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Serhii's avatar

I’m waiting for your update all day!

Thanks a lot!

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RSentongo's avatar

Great and honest write up. We really need to have Western commitment to producing more weapons as well as letting the Ukrainians innovate on the battlefield as you said. I fear though Western military advisors may try to impose their way of fighting on the Ukrainians which would hinder the ZSU. I remember before the Kharkiv offensive most Western military expert on TV were saying it will only be incremental gains in Kharkiv. But turns out if West had provided enough weapons before the ZSU would have been able to push further as they surprised everyone with how they kicked the Russians out. But now as you write, the Russians have adapted, increased the amount of soldiers in territories held and trained them just enough to be a punching bag with nails. Its like in military sim game where you place a lot of soldiers in a territory you've captured, and then push your maneuver armored forces into attacks. Simplistic but the parallels are there. Otherwise Western bureaucracy can be a cancer of some sort at times. There's been no point at all in this war when the West has been ahead of Russia's malevolency and provided more equipment. Its always after enormous Ukrainian begging and pleading that they get something. I blame everything on the Biden Natsec team's nonchalant behaviour. What also astonishes me is seeing western donated tanks without proper hard kill APS systems especially considering the proliferation of cheap suicide drones thats been the case for the past 5 years. I am sure there's weapons systems we're not seeing but I've seen enough western armoured systems get struck by Lancets. A modular APS system to take these out I can program myself in C++ so I hope the smart boys in Lviv are working on them and not waiting for Western bureaucracy to catch up. Attach a sensor to a Remote Weapon station and place it on top of an armoured vehicle. I've seen some already being developed by the Ukrainians but they need to work on the software. Also surprising is the West doesn't have loitering munitions similar to the Israeli Harop. This is quite shocking. These devastated the Armenian army in the recent Nagorno-Karabakh war, I dont understand why we arent developing these systems instead of relying on Israel. As we've seen they refused to offer them to Ukraine yet Iran is offering their loitering drones to Russia. There's a lot I find concerning about Western high tech equipment thats not ready to face modern cheap threats. Kind of reminds me of all the "high tech" weaponry we started the war on terror with. Weapons evolve and we're not reacting quickly enough to help the Ukrainians.

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