Comments by "John Walsh" (@johnwalsh4857) on "Imperial War Museums" channel.

  1. The Russians are also fielding T-62s another vintage AFV. about as old as the BMP-1, heck there are reports T-55s are being fielded, who knows in the next several months the Russians will be fielding T-34s , its rumored they have a lot still in storage back in the far east.
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  2. Yep the Russian performance, and plan was really farcical, they envisioned 1-2 weeks war with minimal casualties and a rapid collapse of the Ukrainian gov. what Putin got instead was a war still going on for more than 1 year, the Russians losing 50 percent of their intiial territorial conquests and the worst casualties since WW2, worst losses than all the wars the USSR and Russia was involved in combined after WW2 and that is just one year. with the Russians losing 200K to 250K casualties so far. and several thousands of vehicles. and its not only a stupidly optimistic plan and poor execution , its a whole host of problems like corruption, outdated inflexible Soviet era combat doctrine, poor command and control, poor training, morale. poor leadership. poor logistics, poor coordination, a whole host of problems top to bottom which the Russians as of this writing has not really improved on or at least changed for the better. These days you have a Russian army trying to batter the Ukrainian army with numbers fighting like it was either World war 1 or 2.
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  3. well the BMP-1 is still a reliable and rugged vehicle and not surrprised its so rugged even poor russian maintenance it can withdstand. I can also say the same for the M113 which is still being used by Ukraine. Its all relative.
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  4.  @rinaldoman3331  however T-55 is still in service with many 3rd world countries. Heck not surprised Russia still has a bunch in storage
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  5. Yep this video nailed the problems of the Russian army. in fact, Russians tanks are good but the problem is that how they are used, poor training , poor tactics , poor overall strategy used by the Russians, Russian army of 2022 seems to be very much stuck to the chechen war mentalities, like OK looks like the tanks failed, so now just bombard the crap out of the enemy then go back in with a bigger force, rinse and repeat. The Russians seem to be doing the same thing in Bakhmut and nowhere else, everywhere else they seem to be digging in and fortifiying which tells me, the Russians fear the Ukr army. and do not want to attack and are doing the defensive. except in Bankmut which seems to be a wagner operation divorced form the rest of hte Russian army.
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  6. This war is like david(Ukraine) vs. goliath(Russia), and david will win this war. with the Russians getting the most humiliating defeat since the 1905 Russo Japanese war. and I think this war will result in a Russian civil war after Putin is gone. Russia will become the biggest geo political head ache of the first half of the 21st century. A massive Somalia. It wil be like China in the 1920s ruled by warlords.
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