How Russia Produced 3 Million Artillery Rounds

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    During a recent campaign event named “Everything for victory!”, Putin said “success is achieved by the side that can react quickly... the side that does it quicker wins the battle”. It took place in the military-industrial city of Tula, arguably the center of Russian arms manufacturing, with more than 10 companies producing weapons non-stop. This includes NPO Splav, the only manufacturer of multiple rocket launcher systems in Russia. Tula is the perfect example of how, at the heart of Russia's military production capability are its state-owned manufacturing facilities. 6 large plants encompass a wide range of capabilities, from the production of traditional artillery shells to the assembly of advanced munitions systems. These facilities are strategically dispersed across the country, and most of them were inherited relics from the Soviet Union. Today they account for 70% of all Russia’s arms production.
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    During the Cold War era, the Soviet Union established a robust industrial infrastructure to support its military ambitions. Factories churned out vast quantities of munitions, positioning the Soviet military as the formidable force. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia faced economic turmoil and a decline in military spending. In 1995, just 4 years after Russia’s first democratic presidential election, Russia’s arms manufacturers produced barely one-ninth the military output they had in 1990, and by the spring of 1995, Russian authorities had declared more than 200 defense enterprises or institutes financially insolvent, and many more were on the verge of bankruptcy. Weapons were already Russia’s largest manufactured export, and their efforts to switch companies from producing military goods to creating civilian goods had largely been unsuccessful.
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  • @Taskandpurpose
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  • @EdmundLoh
    @EdmundLoh Месяц назад +4256

    Who else remembers the news headlines “Russia is running out of tanks, ammo and rockets” since April 2022?

    • @fenrir7878
      @fenrir7878 Месяц назад +547

      At the time they were.

    • @ryanthorne5432
      @ryanthorne5432 Месяц назад +341

      The Russians got a lot of artillery ammunition from North Korea

    • @alhginarinque7479
      @alhginarinque7479 Месяц назад +52

      NATO officer

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +867

      its facinating to see what can change when you pour more of your countries resources into military

    • @Shoelessjoe78
      @Shoelessjoe78 Месяц назад +1

      They are running out of tanks and afvs. The only reason they haven't is they're spending their Soviet inheritance. It's a nice trick but you can only use it once. If you want to learn more about it look at the recent loss data it's a lot of older Soviet era rolling stock. And if you cut it up month by month you can see it's getting older and older.
      As far as artillery shells if they weren't running out why would they bought all that s*** from North Korea?

  • @tsugumorihoney2288
    @tsugumorihoney2288 Месяц назад +461

    Also, Russian 152 mm HE shell cost from 400 to 650 bucks, NATO 155 mm HE shell now cost around 4000-8000 feel the difference

    • @JK-qn9qr
      @JK-qn9qr Месяц назад

      Russia: WAR ECONOMY. NATO: INFLATION TO THE MOON. FUCK THE PEASANTS>

    • @DlanorAKnox-ur2bf
      @DlanorAKnox-ur2bf Месяц назад +104

      this price is imposed because of the extra 3 millimeters

    • @VashtheStampede007
      @VashtheStampede007 Месяц назад

      How else can NATO countries have higher per capita GDP? 😂

    • @mikewlazlinski4309
      @mikewlazlinski4309 Месяц назад +11

      ​@@DlanorAKnox-ur2bf Nope. It's got other things.

    • @vladimirkostic9932
      @vladimirkostic9932 Месяц назад +64

      @@mikewlazlinski4309 I think dude is sarcastic of course is other thing. 😜

  • @Kecher13
    @Kecher13 Месяц назад +453

    What I like in Americans the most, is that they really think all other nations are idiots.

    • @cronostrigger6401
      @cronostrigger6401 Месяц назад

      and they really are, europeans think they are smarter then americans and here we are, they been pulled into into this madness following the masters orders

    • @ivanlesovik4431
      @ivanlesovik4431 Месяц назад

      А мне не нравится , они в массе сами дебилы , если судить о их искусстве и массовой культуре 😂

    • @BrianFoster-ji9fp
      @BrianFoster-ji9fp Месяц назад +42

      I don't think so. People in the USA don't pay any attention to the outside world at all.

    • @AL-lh2ht
      @AL-lh2ht Месяц назад +11

      Russia using WW2 tanks is in fact pretty stupid.

    • @yourname-dp8xw
      @yourname-dp8xw Месяц назад +60

      @@AL-lh2ht Having no tanks is much dumber. Look at the stockpiles of nations. No allied nation has a large supply of modern tanks, they are just too expensive. This is why during war time everyone resorts to quantity over quality to win. The USSR lost 3x in tanks during the Battle of Kursk, but the Germans were far outnumbered by the sheer number of tanks and since Berlin was 1700km away then they couldn't simply resupply.

  • @kenrik2105
    @kenrik2105 Месяц назад +276

    Russian MIC works for the state; Western MIC works for shareholders and politicians. One seeks to provide maximum cost-effectiveness; the other seeks long-term contracts and maximum profit margins.

    • @OctagonFinancialSystems
      @OctagonFinancialSystems Месяц назад +65

      Simple concept these RUclipsrs refuse to understand.

    • @StandTallTx
      @StandTallTx Месяц назад +20

      Don't forget Russian leaders pocketing military funds to buy themselves a yacht.

    • @Kissypooh
      @Kissypooh Месяц назад +6

      Do you work for free?

    • @Jean-Seb
      @Jean-Seb Месяц назад

      @@StandTallTx that NAFO brain of yours can't grasp reality. Too many fake news big macs for nutrition.

    • @user-tf4lh8oq8u
      @user-tf4lh8oq8u Месяц назад +1

      @@StandTallTx This is propaganda.... You will find the most thieves and corrupt officials in the USA.. However, their corrupt actions will never lead to imprisonment. Because they run the United States

  • @Soshiaircon91
    @Soshiaircon91 Месяц назад +2450

    The reason why Russia can produce 3million artillery shells per year is because they didn't charge 90k USD for a bag for bushings.

    • @MrDJAK777
      @MrDJAK777 Месяц назад +259

      No but they paid for 5 million bushings and got 1 million. Who knew corruption could be diverse yet so universal.

    • @menzbercedes8962
      @menzbercedes8962 Месяц назад +178

      Ukriane aid:- 37 billions we have stolen... uh
      invested in fortifications" - Ukrainian politician Georgiy Birkadze makes gaffe on live TV😂😂

    • @esanahka9284
      @esanahka9284 Месяц назад

      Russian bot spotted​@@menzbercedes8962

    • @henria.277
      @henria.277 Месяц назад +185

      ​@@menzbercedes8962Sure buddy, they have not received 30 billions in cash.

    • @PresidentsPlayPARODY
      @PresidentsPlayPARODY Месяц назад +105

      but how are we supposed to launder funds for black projects without the 90k$ bushings?

  • @martinsmith9054
    @martinsmith9054 Месяц назад +475

    I saw an inquiry in Congress where the US Airforce payed $90,000 for a handheld bag of mechanical bushings. That's all I need to see.

    • @OzzyBloke
      @OzzyBloke Месяц назад

      And yet the media would have you believe that Russia is more corrupt than the US.

    • @cryptobond0079
      @cryptobond0079 Месяц назад

      I also saw this, those bag of bushings in china or Russia would cost 90 dollars.
      Not 90,000.
      I immediately thought of Fraud and the us Government taking tax payers money.

    • @DJAKONDATM
      @DJAKONDATM Месяц назад +28

      Capitalism. You want it - you got it)

    • @Guiltank
      @Guiltank Месяц назад +54

      @@DJAKONDATM no, just capitalism at the brink of corruption. Capitalism still is the best system, but as any man made system, it is just as weak as the people acting.

    • @motorcitymadman146
      @motorcitymadman146 Месяц назад +12

      Money laundering.

  • @garykendall3776
    @garykendall3776 Месяц назад +97

    One point is that, during the "quiet" periods, Russia kept their old military production plants just ticking over so that the expertise was retained. e.g. Uralvagonzagod kept only one tank line going at low production rates, and built trucks on the other lines. As soon as demand rose, the trucks were hived off to another plant so that all lines went to tank production.

    • @JK-qn9qr
      @JK-qn9qr Месяц назад

      Unlike the west, where they just shut the whole thing and outsource everything...Putin's smart.

    • @Henry_the_Eighth_
      @Henry_the_Eighth_ Месяц назад +17

      That's Soviet/Russian doctrine in a nutshell. A factory in my city used to produce missile guidance units. With the fall of the USSR they started to produce civilian electronics, with only one part of a factory still producing aiming modules. Now, as I've heard, they are producing mostly guidance modules again since that's more important.

    • @mi1400
      @mi1400 25 дней назад

      but how come russia is managing to bring artillery within ~60-80km range of targets despite ukraine/US have dominated through drones and ATACMS/HIMARS!?!

    • @masoodjalal1152
      @masoodjalal1152 24 дня назад

      @@mi1400 If you think that then you really need different sources, the war is not really going in favor of Ukraine, it is going to end like Armenia, where the media made the people believe that Amenia was winning and videos from Azerbaijan were being censored. Then when Armenia surrendered, everyone was surprised. Free media in the west is just a fancy term, the media is regulated and very much controlled.

    • @user-mw2el3os4w
      @user-mw2el3os4w 10 дней назад +1

      @@mi1400 What kind of superiority are we talking about? :D ATACMS/ HIMARS are only a couple dozen. Russia has a thousand artillery pieces, MLRS and tanks along the entire front. Russia has dozens of times more drones. + Absolute air supremacy

  • @tjoftjof
    @tjoftjof Месяц назад +196

    CNBC stated in March 2023 that Russian soldiers are fighting with shovels because of lack of ammo

    • @Fullgrym
      @Fullgrym Месяц назад

      Wasn't it the BBC? I'm quite sure the media who reported it quoted a british intelligence report.

