Comments by "" (@danielwhyatt3278) on "Reporter held captive by Russian soldiers tells his story" video.

  1. The NLAW situation has been very clear. Ukraine has stated that it is one of their most preferred weapons of choice, even over that of the Javelin for some considering it takes less time to learn and is lighter to carry. In a lot of videos, although we continue to see it in some locations, the obvious number of them appearing has become less and less overtime with the Javelin is only still being present a little bit more by a small number. It is clear that Ukraine is running low on them and we are not sending enough. We keep making ‘this excuse’ about saying we are going to be depleting our own reserves necessary for our own frontline forces, ‘but if we aren’t ever intending to actually go to war with anyone’ and we are the ones with the actual manufacturing capability in the first place, then what on earth are our complaining about? Just send them over already. We have reserves of other equipment so just give Ukraine what they bloody well need already and ramp up production of other equipment so we can actually start producing these ATGMs en masse rather than on an individual bulk order bases.
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  2. I’d say it’s also because in WWII we relied a lot more cluster munitions to do widespread damage as we didn’t have the benefit of guided missile systems back then. Today our factory systems just aren’t set up like that. All of our individual countries are not geared to wards mass production of simple weapons like that and more on low quantity bulk orders. Plus the older equipment was obviously more simple and easier to produce en masse, well today it can take much longer if you aren’t doing it on am automated assembly line. Japan would definitely be a good option for defensive weaponry, however as we’ve seen, Japan has been very Japan has been very reluctant to actually send any weaponry which has been a huge shame. They’ve so far Saint a lot of body armour, helmets and even winter weather gear, but no signs of any weapons and I don’t believe they’ve sent any ammunition either. I believe it’s because they face the same limit that Germany had until a short while ago in terms of exporting weapons but hopefully this will change eventually. It unfortunate would take quite a while, there is no honesty I very much doubt with the current government set up with the old guard in the country they are unlikely to properly help, but if anyone could produce the necessary weapons en masse with its kind of work mentality, Japan could be the answer.
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  3. I would say the biggest issue with the supply lines both in Ukraine and in other countries when it comes to the actual production, is that they need more machines to actually build the equipment in the first place, and obviously considering they are military equipment, the machines are going to definitely be very customised so I’d imagine it can take many months for more of them to be delivered so they can actually increase their production rates. At least that’s what seems to make sense. Apparently the US is trying to redesign the Javelin so its internal system is more simple but with better programming to compensate for the massive depletion of the specific chips used in the equipment. This however I think will just end up taking more time away from just simply focusing on increasing production rates and just trying to get hold of the actual chips needed by forcing the hand of the companies to increase their own chip production. In terms of war you have to just try and put bureaucracy aside and just get on with it.
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