Posted on 07/01/2023 9:09:44 AM PDT by AndyJackson
.... Russia’s continued strike campaign in 2023 has made one thing quite clear: it is unrealistic to expect Russia to ever “run out” of missiles. Despite sanctions and export controls, it appears likely that Russia will be able to produce or otherwise acquire the long-range strike capacity necessary to inflict significant damage upon Ukraine’s people, economy, and military. Ukraine’s air defenses have performed remarkably well under challenging circumstances. Nevertheless, the Russian military has continued trying to identify gaps and seams to exploit to gain an advantage.
There is no one-off fix for this problem. Sanctions and export controls can, at most, limit the quantity and quality of strike assets Russia can acquire. The most reliable counter is sustained Western support for Ukrainian air defense forces for the duration of the conflict. The continued, steady provision of air defenses into the foreseeable future will save lives, reduce costs of future reconstruction, and help end the war more quickly by enabling Ukraine’s counteroffensive in the face of superior Russian airpower. Moreover, providing air defenses has also forced Western countries to scale up production of these systems, which could have long-term benefits for Western defense readiness.....
(Excerpt) Read more at csis.org ...
Fortunately for those who want to pust to the destruction of Russia, he concludes that despite this Russia will lose. However challenging air defense has been for the Ukraine, he shows tables and statistics showing that Ukrainian Air Defenses are shooting down 90-95% of Russian missiles. The war, however, will remain a challenge unless the West coughs up even more men and more equipment to shore up the highly successful, but somehwat challenged, but hightly successful Ukrainian Air Defense. More money please to help out some folks who are doing miracled with what the have and stymiing Russian progress everywhere, but still need a hand. - Can you spare a Franc buddy. We got needs here.
“Russia Isn’t Going to Run Out of Missiles”
You’ve been told at least A DOZEN TIMES that Russia is out of missiles, starting last March. What part of that do you not comprehend?
I know. Someone at CSIS has gone off the reservation to print this disinformation.
More Russian Propaganda - fact is they are using their stocks up faster than they can replace them, plus a missile of any type made before 2020 is far superior to the same missile made today, because Russia’s missiles, like its tanks and other equipment, are dependent on now embargoed Western parts.
“I know. Someone at CSIS has gone off the reservation to print this disinformation.”
LOL. Thanks for getting it!
Is a thrown shovel considered a missile? I hear they have lots of shovels.
Vlad has publicly stated they are fully stocked for a high intensity war with the West ( NATO) for 30 months. Their monstrous manufacturing industry has been running 24/7 for more than a year since then. Do beware, unlike the West, they lack nothing to produce what is needed…grain, food, oil, energy, metals, commodities, etc….they are totally self sufficient.
On the other hand, Lockheed, Northrop, Boeing Defense, Germany Rheinmetall, etc…has admitted of severe defense industry shortages ( which I can verify personally).
IF NATO does something stupid, like intervene, they are spent within 5-7 days ( defense experts words, not mine) which explains just about everything about the West’s proxy war against the Russian Federation.
Vlad still holds all the cards.
The Soviets lost Afghanistan. And they had twice the population back then.
Who ever said they were going to run out of missiles was either an idiot or pushing an agenda or both. Fact is Russia is using their sticks at a rate that is not sustainable at least at previous usage rates, dependency on Iran and other third party suppliers shows that indigenous production is not up to the task. Additionally the stupid way they are using these weapons is something for discussion
When they had air dominance and their ballistic missiles and Iranian drones were hitting with great frequency there is possibly some justification for trying the strategic bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure to break the hearts and minds(didn’t work in ww2 but insanity…..), but to send their ever scarcer weapons to places like Kiev is well insanity is … again
As for pushing for destruction of Russia, don’t start what you can’t finish. Putin is doing a fine job of destroying Russia from within
Am already demographic time bomb has been accelerated, manpower fleeing, and dying. Russias far flung districts of the federation held together by graft, and intimidation has been substantially diminished as the insatiable need for manpower and equipment reduce both in these areas
As the war gradually begins to affect the St. Petersburg/Moscow population negatively we will see how that goes
Link please.
So did we.
“Is a thrown shovel considered a missile? I hear they have lots of shovels.”
Western tanks and Bradley’s are learning that shovels are NOTHING to mess around with.
We lost Afghanistan and have at least twice the population of Russia, we also lost Vietnam so our record is any better
It seemed to work well enough at Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
It’s amazing how quickly people forget get that fact, we also lost Vietnam as well
Leftist democrats lost both Afghanistan and Vietnam. After they were well under control.
Democrats are a plague.
Nice launch platforms you got there. Be a shame if anything happened to them.
Russian Propoganda? This is a CSIS publication. They stand at the center of the swamp globalist imperialist nexis. It’s what they do for a living. They have a fine building right in the heart of DC and any Senator or Congressman or Staffer at any time can go buy and enjoy the free food and wine and a nice seminar on how the next MIC invetion will be at the heart of global security for the future.
So many people run with their own version of history and current events. I’m not sure what’s wrong with them.
Yes they did but the fact remains those wars were lost and Ukraine is being sacrificed for no good reason
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