    • @flow5718
      @flow5718 Месяц назад +40

      Them Russian shovels sure hit different!

    • @Tom50-kf6rw
      @Tom50-kf6rw Месяц назад +39

      Then they strapped shovels to bombs to make glide bombs. 😂

    • @JustChill-zd4ib
      @JustChill-zd4ib Месяц назад

      They were wrong... No reason to repeat someones wrong assumptions over and over.

    • @Ro-nu7vv
      @Ro-nu7vv Месяц назад +2

      How tf do you do that ? 😂

  • @dirzydoo2785
    @dirzydoo2785 Месяц назад +1528

    People out here thinking that nations can't adapt during a war.

    • @highdefinist9697
      @highdefinist9697 Месяц назад +91

      Well, it doesn't exactly help that American keep denying that there even *is* a war...

    • @paulh009
      @paulh009 Месяц назад +7

      The question is: Can they adapt quick enough?

    • @DeltexFPS
      @DeltexFPS Месяц назад

      well, democracy loses to autocracy in the speed of decision-making during war

    • @DuckDuckGoose13
      @DuckDuckGoose13 Месяц назад +29

      ​@highdefinist9697 what on Earth are you talking about?

    • @alexandrnoskov5437
      @alexandrnoskov5437 Месяц назад

      @@highdefinist9697 Ukraine is not part of NATO or the EU. This is a tiny potato republic with no industry. But it has other advantages - legalization of drugs, corruption and cheap cocaine for Zelensky. For the United States, Ukraine is just a tool against Russia. Two years later, Russia has doubled the United States in terms of GDP growth (data from the World Bank), Germany is transferring industry to the United States, Biden is no longer shy about giving an invisible hand and stumbling. Both are pathetic losers.

  • @johno1544
    @johno1544 Месяц назад +467

    80% of casualties wow artillery is still King of the battlefield

    • @t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334
      @t.n.h.ptheneohumanpatterna8334 Месяц назад +79

      Always has been since even the napelonic era

    • @user-yd3yr1pw3x
      @user-yd3yr1pw3x Месяц назад +29

      Or if in Russian motto of the Rocket troops and artillery "Artillery -- god of war"

    • @HouseholdDog
      @HouseholdDog Месяц назад

      Even more so with the advent of drone warfare.

    • @artkahn888
      @artkahn888 Месяц назад +14

      I would argue drones are king in this day of age

    • @HouseholdDog
      @HouseholdDog Месяц назад +32

      @@artkahn888 When combined with artillery. Absolutely.

  • @GorrilazWarfare
    @GorrilazWarfare Месяц назад +321

    this can't be true, some guy with a dog avatar told me russia lost 200 million soldiers per day

    • @user-oi5lg6im7j
      @user-oi5lg6im7j 27 дней назад +5

      Хорошая шутка, но потери убитыми и пропавшими без вести, 50-100 тысяч за войну. Если кто-то сомневается, не сомневайтесь. Большие потери, не позволили бы сейчас наступать.

    • @GorrilazWarfare
      @GorrilazWarfare 27 дней назад

      @@user-oi5lg6im7j Все потерянные жизни - это трагедия, и я не сомневаюсь, что на фронте существует мрачная реальность потерь.
      Шутка, которую я отпустил, была невкусной, извини. Огромное количество невменяемых людей в Интернете любят думать о погибших россиянах и восполняют усугубляющиеся потери, чтобы почувствовать себя лучше. Война печальна для всех и многие погибли в реальности за малое. Извините, если моя шутка пришла с злонамеренного места.

    • @enshk79
      @enshk79 25 дней назад

      Hahaha that’s a good one

    • @mi1400
      @mi1400 25 дней назад +3

      but how come russia is managing to bring artillery within ~60-80km range of targets despite ukraine/US have dominated through drones and ATACMS/HIMARS!?!

    • @UAuaUAuaUA
      @UAuaUAuaUA 23 дня назад

      That was a ruzzian dog who barked victory day every day of the year 🤡🤡🐒🐒

  • @davidchunkyonion
    @davidchunkyonion Месяц назад +52

    Interesting report.
    You failed to mention one thing: US defense spending is mostly driven by defense contractors' desire to milk the taxpayers, not by actual defense requirements.

    • @user-nn7ni3et5j
      @user-nn7ni3et5j 29 дней назад +3

      Exactly. 1 kg package of rivets, which costs $90K? Wow, such theft.

    • @paulbade3566
      @paulbade3566 28 дней назад

      @@user-nn7ni3et5j It's time to go back to the original source of the story; you've been had by rumor corruption. The info I have is that these are bushings for the bomb racks in the B-2; if so they are a short-run specialty item with demanding requirements, and one bag is enough for at least 5% of the entire 20 bomber fleet. I'm not saying $90K is a fair price for a bag of these bushings, but they aren't $2 parts with a giant markup either.

  • @omgitsabloodyandroid5161
    @omgitsabloodyandroid5161 Месяц назад +1003

    Russia has ALWAYS relied very heavily on artillery

    • @sqr2024
      @sqr2024 Месяц назад +13

      What are they 10 or 20 to one in accuracy against the NATO artillery?

    • @omgitsabloodyandroid5161
      @omgitsabloodyandroid5161 Месяц назад +334

      @@sqr2024 when you are flattening a city, accuracy not needed

    • @Adenrux0
      @Adenrux0 Месяц назад +152

      @@sqr2024 it doesn't matter because after massive attack you'll be either dead either shell-shocked and won't be able to continue battle.

    • @deriznohappehquite
      @deriznohappehquite Месяц назад +48

      @@Adenrux0 It does matter because your logistics system has to move all those extra shells to the front.

    • @ravenguard0098
      @ravenguard0098 Месяц назад +12

      Yeah its one of the main aspects in how they built their modern army though fortunately(or unfortunately if Ukraine goes on the Counter Offensive) their army is supposedly built to fight defensively rather than offensively relying on rail for most of their logistics.

  • @usun_politics1033
    @usun_politics1033 Месяц назад +155

    Makes sense for Russia to rely on arty, they are land based power and usually doesn't cross oceans for adventures, unlike the US. Russia relies on EW and AD to deny skies.

    • @elmerkilred159
      @elmerkilred159 Месяц назад +7

      They aren't very good at defending the skies from drones, & missiles, tho.

    • @ftk2589
      @ftk2589 Месяц назад

      @@elmerkilred159 They are good, better than the "western" world.

    • @JayzsMr
      @JayzsMr Месяц назад +26

      @@elmerkilred159no one is cost effectively

    • @usun_politics1033
      @usun_politics1033 Месяц назад +19

      @@elmerkilred159 better than others arguably. Their ew is so aggressive, it causes a lot of suppression of own capabilities.

    • @islandwills2778
      @islandwills2778 Месяц назад +23

      @@elmerkilred159 have you actually looked at the size of russia? Thats a LOT of territory to defend.
      I reckon that if the USA were subjected to drone and missile attacks they would get through as well.

  • @pilgrimemmanuel.6148
    @pilgrimemmanuel.6148 Месяц назад +100

    Just as a side note as someone stated earlier, Roscosmos, Russian state space Company got one of American chemist & astronauts (Tracy Dyson) to the ISS last month and brought one back (Laurel O'Hara). Plus they launched another Angara 5.

    • @stap1er
      @stap1er Месяц назад +12

      That’s because the US is funding spaceX instead of NASA projects, which is years behind schedule and actually going nowhere.

    • @eatshit8034
      @eatshit8034 Месяц назад +1

      @@stap1er the reason they’re funding space x and not nasa is due to cost effectiveness, Space X launches every week and for the majority of the time is able to recover their boosters. Look at the price of SLS, Look at the Price of the Delta 4 Heavy. Space X is going somewhere considering they already have launched 6-7 missions to the ISS, and launch multiple times a week- they have hit such a fast laumch cadance that we know they’re capable of launching 3 times under 24 hours (because they have already done it.) in fact, Crew Dragon is the only natively made capsule that flies to the iss. Where is dream liner? Where is orion? Where is dream chaser?

    • @MrKotBonifacy
      @MrKotBonifacy Месяц назад

      ...and then during some wars in Netherlands "back in time" there were some "joint comitees" supervising safety of dams and windmills (doing the drainage pumping) while soldiers of both sides happily killed each other on battlefields... And, oh, BTW, yes - that "joint" means exactly that, military engeeners frm BOTH sides of the conflict.
      But I digress here, and, erm... what's yer point? If any, that is...?

    • @pilgrimemmanuel.6148
      @pilgrimemmanuel.6148 Месяц назад

      @@MrKotBonifacy my point is you're too dumb to understand context.

    • @nedialkosimonov3893
      @nedialkosimonov3893 Месяц назад +9

      US rejected new contract with Roscosmos for new engine in 2019. Thats why US astronauts need russian rockets to reach ICS 😂😂😂

  • @youcantata
    @youcantata Месяц назад +26

    Artillery was, is, and will remain as the God of War. That is why here in South Korea, Dept of Defense has nickname of "Dept of Artillery". Both South and North Korea army are indulging on artillery firepower seriously. They are crazy on artillery firepower.

  • @FireteamJoker
    @FireteamJoker Месяц назад +262

    I spent nearly a decade in artillery and was told in the end that tube artillery was on it's way out and rockets where the new 'it'. Still hard to believe that old school artillery can turn the tide of battle.

    • @highdefinist9697
      @highdefinist9697 Месяц назад +80

      They are two very different system, so suggesting that one replaces the other doesn't make much sense.
      One 155mm artillery projectile costs ~$1000, maybe up to $3000. A ballistic precision rocket, by comparison, is easily $100k+. While the latter is better in basically every way, it's essentially a quality vs quantity question, and sometimes the extra quality isn't so important, so you just want extreme quantities. So, they serve very different strategic purposes.

