Myths about the Russian Army
The amount of propaganda around the Russian military is hilarious. Let's go over some of it shall we. I'll also show you why you shouldn't trust anything western media, western governments or Ukraine says regarding Russia.
List of myths
Russia has faced substantial issues with armour, communications, logistics etc."
Russia is running out of X, Y and Z
Russia has lost countless men at an unsustainable rate"
Russia uses human waves
HIMARS is the most successful MLRS whilst ATACMS the most successful ballistic missile"
Russia admitted that the M2 Bradley was better than the BMP-3"
Russia has no command and control and relies on discord and starlink"
Russia started using cope cages to deter against javelins”
Russian hypersonics are trash and never work"
Pantsir gets destroyed lots because its bad"
Russia has lost top equipment like Krasukha-4 and L-265M10-35 Khibiny-M due to carelessness
The sole export T-90MS was repainted and moved to the front"
Your CRAMs don't work because the moskva got sunk"
Your T-72B3M and T-80BVM have been downgraded due to lack of thermal parts and advanced electronics due to sanctions from Western countries and Russia has severe shortages in equipment and supplies”
Your T-90M was destroyed by a Bradley"
Russian military is too corrupt”
Your S-300PM2 and S-400 misfired and blew itself up"
Russian using motorbikes and open top vehicles for combat and logistics shows desperation”
Russia using electric bikes and scooters shows desperation”
Russia using normal cars and lightly armoured vehicles shows Desperation”
Russia resorting to use improvised vehicles and weapons shows desperation”
Russian soldiers are using civilian walkie talkies"
Russian drone operators are killing Ukrainian soldiers mercilessly"
Russian IFVs blow up whilst Bradley can't”
Russian soldiers don't have any combat gear"
Russian soldiers are using unencrypted radios
Russia making mass use of mercs shows desperation”
Russian equipment uses foreign parts"
Russian soldiers are using old equipment”
Russian soldiers have no optics"
Russia using trenches shows how old their tactics are"
Russia resorting to using T-54s and T-62s is pure desperation"
Russian body armour has had many failures and problems”
Russian soldiers were seen using donkeys which shows how they have lost so many vehicles"
Russian soldiers grouping together on back of trucks shows how desperate they are and don't have enough vehicles"
Russian conscripts have no training”
IISS says Russia only has 600k active service showing how they have lost over a 700k men”
russian R-187 and R-168 radios have been jammed”
Your SAM systems have failed to intercept NATO missiles”
BMPT has failed as it hasn't been seen since 2023”
Russia doesn't fight at night in Ukraine, this shows a lack of even basic night fighting abilities"
media hypocrisy
Myths
"Russia has faced substantial issues with armour, communications, logistics etc."
● Russia has faced body armour issues
● Russia has faced body armour shortages
● Russia has faced radio shortages
● Russia has faced C2 issues
● Russia has had logistical problems
● Russia has small arms issues
So ?
"This proves they are a bad military"
No this proves you have no idea what you're talking about. Literally EVERY SINGLE one of the above areas were faced by NATO countries in practically EVERY single war they fought.
Iraq War
Communication and C2 problems
https://urgentcomm.com/land-mobile-radio/iraq-shows-army-radio-problems
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2004/jan/25/iraq.iraq
https://www.technologyreview.com/2004/11/01/232152/how-technology-failed-in-iraq/
Body armour supply issues
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/dec/05/iraq.usa
https://www.bodyarmornews.com/u-s-marines-still-seek-better-body-armor/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/many-iraq-bound-gis-buy-own-armor/
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/shortage-of-body-armor-plagues-troops-in-iraq/
https://www.foxnews.com/story/u-s-troops-in-iraq-have-limited-body-armor
Substandard body armour issues
https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7795014
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jul/14/chilcot-debate-iraq-war-commons-uk-forces
Lack of armoured vehicles
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1516482/Iraq-death-highlights-lack-of-armoured-vehicles.html
https://www.latimes.com/la-guard-armor17dec17-storygallery.html
https://publicintegrity.org/politics/lack-of-armored-protection-for-troops/
https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2004-12-09-voa68-67486057/386529.html
general equipment issues
https://carnegieendowment.org/posts/2020/09/this-soldiers-witness-to-the-iraq-war-lie?lang=en
https://www.army-technology.com/features/featurethe-us-armys-armoured-vehicle-conundrum-4369690/
Vietnam war
C2 and communication problems
https://www.historynet.com/nva-radio-communications/
Tank issues
Small arms issues
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/gun-trouble/383508/
https://www.19fortyfive.com/2025/02/the-m16s-darkest-days-how-the-rifle-failed-soldiers-in-vietnam/
Logistics issues
https://amcmuseum.org/history/airlift-during-the-vietnam-war/
https://www.historynet.com/two-million-miles-bad-road/
Aircraft issues
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0494hollow/
Falklands war
Logistics
Gulf war
Engineering equipment issues
Combat Equipment issues
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2165720.stm
Communication and C2 issues
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-03-24-mn-1379-story.html
Serbian war
General equipment and tactics issues
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20049444
https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB75.html
C2 and communication issues
Korean war
Logistics
https://www.alliiertenmuseum.de/en/thema/korean-war-1950-1953/
https://heavyhaultexas.com/freightwaves-classics-the-importance-of-logistics-in-the-korean-war/
Russia is running out of X, Y and Z
Tanks
2022
https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russia-running-out-of-precision-weapons/
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/08/31/7365546/
2023
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-will-run-out-best-soldiers-says-top-ukraine-general-2023-9
2024
https://www.newsweek.com/satellite-data-russia-tank-losses-ukraine-war-1918313
2025
https://kyivindependent.com/russia-facing-equipment-shortages-media-reported/
https://www.newsweek.com/satellite-images-russian-losses-scale-2002135
It's literally the same nonsense repeated every year.
How about this "satellite images show Russia is running out of stuff"
2023
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/08/09/russian-tanks-depleted-stock-heavy-losses-ukraine/
2024
https://www.newsweek.com/satellite-images-russian-losses-scale-2002135
2025
Running out of Missiles
2022
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-running-short-of-long-range-missiles-ukraine-war/
https://thedefensepost.com/2022/09/01/russia-missiles-running-out/
2023
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-may-run-out-missiles-three-months-intelligence-report-1777217
https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/2023/01/25/russia-denies-it-is-running-out-of-missiles/
2024
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2024/05/09/7454891/
2025
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/36593054/putin-russia-run-out-anti-drone-missiles/
Running out of Manpower
2022
2023
2024
2025
https://cepa.org/article/russias-year-of-truth-1-the-soldier-shortage/
Literally the god dam same nonsense repeated every single year.
Why ?
Because it's made up.
Or how about this in 2023 saying Ukraine is going to run out of T-64s
https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/02/16/ukraine-is-going-to-run-out-of-t-64-tanks/
To in 2024 saying they aren't even close
Like Jesus fucking christ and the worst thing is the complete morons who believe this nonsense.
How about this,
Literally repeating a meme created online with photoshop as if it's fact.
https://youtu.be/ZdCw38mrQDY?si=KpnwMDAMCZFGht-P
or this
Claiming Russia has to downgrade their T-72B3s and T-80BVMs because they can't build new sights when it's a cheap solution to mass produced T-72s and T-80s called T-72BMs and T-80BMs and they are nothing to do with T-72B3s or T-80BVMs and are made by upgrading T-72Bs and T-80BVs from storage.
We'll go into this further in our myths section because it deserves its own section due to how pervasive it is.
How about this.
Claims the 1PN96MT-02 thermal sight is akin to NATO sights used in the late 70s. Such sights were early Gen 0 to 1st Generation with single matrix formats like 64x to 100x with resolutions of 240×120p to 300×200p being the standard then.
The 1PN96MT-02 is a 640x480 UFPA microbolometer with a thermal image resolution of 640×480p, this is firmly mid to high tier 2nd Generation by all standards. So firmly a 00s sight.
Here's a good one.
Claimed these were egg cartons.
Nope. ERA spacers.
Here's a good one from ISW saying Russia lost half their T-72Bs in one year. So if we include all (like they do) that's around ~5000
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-lost-half-t72b-tanks-one-year-war-ukraine-western-tanks-1782314
That's more than the total number of tanks Russia has lost in 2026 based on Oryx estimates (numbers they use lol) in over 2 years. Again how people believe this rubbish is beyond me.
so yeah moving on.
Another good bit propaganda is the idea that Russia has a war economy
Now a war economy means you have several things
High defence spending (relative to normal)
Large amount of GDP dedicated to defence so usually over ~20% or at minimum ~10%
The majority if not all tax revenue dedicated to defence budget
The majority if not all of your active service and reserve deployed or in use
Much of your population has been mobilised to help the war effort
Large expansion of military production (again relative to normal) like nationalising of industries.
So let's see.
Russia
2026 Tax Revenue Defense Spending 18%
2026 GDP Defence Nominal Spending 6%
2026 GDP PPP Defence Spending 2%
2026 Defense Budget $120 Billion
● There was a single partial mobilisation of 300k reserves in late 2022 for deployment to Ukraine whilst in late 2025 there was another partial mobilisation of reserves for deployment in Russia.
● Russian army deployed in Ukraine total all together 2022-2025 is around 0.9-1.2m out of 3.3m so that's around 30-50% (need to remember being very generous with those estimates since many are mercs or foreign fighters)
● Their 2021 defence spending was around $80 billion, in 2025 it was 120 so that's an increase of around 12% (remember it was 90 in 2023 and 2024)
● There has been no mobilisation of civilians into military production or into industries that support the war effort.
● We have seen no expansion of military production, civilian factories haven't been requisitioned into military production, new factories that produce shells, tanks, small arms etc. have not been built
● For taking up chunk of economy this again falls flat as Russias defence budget is only around 6% of GDP with 2% when adjusted vs US dollar, for context US is around 3%.
So what is a war economy?
