The Russian-Ukraine conflict was a very magical war. After the outbreak of this conflict, in addition to conventional grounding and trade restrictions, the West also proved with facts that the so-called borderlessness is all nonsense.
Cexlo cryptocurrency trading website, which has always been under the banner of decentralization, is prohibited from Russian users; the self-proclaimed neutral Swiss has frozen the assets of the Russian Swiss bank ; and Europe has also staged a series of very magical operations. Since Russia uses the letter Z as Russia's identification symbol, the West has not allowed the letter Z to use it in order to reflect its determination to sanction Russia...
originally thought that the Western series of magical sanctions against Russia were magical enough. Facts have proved that all Chinese underestimated the outrageousness of Western countries in this conflict. The West donated a series of technical equipment including switchblade cruise missiles, javelin anti-tank missiles, javelin anti-tank missiles, starlight air defense missiles, starlight air defense missiles, and other technical equipment to Ukraine, and even planned to provide Ukraine with Leopard Tanks and Cheetah self-propelled anti-aircraft guns. However, the West did not provide training services for these weapons and equipment, so that after Ukrainian soldiers had to go to the oil pipe to learn by themselves. They never expected that the oil pipe could still teach wars. [Shock]
formerly the second largest franchise republic , the embarrassment of Ermao, the center of heavy industry in the Soviet Union, Western weapons are practical and unacceptable to
Weapon usage habits are a very important influencing factor in world arms sales. Due to the obvious differences in weapon positioning and use habits between weapons in different systems, if there are no special circumstances, the importing country of the weapon will not change the source of weapons.
Countries that have used German submarines, when their submarine force is updated, will tend to purchase new submarine from Germany. Countries that have used MIG-21 will prefer to introduce MIG-29 rather than F-16 when introducing new fighter . Countries that have used F-4 ghost fighter will purchase F-15 and F-16 when purchasing third-generation aircraft.
For countries like Egypt , Syria , Venezuela , the end of Cold War did not have a negative impact on its weapon introduction. Even because of the big sale of weapons after the end of the Cold War, the purchase of the same amount of weapons was much less money, and it was safe to make a profit.
But the disintegration of the Soviet Union is tantamount to the Soviet republic (except Russia) and the former Warsaw Pact countries. Polish , Czech , Slovak , and Baltic Three Kingdoms and other countries choose to fully embrace NATO , and the original Soviet-style weapons sold at low prices or used for scrapping will no longer be added.
However, Ukraine and Poland have essential differences. Ukraine is the second largest republic of the Soviet Union and the center of heavy industry. It has a series of technologies such as gas turbine manufacturing and R&D, turbofan engine manufacturing and R&D, surface ship manufacturing and R&D, tank manufacturing and R&D, tank manufacturing and R&D, armored vehicles manufacturing and R&D, transport aircraft manufacturing and R&D, air-to-air missile manufacturing and R&D, etc. Ukraine cannot and cannot completely cut off the ties between Ukrainian military industry and Russian military industry. When Russia sells arms, Ukraine is waiting to take a free ride. When Ukraine sells arms, Ukraine has to order some components from Russia even if it is reluctant.
Ukraine also inherited a series of weapons and equipment including nuclear weapons , strategic bomber , and strategic missiles. Even though Ukraine demolished strategic weapons , Ukraine still has a large number of MIG-29s, MIG-23, MI-24, T-72, T-80, T-64, BTR series, and BMP series.
It is precisely because Ukraine inherited a large number of weapons and equipment from the Soviet Union that since the establishment of Ukraine, the Ukrainian army has been very enthusiastic about purchasing weapons and equipment. Ukrainian Air Force has not purchased a new aircraft since the establishment of Ukrainian Navy has not added a surface ship more than 1,000 tons since the establishment of Ukrainian Army has not added a new surface ship more than 1,000 tons. All the weapons and equipment purchased by Ukrainian Army are spared as the tail of foreign trade orders. Ukraine’s choice cannot be miscalculated. After all, Ukraine inherited a large group of top equipment from the Cold War period, and eating its old capital can make Ukraine eat for a long time.
Because the Soviet Union was too rich, after the Crimean conflict ended in 2014, Ukraine, which was shameless and brave, re-armed, was also the way to refurbish the old-fashioned equipment stored in the weapons cemetery instead of introducing new-fashioned equipment. For Ukraine, which has a poor economy, what Ukraine needs is a re-arming method with low investment and high returns. It is really difficult for Ukraine to spend hundreds of billions of dollars to purchase NATO equipment. It is still cheap to renovate old equipment. The money of an M1A2 is enough to renovate ten T-72s.
However, after the second Russian-Ukrainian conflict broke out, the current situation of Ukrainian military equipment made NATO countries buzz. Ukrainian air defense forces can play S-300 and beech very well, but if you give Ukraine a set of THAAD or Patriots, Ukraine will definitely not be able to play; Ukraine has many MIG-29, MIG-29 fighter and Russian fighter air combat, although its performance is at a disadvantage, it is not about to collapse at once. However, since Russia does not talk about martial ethics, Ukrainian MiG-29 needs to deal with more than SU-27. But you can only give Ukrainian SU-27 or MIG-29! Isn’t it a gift to Ukrainian F-15/16?