    • @heyhoe168
      @heyhoe168 Месяц назад +3

      It does not. But it is and will be important anyway. Just like tanks.

    • @gestapo81
      @gestapo81 Месяц назад +23

      is not "old school" if the shell travels for 50 miles.

    • @magnetmannenbannanen
      @magnetmannenbannanen Месяц назад +5

      millions of rounds matter.

    • @rodrigosassi3768
      @rodrigosassi3768 Месяц назад +19

      In 100 years, artillery will still be the king of battlefield.

  • @spaceguy564
    @spaceguy564 Месяц назад +369

    "Artillery adds dignity to what would otherwise be a vulgar brawl." - Frederick the Great

    • @brutalikcz532
      @brutalikcz532 Месяц назад +23

      read that in Wargame red Dragon voice

    • @rubengutierrez19
      @rubengutierrez19 Месяц назад +1

      What voice?​@@brutalikcz532

    • @pietskiet42-_
      @pietskiet42-_ Месяц назад +1

      He was very gay ....

    • @grantnayduk48
      @grantnayduk48 Месяц назад

      LMAO i saw Federick and Im like what Someone quoted me ! My middle name haha)

    • @brutalikcz532
      @brutalikcz532 Месяц назад +2

      @@rubengutierrez19 I think i played the Brits most. So probably British faction voice.

  • @stevesmith7839
    @stevesmith7839 Месяц назад +91

    Don't confuse democracy for corporate capitalism.

    • @brown_shark706
      @brown_shark706 Месяц назад +1

      Where's democracy?

    • @jordansoviet23
      @jordansoviet23 Месяц назад +7

      Yup that's corporatism also known as FASCISM.

    • @JustChill-zd4ib
      @JustChill-zd4ib Месяц назад

      Democracy is fake freedom. Only freedom they have to pick from 2 clowns as president to pretend they have a choice. Pathetic losers. Not even free health care. Complete imbeciles.

    • @n.erdbeer
      @n.erdbeer Месяц назад +2

      ​@@brown_shark706nowhere in NATO.

    • @paulbade3566
      @paulbade3566 28 дней назад +1

      @@brown_shark706 The U. S. was never a democracy except at the local level. Its system was designed to be a hierarchy of popular republics with personal rights recognized and guaranteed by constitutions. Today it is deteriorating into a bureaucratic state under the malign influence of the fascist religion fused with neo-Marxism. Read "The Doctrines of Fascism" by Benito Mussolini and compare it with the opinions of the current political establishment. Notice in particular how everyone is pushed to look for a government solution first for every problem instead trusting in God to bless their own work.

  • @user-ns7tn4hx2c
    @user-ns7tn4hx2c Месяц назад +54

    we were told 2 years ago that Russia had run out of ammunition

    • @Leicht_Sinn
      @Leicht_Sinn Месяц назад +1

      wtf are you reading ¿
      if you looked up some of the more serious youtubers out the you would know that russia has a 4-5 year time window until they run out of old tanks from the beginning of the war aka 2-3 years

    • @Leicht_Sinn
      @Leicht_Sinn Месяц назад

      from the today view

    • @michaelwu9450
      @michaelwu9450 Месяц назад +2

      we were told 2 years ago that Kiev would fall.. but look at the SMO now 😂

    • @-kenjo-421
      @-kenjo-421 26 дней назад

      I remember news about it kept reappearing until Bakhmut fell after witch it went silent and around late 2023 all reports about 3 million shells started

    • @1BMF1
      @1BMF1 17 дней назад +1

      ​​@@michaelwu9450мне зеля вчера сказал, что он в Крыму купался

  • @Surv1ve_Thrive
    @Surv1ve_Thrive Месяц назад +294

    1 reason. In Europe, we stopped making ammunition and, crucially, ceased the means of production. Us Brits were disgusted by the gradual closing of all domestic means of production. One thing we used to do well. Although, of course, we have interests overseas to create what we need. It's not ideal.

    • @zach6210
      @zach6210 Месяц назад

      the west's 'interests overseas' they rely on are the stockpiles of 2nd and 3rd world nations which they strongarm and, in the case of countries like pakistan, outright overthrow the governments of in order to procure the goods they need. It's the same way america has 'interests' in syria. these cost cutting measures are coming back to haunt the west -- there are only so many countries that can be pressured to send aid for the west.

    • @Operation_C4
      @Operation_C4 Месяц назад +7

      Having learned about the absolute state of British military readiness, this whole Ukraine debacle must really be twisting the knife.

    • @Mgrow
      @Mgrow Месяц назад +27

      @@matiasd.c9949 BREAKING NEWS: You have to weld tortoise shells over your tanks because their amour is complete trash... ROFLMAO.
      And you used a comma as a fullstop because you're educated in Ruzzia.

    • @considerthis9007
      @considerthis9007 Месяц назад

      ​@@matiasd.c9949 Shame about the experienced Russian tank crews though. When these men are killed they leave behind grieving mothers, wives, and children growing up with no fathers. Russia doesn't care about its people.

    • @romanmanner
      @romanmanner Месяц назад +3

      @@matiasd.c9949Putin still has no balls

  • @Taskandpurpose
    @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +428

    NOTE: There are CONFLICTING reports here. According to a report from CTI those 3 million artillery shells include MLRS rockets , and 1.2 million 152mm artillery shells BUT on the OTHER Hand CNN reported they spoke directly to Pentagon officials that stated it was literally 3 million artillery shells though, so it's conflicting reports.

    • @BuckeyeRutabaga
      @BuckeyeRutabaga Месяц назад +56

      I don't think munitions from Iran and North Korea qualify as an "outside aid". Neither Iran nor N. Korea can afford to provide "aid" to Russia. Instead, they are getting cash, various concessions, credits and other benefits from Russia in exchange for their shells.

    • @02suraditpengsaeng41
      @02suraditpengsaeng41 Месяц назад +5

      "3*(his edit#1) million munitions of other type including [etc.]"
      Go figure, good old trick Russia (and other people) also use when counting (12000-23000) tank

    • @stankovich7990
      @stankovich7990 Месяц назад

      Because Russian leadership is smarter than clowns leading the West.

    • @pedrorequio5515
      @pedrorequio5515 Месяц назад +25

      This is correction I was looking for, I would like to point out that the most recent US army numbers given to Congress point out that the Army plants will reach the 100k 155mm shells a month sooner than expected next year, that means 1.2Million of just the 155mm for the US alone, that is enough to feed every Ukrainian cannon easily, with an European step up, it will out produce Russia by late next year easily.

    • @paulbade3566
      @paulbade3566 Месяц назад +24

      If I understand correctly, Russians count short-range rocket launcher tubes (e. g., MLRS), tank guns and mortars as artillery, so that does add up to 3 million artillery equivalent rounds produced in Russia. Westerners make a distinction between rockets, so the clarification is helpful. Thanks.

  • @MarkLee1
    @MarkLee1 Месяц назад +9

    3:35 - Actually, the 2nd Chechen war has ended on April 2000. The anti-partisan (or counter-terror) operations ended in 2009.

  • @NewAlbionTV
    @NewAlbionTV Месяц назад +28

    This is outdated info. Russia doesn't use cotton for this purpose. They have new technology and and source all materials from within Russia. They use different material which is both more economical and better performing.

    • @Korovkin_Pavel
      @Korovkin_Pavel 25 дней назад +1

      Yes, most of it comes from trees proccessing and Russia has a lot of trees. Well, the tree gunpowder is a little worse quality but not so bad. The same way Russia uses tungsten in AP tank rounds and USA depleted uranium. Uranium shells perform 5% better but tungsten is cheaper and way more ecofriendly.

    • @user-xf7sk9jx2u
      @user-xf7sk9jx2u 16 дней назад

      ​@@Korovkin_Pavelу нас на конвейер поставлено производство пороха из льна и не наркотической конопли .

  • @whatalovelyday9765
    @whatalovelyday9765 Месяц назад +95

    It doesn't really take much thinking to realise that a massive industrialised nation with lots of resources like Russia is capable of manufacturing so much artillery shells...

    • @r200ti
      @r200ti Месяц назад +5

      But its something that completely alluded the officials that run the UK, US and EU. And all of our media outlets. Tells us all we need to know

    • @MchenryWadsworth
      @MchenryWadsworth Месяц назад

      I agree, I think that we generally don't remotely have any clue what a group of people/resources the size of a nation's surplus can do when set to one purpose. I think the numbers are just too large for our minds to remotely conceptualize. It's just staggering what even a 'small' country could actually do when they split off even a small chunk of the non-subsistence/bare bones economy (population and resources) to a single purpose.