That would be Ukraine
2026 Defense Budget $53 Billion
2026 GDP Nominal Defence Spending 26%
2026 GDP PPP Defense Spending 6%
2026 Tax Revenue Defense Spending 686%
● They mobilised all their reserves in 2022 and have full active conscription of civilians
● Their defence budget grew around ~700% post war and they are in deficit alone in tax revenue
● They nationalised numerous companies so that they could utilise their resources for the war effort, including Motor Sich, Ukrtatnafta, Ukrnafta, ZTR and KrAZ.
● There has been huge integration of the public into military production with countless "volunteers" requisitioned for factories to build military ordinance and we have seen numerous new facilities open for military production.
● For taking up a huge chunk of the economy we have Ukraines defence budget which takes up a colossal OVER ONE THIRD of it's total GDP.
The massive military aid they have received which has been from NATO
Millions of artillery and rockets shells
Hundreds of millions of small arms bullets
Hundreds of cruise/ballistic missiles
~$400 billion in aid
Nearly ~100k soldiers trained to NATO standards
Hundreds of thousands of logistical equipment
We also have NATO command and control systems that are utilised by Ukraine, AFU commanders coordinate battle plans with NATO and NATO country's military production especially relating to munitions and small arms ammunition has hit its limits.
This shows how much military production has been outsourced for Ukraine.
That's a war economy.
Yet according to brilliant western analysts Russia is a full war economy.
Here's another classic: the F-16 shooting down Su-34 myth.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1961869/Ukraine-f16-shoots-down-russia-jet
https://defence-blog.com/ukrainian-f-16-reportedly-shoots-down-second-russian-su-34/
The ONLY evidence of this comes from a random “military blogger” No evidence, no testimonials, no video footage and not a single war tracker has counted it, not Oryx, not LostArmour and not war Spotting for fuck sake even Wikipedia didn't include it, THAT'S how LITTLE evidence there is for this, it is literally just a random claim. Yet again multiple news organisations and military analysts felt it was credible enough to say it was true.
This same formula was repeated in 2025 when they claimed an F-16 shot down a Su-35S when it was a SAM.
Meanwhile when Russian media say that it was a Su-57 that took out a Su-27 or a F-16 getting shot down by S-400 or Su-35S proven by the fact that even Ukraine admitted to losing the aircraft in the air and SAMs in use have been proven to be used over Ukraine territory, this is just discounted as false but Literally just a made up rumour with no confirmation of any aircraft destroyed in air combat or F-16s in the area is enough.
Or how about in early 2024 when Ukraines Avdivka front was collapsing, Ukraine claimed they destroyed over a dozen Su-34s and Su-35Ss in a month.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-says-it-downed-over-dozen-russian-planes-this-month-2024-2
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-su-34-bombers-su-35-shot-down-ukraine-1870910
Yet AGAIN not a SINGLE tracker counted these, not Oryx, not LostArmour and not war Spotting and fuckinh AGAIN not Wikipedia. Yet AGAIN these media outlets just parrot what Ukraine says as fact. In fact the only evidence that exists is that a single Su-34 was destroyed. It is absolutely mind boggling how people believe this rubbish.
Here's an early classic, a teaser of the never ending bull shit spewed by Ukraine. They lied about breaching Russian military communication and killed General gerasimov. Obviously western media repeated this without question despite the fact there was absolutely no evidence.
Only for him to be seen again with no injuries. Funny enough Ukraine just forgot about it.
https://youtu.be/NUnL9OlVJK4?si=bjuh1uhx2hrtUewX
Let's go over the "Russia is running out of equipment" meme.
It is LITERALLY the same nonsense repeated every god damn year, numerous articles say "Russia will be out by X or Y year" be it 2023, 2024, 2024 or God damn 2026.
The fact people fall for this nonsense is hilarious.
I mean literally the back and forward is crazy
Says Russia will run out of modern equipment by spring 2023
Russia will run out of money in 2024
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/02/russia-run-out-of-money-oleg-deripaska
https://m.jpost.com/international/article-733308
Russia won't make it to 2024
https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-will-run-out-arms-before-ukraine-uk-defense-minister-2022-10
Russia will run out of materials in 2025
https://fortune.com/2024/11/24/russian-war-economy-ukraine-peace-deal-vladimir-putin-donald-trump/
According to Ukrainian sources Russia has run out of Soviet equipment
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/07/17/7466120/
Then same Ukrainian sources say Russia can use soviet arsenal until 2027
🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭
Russia will run out of weapons in April 2025
They're now saying 2026
😭😭😭 like the desperation and obvious BS is so hilarious and again the fact ANYONE falls for this is hilarious also.
How about this whopper.
https://news.online.ua/en/russia-is-sending-outdated-t-62-tanks-to-the-front-whats-happening-894744/
Says Russia is sending T-62s to front as a sign they are running out of equipment.
Yes you read that right. The same fucking articles that were from early 2022 just rehashed for 2025 (western media mock Russia in early 2022 for using T62s) and what's sadder is it doesn't matter its just straight up BS, this won't stop the mindless NPCs from eating it up.
“Yeah well Russia has run out of equipment”
No.
It's amusing when people say Russia has run out of stuff. If they have, why haven't we seen stuff like T-14s, T-15s, Kurganets-25, Bumerang, BMP B-19s etc. ? You know stuff that's advanced if Russia was getting hammered so bad. Why are we still seeing T-80BVs, T-80Us, T-72BVs, T-64BVs, T-62Ms, T-90s, T-55s, BMP-1Ps, BMP-2s, BMP-2Ks, BMP-3Fs, BRM-1Ks, BTR-90s, BM-27, BM-30, BM-21-2B17s, S-300V4s, S-300PM2s, Buk-M2s, Osa-AKMs, Tors, Strela-10M4s, BTR-60PBs, BTR-80AKs, etc. (none in production or upgrade) all still being seen even in late 2024 ?
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-forces-hit-s-300v-sam-with-combined-strike/
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/ukrainian-troops-capture-russian-bmp-2-in-battle-near-vuhledar/
How come we haven't seen the numerous Mi-24Vs, Mi-8TVKs, MiG-23MLDs, MiG-27Ms, MiG-25PDSs, MiG-29s, MiG-31s and Su-24Ms getting retrofitted to make up for Russia losing its air force ? how come we haven't seen Russia using stuff like T-64Bs and T-80Us as MBTs en masse as never more than a few dozen are seen, how come we haven't seen Russia pull its ZiS-3s, M-30s, D-44s, D-1s, D-20s, T-10Ms, T-64BVs, T-54s, T-55s, T-80Us, BMP-1P, BMD-1P, BMD-2s, BTR-50s, MT-LBs, BM-21s, BM-24s, BM-13s, BM-14s, Kub-M3s, S-200Vs, Strela-1Ms, Strela-10M3s, ZSU-57-2s, ZSU-23-4M3s etc. all out in mass ? I mean if they have little to no equipment left then all the thousands of vehicles and equipment leftover from the USSR would surely be getting used up in 2023 or 2024 yet we don't see this. Why aren't we seeing all the advanced stuff like T-14s, T-15s, Kurganets-25, Bumerang, BMP-3 Manul, BMP-3 AU-220M, BMP B-19, S-500, etc. All getting used ? If all their stuff was destroyed then they'd be using it ?.
Where are all the older rifles and why are soldiers still in 2024 seen using ratnik equipment, night vision equipment, drones, electronic warfare stations, portable counter batteries, that doesn't seem right if Russia is supposed to be out of equipment.
Why is russia still exporting military equipment with 2024 being a better year than 2022 and orders for 2025 sky rocketing?
Why are there still fields full of tanks, guns, IFVs, MLRS etc. Still around and why haven't we seen photos of all the thousands of old equipment getting put back into service or better yet why is it on sites like Oryx, Lost Armour and War Spotting older stuff destroyed only makes up a fraction of stuff they had and has been in use since 2022 ? Global firepower, Jane's, IISS all said Russia had massive stocks pre war yet even if you double the losses on Oryx it doesn't even account to half of their armoured vehicles, artillery or even a quarter of their fixed wing aircraft, artillery and rockets?
“News shows us that the fields with Russian tanks are empty”
That's just false
Russia is the largest country on earth. They have various open and enclosed storage facilities all across Russia, not even half will be publicly known.
Images still show large stocks in the known open fields
There's an equally large amount of warehouses with equipment that can't be known.
So apparently Russia has no equipment left despite there being no evidence for this along with it not making any sense from a numbers perspective ? So what's going on ?
It's propaganda.
Let's not forget how western media mocked top cages calling it cope cages and ineffective
https://defence-blog.com/improved-armor-doesnt-work-on-russian-tanks/?amp
https://mil.in.ua/en/news/russian-tankers-criticized-the-standoff-armor-on-their-tanks/
Only for them not only praise them when they helped Ukraine and start deploying them themselves
https://www.twz.com/land/ukrainian-leopard-1-tank-survived-a-dozen-drone-strikes-report
Now these groups are saying countries like China are taking note and taking lessons, apparently now it was Ukraine that invented this amazing solution to counter Drones.
This after mocking Russia for doing this at the start. These idiots have zero shame 🫠
start being copied worldwide
France Leclerc
Japan Type 10
ISRAEL Merkava
UKRAINE Challenger 2
Ukraine M1A1SA Abrams
Iran Type 72Z
Chinese type 96A and type 15
Indian Ajeya and Bhishma
Kazakhstan T-72
We hope this proves to you just how utterly laughable and untrustworthy the western media is regarding anything to do with Russia or Ukraine.
You can go as far back as MARCH 2022, fucking not even a month into the invasion, and media outlets and even think tanks were saying Russia is running out missiles, tanks, men, shells, guns etc.
