about a few pieces of Soviet tech and/or history. Personally, I recommend starting with the TU-4 and TU-22, and as for a slight spoiler, the fact that the latter was actually called "The Supersonic Booze Carrier" _by the Soviets_ kind of tells you all you need know. Still, if you are really interested, check out the channel Paper Skies.
In fairness, there were certainly some genuine good examples from the Soviet era (such as Training Center 1521 - a.k.a. Soviet Top Gun), but you will find that they were only slightly more frequent than with the current Russian era.
The Soviet union wasn't all it was cracked to be either. They were a superpower mostly because of the enormous amount of arms they built. Not so much because of the quality.
@@SorinSilaghi quantity has a quality all its own.
@@SorbusAucubaria no it doesn't and we're seeing this in Ukraine. Everyone always forgets how much the soviets were supported by the US in WW2.
Thank you. People are still doing tha mistakes poutine russia is nothing compared to soviet union
During the cold war I worked at NATO HQ. I remember the financial collapse of the Soviet Union. Pooty is doing the exact same thing, based on history forgotten. It's doomed to be repeated.
I am Russian. I live through that times (as a child). We are already make a return to 1990s times!
@My grandfather was born in 1929 when the stock market crashed.
I read how people were sleeping in tents in
New York ' s Central park.
Uncle Sam pumped some $12 trillion in freshly printed money, and was giving it for free in order to prevent downtown riots during the COVID crisis.
That money was not in the budget, and after that the inflation barely moved up a couple of points.
The US of A owes much,much more than the publicly declared amount of some $ 36 trillion.
According to Ray Dalio, an American billionaire, every time an Empire had to spend more in paying interest than to support it' s military,the total collapse
was irreversible .The USA now makes more than $ 1 trillion in interest payments per year.The good news is, recent Western Empires lasted about 150 years from the beginning to end.
The USA became global power after the Spanish war( 1896), or after WWII, depends on how you want to look at it.Fast forward about 150 yrs.and around 2045 - 2065 the USA will be just another country.
That being said,, before that the USA will lose the capability to run the world the way it has been the case since WWII.
Fascinating perspective.
If you really look at the whole scope of this, it is absolutely insane.
Syria gone. US forces are taking over Russian bases as we speak.
Africa: France wins all the blood and treasure once again
Georgia: Are we witnessing a color Revolution?
Grozney round three?
Someone’s gonna open up a second front with Russia. (China?) There’s blood in the water hang onto your hats.
@@dpelpal You Russians brought this nonsense upon yourselves Russia could have been a rich and prosperous nation with freedom and democracy after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Instead you Russians chose war, death, suffering, anarchy, and chaos Russia could have joined the western world in peace and unity but you people chose Vladimir Putin as your lord and savior.
You Russians chose to make us in the west your enemy Russia could have had it very good by joining the western world you Russians made a very poor choice by choosing otherwise Russias 3rd collapse in its history is right around the corner.
@@dpelpal You Russians brought this nonsense upon yourselves Russia could have been a rich and prosperous nation with freedom and democracy after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Instead you Russians chose war, death, suffering, anarchy, and chaos Russia could have joined the western world in peace and unity but you people chose Vladimir Putin as your lord and savior.
You Russians chose to make us in the west your enemy Russia could have had it very good by joining the western world you Russians made a very poor choice by choosing otherwise Russias 3rd collapse in its history is right around the corner.
Fun Fact: after the Reunification the Bundeswehr tested the T-72 (from the GDR Arsenal) and chose to keep the Leopard ONE instead.
True, but you also see the opposite problem with western weapons.
Most NATO powers would have fared worse than Ukraine.
Too much quality makes quantity unaffordable for most countries.
@@romainperello554russian bot
@@romainperello554 in the early days of the war, 4th gen fighter jets would have wiped out the entire invasion.
So most NATO countries would have been far more effective before their NATO allies even got involved.
@@romainperello554That's why they're in NATO. If you can't have quality in quantity on your own, you can share it with your friends. The Dutch would never be able to have an army strong enough to defend themselves against an enemy like Russia. But the Dutch fighting alongside the Germans, Belgians, Norwegians, Swedes, Finn's and Danish? That's a force to be reckoned with. And adding all the other nations, France, Poland, turkey, the US, Canada, Australia, etc etc, there's no place in the world that cannot be protected by NATO and no enemy on the planet that's able to be an actual threat to that alliance.
My favorite Russian arms joke is still "Russian tanks are the most advanced in the world. They are the only ones equipt with ejecttion turrets".
russia has a large and advanced army. The advanced part is not large and the large part is not advanced.
Not only ones.
Russia is done as a country, it just hasn't realised it yet
russia will survive , no 1 is invading , dont think any 1 wants to , and the russian people will make the call , hopfuly realising , a strong man isnt what you want or need , its a smart man
@@stevensmith797 It's highly likely to collapse economically and break up. Quite a few parts of it would like independence.
true enough , but russia is a difined country and has been for centuries , no 1 leaving that , just those in the russian federation
@@stevensmith797 But they CAN leave.
The people of Siberia would like to be the Republic of Siberia for one.