    • @opentam
      @opentam Месяц назад

      It still take more thinking than average murican can produce

    • @102830189291
      @102830189291 Месяц назад +2

      3 million isnt even taht much. In 1916 for example, Germany produced a total of 36 Million shells per year. Russia doesnt even produce 10% of that

    • @mike-rl2kg
      @mike-rl2kg Месяц назад

      It's about the land that international corporations have bought. from German banks to US corporations. Everyone has their fingers on Ukrainian soil and that's why the war is not over. The West doesn't want to lose its land. and the Ukrainian farmers are dying at the front. And then another farm can be bought up, they come home when they can, and work as slaves for western companies for 160 euros. Hurrah , Through complicated association agreements, the crème de la crème of the world's largest capital owners find themselves as lenders to the Ukrainian agricultural giants. These include Vanguard Group, Goldman Sachs, Banque National de Paris, Kopernik Global Investors, Norges Bank Investment and a number of others.
      As creditors of “Kernel Holding”, the Danish banking group ING Bank, the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg and the Austrian Raiffeisen secure influence on crop yields. Behind “UkrLandFarming”, which has to service external loans worth an estimated $1.6 billion, are the US fund Gramercy LLC, the Export-Import Bank of the USA and Deutsche Bank.[12] The Ukrainian fields are therefore at the mercy of the international network of capital managers via lease agreements and lenders.
      The recent history of the sell-off of Ukrainian black earth soils can be impressively demonstrated using the example of the US private equity fund “NCH Capital”. Founded in 1993 by George Rohr and Moris Tabacinic, the two collected well-capitalized investors for Ukrainian and Russian agricultural goods and benefited early on from the privatization rush after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The money flowed to tax havens such as Cyprus and the Cayman Islands via offshore companies. “NCH Capital” played a key role in land reform in Ukraine when its CEO George Rohr attended high-level meetings between the Ukrainian President and the US Secretary of Commerce in 2015, a year after Maidan. These ultimately led to Kiev agreeing to the IMF reform plan, which subsequently led to the liberalization of the land market.[13]
      To secure its business, “NCH Capital” has some of the most important pension funds in the USA behind it, which are invested in the company. Across industries, these include the funds of Dow Chemicals, General Electric, Lockheed Martin, Merseyside, Honeywell International, Harvard University, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and many others.[14] They all benefit from the fertility of Ukrainian land.and that is the truth, the Ukrainians are not dying for freedom but for western corporations who are afraid of losing their ground,,,thanks for this democracy hurrah hurraaa,, ,

  • @Matt_from_Florida
    @Matt_from_Florida Месяц назад +173

    There's a Russian saying that goes something like, *_"'better' is the enemy of 'good enough',"_* referencing the quality of an item. Perhaps a Russian can provide the actual saying.

    • @morfeicheg
      @morfeicheg Месяц назад +74

      More correct - "Best" is the enemy of "good"

    • @bluemountain4181
      @bluemountain4181 Месяц назад +94

      It's not a uniquely Russian saying, it's a common proverb going back centuries and popularized in Europe by Voltaire
      "Perfect is the enemy of good"

    • @phild9963
      @phild9963 Месяц назад +36

      Not sure but Stalin said that quantity can be its own quality.

    • @Regunes
      @Regunes Месяц назад

      Thought it was french.

    • @keziahdelaney8174
      @keziahdelaney8174 Месяц назад

      @@phild9963 He did!

  • @darielrodriguez6984
    @darielrodriguez6984 Месяц назад +17

    That's the difference between State own Military Production and Businessman Own. In another note: Nowadays the term "authoritarian" can applies to USA and Europe too 8:44

    • @atonlee5725
      @atonlee5725 19 дней назад

      Exactly macron and trudeau are more authoritarian than most ex communist state. The usa is still a free country for the most part. But its changing fast .

  • @kzlfaku
    @kzlfaku Месяц назад +20

    Russia has LOTS of resources and very clever people who don't care so much about materialistic things. Such a country can go on and on in a long time. Western mindset is that everything is about money. Russian mindset is that everything is about survival. Key difference.

  • @MartinMartinX
    @MartinMartinX Месяц назад +24

    I bet TOS , FAB 500 - 1500 - 3000 and RBK 500 victims are growing fast these days.

  • @ivaniuk123
    @ivaniuk123 Месяц назад +598

    China sends gunpowder components to Russia and fentanyl to Mexico for distribution in the US.

    • @xc43t
      @xc43t Месяц назад +100

      Why do you hate capitalism?

    • @UsurperDogheart
      @UsurperDogheart Месяц назад

      @@xc43the’s a Rus disinformation bot. I wonder how many accounts he operates

    • @justme_gb
      @justme_gb Месяц назад

      ​@@xc43tLOL

    • @waynethegreat23
      @waynethegreat23 Месяц назад +29

      I do but I hate dictators more ​@@xc43t

    • @waynethegreat23
      @waynethegreat23 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@xc43tcan't end capitalism til we have globalization.

  • @kyzylalchemy9776
    @kyzylalchemy9776 Месяц назад +7

    Russia has a self reported incarceration rate of 96, which is given at a ratio per 100k people, not a 96% incarceration rate. Given the way IR is measured 96% would be insane.

  • @MK0272
    @MK0272 Месяц назад +10

    That explosion shown at 10:34 is the exact same one I've seen at least a dozen times in other videos.

    • @F.O.U.N.D.E.R
      @F.O.U.N.D.E.R Месяц назад +1

      Its a meme clip, get your info right

  • @atanasvasilev3228
    @atanasvasilev3228 Месяц назад +119

    Yo, Russia almost exhausted their washing machine cold war era stockpiles. Only the shovels keep them in the game.

    • @dmitriyshvidchenko6657
      @dmitriyshvidchenko6657 Месяц назад +7

      You cannot imagine how true you are!!! Back in the USSR there was a joke about Russian "StroyBat" - military construction units - they were such terrible beasts that their primary weapon was a shovel, and higher ranks were afraid to give them kalashnikovs 😁

  • @Lichnaya_pravda
    @Lichnaya_pravda Месяц назад +153

    AFAIK, already in the years of WW2, Russia developed technology of producing nitrocellulose (white gunpowder) from lumber (via paper). Cotton gunpowder is higher quality and does not require intermediate stages, but cotton is not necessary for Russia to keep producing gunpowder.

    • @peabase
      @peabase Месяц назад +8

      Similar modern research is afoot in Finland, which can't grow cotton because of the climate alone, but has a handle on paper and pulp production like no other. While feasible, the process is tricker because of higher levels of impurities in wood-based cellulose. Interestingly, eucalyptus trees look most promising, fast-growing and combustible as they are.

    • @attran4488
      @attran4488 Месяц назад

      And week , they have alot industrial week on Siberia

    • @jebise1126
      @jebise1126 Месяц назад +2

      @@peabase finalnd cant grow eucalyptus either

    • @peabase
      @peabase Месяц назад

      @@jebise1126 Duh.

    • @user-ef9zj9zp8k
      @user-ef9zj9zp8k Месяц назад +1

      @@jebise1126 You can grow it elsewhere and ship the lumber to finnland. That aside n-cellulose is not hight tech and can be produced by any nation. Just thanks to certain EU bans on fertilizer, Russia can use the industrial capacity of its cheap electricity to make lots of n-celulose with the n-acid. BTW the unused fertiliser can also be used for military purposes. 🔥

  • @jarllunde
    @jarllunde Месяц назад +4

    World: "hey russia, why do you need so much cotton?"
    Russia: "its for paint, trust me"

  • @PraneshSacher
    @PraneshSacher Месяц назад +10

    incredible amount of information presented here ..... thanks dud, I really appreciate that vast amount of background information ....

  • @Shoelessjoe78
    @Shoelessjoe78 Месяц назад +220

    No washing machine comrade. Here is nice 152 shell though. Is good hat rack.

    • @andyf4292
      @andyf4292 Месяц назад +34

      i do wonder where that came from. because russia has their own chip fabs, they don't import chips, they make them..

    • @JohnSmith-fo5cx
      @JohnSmith-fo5cx Месяц назад +39

      @@andyf4292 ad hominem attacks from anti russian people.

    • @BleedingSnow
      @BleedingSnow Месяц назад

      @@andyf4292 Generally, vast majority of people believe the mainstream media (propaganda) in their respective countries, so when western media span the washing machine articles, most believed it, despite the stupidity. Same as the articles about shovels, ww1 wave tactics and etc etc etc.

    • @JeffPar50
      @JeffPar50 Месяц назад +1

      ​@@andyf4292 Lol this is pure propaganda. No company in Russia can independently manufacture chips without outside parts. Semiconductor supply chains are massive. Even China struggles with manufacturing chips independently. Huawei's newest chips were made with ASML (Dutch) lithography machines. Putin is hoping to be able to manufacture 28nm chips by 2027. For reference, chips used in modern washing machines are typically 28nm. TSMC can produce 3nm chips and Intel can produce 7nm chips. This is why Russia has been desperately trying to circumvent sanctions by importing chips through their neighboring countries.

    • @VisibilityFoggy
      @VisibilityFoggy Месяц назад +13

      @@andyf4292 It's not that they can't make chips, it's that they can't make usable chips for today's devices because they have not miniaturized them the way western manufacturers have. The one commercially viable chip they did make in Russia is now made by TSMC in Taiwan. Russia is still making 180nm chips, about 10-15 years behind the west. And while Russia WAS going to build new fabs that would make smaller 65nm chips, they have no money left to do so because of the war. Putin screwed up again.

  • @Lungolords
    @Lungolords Месяц назад +173

    What's even more wild is back in 1918 Germany was firing 8,000,000 shells a month (266,666/day) and the French were firing 4,500,000 shells a month (150,000/day)

    • @aotmoments7410
      @aotmoments7410 Месяц назад +30

      artillery then and now is different artillery then was alot cheaper than now and costed less to make and the nations were mobilizing for years

    • @Ludak021
      @Ludak021 Месяц назад +1

      @@aotmoments7410 cost nothing to make for Germans. It was war effort, workers get bed, clothes and food. And don't go to the front lines because they were mostly women. I don't know about French 4.5 mil shells. They did raise the white flag and allowed to be invaded and conducted resistance operations. I don't see resistance firing 4.5 mill artillery shells but whatever, it could have been some other time of the war.