The ground forces of the Russian and Ukrainian army are actually comparable. Since Russia has limited funds, the main weapon is still weapons and equipment from the Soviet era. So how big is the performance gap between the T-72 and the BTR improved models? Even due to Ukraine's home court advantage, Ukraine has more tanks than Russia has put into war in this war.
Due to the heavy losses of the Ukrainian air force and air defense forces on the Ukrainian battlefield, and due to Russia's suppression, Ukrainian residual air defense system has difficulty in achieving the expected effect, so it is difficult for Ukrainian troops to obtain air cover. In addition, Ukraine itself has a large number of armored units and is hiding in the city, so the ground armor power is basically not lacking.
So NATO's aid in the first month of the outbreak of the war focused on strengthening the Ukrainian Air Force and individual air defense and anti-armor methods, and plundered MIG-29 fighter jets, sealed needle air defense missiles, and sealed short anti-tank missiles within the NATO system. These weapons and equipment are weapons and equipment that Ukraine can get started immediately after being transported to Ukraine. For NATO countries, these weapons are retired and sealed old-fashioned equipment. It is natural to take them out to make a favor. (Except for MIG-29) The prices of weapons and equipment such as stinger air defense missiles, starlight air defense missiles, javelin anti-tank missiles, NLAW anti-tank missiles are relatively low, so NATO has not had any QR code in this regard.
As the war continues to evolve, the Ukrainian military has suffered greater and greater losses. Under the coercion, temptation and security guarantees of the United States, Slovakia has provided a batch of S-300s to Ukraine, while Poland and other countries have provided more than 700 T-72s to Ukraine. The German Green Party proposed to provide Ukraine with leopard tanks and cheetah anti-aircraft guns, and the UK plans to provide Ukraine with armored vehicle and Harpoon anti-ship missiles. It can be said that the weapons provided to Ukraine by NATO are becoming more and more valuable.
The problem is that there is a fundamental difference between NATO equipment and Soviet-style equipment! If NATO plunders a group of Soviet-style equipment and send it to Ukraine, then the Ukrainian military will be able to get started soon. Even if it is weapons and equipment that Ukraine has never been exposed to, since Soviet-style equipment is similar, it is not difficult for Ukraine to get started (give Ukraine a batch of T-90, and Ukrainian tank hand training can get started in two or three days)
However, NATO large-scale technical equipment is really not something Ukraine can get started immediately!
Ukrainian armed personnel learned to fight, but there was no place to learn harpoon how to use
Ukrainian soldier Ivan Gavrirenko, who was captured by the Russian army, revealed to Russian media that the group where Gavrirenko was located. Light weapons, as well as grenade launcher from NATO, as well as the British NLAW individual anti-tank missile. However, the Ukrainian military did not train soldiers who had just joined the army how to use foreign weapons, but instead told them to learn online by themselves through YouTube videos.
Single weapon is used online. Although it seems a bit outrageous, the structure of the rifle and the grenade launcher is similar, and the learning difficulty is not high.
Thanks to Ukraine's old iron brushed UAR-15
The learning difficulty of NATO's single-soldier air defense missiles and individual anti-tank missiles is much more difficult than NATO's light weapon , but individual weapons themselves are one-time (mainly people are basically one-time). Before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the main practical environment of this group of weapons was Middle East and Africa. These countries have low education levels. In order to reduce the threshold for use, individual air defense and anti-tank weapons generally adopt anti-duty designs. They will basically use them for half an hour before using them. It doesn’t matter if you can’t learn it. The armed personnel of Chechnya, Luhansk , and Donetsk will give this group of couriers on the line.
Ukrainian anti-tank missile seized by Russian forces
(The Middle East countries have a high article rate due to long-term wars, and illiterate Middle East can skillfully use individual weapons without systematic training. No matter how low the quality of Ukrainian soldiers is, it is higher than that of illiterate Middle East, right? All illiterate Middle East can take self-study to learn the use of these weapons. What reasons does Ukrainian soldiers not learn?)
Jackal Armored Vehicle
If individual weapons can still be learned through oil pipes, how can you learn from land-based version of Harpoon, Leopard Second Main Battle Tank, Cheetah Air Defense Vehicle, Mastiff /Jackal Armored Vehicle If NATO countries were really so determined that they would put the detailed operating manuals of these weapons and equipment on the Internet, Anton would have returned to the solar system long ago.
Natal countries are absolutely regretting now. When Ukraine strengthened its national defense again in 2014, it did not take the opportunity to train a group of Ukrainian armed personnel who could use NATO weapons in Ukraine. Otherwise, there would not be a tragic story of following the oil pipe learning to fight.
In addition, the UK stated that it would train a group of Ukrainian soldiers who could skillfully use British aid armored vehicles in Ukraine's neighboring countries. If the Ukrainian government announced its surrender before this or other batch of armed personnel had been trained, would the UK express its disagreement to recognize the Ukrainian government at that time and organize the establishment of a Ukrainian exile regime in Poland, thereby making Russia bleed to the greatest extent in Ukraine?
The West provides stinger javelin and starlight, but soldiers have to learn by themselves by the oil pipe