All they need is a referendum and international recognition.
@@TheInfamousMrFox and a "special military operation" to free the democratic republic of siberia!
A fellow UA-camr stated, that at the 2023 Dubai Military Show, there were over 250 Russian arms vendors. Nobody (countries) was buying. China, and India wants their money back, after seeing the quality of Russian equipment being used in Ukraine.
More importantly, both the countries you mentioned have their own defense industries that are making huge advancements to their technology.
Especially India. They may be the only people to mess up an AK pattern rifle, but at least they don't keep Eldritch abominations in their aircraft carriers unlike the Russians they bought them from.
Haha, 250 vendors and zero sales. How humiliating can it get.
Damn, cute delusions.
Just looking at the show catalog, there was 6 lol
And China has based most of their military off of reverse engineered or stolen Russian tech so .... there's that as well.
'FOR A LONG TIME'... when Ukraine was still a 'slave/buffer' state to post-USSR Russia, their best arms were produced in Ukraine. After Ukraine declared independence, Russia lost access to those companies, their assets, and their production capabilities.
They're getting 'down to the wire' now... running out of the crap they make themselves.
True, the Moskov was Made in the Ukraine.....now it's been converted to a submarine!
What matters in arms is to defend ones integrity. With such poor quality arms why had NATO to gang together so afraid of them?? More than 50 so called highly modernized countries with cutting edge weaponry struggling against one MAN?
@@khiem1939 Special permanent submarine operation.
Yup. They owe their ICBM capability to Ukraine, as well.
Russians also take credit for winning WWII "singlehandedly", despite most of the fighting and dying being done by Ukrainian/Belarusian/Baltic people, and a huge amount of their equipment coming from the US.
Now the world knows how effective Russian equipment is 🇺🇦
....And begins to laugh at Russia 😅
This is definitely a part of the war and current events that is grossly underreported. Putin just made US arms makers, as well as Ukraine and the rest of Europe’s, much wealthier and much more prepared. Putin is soooo hilariously dumb and I love it. 😂❤🇺🇦🇺🇸
Yep more Ukranian land captured every day, towns city's everything
@@SillySausage-mq3sostruggling against a smaller neighbor is a big flex
It is not all of the equipment that is bad, it's all about how it's used. The same weapons are used by the Ukraines and they beating the living hell out of the Russians with it. But, they are decades behind western equipment.
Just to keep the Russian arms industry $8 billion a year in perspective, the mobile video games industry generates $100 billion a year
Thats larger than entire Russian economy😂
The US sells over $150B in arms internationally every year.
@@dpelpal No. The economy of Russia is approximately 2.1 trillion dollars. A little smaller than Canada.
To be fair, you do have to take Purchasing Power Parity into account. You can get a lot more from Russia with 8 billion than you can from the west.
Still, it wouldn't make it nearly enough of a difference to compete with the gaming industry lol
Russia's annual military budget was $70 billion dollars per year before invading Ukraine.
Their total annual budget was around $ 300 billion dollars.
But, due to lower wages, that went about twice as far as long as it was limited to labor performed and products produced inside russia.
Russia has been at war in Ukraine for 3 years. In that time NATO has expanded 2 twice, Ukraine is now more militarized than ever before and Ukraine is currently occupying Russian territory in Kursk.
All part of Putin’s master strategy. Just ask him.
Putin is lolling the west into a false sense of security. Quite brilliant actually.ROTFFLMAO 😂😂 😂
@@merlebarney By destroying his military, arms exports and economy?
@ It’s called SARCASM!!!
In conflicts to occupy a few sq km does mean you won the war. Remember NATO occupied Afgnastan for 2 decades but later the owners took it over. Imagin a coalition of more than 30 countries against a poorly equiped Taliban Militia
Crimea is Ukraine
Not at the moment 😂
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crime is Tatar.
@ErwanGuillo how’s that naval base doing, vatnik? Anything afloat in the harbour other than ruSSian corpses?
Until we see some blue and yellow flags planted the world will beg to differ. Power is reality. And the reality is Ukraine has no ability to take that land back.
don't show crimea in red, it is not part of russia
I know this is slightly off topic, but another major problem with each tank or aircraft destroyed (particularly in the beginning) is a loss of the crew. An extremely talented and motivated tank crew is arguably more important than the equipment they're being put in.
But what about an inadequately trained, alcoholic crew?
@zacklewis342 Still probably more valuable than the obsolete garbage they're in
Russians inability to get future foreign arms sales means that Russia won’t be able to spread R & D costs over more units; therefore, individual unit cost will increase. The increased unit cost makes it easier for countries to choose another supplier.
There is no r&d. They still make soviet t72s
All the smart people fled the country.
Economy of scale long gone, innovation gone, capitol gone.
France will soon have full control of Africa and its colonies once again. Undisputed now that Russia has lost its warm water port in Syria.
The equivalent would be if the US lost all aircraft carriers, had a demographic crisis, 30% inflation, no cash flow, and Comcast, Spirit Airlines, and Dollar General were the hub of our military industrial complex
China is likely just as vulnerable as well, and now they know that we know.
