Posted on 03/23/2023 5:04:26 AM PDT by familyop
Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the aggressor country, has said that the Russian military industry "has gained momentum" and began to produce types of weapons no worse than Western models.
Source: Interfax news agency, citing Medvedev's interview with Russian propagandists
Quote from Medvedev: "The military industry has grown up, it is working actively, most of the businesses (I'm saying this firsthand because I visit them often) work in three shifts, work, as they say, from the wheels – they provide the troops with everything directly, produce the most modern Russian types of weapons – even in a situation where they are trying to deprive us of components, cut off the oxygen in certain directions."
Details: According to him, now the military industry produces "very decent types of weapons, military and special equipment and weapons of destruction."
For example, he recalled the T-90M Proryv tank, which, according to Medvedev, is "the best tank in the world" and surpasses the Western-made Leopard, Challenger, and Abrams.
"They talk about this proverbial HIMARS all the time; this is quite a worthy weapon, nothing to argue about here. But we have a type of weapon no worse than that, which has the same accuracy and effective range, and [it] is better," he says.
He also said that the Russian military industry is supposed to produce 1,500 tanks this year. "Our enemies believed that our industry would choke, like, we would lose everything – these are their endless conversations: "They ran out of shells, they ran out of tanks, they ran out of missiles", and so on. We will make 1500 tanks this year," he said.
Background: According to the Conflict Intelligence Team, the Russian military de-mothballed and began sending the T-54/55 Soviet medium tanks produced in the 1940s-1950s to the combat zone in Ukraine.
“”better than Abrams tanks”
That’s why they kept them in museums.
Please stop stalking and flaming.
Russian tanks have flying turrets, a feature Westerners refuse to employ.
“Please stop stalking and flaming”
Jon, will this be your policy going forward? No more unprovoked insults or trolls from you to anyone else?
If so, then good for you and I will abide your cease fire for as long as you do.
In theory, it’s not difficult to produce a HIMARS (really a GMLRS) equivalent. Starting with say the ex-Soviet Uragan rocket system.
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But any Russian version lacks access to essential Western parts and chips.
“”better than Abrams tanks” That’s why they kept them in museums.
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He’s referring to the 20 examples of T-14 Armatas which come complete with tow trucks. Making more T-14s is too expensive and cannot be done until Russia has access to Western parts and chips.
Ukeprop
“...I limit contact with Religious KooKs...”
Oh, like those folks on FR. You’ll be leaving then, and going over to your brethren at DU. You are only a disruptor here.
Hush, Neocon.
The formerly mild mannered, easy to work with President of Russia has lost his mind as he tried to our Hawk Putin. He has undergone a total transformation to complete insanity. He is nothing now but a court jester.
You say you are “a man of peace”.
You can’t truly call yourself “peaceful” unless you are capable of great violence.
If you are not capable of violence, you are not peaceful, you are harmless. That is an important distinction.
So everyone here recognizes that your diatribes and lies on this forum are from a harmless nonentity.
“But any Russian version lacks access to essential Western parts and chips.”
That’s likely to be the case, especially as the complicated part is the ammo.
Bkmk
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