    • @93Hoskin
      @93Hoskin Месяц назад +73

      ​@@Ludak021wrong war mate 😂

    • @merocaine
      @merocaine Месяц назад +31

      ​@@Ludak021what are you babbling about

    • @charlesparr1611
      @charlesparr1611 Месяц назад +15

      The accuracy modern artillery means that what took hundreds of rounds to achieve in ww1 can be done with a a time on target salvo of 4 or 5 rounds from a modern gun. Advances in targeting, fusing, and the radar analysis of actual trajectory of shells fired to compare them to the calculated trajectory, which can be corrected before the next round is fired to zero in, and result in 6 rounds fired in less than a minute all arriving within a few feet of the target. And the gun that fired them has already scooted away to avoid counterbatterry fire.
      I should clarify, that is what MODERN artillery can do. Much of Russia's vaunted artillery is literally ww1 and ww2 era scrap metal that can't hit the broad side of a barn, from INSIDE the barn. The Russians still have to fire hundreds of rounds to eventually blunder into their target, which is why despite having access to all those vaunted russian stockpiles, the Ukrainians are still thumbing their noses and mooning the Russians while shredding their columns when they try and advance, those brave russian meat puppets. LMAO.

  • @tsugumorihoney2288
    @tsugumorihoney2288 Месяц назад +8

    Also workers now get better salary if pre war it were like 40-70k rubles, now if you just start working you get at least 80k, also some factories provide 1 time payment around 100-200 k rubles, also working on war factory give you protection against mobilisation

    • @user-xw2ez1vj4t
      @user-xw2ez1vj4t Месяц назад +1

      Actually in period of mass mobilisation (fall of 2022) empolyers treated their "protection" as a salary bonus, thus kept salaries on lower market level.
      Some of my ex-colleagues moved to jobs for "protection" and had their income decreased. But those are engineers, idk how was it with blue collars.
      Also restirctions for people with acces to classified information became very strict. Like previosly with access of level 2 (out of 3, with 1 the most strict) you could go abroad anytime you wanted but had to notify employer. Now that's impossible and even pepole with the 3rd (weakest) lvl might have problems with traveling. So another disadvantage.

    • @user-os9rx6xe2w
      @user-os9rx6xe2w Месяц назад +1

      В России нет мобилизации, воюют контрактники.

    • @tsugumorihoney2288
      @tsugumorihoney2288 Месяц назад

      @@user-os9rx6xe2w чо правда что ли? а что это такое было когда 300 тыщь в армию отправили?

  • @halehale7829
    @halehale7829 6 дней назад

    Everything that we knew in Russian finally was very carefully explained in English. 👍

  • @Rexolaboy
    @Rexolaboy Месяц назад +164

    The B roll of you wearing NVGs with the lens caps on during the day was rich. Lol

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +42

      oh that? dat's just me cosplayin' ; o

    • @Rexolaboy
      @Rexolaboy Месяц назад +17

      @@Taskandpurpose I ain't shaming yah. Men gotta play too.

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +38

      @@Rexolaboy I know, I know , believe me I lost any shame I had about 5 years ago when I started doing this non sense haha

    • @dogsbecute
      @dogsbecute Месяц назад +5

      @@Taskandpurpose and im glad, your skits are always great. We need more "Hooah Chop!"'s.

    • @grantnayduk48
      @grantnayduk48 Месяц назад

      Ahh i was wondering like wtf lol whys he got NODS on LMAO and hiding behind that tree I don't think anyone could see you if like you know it was night and your just there lmao for some reason hahah You remind me of a Print Shoot Repeat YT demonetization Intro Skit with that Clip lol Very Smooth idk anyone else get that vibe PSR VIBE?ahah!

  • @keithlillis7962
    @keithlillis7962 Месяц назад +168

    Stalin called artillery: "The God of War".

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx Месяц назад +8

      Mars

    • @AgentK-im8ke
      @AgentK-im8ke Месяц назад +34

      Napoleon said : god fight on the side of the one with the best artillery

    • @JZsBFF
      @JZsBFF Месяц назад +11

      "The world consist of two types of people; Artillerymen and targets." - An artie operator, probably.

    • @JZsBFF
      @JZsBFF Месяц назад +2

      That's only because he had never heard of drones.

    • @gudleifr1942
      @gudleifr1942 Месяц назад

      А генетику - буржуазной наукой. Почему мнение малообразованного людоеда должно кого-то волновать?

  • @VladikRas-iz1pn
    @VladikRas-iz1pn 22 дня назад +2

    Us were at war with countries with zero air defense and were able to fly freely with very few planes taken down in 20 years. We would see how they succeed in defended air space

  • @havocgr1976
    @havocgr1976 Месяц назад +5

    The main reason French shell production has stalled is China stropped exporting a material they need to make em.

  • @catadoxas
    @catadoxas Месяц назад +95

    fun fact. you know who commanded the artillery in desert storm? connel mcgregor

    • @r.m2072
      @r.m2072 Месяц назад +8

      mcgregor was a tank battalion commander i thought

    • @georgejames6376
      @georgejames6376 Месяц назад +7

      And there ain't no fighter better! He is going to knock out flyod Mayweather

    • @Burboss
      @Burboss Месяц назад

      He was a tank commander, I believe

    • @r.m2072
      @r.m2072 Месяц назад +1

      @@Burboss yeah maybe not battalion commander prob squadron or troop commander , from inside a tank

    • @catadoxas
      @catadoxas Месяц назад +1

      @@Burboss self propelled artillery fell under his command

  • @igniteflow
    @igniteflow Месяц назад +295

    Environmental laws are stopping France from arming itself? That is insane.

    • @elacme626
      @elacme626 Месяц назад +61

      this straight out of a south park episode.I laughed my ass off. I know it's not a joke but still. We europeans need too wake the f up.

    • @heyhoe168
      @heyhoe168 Месяц назад +13

      Skill issue.😂

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +76

      the EU has some strict regulations when it comes to the specific chemicals needed for artillery production , they are currently working hard to get around it right now

    • @AbuBawa-sw1ut
      @AbuBawa-sw1ut Месяц назад +12

      Western propaganda

    • @uniktbrukernavn
      @uniktbrukernavn Месяц назад +27

      Gotta buy those carbon credits before going to war.

  • @hydrozyk
    @hydrozyk Месяц назад +2

    You forgot about Russia's air gliding bombs on wings FABs(one tonne each), they are using it massively now this is why they are moving ahead.

  • @SuperKillroy1
    @SuperKillroy1 Месяц назад +1

    Wow, the night vision works during the day --- with the sense covers on

  • @paulbade3566
    @paulbade3566 Месяц назад +101

    I see several references to "gunpowder" here. Gunpowder, sometimes called black powder, is a propellant made from charcoal, sulfur, and potassium nitrate (saltpeter). Except for muzzle loader hobbyists, its use in firearms is largely obsolete because it makes big clouds of smoke, leaves a lot of residue in the weapon, is prone to failure under damp conditions, and does not have the power of more modern propellants.
    What Russia is using is guncotton, or more technically, cellulose nitrate. It's made by reacting cleaned and finely chopped cotton (cotton pulp, often made from waste fibers from textile thread spinning) with a mixture of sulfuric and nitric acid, followed by a careful cleaning process to remove all traces of residual acid. It is critical that the fibers be broken down and carefully cleaned so that they are no longer hollow because acid trapped in the fibers or other impurities make the product inconsistent and unstable. That's why there are problems with the shells from North Korea; they obviously have poor process quality control (what do you expect from slave labor, anyway?). Guncotton was discovered in 1832, reportedly by accident when a chemist named Braconnet used cotton to wipe up a nitric acid spill and put it on the hearth to dry, only to be startled later when it spontaneously exploded. It took several decades to develop a safe and reliable production process. (Source: Encyclopedia Americana, 1941 edition, except for the details of the discovery; I don't recall where I read that.)

    • @ramonjr.deluna9584
      @ramonjr.deluna9584 Месяц назад +1

      It's 1941,2024 everything change,even books have bias analysis.

    • @ronblack7870
      @ronblack7870 Месяц назад +4

      there is also actual black powder used in the shells in small amounts . maybe the primer. i remember a video 6 months ago saying it's a problem in the usa because a black powder factory had exploded/ burned down and it was hard to source quantities.

    • @rickhayhoe
      @rickhayhoe Месяц назад +2

      @@ronblack7870 Yes, primer and accelerator.

    • @Fyrd-Fareld
      @Fyrd-Fareld Месяц назад +1

      Smokeless gunpowder =/= gunpowder (black)

    • @gnosticbrian3980
      @gnosticbrian3980 Месяц назад

      I thought the German chemist Christian Friedrich Schönbein invented guncotton. Britannica describes the fortuitous discovery thus: "His discovery of guncotton began with an accident in his wife’s kitchen. When he used her cotton apron to wipe up some spilled nitric and sulphuric acid, it disintegrated, leading to his work on nitrocellulose".

  • @almostout
    @almostout Месяц назад +14

    It is interesting to see how artillery is being used in this war. As a veteran artillery man it is crazy to see because I understand the devastation it can reap. Never got to shoot big rounds in combat, got stuck doing convoy security.

    • @ironmantooltime
      @ironmantooltime Месяц назад

      I'm sure your work was still appreciated 🇺🇸

    • @imborad5350
      @imborad5350 Месяц назад +1

      As a noob using simple logic knew already the today outcome. While people were laughing at Russia a year or two ago.

    • @maigepresents5840
      @maigepresents5840 Месяц назад +2

      Former gunnery officer in the Australian army, those 155's with airburst are lethal at 50m blast radius, with serious risk of shrapnel wounds at 75 metres

  • @demokratiaperemoje
    @demokratiaperemoje Месяц назад +1

    Your analysis is always so good!

  • @JDWard-Jeepster
    @JDWard-Jeepster Месяц назад +1

    Wood pulp can be used in place of Cotton, it is just harder to process and nitrate.

  • @mitchyoung93
    @mitchyoung93 Месяц назад +78

    Just as a side note, Roscosmos got one of our astronauts (Tracy Dyson) to the ISS last month and brought one back (Laurel O'Hara). Plus they launched another Angara 5.