All the smart people fled Russia
@@BVonBuescherYes, and and sent any smart people they had left to the front.
Meanwhile, the whole world has seen the importance of drones and will see “Made in Ukraine🇺🇦” as a sign of a high quality product for the price. Apparently they helped the Syrian rebels take their country back.
Excuse me. Why is Crimea included as Russian territory? It is illegally invaded and annexed territory.
Yeah, that puzzled me too. He sure gave a little smile to the Krembots with this.
Crimea is legally RUSSIA.
@@marioceva7163 Yeah, yeah, tell this to someone zombified by moscow propaganda
@@marioceva7163sure, Ivan. Once west russia is officially called Ukraine, you can say Crimea is russian.
East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights is a very good clue.
Russia is nothing more than a paper tiger.
Same as China
@andrius505 And the USA to a certain degree.
All three now emphasise on paper
@@mercenarygundam1487 conventionally, absolutely not.
Against sandbaggers that hid in the mountains for 20 years, *wheeze*
@@uss-dh7909 Pretty much.
*paper bear
I am Russian. Many in my country know this war to be losed. Inflation very bad, I fear my Russia will return to 1990s years very soon.
@Boota1989 I am from Samara but I move (by myself, with NO help) to Tblisi. So no.
@@dpelpalgod bless you. I can’t imagine what you’ve been through.
@@eddiehargis426I am against war but I have not become involve in protest. But actuality needed I am not in this circumstances to present.)
You Russians brought this nonsense upon yourselves Russia could have been a rich and prosperous nation with freedom and democracy after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
Instead you Russians chose war, death, suffering, anarchy, and chaos Russia could have joined the western world in peace and unity but you people chose Vladimir Putin as your lord and savior.
You Russians chose to make us in the west your enemy Russia could have had it very good by joining the western world you Russians made a very poor choice by choosing otherwise Russias 3rd collapse in its history is right around the corner.
Russia needs to lose to have any chance at changing for a better future. Putin and his buddies have stolen your country blind.
The T-14 basically does not exist. There is that one parade unit that never does anything except drive through Moscow streets.
That broke down during a parade and had to be towed out. 😂😂😂
Russia had poor choices made all around.
I am Russian, I am from Samara. Many in Russia know the war cannot be winned. And EVEN thinking that Russia tooks all of Ukraine, Russia government cannot even pay to keep RUSSIA in good order. Much less Ukraine!!!
No, they didn’t have poor choices all around, they could have decided not to invade and continue to make billions of dollars every year on gas and oil to the rest of the world.
@@vidiot9000so poor choices
@vidiot9000 Either you think invading Ukraine was a good choice, or you misunderstood my statement /shrug
@@4362mont not at all, I just think they should have stayed in their country and continued to make money off of their oil reserves. No need to invite another country, just do good business and live in peace. That’s all I meant. That was one of the choices they had, but they didn’t take that choice. They opted for war. Maybe you meant to say Russia made the poor choices all around?
Pretty incredible to see just how far Russias power and influence has declined since 2022. People used to genuinely believe that Russia could defeat NATO single handed. Possible go on to become the worlds superpower very soon. Now that seems like pure fantasy. Russias a regional power at best, perhaps not even that.
Russia has the 2nd best army.
In Kursk 🤣
But Russia IS destroying Nato singlehandedly. The west is running out of arms to continue this war and the European economies are in a death spiral whilst Russia is experiencing the strongest growth of any European nation.
@@PretendMe Third, after North Koreans.
This war has shown the world the Bear has no claws.
Don't make me laugh, nobody thought Russia could defeat NATO.
Russia's allies Syria and Iran have been militarily weakened by Israel and Turkey, and the Chinese have serious economic problems.
Not just economic problems, but problems with their hardware in the PLA and lack of "combat experience"!
They do have some problems. But you seem to be blind to the numerous US ones, as long as the US want to maintain it’s hegemony.
The US have to keep a strong advantage to keep China at bay across the Pacific.
The current US debt is unsustainable, while the US at peace can’t replace it’s subs fast enough to sell a few to Australia as they promised.
Same problems for replacing destroyers, and soon for carriers.
Plus, if China simply get to partially close the gap. Drone, missiles and small ships can provide a kind of firepower that is hard to match with a blue navy accross the Pacific.
And the US economy would litterally stop if a war was waged over Taiwan.
China would loose the war rn. But even high ranked US amirals, thought China would recover faster than the US.
The truth is that the price of US made weapons had got so high, that even the US would have problems to maintain a war economy against a near peer.
Russian ally Serbia is also in the process of falling. There are some huge protests against Vucic at the moment.
I remember a few years ago the S-300-400 were supposed to be the best air defense in the world LMAO i guess they lied..
To be fair it is still considered top 5.
@@fredyyfredfreddy No its not. I guess if we would compared it to ww2 air defence systems, then it might be at top 5.