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-troops-grapple-shortages-food-fuel-morale-ukraine-1683793
https://www.newsweek.com/russian-army-days-away-running-out-resources-military-experts-say-1688025
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-troops-battle-bakhmut-battalions-isw-1769895
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-putin-tanks-mod-update-aluminum-1756516
https://www.businessinsider.com/british-spy-chief-russia-run-out-of-steam-ukraine-2022-7
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/08/31/7365546/index.amp
https://euromaidanpress.com/2023/10/28/russia-runs-out-of-tanks-as-war-intensifies/
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-might-run-out-weapons-ammunition-end-year-report-1738702
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-putin-tanks-mod-update-aluminum-1756516
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thedefensepost.com/2022/09/08/russia-hypersonic-weapons-microchip/amp/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/25/ukraine-russia-balance-of-forces/
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2022/08/31/7365546/index.amp
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2022/05/27/vladimir-putins-forces-running-tanks/
It's just nonsense propaganda, it's like people have forgotten what propaganda is and this war, WOW. The sheer stupidity that has been brought out from it is unbelievable (on both sides as well) there are some people so deluded god itself could tell them they are wrong and they'd call God a Russian propagandist. I mean there are literally articles going as far back as a few weeks after the war saying Russia is running out of equipment, literally every other few months the same recycled propaganda is released and brainless sheep gobble it up and both sides are guilty of this nonsense with western media saying Russia has run out of equipment for 56th time or russian media saying they have destroyed 700 abrams and 80 F-16s. It's hilarious how any grown adult could fall for such retardation.
The WORST offenders for pro Ukraine or anti Russia propaganda by military organisations are
Global Defense Corp
National Interest
Defence Express
Technology Org
Warrior Maven
Institute for study of war
War zone
Army Recognition
Times
RAND
Ukraine is notorious for this as well, worse than Russia. (This is stuff the Ukrainian government has said. Not media or state media opinions)
Claimed they destroyed 12 Su-34s and Su-35Ss in a month yet there is no evidence
claimed they destroyed a Su-34 and Su-35 with an F-16 yet again no evidence
Claimed that Russia only has 2-3 working A-50s despite they have over 20 and modernised 9 A-50Us not long ago, again no evidence for their claims
Claimed Russian soldiers use human waves yet in nearly 3 years of warfare they have yet to produce a single video showing it
Claimed they have shot down several Kinzhals and Zircons yet never provide any evidence and only showed wrecked missiles which could be a Tomahawk for all we know (based on how mangled they are)
Claimed Russia was purposely targeting food grain trucks yet the pictures they show (4 pictures from 3 different attacks) show trucks blown up but with empty cargo (meaning there was no grain and likely used for weapon transportation)
Claimed they have destroyed over 24k russian artillery guns or about 4k more than Russia had all together including storage
Claimed they hacked Russias secure Aqueduct-Azart C2 network again no evidence and said they killed 2nd top general again no evidence and he was seen not long after and again they just ignored it
Claimed they had destroyed over 1200 MLRS which is more than all Russian systems in use and reserve.
They make moronic claims like saying Russia loses on average ~1000 soldiers every day, for context Russia would have lost over 1 million men by now which is 400-300k more than Russia has ever had in Ukraine and is more than their own total casualty estimates, they can't even keep up with their own rubbish.
Claimed the S-70 shoot down was a friendly fire mistake when it was shot down by a Su-57 around ~10 km inside Ukraine Territory to prevent capture as it began malfunctioning after being on a regular mission that required stealth.
Claimed they have killed over 500k Russian soldiers or about ~90% of what they have to total in 2023-2024 not even including that there would be that many wounded added as well at least
They claimed an Admiral Grigorovich was badly damaged but when it was seen they claimed it was another ship
Claimed that two Ropucha Landing Ships were seriously damaged yet again no evidence and kept claiming it even after video evidence proved no damage.
In fact their made up naval hit claims are so notorious that even pro Ukraine Wikipedia (as of 11/24) has a section titled “unverified Ukrainian claims” on the naval losses page.
Claimed Russia blew up the dam in Dnepro yet they literally spoke about doing it earlier to the WSJ to sweep Russian minefields
Claimed the S-500 system was deployed to Crimea yet provided no evidence and yet again claimed that it failed to intercept ATACMS yet again no evidence.
Claimed they shot down a Tu-22MR yet it was nearly ~300 km away and the only system that is even remotely capable of that distance is S-200 which is a stationary system deployed around cities or west Ukraine.
Claimed that a Ukrainian pilot absolutely decimated Russian fighters early in war only for it to be exposed as lies, they switched to the “it was for morale” bull shit.
Syria
https://hushkit.net/2021/08/17/successes-and-failures-of-russian-air-power-in-syria/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/10/epic-failure-of-our-age-how-west-failed-syria
https://www.rferl.org/amp/russia-syria-mercenaries-moscow-tight-lipped-on-deaths/29040048.html
Georgian war
https://www.fpri.org/article/2023/03/the-roots-of-russian-military-dysfunction/
https://warontherocks.com/2018/09/russian-performance-in-the-russo-georgian-war-revisited/
Both wars were complete dominance. In Syria Russia had air supremacy and crushed the rebels in a couple of years then withdrew.
In Georgia they secured air superiority day one and conducted a lightning maneuver war to capture their objectives in less than a week
"Russia has lost countless men at an unsustainable rate"
This is just rubbish, firstly if we use proper sources (that are even unbiased and just have good methodology) like mediazona. The Russian army has lost around ~80,000 soldiers or ~120,000 if you count all other fighters (mercs, pro Russia ukrainians or foreign fighters) or ~200,000 if we want to be kindest.
For wounded we will use the 2:1 method so ~140,000 lowest to ~400,000 max.
So for this. We will work out the median for every km². So for a median Fatalities and unrecoverable wounded. So this will be ~320,000 all together for unrecoverable losses. So on average Russia captures ~3km² per loss. If this was a purely manoeuvre war with both sides utilising equal amount of equipment to capture all of Ukraine then it would cost Russia
~1.5m men
~2000 tanks
~1500 IFVs
~40 fighters
These numbers are wonky Aren't they? That's because they are overall averages. In reality war is not a static thing, for example the USSR captured more in 1944 than the total of 1941-1943, this is also a war of attrition, not only that different areas get captured at different times. For example the overall area taken per day is ~3 km² yet in October using the same methodology it was ~18 km² per unrecoverable loss. In February to March it was ~25 km² a day per unrecoverable loss and in April 2022 it was a whopping ~108 km² per unrecoverable loss.
So when you see propaganda groups using such methodologies, ignore them. This is a war of attrition. What they also ignore is that Ukraines casualties dwarf russian.
"Armata series failed because only a hundred exist"
This is a common cope,
"Russia said this would be in service instead they upgraded old stuff"
Yes 🇷🇺 had hoped the Armata would enter service by 2015/18.
Unfortunately the Ukrainian and syrian civil wars put a stop to that.
These things are common.
Britain's Ajax was to enter service by 2018 instead it took until 2024.
The US army hoped to have 1,874 GCV (next gen IFVs) in service by 2014-2017. Instead it was cancelled and in 2018 they began the A4 upgrade, which was fielded in 2022 with M2A4 Bradley.
Russia did the same with their BMP-3s, instead of Kurganets-25 they upgraded BMP-3Ms into BMP-3 Manul and BMP-3 B-19.
How about the F-22 ? It was supposed to replace all F-15s, over 700 to be bought, reduced to ~200 because of costs.
As for Armata program.
The T-14 finished trials in 2018, was approved for LRP in 2021 and entered service in 2024. Mass production will begin after the Ukrainian war has ended.
The 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV finished trials in 2018 and was approved for LRP in 2020, it entered service in 2022 and entered mass production in 2023.
The T-15 began trials in 2015 and Little has been known since.
"HIMARS is the most successful MLRS whilst ATACMS the most successful ballistic missile"
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/himars-ukraines-original-game-changer-1613
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-deep-strike-permission-atacms-storm-shadow/33206307.html
To those who follow this conflict according to western media these systems are the most effective.
I hear this all the time.
"ATACMS is scoring hits weekly"
"HIMARS is scoring hits daily"
Utter nonsense.
First, in the whole war alone there has been maybe a dozen Semi verifiable ATACMS strikes same for HIMARS (video evidence)
You want to know what the most effective GMLRS is ?
The Tornado-S
Ballistic Missile?
Iskander-M
For 2026 ALONE and ONLY videos (so not a drone taking out a radar or S-400 then giving ATACMS credit)
For 2026 alone hittong various targets including s300s, patriots, himars, artillery, base camps, infrastructure etc.
Tornado-S strikes
https://youtu.be/dh-Fwy9w2x4?si=CbMtNGKXt0pl98gA
https://youtu.be/g61vjqZBcpQ?si=wQmpzOj9A8l_2qQI
https://youtu.be/ymk7Pcx6wvo?si=2_4cQw_DT8J9NMos
https://youtu.be/T6j7wdTcJC0?si=egQAYqvhfzJVKaBG
https://youtu.be/WaTakmVghUs?si=822QVRjWDG57tflk
https://youtu.be/w6E0Mt5hICM?si=O2C-nAt90CnPoejx
https://youtu.be/6p7uloEU6gY?si=DfOk45DgWvv7Vm4c
Iskander
https://youtu.be/7vgbVw58B5I?si=83NwmzQ60e4gkxX4
https://t.me/AMK_Mapping/24236
https://youtu.be/Dap1qnSDRoM?si=0b-TOS7xdIQOXQ4O
https://youtu.be/qHfaelTV5qY?si=oox8StNpGE2KFERI
https://youtu.be/Y2YfqbW14m4?si=tr1kD7spiglMBrAv
https://youtu.be/qHfaelTV5qY?si=brOE-OM8tF2-hvdu
https://youtu.be/UnOoBHhmh5I?si=DjKTyu85vmCvPwWU
https://youtu.be/W457gpoMxWY?si=qfY2s4mTchMEC6Fg
You'd find similar amount of videos for stuff like HIMARS except it's over course of whole war.
"Russia admitted that the M2 Bradley was better than the BMP-3"
No they didn't. Now I'll get into what I actually think has happened in the end. But first is there any arguments against its conclusions ?
A few.
Now before we start there is 5 major models of bmp3.
BMP-3 / Obr. 1985
BMP-3M / Obr. 2000
BMP-3M2 / Obr. 2005
BMP-3M3 / Obr. 2017
BMP-3M4 / Obr. 2023
They tested the M2A2-ODS-SA against the original BMP-3 from 1985. How do I know this ? I'll explain at the end. Furst lets go over the report.
Russia has made such reports before on equipment like Leopard 2A5 and A6.
https://tass.com/defense/1959835
Before you say
"They didn't want to release it because it shows Bradley is better"
Two problems with that statement.
