- cross-posted to:
- ukraine_war_news
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- ukraine_war_news
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/289715
Jokes and SLS aside, interesting and insightful article on modern industrial war and capabilities in Russia and the West.
TLDR: To wage large scale industrial war you need a massive industrial and manufacturing base to supply your population and army. The West outsourced those capabilities. Oops.
In short, US annual artillery production would at best only last for 10 days to two weeks of combat in Ukraine. If the initial estimate of Russian shells fired is over by 50%, it would only extend the artillery supplied for three weeks.
In a recent war game involving US, UK and French forces, UK forces exhausted national stockpiles of critical ammunition after eight days.
Lockheed Martin produces about 2,100 [Javelin] missiles a year, though this number might ramp up to 4,000 in a few years. Ukraine claims to use 500 Javelin missiles every day.
The Russians have fired between 1,100 and 2,100 missiles. The US currently purchases 110 PRISM, 500 JASSM and 60 Tomahawk cruise missiles annually
How fucking crazy is it the Russians can do this with like 1/10 the military budget?
Turns out a multibillion $ streaming service bloats your GDP, but doesn’t produce anything materially needed in case of war. Also turns out capitalism creates the conditions for its own undoing.
And we’ve been saying this shit from day fucking one.
So how much does Russia have in stock? I assume tons, and they actually have industry so they can replenish.
What about the PLA’s capabilities?
Good questions. According to this article, “the assumption that there are 4,000 cruise and ballistic missiles in the Russian inventory is not unreasonable.”
Context:
As for the PLA, or for other estimates about Russia, I’d have to look around for other sources.
Also, I think this is an interesting passage regarding “flawed assumptions” about this issue:
Okay so Russia has enough already and the resupply capabilities to rival (in practicality probably surpass) NATO. Go figure.
Now that point of weapons production is strong to consider, but isnt it only the plague of western, and especially US, imperialist gluttony.
PLA has been constantly modernising for the last 15 years or so, so i would assume their resupply capabilities are superior to any other country even now. And contrary to the west, they have centrally planned economy and world’s biggest industrial production, so they can increase the production much more and much easier than west.
Not to mention the numbers or actually having something to fight for. I’d imagine the West aren’t going to be able to catch up with both of them, even without the economic crash upcoming.