@@fredyyfredfreddywhere ??? 😅😅😅😅 poutine russia is all fake the soviet union would not capitulate against syrians rebels
@@fredyyfredfreddy Seriously isn't, It's not even in the top 10 Syria & Ukraine showed it for what it really is it completely disgraced itself in Ukraine. The modern advanced features are just propaganda Western weapons even older ones & aircraft or drones have no problem penetrating it's so called impenetrable bubble knocking out S400 systems with alarming regularity. While not useless it's clear it's capabilities such as detection/intercept range even it's ability for self defense have been vastly overstated by the Kremlin propaganda machine.
@@fredyyfredfreddytop five sounds impressive until you consider there are probably only 4 systems with similar performance claims.
A big issue they're gonna run into is that we're being shown that Russia's mentality of lower cost higher production doesn't stand a chance against NATO's higher cost lower production mentality. It doesn't matter if you can make 10 tanks for the cost of 1 if that 1 tank can take out all 10 of them itself it's kind of pointless. Russia is showing that they're at least a generation behind.
Where,oh where are those ABRAHAMS situated in Ukraine?In the rear,of course,out of harms' way.
Russia never got the memo that they weren't fighting World War 2 any longer. Hell, at this point "fascist" to them just means "anybody who is at war with Russia".
And the Abram’s battle tank is a US supplied game changer… oh sorry, thats wrong… And the F16 will defeat Russia… oops… moonfished that one… but the truth? Bit by bit, Russia is taking what it wants and nothing can stop it.
What higher production? They barely make anything.
Just to zero in on one example, it is actually worse for Russia with India than most think.
Yes, there is how India is one of the two countries that is currently squeezing oil and gas out of Russia at prices that can only cover Russia's operating costs for their fossil fuel production, which was covered on this channel, but that is not what I am referring to. No, it is not just that Russia is not really exporting arms to India much these days, but rather that Russia is actually _importing_ arms from India - and not artillery shells of poor production and maintenance quality like with North Korea, but _their own aircraft,_ namely the MiG-29.
The MiG-29 is arguably one of the best airframes Russia (or the Soviets, if you want to be pedantic) ever made, but during the collapse of the USSR, they had to cease most of their production of their aircraft. For their then-latest fighters, they had to choose between keeping the lines for the MiG-29 and the Su-27, and they chose to keep the Su-27 line. Today, India is the only country that is actually producing the MiG-29 (the K variant, specifically), so if you see a MiG-29 with Russian markings flying today, odds are it was actually recently built in India and sold to Russia.
Yeah, that is how bad of a situation Russia is in right now, where they even have to buy some of their own weapons because they cannot actually produce them themselves, and if what India and China are doing to buy Russian oil and gas are any indication, it is practically guaranteed that India is not going easy with Russia on their pricing for their "new" MiG-29s. I think there are one or two other examples of this sort of arrangement, but this one about the MiG-29 is what I know about.
Where are you getting this info? MiG-29 hasn't been an important part of the VVS or VKS for the better part of the last 20 years.
Su-27, Su-30, & Su-35 cost about as much to make due to twin engine, so Ru AF favored Flankers since the 1990s.
MiG-29 has been shot down every time it faced a Western fighter or Su-27.
dude , soviet era anything would be simply crushed by any modern system , be it jets tanks or even artilary , the world moved on , and so did the tech , their new stuff cant compete , their older stuff even less
Yeah. Except we have never produced the MiG 29K. The only Russian fighter we have been producing for last 10+ years is the Su-30MKI. Only other programs have been electronics upgrades for MiG 29 and 21s.
Remember, when this year, Russia went to Chinese military show with they "5th generation" SU-57.... And it was on full display, so Chinese made dozens of videos.... And laughed for weeks at its design and how its called "5th generation fighter".... :D :D :D
No bc you don’t see those outside of china
No, of course not...🤡🤣
@@MaticTheProtoBaidu and bilibili are accessible outside of China.
Lol… no… no one remembers that as its all in your head.
@@BSdetected I saw this reported some time ago.
1:26 Um... seriously? You know Crimea is Ukrainian, right?
russia annexed Crimea
@@jsuwirbdbeu3i282 True, but that doesn't mean that it's really their's!
@@jsuwirbdbeu3i282 Exactly. So, don't show it as theirs, please.
@@jsuwirbdbeu3i282 ruSSia also said reports they were about to invade Ukraine were a western provocation. Only an utter fool would place any credence in claims from Goebbels 2 in the Kremlin.
brother it is literally owned by russia as of right now, unjustly but its correct in the video ..lol
Russia has fallen back to the stone age.
To be fair it was a short fall. They’re a completely backwards society.
That’s when you watch western propaganda which nobody follows any more . Millions of people stopped paying their tv licence to BBC because of their propaganda
They never left it.
They will never run short of vodka though. Priorities.
If anyone thought Russia made anything of quality is delusional.
Hey -- Vodka!😂😂😂
They do make high quality poverty.
In the last 40 years in the US, the only thing that I ever saw sold here with the "made in Russia" label on it was vodka.
@@katana1960 I have a "The Sopranos" sports jacket that was made in Russia.😂
Great jacket! They did one thing right.😁
I,for one is absolutely convinced that,the NUT,spoke very loud and very clear.
