Comments by "" (@piotrd.4850) on "Russia's Military - What They Have" video.

  1. Russia has healthy finance situation ( negligable public debt, still remnants of Prosperity Fund, gold reserves ). They are unable to build cutting edge equipment, but after much work they managed to bring up significant amount of their hardware to good working order, provide maintenance and adequate training. They have core of officers and NCOs with combat experience, though backed half-way in promising structural organisation. Some of hardware was subject to pragmatic, cost effective modernisation addressing typical deficiencis. They have decade of large scale excercise behind them. Russia currently has about right balance of quantity-quality-availability of equipment which allow them to move by far largest and most competent fighting force in Europe. European NATO is a JOKE for most part, and UK & French armies are tailored for different types of conflicts and simply lack the numbers. Their post-superpower leftovers ( Tu-22Ms, Tu-160s, crusie missiles ) are adequate force multiplier.
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  2. They are not. Human loader gets tired and quickly runs out of optimally placed rounds. Oh, unless you have missed it - T-72s no longer cary rounds IN THE TURRET :D
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  3. Whole T-72B family is entirely different beast than early T-72s, even those Russian or WP ones. Better armour, better suspension, transmission, hull, better built quality, better gun stabilisation, better turret nets and tolerances.... and most of them are built in late 80s and put into storage anyway with minimum wear.
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  4. You see - problem is, that psychotic, easily triggered Russia provokes everybody and then complains about response. This is no longer Russia's business who is doing what oustide their borders, ones which they have permament problem of staying inside of.
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  5. NATO is basically USA + UK & France, later two having token armies tailored for colonial expeditionary missions. Rest of the NATO is a sad joke, mostly deprived of tanks.
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