[AppyPappy]

I’m wondering why Russia has to import weapons

[Timber Rattler]

I’m wondering why Russia has to import weapons

Because they're out and can't replace them internally.

[Travis McGee]

When somebody comes up with a better mousetrap, you buy it and use it, then produce it yourself under license.

All of the below foreign-designed weapons were [Bofors 40mm AA gun] or are [the rest] currently in use by the U.S. military, built under license in America.

Reports are that Russia is now mass-producing the Iranian drones. Nothing new under the sun.

Swedish Bofors 40 mm AA gun (on every USN warship in WW2.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_40_mm_L/60_gun

Swedish Bofors 57 mm Naval Automatic Gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bofors_57_mm_Naval_Automatic_Gun_L/70

Italian OTO Melara 76 mm naval gun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTO_Melara_76_mm

Israeli Soltam K6 120mm mortar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soltam_K6

[delta7]

I’m wondering why Russia has to import weapons
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Cheap very cheap and plentiful. Most intelligence agencies acknowledge Russia’s core ( good stuff) is not being touched should NATO decide to attack.
That explains everything from their manpower usages, deployments and numbers.
Meanwhile, video keeps surfacing of the huge, astonishing amounts of Russian ammo trains that enter Ukraine. Vlad has consistently supplied an average of 70,000 artillery rounds a DAY- western Sat intel photos confirm the kilometers long ammo trains , quite alarming to the West.

All eyes now are on the Russian drone swarm attacks shutting down anything energy related in Ukraine. The West has NO defense against these cheap and numerous drones. Plenty of footage showing the poor Ukies trying to use rifles to destroy them.

That said, the 200,000 purchased and delivered puzzles the West as the Russian Kalishnakov Geranium is identical to the much cheaper Iranian ones.

Given the shear number of drones being released, it is only a matter of time some are recovered and examined. Very, very cheap and highly effective- the dummy ( decoy) ones are even cheaper and sent to draw fire allowing the armed ones easy passage.

…..start monitoring the Ukie populace- social media accounts are now asking questions why Zelensky did not honor his election promises- named specifically the discarded Minsk agreement they violated. Finally. The Ukies are waking up, up to now they have been relatively untouched…water, heat, sewage,internet….