You made a mistake by not having Crimea as part of Ukraine. It was, is and remains Ukrainian territory.
Russia is toast.
If the U.S. abandons the Ukraine, Russia may WIN the war, but so much damage is done that they might LOSE their country!
Wow, 250.000 shells a month is half of what is lost at one himars strike on a russian ammo depot in a few seconds. Really impressive.
Well there defence industrie does make a big part of their GDP, and their army does make advances on the battlefield, while they still have a lot of military personal.
But numbers and maps are quite deceptive. The German army was close to Moscow, most of Europe was under their control. At the surrender in 1945 the German army still had more than 1 million men. So other things might be important behind these numbers and maps.
The German logistic was basically broken, their army was either very young and unexperienced man or very old and often severe wounded. Most important: the will to fight was broken as nobody believes the war could be won.
Moral has been an issue in the Russian army for more than a hundred years. They have a habit in treating ordinary civilians and soldiers very bad, which lead to serveral mutinies during WWI and finally the Germans put a final nail in the coffin by sending Lenin back to Russia, which lead to a civil war.
During WWII Ukrainians first welcomed the Germans as their liberators, and a lot of them joined the fight against Russia. Russia has treaten them very bad. Until they learned that Germany was as worse as Russia during that times.
And today we see some provinces at the brink of rebellion. I say: This is your opportunity, a better one will not come even if the war in Ukraine is ended. The Russians need to be forced out or nobody will have freedom. Russia is weak, lets break the chains.
The invasion destroyed the Russian arms industry, and if we are not careful the US industry will also suffer if we abandon Ukraine. The Europeans and South Koreans are going to increase arms sales.
Demand for advanced US weaponry has never been higher. The major foreign military sales programs are backordered due to high demand.
Fighters, missiles, air defense, UAVs, precision munitions, cruise missiles, FLIR, armor, transports, ASW platforms, net-centric systems, ships, submarines, vehicles, and small arms are all in extreme high demand all over the world.
when it comes to weapon , the americans have shown again and again , there,s work , and are devastating , even if ukraine falls , nothing changes that optic
@@stevensmith797drones might actually we need battery production in the US but we have it to China BAD move. We are moving to remedy that but it might be to late we’ll see
Europe has no industrial capacity left and South Korea is under firm political control of US.
I have a feeling that thanks to Trump Europe is going to start being more self reliant and start producing and designing a lot more. They've already decided Mr Musk isn't the best to be dependent on in the satellite department.
Saab alone is quadrupling its production of military hardware from what they were producing in 2022.
Listen, attitudes are hardening everywhere now the full extent of Russian sabotage and interference is coming to light. Putin's grab at world power, not just Ukraine, is starting to alarm people. Politicians may still be trying to pacify audiences, but behind the scenes, expecially the military professionals are doubtless working overtime. If Russia folds in 5-6 months as some are saying, then that may abate, but if not, then the rest of the world is getting ready.
We (EU) are mostly up to speed at the moment. But you dont wanna overspend like 5% GDP i guess. Orderbooks are full , workers are hired etc. But when RU is coming down or the war somehow magically ends , there wont be no need for big production. some spare factories keeping their lights on on the other hand. Midterm there will be some rare earth mines openend (SWE / DE) and more chipmanufacturing (DE) --> TSMC and maybe Intel . Reneweables are going up. Id say we are partly (over 50%) decoupled from outer shocks as a continent.
Yeah, today I was entering Costco and a grandpa was coming out with a giant toy tank. I think it was called “Mega Blaster.” Anyway, I said to him, “Excuse me, but Russia needs that tank a lot more than your kid does.” Which he found quite amusing. Putin wouldn’t be laughing, though.
LMAO
It is kinda crazy how terrible most new russian platforms are. If they don't fail tactically then they definitely fail strategically. 20 of you platform doesn't matter when the opponent has 2000 of an equivalent or better platform. This applies practically across the board in the T14, SU57, S400, BMPT72, RS28, KH47, and 3M22. This is just a fraction of the new platforms but the old stuff hasn't faired much better because it is no longer competitive against western weapons as a whole and that is assuming that it was maintained properly. Given how much the US spends on our nuclear program compared to Russia I wouldn't be surprised if some generals decided to give themselves a pay raise instead.
You can add Ka-52 heli to that list and their supposedly more recent BMP/BMD models/upgrade packages, all have gone all but extinct, oh and their A-50 awacs, from what we know they lost enough of them they can't actually run them in a full rotation anymore. I think their most modern actually deployed/produced SPGs are mostly gone too.
Why is Crimea painted as part of Russia?
@@milerale5286 not
You have a great voice for narration, it’s just so consistent that I can see why some people claimed you were ai
During the Cold War, I worked at NATO Headquarters and vividly remember the financial collapse of the Soviet Union. Putin seems to be following the exact same path, repeating mistakes that history has long warned against but is often forgotten. As the saying goes, those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Its even deeper & simpler. Western arms in Ukraine proved vastly superior to Russian. The Russian arms market was obsoleted by the Ukraine war.
No. Russia was on international arms market only because West wasn't selling to some customers and that will not change.