1. The report doesn't say Bradley is better, it says both have advantages and disadvantages, the report states that each one has its benefits with Bradley having better ergonomics, safety and gun range with bmp3 being more mobile, can fire ATGM moving and with better firepower.
2. This was released by russia and other Russian official reports didn't hide fact foreign tanks were better in ways.
Here's report.
https://btvt.info/7english/Studies_of_Leopard_2_Russia.htm
Bradley report
https://btvtinfo.blogspot.com/2025/04/bradley-22-ods-sa.html?m=1
So let's go over this.
1. them saying the armour of BMP-3 is much worse as its just aluminium, this proves they are just comparing the original BMP-3 (the bradley they are reviewing is the M2A2-ODS-SA from 2012 with new composite armour) when they should at minimum be comparing the Obr. 00 model which adds options for ERA or current obr 17 with composite armour.
old models
Obr. 17 and onwards
You can literally see the new composite armour add ons. Not only that but one of their suggestions is to add ERA and composite armour.
Russia developed Karkas-2 ERA for early original BMP-3M in late 90s
Used by BMP-3M3 in 2024 used in combat
https://share.google/FHhQKS1OeXLmLE7NZ
They also yet again don't specify anything
Was Brad using ERA ?
What angle was the penetration?
What distance was rounds fired ?
2. Huge red flag here, M242 is apparently 2× more accurate than 2A42
At what vehicle speeds?
How fast was turret moving ?
How fast was gun moving ?
Was it a stationary or moving target?
What is the MRADs for each round and value ?
How can it be twice more accurate than both 2A42 and 2A72 when 2A72 is much less accurate than 2A42 ?
Also bmp3 doesn't use 2A42, so if it was tested what version of 42 was it and what stabiliser and FCS was being used ?
What ammunition was being used on M242 ?
All not answered. And very strange because in Leopard 2 comparison they compare APFSDS ranges yet there is no such comparison done here.
There's the whole mentioning of 2A42 aswell, 2A42 is used exclusively by the BMP-2, so they claim M242 is two times more accurate than 2A42, given that they are testing the original BMP-3 it's safe to assume they must be testing the original BMP-2.
It makes sense if they are comparing original BMP-3, but why ? Well from what I've gathered UVZ is pushing for the Kurganets-25 to be produced (more money for them) as it has finished its trials, could be a ploy to make BMP-3 look bad, but any russian offical from rostec is going to see right away that they were using the OG 1985 model.
3. How is the Bradley better for power and and generator also how does it have a better gun ?
Again not answerd.
Official reports like the Leopard actually list the differences, strange how this doesn't.
5. Why would the crew need to move with the troops? The crew is stationed at the front.
The most hilarious parts are the recommendations.
"We recommend adding armour and coverings to protect the vehicle and gun"
Like the ERA made in 90s ?
Like the current 2023 version has ? (And has had since fucking 2017)
"We recommend creating APFSDS to replace APDS"
So like the 3UBR11 APFSDS-T made in 2014 to 2017 that was set to enter service in 2020 along with 3UBR10 APBC-T ?
https://en.topwar.ru/100045-postavleny-na-vooruzhenie-novye-30-mm-snaryady.html
https://www.russiadefence.net/t5778p225-bmp-1-and-bmp-2-in-russian-army
https://en.topwar.ru/145970-mal-da-udal-tehmash-zavershil-gosispytanija-novyh-30-mm-snarjadov.html
https://otvaga2004.mybb.ru/viewtopic.php?id=2340&p=47
Also this is another one that makes no sense. Why are they just testing the 2A72 ? The main gun on the BMP-3 is the 2A70. Probably because they know even the vanilla model is more accurate (at longer range) than the M242 by virtue of its calibre, even older HE-FRAG rounds like 3OF32 would blow the M792 HE away, in range, blast radius and MRADs never mind the current 3OF70.
It's also funny how they say they need to create an APFSDS for the BMP-3, anti tank and heavy armour is dealt with by the GLATGMs, again the vanilla 3UBK10-3 Bastion completely outranges and has much better accuracy and 7× times the penetration compared to M919, never mind the current 3UBK23-3 Arkan series and the 3OF32 HE-FRAG would easily overpressure the M2A2-ODS-SA aswell.
Is it legit ? I think so. But there's a problem, they tested the original production 1985 model.
How do I know this ? 8 Issues.
1. Make sense why they use 3UBR8 and 3UBR6 rounds (what was available in 1980s) not latest 3UBR10 and 3UBR11
2. Makes sense why the current M242 is much more accurate than the vanilla 2A72 and 2A42
3. Makes sense why they recommended that add on armour be added to sides and turret with options for ERA (original had none and no options for ERA)
4. Makes sense why they list the engine as UTD-29 and not the UTD-32 that's used on current M3 models. Even worse it's the 450hp UTD-29 model that was ONLY used on soviet versions, 90s saw all new M models and refits to 500hp UTD-29M. 100% without a doubt proves they are comparing the vanilla model.
5. Makes sense why the top Speed is only 70 kph because M model top Speed is 75-80 kph.
6. Makes sense why ground contact pressure is only 0.61 kg/cm² (that's vanilla model current M model has 0.63 to 0.66)
7. Makes sense why they say its only bullet proof and not anti ballistic (current M3 models have composite armour and options for ERA)
8. Makes sense why its weight is only 22 tonnes and not 26 with current M model with new engine, FCS and armour.
UTD-29
UTD-32
https://odin.tradoc.army.mil/WEG/Asset/2ea59c4af80de5a7044ab9172d73eb15
https://www.army-technology.com/projects/bmp-3m-infantry-fighting-vehicle-ifv/
All evidence points towards it being the original they have compared. So yes. The M2A2-ODS-SA Bradley made in 2012 is more accurate and has better ammunition than the 1985 BMP-3.
😂😂😂😂
"M2A2-ODS-SA is just a basic upgrade"
Lol no. Everything has been upgraded. Vs M2A2-ODS
● New fully digital FCS
● New armour package
● Digital Ballistic computer
● Integrated auto adjusting laser rangefinder
● New high end 2nd Gen thermals
● New fully digital communication system
● New C2 system
It's basically a M2A3 with better thermals.
https://www.baesystems.com/dam/jcr:21911
"Russia has no command and control and relies on discord and starlink"
Manpack radios mostly used by the signal information troops. The Aqueduct series currently dominates.
“Russia started using cope cages to deter against javelins”
This is a pure western fabrication. Not a single piece of evidence of this.
Russia did this because in 2021 the large-scale use of drones became known.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/30/army-pentagon-nagorno-karabakh-drones/
https://warontherocks.com/2021/08/the-militant-drone-playbook/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/20/how-drones-have-added-a-new-dynamic-to-conflicts
Russia has literally been using this top attack protection for years to protect against drones that drop HEAT warheads
http://blog.vantagepointnorth.net/2021/07/death-from-above-russian-ad-hoc-top.html?m=1
As seen here in Tajikistan in 2021
https://www.russiadefence.net/t5778p250-bmp-1-and-bmp-2-in-russian-army
"Russian hypersonics don't work and have been shot down"
There's zero evidence Ukraine has shot down any.
Bare with me because I'm about to show you the "evidence" Ukraine gives for khinzhal and Oreshnik shoot downs.
First here is Khizhal
Next up.
True modern hypersonic like oreshnik, Khizhals and zircon are too fast to even see most of the time as they cruise at mach 6 and travel at mach 9 to 10+ once target is locked and can maneuver at mid-course and terminal phases.
Hypersonics in use below
https://youtube.com/shorts/1LfePk3R1As?si=jmxIa6hEmiD8Rpm2
https://youtu.be/BtFUrxDJrL4?si=uNRAd7Vvdp5Vi9Er
https://youtube.com/shorts/ctP1vCILNVk?si=jy2XZpVPsSv_5q3T
Hypersonics travel too fast. Patriot PAC3 and its radar is not rated to intercept such fast moving missiles, it literally wouldn't even register on its radar, MPQ-65 is only rated for mach 5 to 8, these missles go mach 9 to 10+.
The whole point of these missiles is that they do not utilising a traditional ballistic trajectory to gain speed. Which means they don't need to go up into the thin upper atmosphere to gain speed and then down to further its speed.
This is why there is not a single video and not a single wreckage of any Oreshnik, Kh-47 or zircon showing that it has been intercepted despite being used numerous times and being seen on video attacking cities with known Patriot presence. Unless you count Ukraine claiming BETAB-500s were khinzhals (witch got meemed into oblivion by Russian TG lmao)
There is absolutely no evidence that a Patriot PAC-3 or THAAD for that matter can intercept a proper maneuvering Hypersonic Missile. Hypersonics weren't even invented back when PAC-3 and THAAD were made and not used to test them either so you can't use that cope. Israel couldn't even shoot down Iranian "hypersonics" and they were just normal ballistic missiles that enter upper atmosphere to gain speed but can also maneuver during terminal.
A true Hypersonic like Kh-47M2 or YJ-21 has no traditional ballistics trajectory (up then down) and can fully maneuver at any point. This is what makes it difficult aswell as normal ABMs are tailored towards tracking Missiles during slow phase and then estimating their drop point.
Modern hypersonics are just an instantaneous agile bullet that heads towards you.
The combination of the constant movement by the Missile and its speed combined with on board ECM its an absolute nightmare for SAMs to get a proper firing solution (creating a valid Intercept point)
Now could a THAAD or PAC-3 shoot one down? Yeah if it got really lucky and caught it at launch before it gained speed but the POK is going so unbelievably low (probably 0.1-0.3) that it's not a reliable system for shooting them down.
