Ukraine - Russia Conflict
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Global arms industry getting shakeup by war in Ukraine – and China and US look like winners from Russia’s stumbles
Weapons manufacturers in China are likely to benefit most from Russia’s losses, while US companies will also see a boon.theconversation.com
Nonsensical article with too much speculation.
First off, nobody is actually buying stuff the Russians are losing. Most of it is old and not even in production in certain cases. Russia's export priority is new, next gen weapons and non-contact weapons like artillery and missiles. Experts are less concerned by Russian armour losses and are more interested in the effect of comms, recce and precision weapons.
In any case, because of India's oil and military trade with Russia, many Russian customers are looking to make deals with Russia via India. And this includes Europe. Russian military customers will want their equipment maintained through India or even in India at this point.
They barely have any new next-gen weapons themselves, certainly too few to field operationally in Ukraine it seems. They sent 1 T-90M and that was killed by an 84mm recoilless rifle. Their comms and recce has been crap.
I doubt anyone in Europe still wants Russian weapons mate. You're kidding yourself as usually.
Expensive. 2,600 missiles at $6.5m for a Kalibr and $10m for an Iskander-M. So $17-26bn in stand-off missiles alone, which is over 1% of Russian GDP ($1.6tr - pre-war).... in just over quarter of a year. After 12 months they'll have spent more than their annual defence budget in missiles alone. 
Russia is turning into 1980's Iran.
We Know the Truth About the War in Ukraine Because of Journalists
"Thanks to journalists, the world saw the truth about Bucha, Borodyanka, and Irpin. Hundreds of civilians shot dead by the Russian military," the editor in chief of Ukrayinska Pravda said.
You do know there is a big chunk of the world thats not Europe/US and keeps Russian materiel as its adequate for their defence needs.
SU-30 customers had even previously reached out to HAL for understanding if HAL could help overhaul their planes. Similar capacity exists for T-90s, BMPs, BTRs.
Expensive. 2,600 missiles at $6.5m for a Kalibr and $10m for an Iskander-M. So $17-26bn in stand-off missiles alone, which is over 1% of Russian GDP ($1.6tr - pre-war).... in just over quarter of a year. After 12 months they'll have spent more than their annual defence budget in missiles alone.
Any similar analysis for the materiel expended by Ukraine. You love to make fun of the T-62s and 72s but you do realise Putin is making Ukraine spend hard to replace ATGMs on essentially 40 year old write offs. Now who is the tool in this case?
Ukraine says it destroyed an 'elite' Russian unit in eastern Ukraine after a grueling 14-hour battle
The Ukrainian army's 80th assault brigade says the Russian soldiers retreated in defeat, "leaving in the forest the bodies of the dead."
Those 40 year-old write-offs have 20 year-old write-offs inside them.
Ukraine is being funded by about 3 dozen nations. The cost is inconsequential.
Yeah, but he specifically mentioned Europe.
But yeah, for shooting protestors a T-72 is more than adequate and it's cheap, hence why many buy Russian.
In Donetsk, the Supreme Court sentenced foreign mercenaries to death. The British Aiden Aslin and Sean Pinner and the Moroccan Saadun Brahim, who participated in the hostilities in Ukraine, were sentenced to death by the court.
In Ukraine, the Ukrainian multiple launch rocket system "Bureviy" with a caliber of 220 mm was noticed. The Bureviy MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system on the chassis of the Czech TATRA T815-7T3RC1 with a wheel formula of 8×8. The MLRS is an upgraded version of the Soviet MLRS 9K57 "Hurricane", developed in the early seventies. During the development, Bureviy was supposed to receive a modern digital fire control system that simplifies the production of data for firing and new means of communication. According to the developers, the MLRS can work in a single reconnaissance and strike circuits of the tactical link and show high performance, whether it is implemented or not is unknown. The launcher and missiles are borrowed unchanged from the basic MLRS "Hurricane", depending on the type of missile, a firing range of 5 to 35 km is provided.
There was a video of the strikes of the Russian army, on the soldiers of the Ukrainian army using anti-tank systems. Judging by the footage, in this episode, the Ukrainian ATGM "Stugna" is mainly used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The events shown in the video took place in Mariupol, in addition, the video gives an answer why there is so much destruction as a result of hostilities. The Ukrainian army actively uses residential buildings to shelter its military personnel.
In Ukraine, the Ukrainian multiple launch rocket system "Bureviy" with a caliber of 220 mm was noticed. The Bureviy MLRS is a multiple launch rocket system on the chassis of the Czech TATRA T815-7T3RC1 with a wheel formula of 8×8. The MLRS is an upgraded version of the Soviet MLRS 9K57 "Hurricane", developed in the early seventies. During the development, Bureviy was supposed to receive a modern digital fire control system that simplifies the production of data for firing and new means of communication. According to the developers, the MLRS can work in a single reconnaissance and strike circuits of the tactical link and show high performance, whether it is implemented or not is unknown. The launcher and missiles are borrowed unchanged from the basic MLRS "Hurricane", depending on the type of missile, a firing range of 5 to 35 km is provided.
There was a video of the strikes of the Russian army, on the soldiers of the Ukrainian army using anti-tank systems. Judging by the footage, in this episode, the Ukrainian ATGM "Stugna" is mainly used by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The events shown in the video took place in Mariupol, in addition, the video gives an answer why there is so much destruction as a result of hostilities. The Ukrainian army actively uses residential buildings to shelter its military personnel.
Details: Scouts detected the advance of aggressor tanks and handed over the coordinates to the artillerymen, who promptly "blasted" the aggressor’s armoured group.We Know the Truth About the War in Ukraine Because of Journalists
"Thanks to journalists, the world saw the truth about Bucha, Borodyanka, and Irpin. Hundreds of civilians shot dead by the Russian military," the editor in chief of Ukrayinska Pravda said.time.com
The battle was short-lived - the Ukrainian soldiers destroyed two tanks and multi-purpose armoured tracked vehicles belonging to the occupiers. The rest of the Russian tank crews retreated.
The General Staff emphasises that the occupiers abandoned this attack.
The artillery units also destroyed firing positions that the invaders had set up in a building. According to intelligence, more than ten Russian occupiers were killed.
Reminder: As of 9 June, Russia has lost 31,700 troops and 1,398 tanks.
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