Please stop using maps with russian Crimea. It is temporary occupied by russia. Crimea is Ukraine.
The map is just show areas the Russian currently occupies. So I don’t see the issues
In your dreams Volodymyr)
Dude, you have your map wrong. Crimea is occupied, and not part of Russia. The same as Donetsk and Luhansk regions. So either draw them as occupied, or as part of Ukraine
Imagine storing your ammo directly under the turret like, what? It's not even a hindsight thing its just really damn stupid.
Back when those tanks where first developed that was actually a good spot to protect the ammo from exploding. It was difficult for other tanks to hit it in combat.
Thing is though top down precision anti tank weapons like the Javelin where invented in part to turn this strength into a fatal weakness
@@seamuslithgow4332 Lol, no it was never good spot.🤣🤣🤣 Its funny how ww2 AMERICAN Sherman tank was more survivable than modern t-90 tank.😆
The ammunition carrousel was an efficient part of the auto-loading system and had some advantages. War back in those days was expected to be short, sharp, and head-to-head. The ammunition is low down and also protected by the frontal armour in such conditions. Anything that penetrates the crew compartment is highly likely to be lethal anyway. Flying turrets are poor advertising, but Russian tanks have worse problems.
@@TheLoachmanand the design allowed the soviets to eliminate one crew member and NATO to eliminate the rest all at once
BUT they can get off 10 shots /min and US tank can only get off 7 shots/min. LOL
Imagine a failure rate of 20% - 50% of Russia's nukes? Some returning to sender?
Shittt, they were shocking levels of dilapidation when the USSR collapsed 35 years ago.
I can only imagine today. Nukes are NOT the sort of thing you can leave on a shelf.
bad yea , but that means the rest went as intended , bad for us as well lol
You really should learn about history about warheads on Polaris missile and coroding PAL chain.
@@piotrd.4850 If it's Russian, it hasn't been maintained for over 30 years and is as dangerous to it's origin when used as it is anywhere else. Haven't you been paying attention? 🤣
Thanks
Outstanding video! Extremely well presented.
No money no army and surrender.
S400 is hot trash
Nice to see you uploading again love your other channel
Back in the 1970's there was a saying in tournament chess: "Facing two connected passed pawns is like facing Russian tanks.". Two connected passed pawns are still greatly feared, Russian tanks not so much.
I mean when your tank turrets go 200 plus ft on the air why would anyone want to buy them?
current record is at 130 meters or about 400 ft!
Out of all the videos you’ve made on this conflict, this is your best one so far. You might just have explained why President Biden was so hesitant to give Ukrainians the greenlight to properly defend themselves. As the US government is deeply tied to defense contractors, I can only guess that they decided together to let things play out slowly to show the world how poorly the Russians are at making weaponry.
There's another problem facing Russia's arms industry. Research and development costs are huge. In the end, Russia only has (more or less) the GDP of Italy. If you cannot spread the R&D cost over a big number of (sold) tanks or planes, the R&D cost per unit is staggering and comes on top of the actual production cost. Without enough foreign buyers, Russian arms production will look like their civilian aircraft production: dwindling.
I think it hilarious that russians hate post all western military channels while also getting destroyed on every battlefield they walked onto for 50 years in a row😂
The problem that seems to always get overlooked here is that arms exports also allow for production scaling that dramatically reduces and/or offsets the costs of developing and producing them in the first place.
High tech equipment has gotten so expensive to manufacture that the only way to really make it work is to get buy-in from countries across the globe. If there is none, the cost per unit is too high to even properly equip your own military.
Always happy to catch a video shortly after upload
Very nice and comprehensive summary with intelligent analysis. I knew all this stuff already after viewing many other videos from the likes of Joe Blogs, Jake Broe, Perun and others, but you put it all together into a nice, neat, focused, well-moderated package. Thank you!
Many of the Russophile comments here remind me of Comical Ali (information minister of Iraq: “no, no, there are no enemies here, Baghdad is strong, every Iraqi is supporting saddam, no, no, there are no explosions here)
And also. Many of our western leaders need to … how do you say it English … grow a pair. What the … are they so afraid of? Russia is on her knees. It should be possible to support Ukraine to a solid win in this war. 🇺🇦🕊🇳🇴
Comical Ali won some respect, that's for one. For two, people who actually understand who, what, how and why failed aren't "Russophiles'. Ukraine has been fighing on Soviet hardware for two years. Worked good enough.
@Unitedwestand_2024 Maybe from US - but truth is, that Ukrainians are mostly keyboard warriors, covering coffes and malls in Poland. Their unit in Poland saw whole 30 volunteers, while dessertion and corruption are rampant. They are not much different from Russians.
@@piotrd.4850 Fighting spear against spear is still a war. But the one who acquire a gun, will win.
And yet Russia keeps biting like mosquitoes and horseflies
I appreciate your work and look forward to the videos. Thank you!
