Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Malevolence said:
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I was going to ask how ammo production was going as an article I posted earlier mentioned Ukraine was using 90,000 artillery shells a month and "the west" was producing 60,000 (30k US, 30k everyone else) so we're running our stocks down.

That clip mentions Ukraine is now up to 150,000k a month! (5k a day) and US is looking to ramp up production to 90k (3x current production).

No mention of RoW production, which I imagine is being ramped up too, but still looks like there's a deficit going on.
 
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Begbie said:
Bit late for that, would everyone be happy to pay double or triple for goods?

Most UK goods are now made in China, imported back and stamped with 'British brand' labelling on it.

Trump tried to stop this and received a crazy amount of backlash for it.
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Actually I would pay more and try to source stuff made in Europe if not UK. Obviously it it is not always possible but in general **** the Chinese.
 
Minstadave said:
Likely skimping on maintenance/old airframes.
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And training/flight hours.

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine it was noted that Russian pilots were often woefully under what most armed forces consider the minimum number of flight hours to retain their certification, from memory some of Russia's "elite" pilots were known to be getting less time in the air than the US consider to be the bare minimum to keep up competency for reserve pilots (and that is quite low, something like 6-12 hours a month per type, but the US also makes a lot of use of simulators).
I think it was being noted years ago that whilst Russia has a lot of aircraft, their budget for fuel and maintenance meant they couldn't afford to fly them enough, and that was before any effects of corruption.
 
It's getting messy around Bakhmut. :(

Russian offensives on Yahidne not successful, say Ukrainian armed forces

Ukraine’s military said that Russia conducted unsuccessful offensives near Yahidne over the past day, after Russia’s Wagner mercenary group claimed to have captured the village in eastern Ukraine near the focus on intense fighting.

The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in a morning update that Russia keeps concentrating its offensive efforts along the entire Bakhmut frontline, were Yahidne is located.

Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin said on Saturday his forces had captured Yahidne. On Friday, he had claimed control of Berkhivka, an adjacent village on the outskirts of Bakhmut.

But the Ukrainian bulletin said attacks were continuing, citing “unsuccessful offensives” near six settlements, including Yahidne and Berkhivka, in the Donetsk region, which Moscow claims to have annexed.
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(Source).

Ukraine can't hold it forever.
 
Begbie said:
Trump tried to stop this and received a crazy amount of backlash for it.
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Begbie said:
Bit late for that, would everyone be happy to pay double or triple for goods?

Most UK goods are now made in China, imported back and stamped with 'British brand' labelling on it.

Trump tried to stop this and received a crazy amount of backlash for it.
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Would that be the same Trump that that got all his MAGA gear made in China then got caught ripping off the made in China labels and sewing in made in USA ones?
 
Hagar said:
Actually I would pay more and try to source stuff made in Europe if not UK. Obviously it it is not always possible but in general **** the Chinese.
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I agree, but that would increase poverty in the UK yet again. I also try and buy products made in the UK/Europe, but it's pretty damn difficult. I can't think of much stuff that I've bought recently that was made in the UK, even with them being British companies.
 
Werewolf said:
And training/flight hours.

Even before Russia invaded Ukraine it was noted that Russian pilots were often woefully under what most armed forces consider the minimum number of flight hours to retain their certification, from memory some of Russia's "elite" pilots were known to be getting less time in the air than the US consider to be the bare minimum to keep up competency for reserve pilots (and that is quite low, something like 6-12 hours a month per type, but the US also makes a lot of use of simulators).
I think it was being noted years ago that whilst Russia has a lot of aircraft, their budget for fuel and maintenance meant they couldn't afford to fly them enough, and that was before any effects of corruption.
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It’s not just pilots too. Another reason that the Russian Air Force may be largely AWOL in this fight as well is the fact that Russia doesn’t have much, if any, experience of maintaining high-intensity air ops. Literally they won’t have the guys trained or who have prior experience of keeping maintenance intensive aircraft going over a prolonged period of time, so consequently they might not have the stocks of spares, tools and equipment in place to keep up the sortie rates they’d need to achieve air superiority, and give Russian ground forces the support they need to advance in places like Bakhmut.
 
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