Then we haven't even got into HGVs. DF-17 and Avangarde that do utilise a traditional ballistic trajectory but travel at mach 30 that completely nullifies any ABM system or we have stuff like Oreshnik that launches 6× individual hypersonic warheads each going mach 10+. We seen all 6 find their mark in Ukraine (in an areas that had heavy Patriot and SAMP/T)
So far only the most advanced SAMs with the most sophisticated radars and missiles (with GaN or advanced GaAs AESA fire control radars, incredibly fast and agile missiles with AESA seekers and advanced fire control systems) like those found on S-500, HQ-19, HQ-29 and David's Sling qualify (although David's Sling has proven iffy against even knock off hypersonics but I suppose benefit of the doubt saturation attacks are difficult to overcome)
Hypersonic missiles are a game changer, hence why USA is trying to catch up fast ans hance why everyone is developing SAMs capable of reliably intercepting them. US navy especially is screwed as China has had YJ-21 in service for years and has just introduced around 4 new hypersonics for their ships. US Aegis cannot intercept hypersonics either.
It's like when Stealth aircraft were first made in early 80s, there was little counters to them but by 1990 Soviets began developing long wave frequency phased array radars and Russia in the late 90s introduced them with the Nebo-SVU which all but nullified stealth with the introduction of VHF AESA. Now both Russia and China have such radars in mass, including the more advanced GaN variants.
We are at the early stage for Hypersonics, Russia, China and Israel have limited systems in service that can counter them and soon more effective systems will enter but right now hypersonics are the new the stealth and we are still in the 80s.
Normal “hypersonics” like Iskander or Kh-15 can be seen but are very fast, these travel at mach 5+ but need a ballistic trajectory.
https://youtube.com/shorts/zRXO2cWlG0A?si=7qsxXKdfLLPn0mds
https://youtube.com/shorts/rMqneYdl8oo?si=w5Y00wjnzE5kIfTO
https://youtube.com/shorts/RmaD5k6idTk?si=xNPZ9NQ-PqJ1AXcj
https://youtube.com/shorts/9ZvJKt5T0Ds?si=2XQHXTNJNTD44nfQ
https://youtube.com/shorts/VJhFJKoNzYM?si=5ec9CBak_Ykocug1
Patriot failing to intercept Iskanders and Khinzal (actually firing and failing not just getting destroyed as there are lots of videos of patriots getting destroyed by drones and Iskanders)
https://youtu.be/evZBejNtPUI?si=9zErFsLQuHQ_ZLPm
https://youtube.com/shorts/Ftg9Pky7Y-0?si=rHJB55FyWELOutST
https://youtu.be/AzhA_LSDil4?si=xHo8Wwlet8lPxYsR
"Russian air defence is bad"
Russian air defence in action
https://youtu.be/HWz6Fu4HkRU?si=gRorFIitvdRf4vDT
https://youtu.be/UaOvBDOVnHo?si=KV6vgHxkrtU6vYKm
https://youtu.be/FVQ1Rj7zTYQ?si=p94hOCIA1mR8PEuc
https://youtu.be/KC8lOjyl4o4?si=RGBPBGGC5x89QmaM
https://youtu.be/HWz6Fu4HkRU?si=9uf55w12Fc9ejGwn
R-37M in action
https://youtu.be/ZxAGVMTtQb0?si=qGC-BkiIAQeU2deU
https://youtu.be/ZxAGVMTtQb0?si=qGC-BkiIAQeU2deU
Drones getting destroyed
https://youtu.be/qbVjHNQwpjM?si=EPdDKdyR3fiZjnJ7
https://youtu.be/pOffLVLHMfI?si=Ad__loQYLDuZP1MO
They talk about Russian systems failing to catch drones meanwhile
NASAMS-2
https://youtu.be/Shg2g1S9spM?si=WKtkjnCguVrwIqhC
https://youtu.be/mOgepkAZFAU?si=q9G4ljYqwWrYg8FN
IRIS-T
https://youtube.com/shorts/ylaEWyJiI-8?si=WCcC-qkQ0NdJ8l0S
Gepard
https://youtu.be/yxaff4uLjzY?si=hf0w-ovxBKUZC2i4
"Pantsir gets destroyed lots because its bad"
It's the most common Russian SPAAG and has less destroyed than Ukraine 2K22. It has plenty of success.
https://youtu.be/DSrxaSwx45I?si=_Fymh1gOGpi2SZbY
https://youtube.com/shorts/sAi7yFk-4Ek?si=MW0-h0cOzR_jk7-d&utm_source=MTQxZ
https://youtu.be/24OUZEYkPvg?si=Kua2D_mulPdYhTTk
https://youtu.be/vTytBXxhW58?si=k7By12S5KajqCdNL
https://youtube.com/shorts/mIvhKBL5EPU?si=QtPfmz5vBaptK-47
https://youtu.be/G6nsc97IqVA?si=BhabZODqThkXex4E
https://youtu.be/2fdhma7HslY?si=Y1oANP7p1qAs7P87
https://youtube.com/shorts/rJH77GDIo3U?si=QeQT9EHnzcb-popv
https://youtube.com/shorts/lHu0foW19d0?si=AtOVN2meG-QiXhnn
https://youtu.be/G6nsc97IqVA?si=BhabZODqThkXex4E
“Russia uses human waves”
Literally zero evidence of this. This Video debunks it nicely.
https://youtu.be/2F4akL1AS5w?si=6oAjCL8QiTBlzUiV
"Russia has lost top equipment like Krasukha-4 and L-265M10-35 Khibiny-M due to carelessness"
Yeah no.
Now these systems are the most advanced in use by Russia and not one has ever been captured by Ukraine.
"There's photo evidence"
Is there ?
They claim that the C4 hub for advanced Krasukha-4 was fully captured.
https://www.twz.com/ukraine-just-captured-one-of-russias-most-capable-aerial-electronic-warfare-pods
They claim one of russias most advanced Pods was captured.
So let's investigate.
The first one is just straight up hilarious as you can LITERALLY see where the Russian army has cut off equipment to the container (which tells us they have removed all sensitive equipment) which is why the Ukrainian don't show you the inside. It's also just a fucking container lmao.
🤣
Second one is a combination of lies and exaggeration. The SAP-518 is used with the Khibiny-U and Khibiny-10V systems on Su-34 and Su-30SM, these systems were developed in the 80s and tested in the 90s and entered service in the 2000s. They are being replaced by the Khibiny-M on Su-30SM2, Su-34M and Su-35S. The lie is the claim that Russia just left it there due negligence (made up the fascist Oryx) when it was captured by Ukraine in a area they control, aircraft was likely damaged by an IR Missile that popped it off.
See the 518 ECM number.
L-265M10 Khibiny-M uses SAP-518SM Pods.
https://www.key.aero/article/russias-new-ecm-system
"The sole export T-90MS was repainted and moved to the front"
The claim.
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-sends-t-90ms-tank-from-exhibition-to-front-line/
The export model
Here is the Russian variant.
They claim they have just repainted it. (Obviously trying to imply that they are desperate for tanks)
Oblivious that these are new T-90M2 variants that remove the dynamic MRS, add new C2 system and ECM system.
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/new-batch-enhanced-t90m-russian-frontline-brigade
“Your T-72B3M and T-80BVM have been downgraded due to lack of thermal parts and advanced electronics due to sanctions from Western countries and Russia has severe shortages in equipment and supplies”
This one has been repeated A LOT. Now the argument is that the new T-72 and T-80 models have had to be downgraded because of no parts because apparently Russia can't build anything without the west and we have all seen the propaganda videos.
"Russia uses cardboard for ERA due to shortages"
"Russia uses bricks as armour because of material limitations"
"Russia is taking microchips from foreign washing machines because they can't produce them"
"Russia has to use older stuff because they are running out"
"Russia has to use cheap sights because they can't get good optics"
All fantasy and all complete and utter rubbish with no actual evidence.
1. Has no evidence this was real
2. Same as 1 and devils advocate was probably a rushed field modification
3. Pure fantasy
4. No evidence and will be debunked here
5. We'll get into later
Now as we discussed in my Ukraine war essay, between 2022-2023 and in early 2024 the Russian army underwent a massive modernization campaign to get new tanks as they had used up a lot of older shit but still had huge stocks of T-72Bs, T-80Bs and T-62Ms.
So what to do ? They learned that utilising a bunch of old stuff like they usually do (like in Georgia or chechnya) wasn't going to cut it especially in 2023 when Ukraine had received thousands of armoured vehicles with hundreds of modern tanks and IFVs and they weren't willing to declare war and up the budget so it's just T-72B3s, T-80BVMs and T-90Ms that are made and upgraded but these are fully modern tank and expensive and more time consuming.
So they had a pretty good solution, a way to retrofit older reserve tanks extremely fast and for a very cheap price.
Introducing the mobilisation tanks.
T-72BM
These are T-72Bs, T-62Ms and T-80Bs upgraded with Kontakt-5, improved composite armour, R-168 radios, improved Digital Ballistic computers, vastly improved digitised fire control, laser rangefinders and a fully stabilised 1PN96MT-02 2nd gen thermals for the GPS
Now sure this is inferior to the T-72B3 and T-80BVM.
BUT… two issues,
These are mobilisation tanks not downgrades, they have nothing to do with B3 or BVM they are upgrades of B and M models from the 80s, they are comparable to what Ukraine has and are pretty capable. Yes they are not modern by today's standards, but they are more than capable when used in combination with more modern models as they have.
These are basically comparable to original M1A1 Abrams and Leopard 2A4 with better thermals, comms and computer.
They have
2nd Gen thermals
Computerised FCS with 32x bit digital ballistic computer
3BM48 or 3BM42-2 APFSDS
Laser guided tandem GLATGM
Excellent armour
Incredibly cheap ($300k)
RP-377 ECM systems
fully digital radio system with C2 software
Russia still builds the other models
In 2023 to 2025
Introducing the mobilisation M models
2025
2024
2025
2024
2025
https://youtube.com/shorts/rTn8Xj1i26c?si=ElHDAfBZAjvptcb3
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/new-batch-enhanced-t90m-russian-frontline-brigade
2026 (Arena-M is now fitted to production models)
https://youtu.be/wZJPLvitQVE?si=fDfeWYFoMJ1Jetva
Over 300 T-90Ms built every year since 2023 with target of 1000 by 2028
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russia-tripled-production-t90m-keep-up-wartime-attrition
We also have the T-14 Armata that entered service in 2024.
