“It is a shame the Russians need to fight with such inferior weapons”
You fight with what you have. Overwhelmingly, what Russia has, is what was left over from the Soviet era. They are burning through it at a hectic pace.
They can produce a lot of artillery shells, but more complex systems being sent to the front are overwhelmingly reconditioned equipment pulled from storage, and they mostly took the best stuff first.
Open Source INTelligence (OSINT) analysts have been tracking the emptying out of the old Soviet storage sites from commercial satellite imagery, and tracking as those models of equipment turn up destroyed or captured on the battlefield.
At these burn rates, they can keep up this operational tempo roughly through 2025, all other things remaining equal. Then the party is over, for Russia as a conventional military power.
Intelligence Services around the world are also counting down the old Soviet arsenals, and preparing for a future where Russian power collapses. Russia’s former client states in Central Asia have already significantly shifted to the Chinese sphere of influence, in just the last two years, as have large segments of Russia’s domestic economy, like its auto industry.
“It is a shame the Russians need to fight with such inferior weapons”You fight with what you have. Overwhelmingly, what Russia has, is what was left over from the Soviet era. They are burning through it at a hectic pace.
That's what I was saying. The poor Russians are fighting with old, dilapidated and inferior weapons of century old technology. Many have nothing but an old shovel from a labor camp.
The Ukraine on the other hand, arms its men with the latest and greatest weapons provided by the greatest nations on the planet, with tecnology from the 21st century. Compare using a great M1A1 Abrams tank, with 21st century armor, to using a jury-rigged Turtle-tank, with cobbled together armor from whatever was available, and just welded on.
And consider the anti-air defense. The Ukraine has such advanced techology as the state of the art Patriot Missile System with its state of the art multi-million dollar missiles. How can the mundanely named Russian systems compete with that?
As for the its Black Sea Fleet, the large Russia ships are old, outdated, and being destroyed by the Ukraine. The Ukraine has no old or outdated large ships in its Black Sea Fleet.
And now in the air, the Ukraine has the most modern F-16 technology, sure to be the ultimate game changer. Finally, Samuyil will have an aircraft worthy of his skills as ace pilot. With Vadym Voroshylov, call sign Varaya, the Ghost of Vinnytsia, call sign taken from the greatest air ace in history, Erich Hartmann, they are sure to provide complete air supremacy.
Also, as you note, the inferior Russian forces are running out of everything. They started running out of missiles in 2022, just a few months into the Special Military Operation (SMO), and it went downhill from there. They have run out of everything, unable to supply an SMO, much less a war.