Proves nothing, Ukraine does propaganda better,
Russias lies , Ukraine lies , poster lies
Russians.lie.about.everything
It is reasonable to backup your proclamations with some sort of references, the question remains if you insist Russian drones are so great then why do they have to resort to begging Iranians for help?
When they damaged a leopard 2 the internet was flooded with same tank from slightly different angles for weeks, before that tank was recovered and repaired, where is the drone footage from Russians boasting of recent kills?
A lot of daft claims are made on this thread without any sort of references to backup the daft statements that make no sense when examined closely
It is not hard on other hand to find daily drone footage of Russian **** blowing up, from today alone
On the battlefield...
I love theses demands for evidence
Where is the evidence? Why do they have to resort to Iranian drones if their own ones are so great
Early in the war your man on Sky News said Russia has 10% precision weapons and 90% dumb. The west has 90% precision.
Meanwhile, Makhachkala airport earlier today
Still being discussed,
They got 150 million coming over the next few weeks,
What's the latest on USA funding for Ukraine?
The biggest difference is the Ukrainian are building basic quadcopters with limited range and payload capacitys yes they have done some pretty clever stuff, but the type's of drones being used by the Russians have better range and capabilities,
I've serious doubts about that claim. Ukraine has shown to be very innovative in building drones to different needs in the war. Russia may claim to be building millions but they lie about everything.
Remember too that russian shells fired are very inaccurate compared to Ukrainian
here read these
but thats the past. the question is what will there supply be like in Q1 and Q2 of 24 , on the face of it, Ukraine wont receive anything like they did in 23 and Europe will only be supplying current production as the Europeans etc have given them their surplus and they wont be minded to run their stocks down to 0. Ukraine will have built up a stock for the summer offensive which they will have burned through now. If the Russians are going to do a serious offensive (if they are capable) it will be a Spring one, I see a risk for ukraine in the next 4-6 months. If the war rolls into 25 then I assume western production will have risen significantly.
And when you consider that a lot of Russian artillery is dumb artillery depending on volume fired to create impact while Ukraine has a lot of very technical guided munitions. Where a shell can land within a couple meters if it target from 50+ miles away
It's probably based on number of shells fired each day. The fact Russia is firing less than Ukraine and the fact Russia have had to beg Kim for 100' of thousands of shells may lead people to the conclusion that Russia cannot produce enough to out shell Ukraine.
The cluster shells have been a godsend for Ukraine. They would be fooled without them.
Even if Russia can produce shells for $800, they cannot seem to do it at scale. 63k a day down to 7k, that's a significant drop.
So no evidence whatsoever to support the thesis slash claims that Russian drones are leading to increased destruction of Ukrainian armour
at a time we have dozens of drone videos of Russian armoured attacks being shredded to pieces with remarkably accurate artillery
do you have a bit more context for the arty superiority? the western media have been reporting arty shells issues, it will be a couple of years before there are increases in production if ever or may not be significant, it doesnt seem possible that Ukraine will receive anything like they did in 22/23 in 24. Currently a western shell costs $8K which implies its just price gauging due to shortages, the Russian cost for a shell is about 1/10th of that
That's a lot of spam that doesn't really answer the question asked about drones killing Ukraine Armour.
A link would have been a better way to link to an article.
Not sure if this person is talking crap or not but read it there.
Contrasting the Normandy liberation and this war, to me, the biggest difference is the absence of clear air superiority, and the presence of a significant dug-in in-place defensive force.
People forget that Nazi Northern France didn't have the insane depth of trenches and artillery that the Russian invaders have in Ukraine, couple these two challenges and it should be clear the scale of the challenge the Ukrainians face in liberating their home.
F-16s, lots of then. A-10s, ditto. Modern Sherman firefly equivalents, too.
There are pictures of western armour and vehicles destroyed in Ukraine. Just a lot fewer.
And the evidence for this theory is where?
We have videos and pictures of hundreds of russian tanks and apcs destroyed in Avdiivka alone
where are similar videos from these Russian drones?
Russians wasted a small country’s worth of armour on taking and then losing a slag heap ffs
I think as well Russia I read has caught up with drone production and has thousands of drones for the battlefield and is hitting Ukrainian armour hard. So it's definitely slowing Ukraine down.
Another one bites the dust
The last bren's were retired in the mid 2000's,
It's not just Russia using older weapons Ukrainian were using Lewis guns from WW1 the Russians on donesk were using mosin nagants rifles which looked pretty much new out of the factory,guns maybe old but the can be rechambered in modem calibres and just built new from the factory, either way they are still lethal weapons definitely wouldn't be volunteering to charge someone down using one or emplacement.
Ukraine is focusing on counter battery, striking logistic hubs and ammo dump, airfields and bases. The russians are losing hardware at an unsustainable rate and Ukraine will pounce once it feels russia's resistance is low enough. They have already gained artillery superiority over russia but not in the air.
Russia are clearly all in until the next US election in 12 months. If Trump isn't elected it will suck the Oxygen out of them as Ukraine will get 4 more years of bipartisan support. The shackles will be off too for full support with no looming election to hamper support. If Trump wins Russia will continue fighting with confidence of a favourable long term outcome.
funnily enough, the Isaeli army got to defeat German made tanks of the Syrian army, Panzer IV and Stug111. They must have got a chuckle out of that
I love how you leap to conspiracy and profiteering...
A piece of metal hitting you at decent velocity is always effective. But...
Old Russian Ammunition is corrosive. War time weapons are not built to high standards. So while they will not be reliable, occasionally dangerous, and likely not very accurate or consistent. If you have nothing else, you've no choice but firing old guns with old ammo is going to hard to hit anything, occasionally main or kill the shooter. Collectors of old weapons will cherry pick the best condition rifles and ammo. Even then the guns misfire and jam a lot.
A lot of weapons were not dumped after the war. They were stockpiled and reused if not by the host nation but by selling them to other nations. Ireland had Lee Enfield Rifles and Bren guns still on inventory until the 1980s. There were German WW2 guns used in the Vietnam War.
Lot of countries converted old Rifles into sporting or sniper rifles.
The issue is really how well they are stored and the cost of same. Yes it is wasteful, but sure everything about war is wasteful on a philosophical level.
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