2021 to 2023
https://www.militarynews.ru/story.asp?rid=1&nid=562009&lang=RU
https://www.fontanka.ru/2024/03/04/73295120/
You can clearly see the PNM-U and PMN-T/PKP-K 2nd and 3rd Generation sights and atmospheric sensors showing there is no parts shortage.
There's also new additions to the T-72B3M2 and T-80BVM2 Which add CCI displays with C2IS software linked to their YeESU-TZ C4I blue force tracking network with GLONASS-K integration, improved armour with more relikt and Kontakt-5 and added 4S24 ERA for sides and the addition of the TKN-3TP panoramic 2nd generation thermals for CPS.
To further illustrate just how laughable the claim, that Russia can't produce modern military equipment, is, let's go over all the advanced and sophisticated tech heavy equipment Russia has produced since early 2023 to 2025.
As Well as the Kurganets-25 Hull being seen in production
https://defence-blog.com/russias-new-fighting-vehicle-spotted-at-assembly-line/?amp
TOS-2
BT-3F
https://www.military.africa/2023/09/army-2023-russia-unveils-all-new-kornet-armed-bt-3f-apc/
There was also the new TOS-3
https://www.twz.com/land/russias-new-tos-3-dragon-thermobaric-rocket-launcher-breaks-cover
Yak-130M
Krona-E
2S35
S-500
GLONASS-K2
https://www.russianspaceweb.com/glonass-k2-13l.html
Oreshnik
Su-75
ITO-NVSh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q65RgXT4pI
Zircon
Kh-69
https://armyrecognition.com/military-products/army/missiles/cruise-missiles/kh-69-h-69
Kh-BPLA
Mi-24PN-1M
There was also other air defence systems
Buk-M3
Pantsir-SM
Gibka-S
Not only that, they had several different IFV variants that have regular deliveries.
BMP-3M
https://defence-blog.com/russian-military-receives-additional-bmp-3-fighting-vehicles/
2025
https://thedefensepost.com/2025/02/07/russia-bmp-rostec/
https://share.google/J9iwbhas2CsLAo2B5
BMP-2M
https://defence-blog.com/russian-army-receives-new-batch-of-bmp-2m-fighting-vehicles/?amp
BMD-4M
2024
https://defence-blog.com/topics/bmd-4/
BMD-2M
2025
https://tass.com/defense/2015925
BMP-1AM
https://defence-blog.com/russian-army-receives-new-batch-of-bmp-1am-fighting-vehicles/
As well as various military equipment.
2S19M2
https://defence-blog.com/russian-army-receives-upgraded-msta-sm2-artillery-systems/
https://turdef.com/article/russian-army-receives-modernised-msta-s-spgs
2S43
BMPTs
https://share.google/kiRaV9wiCys6IBwv5
2S41
https://defence-blog.com/russian-military-receives-initial-batch-of-new-self-propelled-mortars/
2S40
https://worlddefencenews.blogspot.com/2023/10/russia-deploys-new-2s40-phlox-120mm.html?m=1
Irbis
Ihttps://mil.in.ua/en/news/russia-receives-latest-irbis-radar/
Kornet-D
TOS-1A
https://dailywrap.uk/russia-ramps-up-delivery-of-upgraded-tos-1a-flamethrowers,7090418192139905a
Petrozavodsk & Yakutsk kilo-M attack subs (started construction in 2022)
https://dzen.ru/b/ZwjoTGVShg_UAkO9
https://tass.com/defense/1321251
Verba
These utilise various sophisticated electronics and modern materials.
We also had the following aircraft delivered
Su-57S
2023
https://defence-blog.com/russia-receives-additional-su-57-su-35-fighter-jets/
2024
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/recieves-su57-ambitious-acquisitions-target
2025
2026
Su-35S
2025
https://youtube.com/shorts/ND9sgue3E-w?si=7JqdgjQFrTR-z3V0
https://share.google/YyKB3PcAr4CdKh287
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/new-bach-su35-delivered-russian-aerospace
Su-30SM2
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/su30sm2-new-engines-deliver
2025
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-navy-su30sm2-supercharged
Su-34M
2025
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russian-doubled-su34-production
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-adds-new-su-34-fighter-bombers-to-combat-aviation-fleet/
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/russia-received-the-fourth-batch-of-su-34-bombers-this-year/
https://ruavia.su/latest-batch-of-su-34-frontline-bombers-delivered-to-russian-defense-
https://youtu.be/G-icBM8vngg?si=JyZKDU4TUwmDxDib
https://ruavia.su/final-batch-of-su-34-bombers-delivered-to-russian-ministry-of-defense-in-2025/
MiG-31BM
Yak-130
MiG-29SMT
https://www.eurasiantimes.com/end-of-road-for-mig-35-russian-aerobatic/
Tu-160M2
https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/defence/russia-flies-newbuild-tu-160m-bomber
2023
https://www.scramble.nl/military-news/two-more-tu-160m-m2-strategic-missile-carriers
2024
2025
https://share.google/cQO9M3YjKqI6ongR1
Tu-22M3M
https://www.key.aero/article/russia-receives-another-upgraded-tu-22m3-bomber
Ka-52M
https://www.twz.com/enhanced-version-of-russias-ka-52-attack-helicopter-appears
2023
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2023/10/02/russia-creates-winged-infantry-with-ka-52-mi-28-and-tanks/
Mi-28NM
2023v
IL-76MD-90A
https://www.key.aero/article/russia-receives-another-il-76md-90a-strategic-airlifter
IL-96
Tu-214
https://simpleflying.com/tupolev-tu-214-facts-list/
All of these utilise sophisticated modern electronics such as AESA radars, modern EW systems and radar absorbing materials.
Not only that but apparently things are so okay that Russia can export sophisticated systems.
Su57E
2026
https://share.google/VIMpFPXWThUI8WAyj
Su-35E
2024
https://www.airdatanews.com/iran-receives-first-two-russian-sukhoi-su-35se-fighter-jets-report/
2025
https://www.twz.com/air/su-35s-once-expected-to-arm-iran-are-now-in-algeria
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/unknown-number-of-su-35-fighter-jets-delivered-to-algeria
Su-34ME
2025
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/export-russia-heaviest-fighter-su34m-algeria-nkorea
Yak-130
Su-30SM
2026
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kno0r4PgpNc
2025
https://dsm.forecastinternational.com/2024/08/26/new-batch-of-su-30s-delivered-to-kazakhstan/
Mi-35M
https://defence-industry.eu/russia-delivers-four-new-mi-35m-attack-helicopters-to-belarus/
2025
https://youtu.be/twzCCBN2I0g?si=o-tYqIGNaw5VUvaj
Mi-17V-5s
https://www.military.africa/2023/12/senegals-air-force-receives-new-mi-17-helicopter/
Tu-204
https://www.scramble.nl/civil-news/cubana-to-restart-tu-204-operations
Mi-28N
Igla-S
Iskander-M
Tor-M2E
S-400
https://thedefensepost.com/2024/10/08/india-russia-s400/
S-300PMU2
Repellent-1
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-russia-arms-deliveries-embargo-fb63352c3a76404f7f4f13dd0358b187
Zoopark-1M
Ansat
https://www.key.aero/article/zimbabwe-takes-delivery-18-russian-built-ansat-helicopters
Pantsir-SM-SV
So apparently Russia has to downgrade their tanks because there are no parts yet they can export all this advanced stuff and build even more advanced stuff for themselves.
You see how it's nonsense?
This one is honestly crazy because of how much it has been repeated by mainstream media outlets.
"Your T-90M was destroyed by a Bradley"
This one is fucking hilarious because of how wrong it is. Now let's go over what happened.
Two Bradleys engaged a malfunctioning T-90M.
How was it malfunctioning?
It didn't engage the targets despite having superior thermals and a CITV that wasn't getting hit, it never tried to flee, didn't deploy countermeasures and of course the turret started spinning well after the Bradleys left.
They shot at the T-90M then left. T-90M was completely unharmed
After the Bradleys left, the T90 completely unharmed drove into a tree at which point all the crew escaped then it was disabled by drones.
“Russian military is too corrupt”
My guys, all militaries have corruption.
Case in point, the USA.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/corruption.htm
https://fas.org/publication/defense-contracting-fraud/
https://www.whistleblowersinternational.com/types-of-fraud/defense-contractor-military/
"Your CRAMs don't work because the moskva got sunk"
The air defence system was turned off and again Neptunes fly low, low enough to not trigger the Moskvas warning radars, they are modern missiles, it's called tactics, Americans mock this but they literally lost an Arleigh Burke destroyer to god damn Al Qaeda, Ukraine might have a tiny navy but at least they had a navy and god dam military.
And I love how they act like it getting hit proves something.
"It's radars we're turned off because they interfered with comms"
Literally made up fantasy with no evidence whatsoever.
Unless engaged in active combat ships air defence including their radars are usually turned off. the f18e shot down in 2024 further proves this.
examples include
During the Iran war, two Iraqi Mirage F1EQs fired two exocet missiles at an Oliver Hazard Perry class the USS Stark with both finding their mark with the Phalanx failing to engage them and the decoy Launchers and ECM systems failing as well. Only one detonated and luckily it didn't hit ammunition.
Same war again this time fast attack craft sunk with P-15s and others the Paykan and Joshan armed with L/70 radar guided anti aircraft guns getting destroyed.
During the Falklands war a county class Air defence ship with both point and area defence SAMs the HMS Glamorgan got hit with an exocet ASM.
During the Falklands war 2× Type 42 guided missile destroyers were sunk by anti-ship missiles that were protected by a two tier system with SAMs, decoys and EW systems yet didn't engage.
The Sa'ar 5 class Air defence Corvette the INS Hanit armed with point defence SAMs, C-RAMs, decoys and ECMs was hit by a YJ-83.
"Your S-300PM2 and S-400 misfired and blew itself up"
So ? Shit happens. Your so called aDvAncEd David's Sling or THAAD and Arrow did the same
https://youtube.com/shorts/GCdNfD0rrpk?si=46h4Zv5uTk_7ZcyX
https://youtube.com/shorts/-JK6u2xGKjY?si=m76fxSay_c97gw6r
“Russian using motorbikes and open top vehicles for combat and logistics shows desperation”
No it just shows you have no fucking clue how military tactics work.
