Posted on 03/05/2022 11:35:44 AM PST by TigerLikesRoosterNew
How cheap Chinese tires might explain Russia's 'stalled' 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine
MARCH 3, 2022
PETER WEBER
As the eighth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine began Thursday morning, Russian forces appeared to have gained tactical control of their first city, the southern port city of Kherson, but Ukraine is still holding out in Mariupol, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv, despite heavy shelling. Deaths are mounting on both sides.
Big explosions were heard in Kyiv overnight, but according to the British Defense Ministry's Thursday morning update, the main body of the 40-mile-long Russian military convoy advancing on the capital remains nearly 20 miles from the city center, "having been delayed by staunch Ukrainian resistance, mechanical breakdown, and congestion. The column has made little discernible progress in over three days."
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Trent Telenko, a retired Pentagon staff specialist and military history blogger, suggests another big reason may be Russia's tires, as he explained in a long, illustrated Twitter thread based on photos of deserted Russian Pantsir-S1 wheeled gun-missile systems and his own experience as a U.S. Army vehicle auditor. "When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end," the sidewalls get brittle in the sun and fail like the tires on the Pantsir-SR, he wrote. "No one exercised that vehicle for one year."
Karl Muth, an economist, government adviser, and self-described "tire expert," jumped in, agreeing with Telenko but adding some details about the tires.
Karl T. Muth @KarlMuthReplying to @Noahpinion
Bit of a tire expert here. Those aren't Soviet-era heavy truck radials. Chinese military tires, and I believe specifically the Yellow Sea YS20. This is a tire I first encountered in Somalia and Sudan; it's a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin XZL military tire design.
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Computer security sofware Kaspersky is also Russian. It was viewed as a fine product until it is suspected to have ties to Russian government and subsequently banned by U.S. and many media outlets.
You brought in fighter jets. So I brought in the amazing Chinese hypersonic missiles. The you go crying to mama. Figures.
By the way, snow melted now. It is muddy season,
Temperature in Kyiv right now is 0 degrees C, feeling like -3 and “snow has melted” huh? What planet you living on?
They’re the same Chinese who produced the hazardous drywall that was exported to the U.S. from 2001-2009. It was found to be defective, containing high levels of the sulfurous gases – carbon disulfide, carbonyl sulfide, and hydrogen sulfide. These emissions, which have the odor of rotten eggs, worsen as temperature and humidity rise. This drywall was imported, and used in 20 U.S. States and created an environmental and health hazard. It was used mostly in Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
I’m referring more on a grand Industrial scale.
Cars, Robotics, Airplanes, Logistics building etc.
Mexico at least makes concrete on a worldwide scale.
I wonder if Kaspersky is going to be banned from sale in Western nations?
THANK YOU! Despite the propaganda spread by the lockstep media and its (think tank funded) celebrity experts, no military observer actually believes the Russian columns are stalled, broken down, or out of fuel. These are orderly formations of combat, combat support, and combat service support units, forward positioned behind the battle lines -- evidence that Russia has yet to commit its full weight to the fight while Ukraine's negotiating positions are steadily crumbling.
A notable departure from Russia's standard doctrine has been its relatively sparing use of artillery so far. The same has been true of its limited use of air strikes - which have been announced in advance with calls for nearby civilians to move away from danger. These doctrinal departures further indicate that Moscow is "holding back" to avoid civilian casualties. Just my observations...
I guess the upside is that they kill more of their own people each year with their shoddy production practices, than they do Americans.
Barely around freezing temperature. If you see some pictures from Ukraine now, you see a lot of mud.
You seemed to have changed while I have been away from FR. For some reason this Russia issue is driving everybody crazy.
This is stupid.
The convoy isn’t “stalled”. It’s the supply chain for their armed forces.
Somehow you counters with iphone.
All I am saying is that Chinese product tend to have quality problem and it runs at many level of product.
You almost sounds like an angry Chinese.
I have Hankook tires on my Nissan. They sound Chinese. Hope they are better then the ones in the convoy.
That’s a S. Korean tire.
A few years ago my Harley mechanic tried me to try some Hankook tires. I told him if he put ANYTHING Korean on my Harley it better be 19 and leave a wet spot on the seat.
Guerilla warfare.
Oh, I feel better. thanks!
China bomb tires are a well-known phenomenon in the RV world. That’s why I immediately replace my travel trailer tires with Goodyear Endurance tires that are made in the USA. Looks like the Russian military is learning that lesson the hard way.
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