Ukraine’s defences are thin – so why is Russia not winning? | Defence in Depth



On March 4 the Kremlin said it would not be deploying its latest tank, the T-14 Armata, into Ukraine. Even though Russia currently …

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  1. One of my favorite channels.
    Host Dominic Nicholls brings entertainment value with his views on Russian miscues and missteps. Today, the T-14 Armata Tank: "The most expensive parade float the world has ever known."

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  2. Why are people still talking about this fictional tank as if it is a factor in the war in any way? As a practical matter, the T-14 Armata DOESN'T EXIST! The Kremlin paid for hundreds of the things, and so much money was stolen by the crime syndicate masquerading as the Russian military-industrial complex that all they have are a few barely-functional prototypes. And now with the sanctions in place, they lack the capability to build more without access to the much more advanced Western parts and components the T-14 requires.

    They could try to build a dumbed-down version using only the tech they are capable of producing domestically, but that is unlikely to be much of an improvement over the T-80s and T-90s they already field, but would almost certainly come with a higher price tag. As it stands, though? Anything to do with the T-14 in regard to the war in Ukraine is functionally fake news, serving no purpose but to distract from what's actually going on.

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  3. change the title, I didn't learn a thing about why Russia is not winning. It seemed to only drag on Ukraine for its shortcomings, and not the fact that they've stalled the "second greatest military in the world."

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  4. Russia is winning, but slowly because it spares the Ukranian civillians and Rissian soldiers. While Russia has overwhelming superiority in all types of weapons and parity in drones with Ukraine, the only reason which still allows the Ukranian army to hold its positions is irrational wasting of its human and technical resources.

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  5. 1:10 "albeit in salami slices, often literally" Did the Russians slowly capture multiple food processing plants located on the front-line? If not, I struggle to see how this statement can be interpreted as anything other than *figuratively*.

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  6. It's so simple. This has been explained long ago. Russia has no strategy for successful and continuous offense. They have no training as an integrated fighting unit combining all services, not to mention the lack of effective air power. They continue to stay with the strategy they used in WWII. Didn't really serve them then, still not doing it now. Were it not for the bitter winter at the time German would be the language of Moscow.

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