Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Russia's Looming Serious Tank Shortage - Tank Count Using Latest Bought Satellite Imagery" video.

@kenpatterson2948 I lived in Russia and have been dealing with military equipment maintenance all my life. I didn't see anything well-maintained in Russia. It's at Hudson Bay latitude with almost no infrastructure and people are very lazy there, or just not motivated to go out in the extreme cold. Everything was falling apart, rusted, broken, leaking, derelict.
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@kenpatterson2948 The East Germans actually did by-the-book maintenance on their tanks, and theirs were trash. 2 Finnish armor officers I know went to a stadium in East Germany to hand select the T-72s that the Finnish Army thought would be worthwhile. They only found 2 of them in the whole stadium, paid for them, and left. Later on, the entire stadium arrived by rail and the Finnish army sent most of them to the giant smelter in Oulu. Russians couldn't match East German maintenance discipline on their best day of sobriety. This is an anecdote, but is just a little insight into the cultural underpinnings that drive the whole thing.
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@Eder-bk5mm This would be like the US saying we're going to take Baghdad in 2003, and still being stuck in Southern Iraq near Basra 28 months later, having lost 1/2 our active duty soldiers, hundreds of aircraft shot down, ships sunk in the Gulf, 3 AWACS shot down or droned, while CNN tells the viewers what a great job we're doing, make sure you're signed up for the draft. It would end the Presidency and Generals within the first 6 months, and that's something we did in days 6000 miles away from the US. Russia can't even take a Capitol city right off their southern border they used to control. They're an embarrassment to themselves, but refuse to change course.
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@tombombadil8709 If T-14 Armatas existed in production numbers, there would be imagery of them. There are OSINT German sources that have the entire Russian military order of battle overlaid on Google Earth down to the squadron, battery, and Platoon level.
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@u2beuser714 Imagine the Chinese generals being given orders to send old tanks to Russia. If they even did that, they would be stripped of anything of value to be sold for scrap to make money for the regional commanders and their subordinate senior officers. Not sure what would show up to Russia, but it wouldn't be pretty.
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@Eder-bk5mm There was never a US defeat in Iraq, not in 1991, and not in 2003. Desert Storm was the most decisive and brutally-crushing defeat of any nation in the 20th Century, measured in hours/days.
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@callumpearce9242 They were expressly forbidden from even using the word "war/vaina" in Russia, because of how lightning-quick they were going to seize Ukraine and own Kiev. It was a perfectly-reasonable assumption to make when you look at the Russian forces posture and strategic encirclement of Ukraine. They just didn't count on how inept the are or how well Trump's Javelin and other weapons packages to Ukraine were going to curb-check Russian armor.
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@lubumbashi6666 You know what's crazy? Russia started the "SMO" with strategic encirclement of Ukraine. They had tens of thousands of forces staged in Belorussia, Russia-Ukraine border, Crimea, and even naval forces in the Black Sea. Every military analyst with decades of experience declared Ukraine would be done in weeks if Russia were to invade when we saw them building up forces all over the borders, totally surrounding Ukraine. Any commanding general of such an operation had the whole thing handed to him on a platter. Russia bungled it like a drunken mongoloid on a midnight bender in an outhouse trying to rape an uncooperative goat.
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@jb03hf Russia still uses the old calendar, so maybe they ported into the Gregorian-Julian time warp schism to seize Kiev, while gloriously defeating all Ukronazis on the battlefield.
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@tombombadil8709 Missiles are much easier to hide and produce. Tanks and aircraft not so much. I've been studying imagery of the USSR and Russia since the 1980s, but with an emphasis on aircraft, not armor. The problem for Russia especially is geography and weather. It's extrenely cold with hardly any infrastructure. No hardened aircraft shelters or precious few large hangars like we have built in the US, NATO, and PACRIM. We had to bury a dog in the winter in Russia. It took all day to soften the frozen soil with multiple fires and dogging until we could finally make a shallow grave. Imagine trying to build hardened shelters and bunkers in that environment. If T-14 Armata Tanks were produced in large numbers, you would see them transported from the manufacturing centers to the armor regiments. Their distinguishing characteristics are identifiable via satellite imagery. Nowadays, a civilian can allocate and purchase high resolution satellite imagery.
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