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has released the latest GDP data calculated by purchasing power:
China ranks first with a total economic output of 37 trillion US dollars;
The United States ranks second with $29 trillion;
The EU ranks third with $28 trillion;
India ranks fourth with $16 trillion;
Russia ranks fifth with 6.9 trillion US dollars;
Japan ranks sixth with $6.5 trillion;
Germany ranks seventh with a score of 6 trillion US dollars;
Eighth is Brazil, ninth is Indonesia, tenth is France, and eleventh is the United Kingdom
Remember whatever Russia says the opposite is the truth❤
You sooooo brainwashed
In Ukraine, we joke that Russia's best air defense is the US government.
Lol
In my opinion, russia cannot battle against Ukraine very soon if the country has many problems with tanks, rockets, planes, and even infantry
If you check some other non western propaganda you willl see Russia is producing more than whole nato together and nato admitted that
The Russian S300 and S400 have an impeccable record against civilian airliners!!!
When faced with an enemy that is very capable then the results head the same way as most Russian tanks in this war!!!
Who wants equipment that always does worse than expected? and shows it loses to older equipment that actually does its job? As a result 2010 era Russian tanks lost to a 1970s support vehicle from the front, and have shown to be rather junk in comparison to modern methods; especially in the basics like the armor and ammunition designs. People who analyzed knew Russias tech was hype or could speculate a lot of that was hyped to be better than expected, but Ukraine has only provided solid evidence of it all, and confirmed it was 'even worse' than anyone could have expected. Not only that but when paired with an inadequate force that fights like a 1950s-1970s era military, the result was they could not take a 3rd world neighboring country that fights with just a few modern methods and 'actually working' older techs that far outperformed Russian ones. Even when considered #2 strongest in the world, if so, it just demonstrates how much of a gap there is between their military and western militaries where their stuff actually works. If you say Russia has a laser, and they did it by spamming 10 lasers and hoping it was enough, I'd believe them, but I'd trust that '1' western laser currently works and destroys all of that. Russia is literally stuck in hte old ages and it reflects in their faked mentality that they were some kind of world war 2 heroes (false in itself) and also that they have no human rights in 2024. They believe that Soviet arsenal equipment will suddenly win the day and that it's a war of attrition.
All military equipment works worse than expected. Russia had different problem - overreliance on overly elaborate plans.
Great video Icarus, keep up the good work!
The T-90 is garbage. Just a slightly updated T-72 with the same failed autoloader.
France exports 8B a year, USA is exporting more than 50B. I think Russia was never a BIG country for arm sale, compared to others types of export 8B is almost nothing. The total GDP of the world in 110000 billions = 110 Trillions. So 8B was well 8/110000 %= not much.
Why then did France beg Australia for the explosives to make artillery shells? Europeans seem to have a problem scaling up.
It's really interesting that some people haven't considered the inverse statement is also true. While the US public is terrified of losing their influence, the irony is that the US influence on the global stage is becoming more relevant, as more and more countries rush to procure US military systems. There's simply no real competitor for the F-35 that's available for purchase on the open market. It's only marginally more expensive than the French Rafael, a plane designed to be cheap, but it offers dramatically more features and performance. Yes, it is more expensive, but countries are clearly voting with their wallets by choosing to purchase the F-35. So at the same time the US is "losing" influence in certain areas, they're also substantially more than 50% of the global arms trade, with their only real competitor suddenly melting down. Every other western arms exporter is allied with the US an integrates their systems with US systems. Being the single and primary arms exporter for the entire world is the type of influence that gives you unrestricted power. So yeah, I'm not expecting the US to lose power on the global stage.
That might be true for fighter jets but for other weapon systems countries like France and S-Korea take a strong position.
@@peterflohr7827 but these are still allied with the us/the systems intergrated with us systems
there are not many countries outside the "western world" with big (hightech) arms industries
i think india is building one right now or trying to we will see
then there is maybe china
iran and north korea are the other i can think of with some significance
More and more countries will be buying Chinese planes, both military and civilian
The Israel's are using the F-35 with great success against Iran. Stealth has great advantages!
Russia us loosing Russia is loosing. .. 🤷 it's been years man
The Nlaw (Robot 15) is developed by SAAB-Bofors in Sweden for the Britisch and Swedisch armys .
So it is a Swedisch missile even tough components are made in GB and mounted by Thales factory in Northern Ireland.
Thales air defence group is a French company.
Unlike the US, Russia do not have natural allies that can afford to share the development cost, purchase and maintain advanced weapon systems. Russia's clients are mostly small dictatorships. These dictatorships have only one type of enemy, their own citizen. Which means, they don't need SU-57 to suppressed the population, the good old AK-47 will do. The US and its allies on the other hand, have very serious nation state enemies, and will required F-35 to fight them. In the end, selling weapons is not just about money. It's also about advancing your technology through real world applications. The more it is used, the more you'll learn and improve. Russia has no chance or reason to improve. Who's gonna buy their SU-3000 decades from now, if ever.
The S-400 is perfectly capable of intercepting a Western missile. You know, just the one 😉
This was one example in what context the Russian military equipment is talked about these days.
The Russian arms industry was viewed as one of the best in the world? You mean the Soviets. The Russian Federation and the Soviets are two VERY different entities.
