General Discussion

Russia is having to refurbish and roll out tanks and AFV's that are 40 to 50 years old, and artillery tubes. The only good thing about the war in Ukraine is it ground down the Russian military nearly to a nub equipment wise. And exposed it for what many of us already knew it was. A bunch of glossy brochures for international arms sales and not much more. That's the thing about kleptocracies. The money never makes it into actual, functional military systems. Much if not most ends up in various pockets, from front line soldier graft to oligarchs. All want their cut. So when they actually have to fight a real shooting war, things can go very, very wrong.