Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "The LIMITS of the RUSSIAN military PRODUCTION" video.

@liuyifei1989 A military industrial complex needs a state to support it, or multiple states. This is straining Russia economically. The lack of components is also reducing the capability of their military-industrial complex to actually produce weapons, meaning that both domestic needs and export needs are not being meet. Orders are being cancelled because Russia isn't delivering the weapons ordered. And their troops are increasingly relying on old weapons from storage, in other words a non-renewable resource. Because once the old stockpiles run out they'll be left with only what they can make new... Those old weapons can't be replaced... Meaning that eventually their army will have to go without... And that means reduced combat capabilities.
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Increasing deliveries would be nice. But the reality is that this war will probably take a long time to end. Probably well over a decade... So we need to be ready for the long haul if we want to win...
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@norman_zRead up on its history. Yes, it's fast and hard to shoot down... But it's also stupid... It was intended as one of the first fire and forget missiles they had if I don't remember wrong... But it's not really able to tell the difference between one hot object and another one. So if you have say a outdoor toilet or a gravel road or whatever that's a bit warmer then your real target it's going to hit that instead... The targeting system is the part that's antiquated. Not the engine, an area where the soviets actually where slightly ahead of the Americans during the cold war.
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@spxram4793 War reparations isn't as good an idea as people might think... We tried that with Germany after WW1, not the best results to put it that way... We can perhaps ensure that Ukraine is allowed to use Russian resources confiscated abroad. But ultimately Russia is probably going to need help with recovering after all of this as well... And if Putin is replaced I think we should help them, just like we'll help Ukraine... If Putin stays in power... Well, his cronies will have to suffer till they no longer support him...
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@doomoo5365 Depends, to some degree... We're going to need bigger ammunition stockpiles, that's for sure... But the number of planes, tanks, guns etc isn't going to need to be increased that much. We'll mostly need replacement for what we're sending to Ukraine, and a bit more spare parts. Especially gun barrels for artillery... There might be some modifications to reflect what is being learned in Ukraine. But yeah, with all the damage being done to Russian combat capabilities you might find that Europe, one of the biggest buyers of weapons in the world will end up needing to buy less weapons, as Russia simply becomes less of a threat. China remains though...
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@norman_z I'm glad you liked it. You might want to check out "Willy OAM" and "Perun" for information about the war in Ukraine. Being from western Europe I also like the videos from "Kraut" (don't let the country ball style fool you, it's good content) as his Austrian point of view helps explain eastern and southern Europe and the dynamics at play there. There's a whole bunch of other sources also worth looking at, but those is a good starting point.
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