Used by Western militaries in wars
For combat these allow infantry and assault squads to move rapidly whilst for logistics they give Similar Manoeuvrability along with in Ukraine especially Drones are a huge threat which us why many small scale logistics (ammo boxes, fuel, MREs etc) are done using bikes or open top vehicles, open tops are incredibly common so that passenger gunner can shoot down Drones with shotgun or EW gun.
Thus is backed up by the numerous videos of large trucks or vehicles that love between fortifications getting hit by Drones.
Regardless, again very commonly used by major modern militaries to this day.
https://www.military.com/off-duty/autos/shoot-and-scoot-guide-us-militarys-combat-motorcycles.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2014/04/28/us/stealth-military-motorcycle/index.html
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/military-motorbikes-us-has-long-struggled-them-174884
"Russia using civilian cars shows desperation"
Same as last one.
“Russia using electric bikes and scooters shows desperation”
No it just shows yet again you don't do any research.
https://electrek.co/2020/07/27/ubco-2x2-all-wheel-drive-electric-motorcycles-military-duty-nzdf/
https://thedefensepost.com/2023/07/20/british-army-bikes-enemies/
Numerous militaries trial such things to be used for stealth missions due to low noise.
What's hilarious because Ukraine received praise when they do it
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/05/26/ukraine-russia-war-electric-bikes-weapons/
You notice that A LOT. When Russia does it “lol cringe” when Ukraine does it “amazing”
“Russia resorting to use improvised vehicles and weapons shows desperation”
So apparently Russia adding everything and all things to vehicles shows Desperation.
No it shows you don't understand what you're talking about.
These are field modifications. Common in every single war going back to WWII.
Vietnam war
https://www.sandboxx.us/news/ingenious-and-effective-improvised-weapons-created-by-us-troops/
Yugoslavia
Ukrainians in Ukraine
Israeli genocide 2023+
Afghanistan and Iraq
Literally common to every single major war as each war is different depending on terrain and environment. Field modifications are incredibly common in all wars throughout history.
"Russian soldiers are using civilian walkie talkies"
So ? The USA uses ICOMs and Ukraine and Portugal also use baofeng.
https://x.com/Defence360/status/1224301607887818753?lang=ar
https://icomuk.co.uk/US-Marines-choose-ICOM-for-new-communications/2/1275/
Also need to remember nearly half the force in Ukraine is not proper Russian army.
"Russian drone operators are killing Ukrainian soldiers mercilessly"
My guy, this is a war, both sides are doing it. Sometimes both sides will help the other depending on the operator and area or what their CO says.
Example Russian drone helping Ukrainian soldier
https://youtube.com/shorts/ERpYDH6SWlo?si=rIdE1lWMT6yZWABI
“Russian IFVs blow up whilst Bradley can't”
https://youtu.be/NI9wbm-oDRE?si=VJf116IPk5nHlO3P
Rubbish.
"Russia using trenches shows how old their tactics are"
Trench warfare has been part of modern defensive warfare for centuries.
Korean war
Vietnam war
Iran war
Gulf war
Iraq war
Ukraine also uses trenches. People confuse WWI style trenches warfare and normal Trench warfare which is a crucial part of defensive warfare.
"Russia resorting to using T-54s and T-62s is pure desperation"
Idiot argument. Again these vehicles have been seen since early 2022, T-54/55s and original model T-62s are used as indirect fire vehicles not MBTs.
https://www.twz.com/signs-point-to-russia-sending-ancient-t-54-series-of-tanks-to-ukraine
Which is why practically all are seen in or next to treelines.
"Russian soldiers have no optics"
Again nonsense and just shows you don't understand military analysis.
Only designated marksmen, snipers, and special forces units are routinely issued high-quality optics, while standard infantry soldiers usually rely on iron sights or basic illum, holo or reflex, depending on their specific mission and unit needs they will be issued higher quality optics.
Again this is true of all militaries be it the US, Russia, Britain or Israel. Russian army Infantry regulars are given either an AK-74M with a basic 1P87, 1P78-1 or 1P63 illumination, holographic or reflex scope as standard or an AK-12 with a basic 1P76, 1P88 or PK120 illumination, holographic or reflex scope as standard, this can be seen on numerous soldiers and as part of their standard kit. Many just prefer iron sights, same as western militaries despite being issued optivs.
Western soldier regulars in 2000-2020s campaigns and battles using no optics
“Russian soldiers riding on tanks or IFVs shows how bad they are or due to lack of vehicles”
Lack of vehicles? That makes no sense as troops Riding on tanks and eventually IFVs has existed since WWII and Russia did it at the start.
It's a common tactic used for logistics ease or in combat in urban areas throughout many conflicts.
"Russian soldiers grouping together on back of trucks shows how desperate they are and don't have enough vehicles"
Wrong again.
Coalition in Iraq
“Russian conscripts have no training”
Firstly Russia hasn't conscripted anyone. In 2022 there was a partial mobilisation of around 300k from the BARS (akin to National Guard in USA and Territorial Army in UK) and army reserves. all reservists deployed to the front receive the basic 5 week training, (this is why even though mobilisation was passed in the duma in Sept 2022 it wasn't until early 2023 we seen large scale deployments) although it will depend as many reservists already had military experience in Syria, Chechnya or Georgia.
These reservists receive the same training and utilise the same equipment as the Russian active service.
“IISS says Russia only has 600k active service showing how they have lost over a 700k men”
Firstly IISS is a propaganda institution, like all military think tanks. Secondly they are obviously just parroting what Russia has said, in that there are around 600k deployed to Ukraine. Deployed means how many are in a region, for example the US had an army of over 1 million yet only had around ~500k deployed to Afghanistan. Much of Russia's active service is still in Russia, we seen this when the videos of large portions military units were forming around Moscow during wagner's 24h rebellion or during the many military parades all across Russia or during Ukraines push into kursk when it was slowed within days and halted within a week (halted from major pushes)
“russian R-187 and R-168 radios have been jammed”
No evidence of this whatsoever. Donbass fighters who use R-158 and R-159 systems could have intercepted as whilst they use data encryption there is no frequency hopping whilst donbass fighters that used R-109M or R-129 radios could be intercept as the R-109M has no encryption and 129 is very poor.
“Your SAM systems have failed to intercept NATO missiles”
So ? Your Patriot system got defeated by Iraqi knock off scuds, your advanced PAC-3 regularly fails to intercept Russian missiles and glide bombs, your advanced David's Sling and iron dome got breached by ancient Iranian surplus missiles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Husayn_%28missile%29?wprov=sfla1
https://youtube.com/shorts/iZqiL4KsLuY?si=GuB4FySIsGncNYpB
https://youtu.be/x475khqjxNk?si=xcxQdeJXC0alPe0z
https://youtube.com/shorts/uIB28MBDujw?si=lR7_7i3PNY308ELi
https://youtu.be/sZhyeUa8pF4?si=Nnmbr5PGGVrISTkm
Patriot firing all 4 missiles only hitting one target and still getting destroyed
Again this is just proving you don't understand military analysis because NO SAM system is full Proof, the fact that Ukraine fires missiles and drones at Russia every day and we only hear of hits now and then proves how effective they are. just like vice versa.
“BMPT has failed as it hasn't been seen since 2023”
Wrong was seen in late 2024 and early 2025
https://youtube.com/shorts/0taIzxHanro?si=lwjFl58CF6xrPbl7
And has been delivered in 2025
"Russia doesn't fight at night in Ukraine, this shows a lack of even basic night fighting abilities"
Firstly this is just false, Russia has launched numerous operations at night from Bakhmut, Avdiivka and Vulehdar or more recently Russia striked Ukraines fleeing vesyla novosilka at night.
The whole point of night fighting is that it's meant to be an advantage, for example facing Iraq who had little to no aerial, vehicular or Infantry night fighting abilities. Whereas Ukraine already had a reasonable night fighting capability with early 1st and 2nd Gen scopes and around ~1000 vehicles that made use of 2nd Gen thermals and over 4000 vehicles that made use of 2nd and 3rd Gen night vision.
But the biggest factor was since 2015 to 2022 tens of thousands of 3rd, and 4th gen NVGs for helmets and rifles along with 1st and 2nd Gen thermal scopes for the same thing was given by Western countries to Ukraine including AN/AVS-9, AN/PVS-18, AN/PVS-14, GPNVG-18, NVM14-2, BNVD-51, PVS-31, OB70, ATNI X-Sight, LTV 5-15X, ATNI Mars, RNVG Echo, DTNVS, Brolis etc.
https://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ukraine-obama-putin-russia-216160
When both sides have capable night fighting abilities then there is no benefit to utilising night ops hence why we see most of the fighting take place during the day.
"Russian soldiers were seen using donkeys which shows how they have lost so many vehicles"
Eh no ? Proves nothing. Not only is using mules animals incredibly common in areas where vehicles are tough to get to or where stealth is needed but using horses in combat is also common, numerous modern militaries actually train for it.
https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/USA/Military/2009/0504/p22s01-usmi.html
https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/the-virtues-of-stubbornness-mules-at-war/
Animals
"Russian equipment uses foreign parts"
I love how they say this as if it proves anything. All militaries use different countries' parts and equipment. The M2 Bradley is built by British BAE systems. The M1A2 Abrams SepV4 uses Israeli trophy hard kill APS. US fighter jets use British Martin Baker Ejection seats. US night vision devices use thales optics and matrices, US fighter jets and attack helicopters use the Norwegian Joint strike missile, the Canadian CRV7 rockets, British APKWS rocket kit, AN/ALE-45 chaff launchers and AN/APX-76 IFF systems.
In fact British BAE builds many of the US military's electronic parts and hardware. These include
Seekers for missiles such as those found on Patriot and THAAD.
Electronic warfare components such as those found on EA-18G, EC-130J and RC-12X
Electronics for aircraft and vehicles such as RWR, fly by wire flight controls, radio systems, display screens, radar displays etc. For M2 Bradley, M1 Abrams, F-35, F-16, F-15 etc.
The brand new M10 Booker uses French optics. The AH-1Z uses French optics
Bradley uses French and Italian optics.
