Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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SecondWar said:

shavenferret said:

I don't know about the rest of you all, but I'm seeing a lot of news articles and even YT recommendations now on russia's equipment shortages. If Russia is running short of tanks and IFVs then what will take up the slack? I guess infantry and artillery. Losses for both have been up lately. But if this gets even worse for Russia then we might start seeing Russian losses of 1500 troops per day as opposed to the 1200 or so daily casualties that they have now.

My guess their first point of call will be to try and buy tanks and APCs from Iran and North Korea. Otherwise they y well try to increase artillery and glide bomb usage to make up for a lack of vehicles. Even so, the estimates still didn’t think Russia would run out of usable vehicles until sometime next year, and they’ll likely scrape the bottom of the barrel first. They may even pull some out of museums.

Russia is also seriously running low on artillery pieces, having to resort to reactivate artillery systems that had been first built in the 1930's(!). This also means that they have a whopping 8 different artillery calibers in active service right now, which is a logistical nightmare to say the least.

The reason here however ain't Ukrainian attacks - Artillery barrels wear out quite fast through continuous usage, and Russia simply can't keep up in producing replacement barrels for those cannons. Or in other words: The higher their artillery advantage is right now, the faster they'll run out of them. Especially true if they continue to rely on North Korean shells, whose lower production standards result in higher wear on the artillery barrels.