Using it to make the claim that "the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here" is unverifiable speculation. You're off in the fluff.
“Using it to make the claim that “the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here” is unverifiable speculation. You’re off in the fluff.”
Unverifiable? Yes. But it is not illogical. Logically, everyone knows the verified kills are just a portion of all kills. This is always the case, in every war, every century. The total number will not be known until the war is over. What we do know now, because this has always been the case, is that the total number of tanks destroyed must be larger than the number that is verified. A week ago the Ukrainian military said they had destroyed 476 Russian tanks. If the verified number is 297, then 476 is not - by any means - an outrageous claim. Even if that estimate was 50% to high that would still mean more than 380 tanks destroyed. That would be significant and entirely within the realm of possibility of what we have seen so far.
Ukraine, according to multiple sources, has more tanks now than at the beginning of the war because they have captured so many from the Russians. This just isn’t going as the Russians planned it.
“Using it to make the claim that “the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here” is unverifiable speculation. You’re off in the fluff.”
The statement “the amount of equipment destroyed is significantly higher than recorded here” is NOT my statement you dummy. It is from the ORYX website.
If you don’t like their statement, complain to them. You dummy.
You are arguing from a very weak hypothesis. There are 3 possibilities for the number of actual pieces of equipment destroyed versus the number of pieces of equipment listed by Oryx.
(1) Less equipment was destroyed than was shown in the photographs. That's an unlikely situation unless some of the photographs are duplicates. It also means every actually destroyed vehicle got photographed and posted to Twitter or Telegram.
(2) There is a photograph in the Oryx collection for exactly every single piece of destroyed equipment. Nobody missed photographing a lost, captured, or damaged vehicle. This is possible theoretically, but I think we can all agree that is very unlikely.
(3) The collection of photographs is incomplete. Not every lost, captured, or damaged vehicle was photographed and then the photograph found by the people maintaining the list. In this case, more vehicles were destroyed than the number photographed and whose photograph was found by the Oryx team.
I hope you would agree that the last condition is most likely. So then the only "speculation" is what percentage of destroyed vehicles did not get photographed, or got photographed but the images were not posted someplace Oryx would find them. What do you think are reasonable numbers for those two variables?
Personally I doubt that 90% of damaged or destroyed vehicles get photographed and posted on Twitter or Telegram. How about you?