    • @proteous8100
      @proteous8100 Месяц назад +20

      Roscosmos is definitely underrated

    • @user-yw8tv5yw6c
      @user-yw8tv5yw6c Месяц назад +1

      What about your SpaceX?

    • @peabase
      @peabase Месяц назад

      A horse and carriage will get you to town, too.

    • @Yudhiswara
      @Yudhiswara Месяц назад

      ​@@peabaseyeah but if you use the horse more than your car : either the car isn't convienent enough, or the horse is a lot more effective to take you to the town. Or both

    • @peabase
      @peabase Месяц назад +3

      @@Yudhiswara Yeah, it's a mystery why we don't see more horse-drawn vehicles.

  • @prjndigo
    @prjndigo Месяц назад +66

    One of the other factors is funny. Russia uses a LOT of D-30 artilery which is 122mm shells, while they have a shorter range and less explosive power overall they also take 22kg of material to make but the NATO 155mm is 45kg of material. So they literally can make two shells from the same material. They're easier to handle and assemble, ship, and load into the weapons.

    • @effexon
      @effexon Месяц назад +6

      is 122mm same as mortar? seems smart to me, 45kg is huge amount of materials and chance of hitting something is low without some hitech excalibur style ordnance.
      155/152 only makes sense as dumb bomb if raw materials are cheap and abundant to make as many as staff can do.

    • @mattiasolsson2354
      @mattiasolsson2354 Месяц назад +13

      This right here. A mayor advantage of the Soviet artillery is that they never abandoned regimental artillery support like the west did.

    • @bittripper3530
      @bittripper3530 Месяц назад +8

      But Russia can't hit anything accurately so needs way more ammunition.

    • @mattiasolsson2354
      @mattiasolsson2354 Месяц назад +21

      @@bittripper3530 You have to understand that during war, unlike counter guerrilla warfare, the enemy fields at least a company worth of troops at any given position, or at least a platoon if we are talking an ATGM anti tank company resource. It doesn't really matter if you hit exaclty one squad, the enemy will deploy in force in that terrain, meaning no shortage of targets.

    • @fredbyoutubing
      @fredbyoutubing Месяц назад +18

      Like it was said in the video, the west is betting on localized air superiority to make artillery unusable for the enemy. Ukraine can't do that, unfortunately.

  • @jeffstablein7206
    @jeffstablein7206 Месяц назад

    I like how in the ad the lens covers were on the night vision devices

  • @Treetimedragons
    @Treetimedragons Месяц назад

    Thank you for this very informative video bro🤘

  • @jonathanloeppky
    @jonathanloeppky Месяц назад +38

    To put this in perspective, the First World War used between 900 million and 1.2 billion rounds of artillery ammunition. Most of the artillery used during that war was also much larger than modern artillery, as they did not have jdams/fabs for delivery of large rounds with enough capacity to destroy fortifications.

    • @mrvwbug4423
      @mrvwbug4423 Месяц назад +13

      A lot of WW1 artillery was 75mm light howitzers, that basically were used in the same way that we use mortars now

    • @jonathanloeppky
      @jonathanloeppky Месяц назад +2

      @@mrvwbug4423 True, but there was also a lot of very heavy artillery that is no longer seen. Another stat to put modern artillery usage into perspective. During the battle of Vimy Ridge, the Canadians used over 1 million rounds fired from 1100 guns in 2 weeks. That amount is only used every couple of months across the entire front in the Russo-Ukranian war.

    • @ironmantooltime
      @ironmantooltime Месяц назад +3

      Yea, point of contention is use of the word most. Some ww1 artillery was of a larger than 155 calibre.

    • @matsv201
      @matsv201 Месяц назад +4

      ​@@ironmantooltimebut then we talk about a few hundred shels at the very largest side.
      In ukraine almost all shells are 155mm (there are some 105mm). There are also 120 and 80mm mortor that is not counted as artilery.
      Consider that the 80mm would be more powerfull than the 75mm from ww1 and the 120mm would be more powerfull than pretty much any field gun at that time.

  • @yikemoo
    @yikemoo Месяц назад +30

    dude, I read the counter as 1.7 mil views in 7 mins, and I was like "DAMN, this channel has blown up!"

    • @ATomRileyA
      @ATomRileyA Месяц назад +3

      Bots be running wild as well :)

    • @yikemoo
      @yikemoo Месяц назад +1

      @@ATomRileyA actually, its funny how bot-free this comments section is compared to some other US-focused military-themed channels, like check out binkov's comments whoa

  • @danielmacdonald8358
    @danielmacdonald8358 Месяц назад

    Very good report thank you for all your hard work and bringing this to us

  • @bulldrumm
    @bulldrumm Месяц назад +1

    By having an industry instead of a fraud.
    By taking the war seriously.
    And with a holistic approach. There.

  • @331SVTCobra
    @331SVTCobra Месяц назад +105

    Fun Fact: Western artillery gets a fire mission, expends ordnance, then calls for more munitions. Russian artillery gets ammunition pushed to it and (oversimplifying, but conceptually correct) is told to fire at something.

    • @jorgenpersson662
      @jorgenpersson662 Месяц назад +9

      YEAH! you are well informed...

    • @effexon
      @effexon Месяц назад +6

      if they have 10x ammo than other side, that hurts.

    • @throughput6674
      @throughput6674 Месяц назад +21

      source; CNN, BBC, DW, SLY NEWS and TRUST me bro.

    • @johnwalker8417
      @johnwalker8417 Месяц назад +3

      ​@@throughput6674show your work

    • @mattiasolsson2354
      @mattiasolsson2354 Месяц назад

      More accurate take IMO, western artillery waits for target confirmation and fire to destroy discovered resistance points. Russian artillery looks at the map and marks down suspected areas of defence that are bombarded during their assault, no wait for confirmation.

  • @adrianbooth438
    @adrianbooth438 Месяц назад +247

    My 14 year old nephew proudly showed me a new slingshot he had made. I said that's cute - in Russia kids your age are making 152mm shells. My sister isn't talking to me now.

    • @user-sc7fk5ys6x
      @user-sc7fk5ys6x Месяц назад +10

      That’s hilarious. Kid doesn’t grok that the reference is to slave labor? 😂

    • @Noqtis
      @Noqtis Месяц назад

      because it's bullshit. kids his age go to school in Russia too. It's not 1940, buddy.

    • @femboyshitposter676
      @femboyshitposter676 Месяц назад +61

      You're a imbacile for saying that and the fact you lied about the Russian kids is even more of a I'm an imbacile move

    • @highdefinist9697
      @highdefinist9697 Месяц назад +7

      @@lebowskiunderachiever3591 It's a cute meme at least so who cares.

    • @RomanVarl
      @RomanVarl Месяц назад +9

      Brilliant joke! Approved ))

  • @Ralf-lv9ur
    @Ralf-lv9ur 23 дня назад

    ...I bet those night optics are 100% more AWESOME when you flip the lens caps off :D

  • @davidcollishaw2771
    @davidcollishaw2771 8 дней назад

    Don't forget they also remanufacture 600,000 plus old soviet shells that have been in storage for forty years. they started with 19m shells in stockpile and still have 10m after two years of SMO.
    there's a reason we were told to fear up to a million shells a day in the 80s

  • @OmMmZz
    @OmMmZz Месяц назад +45

    Oh waw!! Russia isn't using shovels and chips from washing machines, who knew!😂

    • @highdefinist9697
      @highdefinist9697 Месяц назад +2

      You can't use chips from washing machines, if you have no washing machines.

    • @avadhutagita3741
      @avadhutagita3741 Месяц назад

      @@highdefinist9697 No washing machines? After all, there is a free, nanotechnological and democratic Ukraine nearby, from which Russians steal washing machines. 😁
      No shovels?. Russians make shovels from wood and then launched at 2000 km, they can even shoot down satellites with shovels.

    • @OmMmZz
      @OmMmZz Месяц назад

      @@highdefinist9697 That's what they've been saying all along all this fake analyst saying Russia is losing the war and all other nonsense, just to turn back and eat their own words, Am not talking about this channel in particular but the mainstream media

    • @AEH-df7ho
      @AEH-df7ho Месяц назад +24

      ​@@highdefinist9697 As a russian I confirm that we don't have washing machines. My personal bear does the laundry for me

    • @OmMmZz
      @OmMmZz Месяц назад

      @@AEH-df7ho 😅😅😅

  • @mikeq7134
    @mikeq7134 Месяц назад +3

    This video is extremely informative and helpful. Thank you very much.

  • @AffectiveApe
    @AffectiveApe Месяц назад

    Fantastic data synthesis. Keep it up!

  • @rocadezona85
    @rocadezona85 Месяц назад

    With their effectiveness rate, vast amounts are an absolute necessity

  • @Ringer1982
    @Ringer1982 Месяц назад +41

    As I saw in another source, the estimation of 3 million includes all calibers, including self propelled munition, and that the estimated rate of produclion of the main caliber of 152 mm is around from 1 to 1.5 million.

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +12

      can you please share the source with me? NATO and other sources I've looked at all state rockets / artillery at 3 million please send to capelluto@taskandpurpose.com !

    • @Ringer1982
      @Ringer1982 Месяц назад +3

      @@Taskandpurpose sure, I just replied

    • @markrtoffeeman
      @markrtoffeeman Месяц назад +8

      @@Taskandpurpose I think Perun covered this topic in one of his recent videos also. There is no way that for the main equivalent NATO calibre that they exceed European and/or US production. That 3 million figure includes all calibres

    • @HanSolo__
      @HanSolo__ Месяц назад +5

      @@Taskandpurpose They use other calibres in their artillery not only 152mm. Such as 122mm - Gvozdika, 100mm - AT Rapira cannon, 203mm - Pion and 115mm as some of their T-62s work as makeshift SPA.

