Russia and Ukraine flashpoint

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Perun made a new video about the amount of armored vehicles - but of Ukraine this time for a change:

Basically Tanks and IFVs are stable compared to pre-invasion while APCs are up due to the massive influx of the super-cheap M113 (about as expensive as a big luxury SUV).

That sounds good at first glance... until you consider that the Ukrainian Army has grown quite a lot since then, and as such stable is pretty much a synonym for shortage, though that also means that the shortage ain't getting worse for now.

Interesting is also the composition of the material, going from a post-soviet army at the beginning of the conflict to an increasingly NATO-standard army, with basically only the homegrown equipment (T-64, BTR-4...) still being new and on WP munitions standard.

Speaking of homegrown equipment, that's also the elephant in the room for this video, as Perun doesn't acknowledge of any domestic production numbers in the video, just repairing damaged and captured vehicles. as such, it feels like the situation could be somewhat better than portrayed as newly produced vehicles are not taken into account.