But even then, the Lazerpig loop is real
The argument that sales dropped just because Russian weaponry sucks, is dumb since the vast majority of Ukrainian arsenal is also from Soviet/Russian origin, it's not Patriot the system shielding all of Ukraine, but Buks and Osas. And western equipment has also been destroyed pretty quicly from the 140 western tanks recived by Ukraine at least 80 had been destroyed (acording to Oryx Blog).
Russian missiles took the 'Miss' in missiles literally
They were allowed to think they were the best weapons.
It is quite misleading to say NLAW is British. Sure, production happens in Great Britain, but the design is actually Swedish. It's like saying that Eurofighter is German/British, because production happens in those countries.
The acheivments you list in the beginning, the MIGs etc, where not Russian but Soviet acheivments. Russia manage to skate on what the Soviets built for a while.
And wasn’t much of Soviet know-how based in Ukraine?
@@CoryPchajek ship and plane engines were produced by Ukraine up until the invasion.
I am a huge fan of the way you're labeling your sources, like 20:36. Keep it up!
The su57 was actually a response to f22.
Correction "....failed response..."
@@Jay.Kellett ok, attempted response.
Okay, quite a bit of this is just complete cope. First off, the Abrams does not have superior mobility or armor. At 70+ tons they get stuck a whole lot easier than the 50 ton t-80 as mentioned by Ukrainian tank crews who have complained about its shit mobility. Also the hull armor is a joke, it was a joke in the 80s, but has not recieved any hull upgrades until SEP v3 which made it even heavier.
Lastly, claiming that our bloated MIC is somehow more efficient than Russia's is really splitting hairs. Considering we spent how many billions of dollars and years on Littoral combat ships that were found to be useless. And the sheer amount of military programs that go nowhere or turn out half baked ideas like the XM5.
For one, Ukrainian crews never had 70t variant of M1 - they had 60t one M1A1 which actually has LOWER ground pressure than advanced T-72B and T-80 derviatives and better power to weight ration. Anyway, US trains tank platoon leader for at least 3 years. Ukrainians just destroyed two Leopard 2s in Poland and were using tanks badly and decided to blame it on tank.
@@piotrd.4850 Once again you're wrong, the model sent to Ukraine is the A1SA which weighs in at over 67 short tons. Also the t-80 still has a ground pressure that is lower than .95 kg/cm2. So you're embarrassingly wrong LOL.
Also, not talking about Leopards, don't know why you brought that up. But nice to see that you're attempting to shift blame away from the bloated and poorly armored tanks that you sold to them.
Lets not even talk about how much of a maintenance hog and fuel slut they are. Which makes their use in the Ukraine east questionable. Even US leaders have mentioned how pointless they are in the current environment.
This war shows weak places not only in moskow weaponry. For example it would be crazy to buy anything from South Korea or Switzerland, because I don't want to depend on countries that have laws that forbid export of military equipment to countries that are in a war state. It means that during a war you can't rely on these countries.
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^^Comrade Trump
A wise man once said...."Predictions are very, very difficult......especially about the future." Trump WILL surprise you!
Your presentation is always laid back and down to earth. Your streams remind me of kicking it with a ridiculously informed friend without an ego. Just having fun explaining your unique take.
Why…..why is your map of Russia including Crimea, which is when I stopped watching this video!?! 😅
I believe it was an honest mistake; the map was meant to show where putin could attack from, not a recognition of russias illegal occupation of Crimea. It probably should have been made clear though
Cope with reality.
An excellent in-depth analysis. Thanks
Damn, bots and simpletons are widespread here.
NAFO armies. I wonder why Ukraine keep hauling people off the street and keep losing Kursk dan other regions day by day. Also, Russia still have an arms industry and produces more equipment than Europe's.
None of the Russian systems were ever considered the ‘leading’ capability. They may have been considered cost effective. You got something perhaps 80-90% the capability of western systems for 50% of the cost. However, when the robber hits the road, the 10 to 20% shortfall in capability makes all the difference.
13:34 This is a Leopard 1 with the welded turred from a Leo 1 A3 :)
Thanks!
Why is Crymea marked in the same was as oficially recognise territory of russian federation?
Perun said this in a video last year. A war economy functions until it doesn't anymore
In 1944, Germany had the highest output of war material during the entire war, a few months before the end.
You can't compare Russia with WW2 Germany. Why? Russia produce the resources (namely food, iron and oil) to keep the war going, while Germans don't have access to oil and attacked from both sides. Russia only need to contend with their west while their east (china) is still friendly
Great post. Good info without any bothersome music. Suscribed to support it!
Bro Russia doesn’t even have sewer pipes, never mind advanced stealth fighter aircraft
And your whole country is one big sewer
@@milerale5286 Whole world is a sewer, bud. Just stinks worse in some parts than others.
Great video, but showing Crimea as Russia on the map, big no no!
Can you provide some sources for all the claims/statistics made in the video?
How about the fact that we're almost 4 years into this 3-day war in Russia still can't claim a victory?
Is everything going according to plan?
While I buy what the guy is selling (the general analysis, not the razors), but I agree, some sources would help shore it up