    • @markrtoffeeman
      @markrtoffeeman Месяц назад +5

      @@Taskandpurpose According to the European Commission the EU has hit 1 million 155 mm shells annually (January 2024) and according to the US DOD the US ramp up will add by end of 2024 between 840,000 to 960,000 155 mm shells for 2024. So conservatively 2 million 155 mm shells. European production and US production will shift slightly in 2025 with European production continuing to go up, and US production hitting a plateau until more comes on line in 2026

  • @user-hh7jz9pm9s
    @user-hh7jz9pm9s Месяц назад +5

    Keep up the good videos we all love the analysis

  • @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek
    @NigelDeForrest-Pearce-cv6ek Месяц назад

    Excellent and Outstanding Report!!!

  • @irafowlerjr.7492
    @irafowlerjr.7492 Месяц назад

    Thank you

  • @SpiritWolf1966
    @SpiritWolf1966 Месяц назад +8

    I enjoy all of Task & Purpose videos

  • @SpookyEng1
    @SpookyEng1 Месяц назад +14

    I miss cheap Tula steel case, damn war

    • @AlexanderTch
      @AlexanderTch Месяц назад +3

      What did you use them for?

    • @MrFrimko
      @MrFrimko Месяц назад +1

      @@AlexanderTch rifle customizations i gues

  • @hydra8845
    @hydra8845 9 дней назад +1

    6:51 that’s rich coming from America where the MIC is basically the center of all its foreign policy decisions 😂😂😂😂😂

  • @abedjb3189
    @abedjb3189 Месяц назад +28

    Russia shelling small city called Grozny with thirty thousand Artillery shell with hundreds of Air strikes and thiusand of tabk shells and millions of bullets is crazy.

    • @JohnSmith-fo5cx
      @JohnSmith-fo5cx Месяц назад +15

      And yet...Grozny is a beautiful city today.

    • @iberiksoderblom
      @iberiksoderblom Месяц назад +1

      That cost the Russian people a lot of money, then. Lots of roads not being mantained, hospitals needing everything, trains not being repaired...

    • @adambrande
      @adambrande Месяц назад +17

      ​@@iberiksoderblomlol I wish my government can only have those problems if we're at war. We're at peace yet we have the same exact troubles so what gives?

    • @WWSzar
      @WWSzar Месяц назад +4

      @@adambrande The average Russian male lived almost 10 years shorter than their EU counterpart, and that was before the war

    • @Silver_Prussian
      @Silver_Prussian Месяц назад

      Well maybe the Dudayev and his gang should have thought about it before proceeding to commit suicide for their nation with their decisions. Wow such men fighting the russians by engaging in urban warfare using their own people as meat shields then crying when the russians stoped playing their little games.

  • @user-uz3jp7fe1o
    @user-uz3jp7fe1o Месяц назад +10

    Thats about 8213 rounds peer day wich is pretty decent and would basicly mean artillery wont run out in the next years.

    • @aotmoments7410
      @aotmoments7410 Месяц назад

      if the russian mod is correct about the increase then Russia made 1.2 million rounds a year for like 14 years so they hypothetically should have like 12m in stock but at the start of the war they were using 50-100k rounds per day

    • @user-uz3jp7fe1o
      @user-uz3jp7fe1o Месяц назад

      @@aotmoments7410 well those numbers are much lower currently, for comparison tho Ukraine uses about 10k rounds peer day wich Is why I said that, and also you still have to consider old soviet stocks and the fact that guided bombs also partially replaced artillery.

    • @jebise1126
      @jebise1126 Месяц назад

      @@user-uz3jp7fe1o ukraine barely used 10k per day during summer offensive. they are down to 2 to maybe 3k a day now. they often dont even shoot at russian tanks any more. seen blyatmobil just driving around like nothing?

    • @user-uz3jp7fe1o
      @user-uz3jp7fe1o Месяц назад

      @@jebise1126 dam didnt know it was that bad for the Ukrainian side, well if this is true then it would only show even more how russia wont run out of artillery.

    • @ajcottrill4949
      @ajcottrill4949 Месяц назад

      Depends how many pieces of artillery equipment get blown up…

  • @Jagooon
    @Jagooon Месяц назад

    10:00
    In fact you need to increase the tolerances, not reduce them.
    Reducing tolerances means that things are harder to produce but of a better quality.

  • @john1182
    @john1182 Месяц назад

    14:17 the burs and dings on the bolt threads speaks to awesome russian quality control™

  • @anthonycampos7417
    @anthonycampos7417 Месяц назад +5

    Ngl, that Uralvagonzavod logo is dope as hell.

  • @thegreatdane3627
    @thegreatdane3627 Месяц назад +25

    Just to clarify, the 3M figure mentioned in the video includes all artillery calibers and rockets.
    The number of 152mm shells are estimated to 1,3M annually. Which is actually less than the current capacity for 155mm shells in NATO.

    • @deriznohappehquite
      @deriznohappehquite Месяц назад +3

      Notably, however, most of those shells are going to the Russian ground forces, whereas many western shells are not going to Ukraine.

    • @thegreatdane3627
      @thegreatdane3627 Месяц назад +4

      @@deriznohappehquite yeah, EU manufacturers are still exporting to other countries. Which is pretty frustrating tbh...

    • @cryptarisprotocol1872
      @cryptarisprotocol1872 Месяц назад +2

      @@thegreatdane3627
      And the U.S. Pentagon says its 3 Million 152mm shells. Hmm, Europe or the U.S. intelligence apparatus. I tend to notice Ukraine supporters look for the lowest "number" when they don't like what other allies say, Task & Purpose also made a comment about it that CNN went to the Pentagon and the Pentagon stated this.
      So I'm assuming 3+ million 152m shells + 2 Million Iranian and DPRK shells with the rest being rockets and other calibers.

    • @cryptarisprotocol1872
      @cryptarisprotocol1872 Месяц назад +1

      And don't come at me with "Well you're picking the higher number from America because you're obviously a Vatnik!!!" when in reality if I was that I would go with Russian Minister of Defence Shoigu's number of 16.5+ Million of all Calibers.

    • @thegreatdane3627
      @thegreatdane3627 Месяц назад +1

      @@cryptarisprotocol1872 where did the Pentagon state that number? Where did you read it or watch it?

  • @Wildturkey10121
    @Wildturkey10121 Месяц назад

    This is a good reason that the Iowa class battleships are recommissioned and modernised. I'm hoping we have enough industrial capacity to create the munitions we need if we need them.

    • @zegaracosmus
      @zegaracosmus Месяц назад

      they will not modernize most of the ships for "mini sun" reasons cant fry mechanical stuff, plus who wants a car dealership being launched at you lmao fat electrician, hopefully they add some of the sparky bois make them things travel at like 7,000+ FPS mmmmmm general atomics best not eff it up

  • @mauertal
    @mauertal Месяц назад +7

    Germany startet in WW2 a ammunition-programm (Iwan-Plan) in occupied Ukraine. The production started in May 1943 and the output till October 1943 was planed: 750,000 x 10.5 cm, 400.000 15cm, 150.000 21cm shells PER month = 15 Million shells per year!

    • @solderdesolder
      @solderdesolder Месяц назад

      proofs, please

    • @mauertal
      @mauertal Месяц назад

      @@solderdesolder I have studied that case direct in German Archives. U can find this stuff only in German in Wiki or in some Military pages.

    • @solderdesolder
      @solderdesolder Месяц назад

      @@mauertal it was no real working big ammuniton fabs in that territories at that times

    • @mauertal
      @mauertal Месяц назад

      @@solderdesolder If u dont know something, PLEASE say "i dont know, can u tell me" and not THAT! 1943, alone in the middle Ukraine (without the Lemberg-Area, the Crimea and the Donbas incl. Charkiw) there where the heavy steal industrie comanies: Steel Mill Konstantinowka, Steel Mill Krivoy Rog, Steel Mill Taganrog, Steel Mill Saporoshje, Steel Mill Stalino, Rykowo, Asow Steel 1 + 2 in Mariupol in work! The biggest water power station in Saporischja got in FULL work on 01.01.1943 and produced more than twice as much energy, than needed in high consumption peaks!

    • @solderdesolder
      @solderdesolder Месяц назад

      @@mauertal LOL.
      1. Most of Soviet ammunition plants, located in the western parts of USSR, was dismantled and evacuated to east in 1941.
      2. All this fabs and plants (their parts that was remained after evacuation) was partially or badly destroyed during the course of hostilities, in 1941 - 1942.
      3. Steel industrie mills is not ammunition fabs, it's very different sectors of industry.

  • @mnk9073
    @mnk9073 Месяц назад +70

    Getting into a war of attrition with Russia is like getting into a spending war with Bernard Arnault.

    • @causewaykayak
      @causewaykayak Месяц назад

      Its America looking for war against China and Russia.

    • @Veylon
      @Veylon Месяц назад +6

      Russia isn't what is used to be. The birth rate back in the 90's and early 00's was cataclysmic. The Philippines has more military-age manpower than Russia these days.
      That being said, Russia is focusing on war-oriented things in a war situation whereas the EU really isn't. Russia can punch way above their weight when they're spending 6% of their GDP on as much OK stuff as they can make to use vs. their peer competitors spending 2% on gold-plated stuff they're afraid to lose.

    • @causewaykayak
      @causewaykayak Месяц назад +13

      ​@@Veylon Very useful points to bear in mind. To split a small hair though, That of the Philippines having more military age men - but numbers are surely not that good an indicator of a country's ability to prosecute a meaningful conventional war. Russia has been attacked by the west time over since the fall of the awful czarists. Each time Russia has responded in a sustained and meaningful way. It has a disciplined population which is readily militarised. How effectively could the Philippines dragoon its people into intensive arms production, conscription and build a large effective military capable of fighting overseas if necessary. I suggest thats improbable and even if the attempt were made it would be because of pressure from its "allies" and massive aid from the US.