So when people mock Russia for their equipment utilising Chinese or foreign parts they are just admitting that they don't understand military analysis. Russian equipment pre 2014 will have lots of foreign parts inside them.
This also just shows a general ignorance around how manufacturing works. People don't know what indigenous means.
We'll give two examples.
1st
TIS gunners sight for the M1 Abrams which uses an indigenous thermal imaging matrix.
PNM-T gunners sight which uses an indigenous Ibris-K thermal imaging sight.
2nd
IBAS gunners sight for the M2A3 Bradley and M1A2 Abrams SepV1 which uses Italian licenced SADA II thermal imaging matrix.
ESSA gunners sight for T-90A which uses French licensed Catherine-FC thermal imaging matrix.
In both examples they will utilise foreign components, from foreign built semiconductors to foreign built microprocessors. This is incredibly common and part of globalisation and it's not because they can't build those parts rather it's cheaper to build them abroad.
So when you see someone mock Russia because their equipment uses foreign parts, laugh at them.
"Russias military is old"
Russia has always had a modern military, see my myth of us military might USA vs ussr section for soviet equipment equipment.
See my Russia military capabilities posts.
Russian modernization in 90s
6B23 ballistic vest
6B7 ballistic helmet
7N24 tungsten plug AP round
7N22 enhanced pen Infantry round
In Syria
Georgian war 2008
Chechen wars 1995 to 2007
We will go over what Russian active service use now soon which is called the RATNIK.
"Russia soldiers are using unencrypted radios"
Utter nonsense, the standard radios used by Russian forces are R-187s and R-168s, during the ratnik communication modernization they are in process of roll out to all Russian active service with major roll outs starting in 2017.
The only ones that will use older radios like are Mercenaries, foreign fighters and the Ukrainian separatist forces, many of these will also utilise foreign radios.
You need to remember that out of the ~1m total deployed to Ukraine, only ~600k were actually from the Russian army, the rest are foreign fighters, mercenaries, Ukrainian separatists and other volunteers.
Right now there is around ~500k Russian military in Ukraine and around ~200k foreign fighters, Mercenaries, Ukrainian separatists and other volunteers.
So you're going to have A LOT of soldiers using non issue equipment like consumer radios, older rifles, older body armour or older combat gear.
You also need to remember that only squad leaders, commanders or signal troops carry the R-187, for short range communications between For example spotters and indirect fire operators this will usually be done by just walkie talkies
Again this is not unique to Russia as various such groups in various conflicts are like this. In the war in Iraq there were over 100k contractors with a similar number in Afghanistan, in fact in Afghanistan there were more contractors and foreign military than regular coalition military.
And remember communication modernization takes time and there are always issues just ask the US
https://www.wired.com/2012/08/army-radio-garble/
And again various such US troops used commercial walkie talkies like ICOMs. There is absolutely no evidence that the communications intercepted were of R-158, R-163, R-168, R-176, R-178 or R-187 and there is no evidence that radio communication that were intercepted were by the russian army and not mercs, foreign fighters or from DPR.
“Russian soldiers are using old Infantry equipment”
Groups like IISS claim Russia has yet to modernization its forces.
Laugable
Nope. We'll go over what exactly the Russian army uses for their Infantry soon. This problem comes from people confusing Russian regulars and DPR soldiers, Wagner and other foreign fighters or mercs.
Now it's true after the collapse of the USSR by 2000, Russia fell behind significantly (they had no modern NVGs for helmets, no thermal scopes, no modern wide use comm system, no integrated C2IS system, still used older rifles with older optics, 1980s Infantry radios, old decaying GNSS etc.) but during the military modernization started in late 2008 they implemented the Ratnik program that estarted in 2009 and ended in 2020 and brought their active service Infantry gear up to modern standards (1.3m men). But from the 70-80s the USSR was absolutely a modern military.
Then we had the GPV 2016-2025 program that aimed to bring russias air, land a sea forces up to modern standards in the same way the ratnik program was for the Infantry.
This was done for the naval forces in the 2010s with the construction of Gorshkovs, Gremyashchiy and Grigorovich Warships and the Yasen-M and improved boeri vessels in combination with a massive modernization campaign for the older soviet fleet.
This was done for the air force in the same time frame with the vast majority of Su-27s, MiG-29s, Su-30s and Su-34s upgraded into Su-27SM, Su-30SM and MiG-29SMT and the new build MiG-29K, Su-34, Su-35S, Su-57 and MiG-35
This was done for the ground forces with the majority of active service T-80s, T-72s, T-90s, BTR-80s, BMP-1s, BMP-2s, BMP-3s, BMD-2s, 2S19s, 2S3s, S-300Vs, Buks etc into T-80BVM, T-72B3, T-72B3M, T-90M, BMP-1AM, BMP-2M, BMP-3M, BMD-2M, BTR-82A, 2S19M2, 2S3M2, S-300V4, Buk-M3 and New build Typhoon and Tigr APCs, 2S35, 2S40, 2S19M2, BMP-3 Variants, BTR-82AT, T-90Ms and T-14s
We have the Permyachka, Barmitsa and Cowboy standard Infantry loadout with the 6B15 ballistic vest rated against standard 7.62×39mm API.
These are comparable to the US IOTV part of the SPCS.
We have the 6B47 combat Helmet that is used for regular Infantry with the standard NVG mount.
Comparable to US AHS.
We have the AK-74M with a NPZ and BP02 rail adaptor for 1P87, 1P78-1 or 1P63 illumination, holographic or reflex scope or an AK-12 with a basic 1P76, 1P88 or PK120 illumination, holographic or reflex scope, both utilise Perst-4/3 laser rangefinders, Klesch-2P tactical flashlight, 1PN140-2 & Kasatka thermal scopes and 1PN121 and 1PN141 night vision scopes with both using 7N10 hardened steel FMJ rounds for standard Infantry FMJ rounds and 7N39 tungsten FMJ as standard AP rounds for Infantry.
These are comparable to the M27, M4A1, SCAR and HK416 that uses the M855A1 hardened steel rounds for standard Infantry and the M995 tungsten rounds for AP and the AN/PEQ-15 and AN/PEQ-16 laser sights and the AN/PAS-13 2nd gen thermal scope.
This will be replaced by the AK-22
These are comparable to the US XM7.
We have the MP-443 or GSh-18 as the standard Infantry sidearm.
Comparable to US Glock 17.
We have the RMb-93, Saiga-12 and Vepr-12 shotguns.
We have the RPK-74M and PKP Pecheneg as standard issue machine guns that make use of 3rd Gen NV scopes.
These are comparable to Mk 46 and Mk 48.
We have the NSV and Kord as the standard use of heavy machine guns.
The heavy Machine guns utilise the BS API rounds.
These are comparable to the M2A1.
We have the VSSK, SVCh, SVDM and SVDK designated Marksman Rifles.
These are comparable to the M40A6, M107A1, M82A3, M110, M2010, MK 1 ESR, Mk 14 EBR, Mk 20 SSR, Mk 21 PSR and M39.
We have the R-187, R-187-BV and R-168 fully digital radio with SATCOMS and FHSS
Compared to AN/VRC-110, AN/PRC-117 and AN/PRC-163 radios
We have the LPR-4 laser designator
Comparable to AN/PED-1
We have the 1PN138 NVG
Comparable to AN/PSQ-20
We have the 1PN140 series of thermal monocle
Comparable to AN/PSQ-42 although less advanced
We have the C2 tablets with YeESU-TZ
Comparable to FBCB2 systems
We have the Ironiya EOTS
Comparable to LTLM II
media hypocrisy
Here's a fun little exercise. Look at these
“American soldiers are running so low on supplies they have to use homemade carts”
“Embarrassment for bushs war effort as his battered troops seek to reactivate WWII era vehicles”
“American army has lost so many vehicles it has to use bicycles”
“Shambles as American troops resort go using WWII guns after losing so many”
“Bush's army time travels to 1940s with shocking display, unbelievable armour losses has Americans renovating WWII tanks”
“Humiliation for Bush as sanctions and Eastern air defence systems cripple air force so much that he has to bring out 1960s jets”
“American army is falling apart, sanctions cripple their food supply, American soldiers seen making homemade grills for stolen food due to food shortages”
"American electronics shame, bush's conscripts forced to strip xbox 360s for parts amid crippling electronic shortages due to sanctions"
"The American army is in shambles, soldiers seen wearing body armour made of cheap fabric"
"Shocking scene, American conscripts forced to sleep on ground amid dire logistic shortages"
"The most powerful army in the world forced to sleep outside amid shortages"
“Utter shame for Bush as his depleted forces forced to use WWII tank”
“gun shortages has bushes soldiers use vietnam era snipers”
“greatest army in the world reduced to using rusty homemade gun trucks after catastrophic armour losses”
“sanctions cripple us weapons american soldiers have to use homemade anti tank weapons"
“humiliation for bush as his broken troops resorting to adding plates because of poor quality body armour"
You see how easy it is for people to turn some soldiers fucking around into a non existent story or just make up bull shit, and i GUARANTEE that if this was Russia, 90% of westerners would believe it without question.
Propaganda my friend, it's a powerful tool.
"Okay then so I guess Russian propaganda doesn't exist"
That's false. Below are examples of genuine Russian propaganda
They just lie about su57 destroying f16
https://youtube.com/shorts/OFKXO3uhQjU?si=WTwIiDpwtSNv5-ug
Use fake video to say hospital attack was not Russia
https://youtu.be/c9xZvyCMZXU?si=s-ocUNhDHy-JNgrv
Pure copium about the 2022 counter offensive
https://youtu.be/stgKKzG3kwo?si=S7GuVfatiN9AG8Zd
https://youtu.be/JoroqK1QuCA?si=V7f7cHRTsk5OHawQ
Other examples include
Ukraine commited genocide in donbas
Bucha was a false flag
Kharkov offensive in 2022 was a chosen strategic retreat (not a forced strategic retreat)
Everybody in donbas supports Russia
Everyone in Ukraine hates their government
Closing statements
Literally everything they criticised Russia for is either common in warfare or just normal or made up lies.
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