Given the new technologies, big armored vehicles and naval surface combatants are very vulnerable and probably obsolete. Over the past forty years the US Navy has turned the Persian Gulf into an American lake. Wonder if the strategists, diplomats, admirals and generals realize that the realities have changed. What worked in 2000 cannot dictate events in 2022.
Very good Scott Ritter interview which outlines why the result of this conflict is inevitable and why NATO policy to prolong this war is dangerous and futile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twsKfVjz5sk
By the way, Russia has approximately 30,000 tanks/armoured vehicles. What NATO is sending Ukraine is a small number of heavy armaments which are old, not effective for this battle and most are unlikely to make it to the battle field anyway since Russia has blown up train substations powering railways and hits many ammunition/weapon depots on a nightly basis.
But, the biggest deciding factor in the final result is that after incurring heavy losses early in the conflict Russia’s troop losses are now running “in the single and double digits daily and Ukraine’s are in the hundreds and thousands daily.”
Rybar lists losses of both personnel and equipment on a daily basis. Today, Ukraine lost 636 (combination of killed, wounded and captured) and total number for conflict is over 48,000.
Given the new technologies, big armored vehicles and naval surface combatants are very vulnerable and probably obsolete.
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Given the new technologies, humans are very vulnerable to rocks. obsidian knives, and clubs so these combatants are very vulnerable and probably obsolete ...
My father was an engineer for the Dept. of the Navy; he worked on various aspects of ship design and logistics. I’ve been hearing about the obsolence of surface ships since the late ‘60s. When he was working on subs, those folks would call surface ships “targets,” as in, “Can you believe it? We’re still building targets!”