    • @Marvin-dg8vj
      @Marvin-dg8vj Месяц назад +2

      Russia has low cost labour with no worries about health and safety or net zero laws.​@@Veylon

    • @bodigames
      @bodigames Месяц назад +2

      @@Veylonmanpower doesn’t change anything.
      Just look at China and Japan’s. Still Japan beat China the whole war.

  • @adamabele785
    @adamabele785 Месяц назад

    High tolerance is connected to high accuracy. If you can be sure that a shot hits the target at 95% or 75% makes a huge difference. In the second case you need three rounds to be quite sure that you have destroyed the target, in the first case you need only one or occasionally a second.

    • @slewone4905
      @slewone4905 Месяц назад

      but this is the problem. You only see one factor. our high tech Artillery are really accurate. But it require a lot more time and energy to produce that accuracy, plus firing each shell does damage to the artillery. so the far more accurate howitzer has a very short life span on the field.

    • @adamabele785
      @adamabele785 Месяц назад

      @@slewone4905 No, this applies to the "dumb" artillery as well, that has no other high tech parts except the fuse. The PzH2000 has a high quality barrel and the estimation was, that you can fire something like 7500 rounds until you need replacement. However in combat it turned out that they lasted up to 20000 rounds. After all this is artillery and it is not necessary to hit everything directly. An artillery shell can take out unarmored vehicles and soft targets in an area of 200 m diameter with one shell alone and do at least some damage in greater distance. And the PzH is able to hit a football field in a distance of 30 km with a probability of 85 % just because of precision manufacturing of the barrel and the shells. The high precision stuff is only needed if you have base bleed or VLAP or whatever technology that exceeds the range of 30 km. Most of the time you fire at a range of 5 to 20 km which allows for rapid attacks with high precision. Russian artillery is more like the unguided rocket launcher, they destroy the whole settlement and still might miss the target they want to destroy.

  • @bkm83442
    @bkm83442 Месяц назад

    Cotton and nitrocellulose are not separate ingredients of gunpowder. Nitrocellulose is made from cotton (cellulose) treated with nitric acid.

  • @johnvannewhouse
    @johnvannewhouse Месяц назад +4

    Keep it up, Cappy!! And keep your skin THICK!

  • @Ironblood4564
    @Ironblood4564 Месяц назад +16

    Task i have a question.
    Based on SKs and UKrs, "intel" before the rounds were even shipped to RU from NK. How can we prove that 50% number? Is there any russian or N.K counter claims on effectiveness? I feel like if it was a coinflip on a jam or explosion on the system no one would use the artillery.
    People dont even pick up spare ammo from enemys on the off chance a single round is sabotaged.

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +15

      they were shipped last year I believe, Ukraine claimed there was a high dud rate and inaccurate fire afterwards. Could it be misinformation ? absolutely. I think I flagged that part by saying "if we believe what Ukraine claims" how can we verify the dud rate? I have no idea. I would honestly have to research deeper into that aspect to know better

    • @user-me5oq3kl4h
      @user-me5oq3kl4h Месяц назад +3

      Several artillery men I talked with said that NK shells were fine, nothing fancy about them. A bit different from Russian/soviet ones, but not much

    • @Ironblood4564
      @Ironblood4564 Месяц назад

      @@Taskandpurpose Thanks for the reply.
      Enjoying all the content recently as well as appreciate the consistent coverage of the conflict.
      I understand that's it's all grey area of how intel/propo is handled. I just dislike the over exgeration of flaws in the RUA. It feels like we(euro/us) are underestimating them or dangers a war similar to this would have on our own forces if sent expecting something else.

    • @Ironblood4564
      @Ironblood4564 Месяц назад

      @@user-me5oq3kl4h
      Thanks for the context, if you don't mind me asking, if you have knowledge what's the current state of integration of wagnerian forces after the fracturing? Where they go?
      I saw a few vids of them talking about the NK shells floating around a while ago. This might be a situation to more seriously consider the anecdotal soldiers videos on situation, instead of Opp-State intelligence.

    • @jebise1126
      @jebise1126 Месяц назад

      source - trust me bro

  • @lancepants28
    @lancepants28 Месяц назад +5

    Anyone that has read about WWII Red Army this is not surprising. Read about the built up of Operation Bagration. The one major thing that the USA back then helped USSR with was supply trucks. USA at that time had 75% of the market share in vehicle manufacturing. This is why many are saying that the Ukraine war is a lost cause if it drags out longer.

  • @dennis2376
    @dennis2376 Месяц назад

    Thank you.

  • @johnnycaps1
    @johnnycaps1 Месяц назад +8

    You must have been "a special unique baby boy". @11:18
    Great episode.

    • @Taskandpurpose
      @Taskandpurpose  Месяц назад +5

    • @johnnycaps1
      @johnnycaps1 Месяц назад +2

      @@Taskandpurpose Well you've now grown up to be a wonderful and special man.

  • @stickfighter1038
    @stickfighter1038 Месяц назад +15

    Veteran of the 1st Gulf War so can testify to the reliance on SF and Air Power early on to discourage Iraq from invading Saudi Arabia. Getting Naval, Air Power and SF units to remote battlefields takes days vs tanks, artillery etc which can take months. This put a reduced focus on US artillery capabilities and improvement.

    • @MrBottlecapBill
      @MrBottlecapBill Месяц назад +9

      True. While fighting third world countries with limited ability to destroy those things it's the way to go. In a long drawn out war of superpowers where those very expensive slow to produced resources start vanishing quickly........you're in a different ball game. Not to mention air power is great for blowing things up but you MUST occupy ground to control it. Air power doesn't do that.

    • @mauriciorod4375
      @mauriciorod4375 Месяц назад

      Our Marine artillery unit took us less than 20 days to get to Saudi. Were sent to the Kuwaiti border as a delaying force in case the Iraqis decided to cross and head towards Ryiad.

    • @expertpovsemvoprosam1667
      @expertpovsemvoprosam1667 Месяц назад

      You wouldn't have any resistance anyway. You waited for the war between Iraq and Iran to end, which took away all the strength of the first and second. You did the same thing in World War II. They waited until the Russians defeated the Germans. This is the eternal Anglo-Saxon-Zionist policy.

  • @Paulywog672
    @Paulywog672 Месяц назад

    I wonder if you could just substitute hemp pulp for cotton pulp its way faster to grow and very similar.

  • @handsandpaws1027
    @handsandpaws1027 Месяц назад

    your videos are top tier, new sub here !

  • @georgekaradov1274
    @georgekaradov1274 Месяц назад +5

    One thing not mentioned in this video is the lack of skilled manufacturing work force in the west, with the exception of Germany( their apprenticeship programs were great). 30+ years of outsourcing manufacturing have greatly reduce the number of workers that have the skills to do such work, and that is specialty true for the young workers. It would take at least a generation, if effort is made and there is intensives to address this issue. My dad work all his life as tool and die maker and he is, with his technical high school diploma from Eastern Europe, as good as me(Math and Computer science major) at trigonometry. He was using it in his work all day long. How many young people who may contemplate working in a factory have that level of education nowadays? Everyone want to be influencer, RUclipsr of sit behind a desk... It is much easier to study some humanities major that proper STEM fields... just saying

    • @RobbbbM-qk3ei
      @RobbbbM-qk3ei Месяц назад +1

      This right here. We don’t have the human capability we used to.

  • @krisfrederick5001
    @krisfrederick5001 Месяц назад +45

    "Ready! Fire! AIM!"
    -Russian Military Doctrine

    • @Swingmesideways
      @Swingmesideways Месяц назад +6

      AIM.. 😂.. Russia dont aim they bomb big areas to hit something
      But that maybe explain why they Aim so bad because they FIRE BEFORE AIM😂

    • @mattiasolsson2354
      @mattiasolsson2354 Месяц назад +6

      Pretty much true. During the Soviet times one of the artillerys main mission was to suprres ATGM fire, so they needed fire saturation. In order to support the tanks. Because while artillery was an important role, during Soviet times the tank was still considers the mayor force weapon. All other forces support the tanks, unlike in NATO thinking where infantry has a myth status. Artillery is just a better support arms than infantry becaouse of it's range and ability to quickly concentrates fires.

    • @javiermendez9365
      @javiermendez9365 Месяц назад +8

      Yep, and they do it with cheap stuff and hit something. Unlike the US shoots million dollar rockets to hit something so you know why they don't care to aim. $90k bushings 😅😂!

    • @ASpyNamedJames
      @ASpyNamedJames Месяц назад

      Guffaw! Guffaw! Guffaw! You're so superior!

    • @GigaChadlovesandcares
      @GigaChadlovesandcares Месяц назад +2

      They actually say something like “3,3,3” and then fire

  • @SuwinTzi
    @SuwinTzi Месяц назад

    Yeah, mainly what you already said, Russia and Eastern doctrine has always assumed heavy artillery support, while Western doctrine assumes Air Superiority and control for CAS.
    Also an issue with precision versus "dumb" shells. Remember the Zumwalt was essentially canceled because the shells the cannons were supposed to fire were too damn expensive due to being "precision guidance". Meanwhile Russia is extending the range of their FAB series by slapping on some fins and an off the shelf GPS system.

  • @MH5XXXX
    @MH5XXXX Месяц назад

    i can tell you about my time in the AF that 12hr shifts with very limited time off is a perfect way for folks to get hurt of to have serious work damage. ""straight 12hr shifts burn you out real fast!!""

  • @spoddie
    @spoddie Месяц назад +16

    1:25 "Wow it's just like daylight. These things are amazing"

    • @K-Effect
      @K-Effect Месяц назад

      They work even better when you take the lens caps off