AdamLebovski
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- May 28, 2021
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Ukraine has been fighting in Donbass for the seventh year and cannot defeat the insurgent republics in any way.
What do we see
Ukroboronprom was given the task to create weapons that are not inferior to Russian ones and to regain positions in the world arms market. Once upon a time, Ukraine was indeed one of the ten largest world exporters, but first of all, the huge reserves left over from the times of the USSR should be thanked for this.
Today's Ukraine is former military districts of the Soviet Union, the most equipped with modern weapons, with an extensive infrastructure for supplying troops and huge reserves of weapons and ammunition. It should not be forgotten that all these thirty years Ukraine has been selflessly selling Soviet weapons all over the world, as a result of which its arsenal has significantly decreased.
Weapons and military equipment were sold to developing countries in Asia and Africa, or even simply sent for scrap. The Ukrainian army practically did not receive new types of weapons - there was no money.
Today, new tanks are not produced in Ukraine, only the modernization of Soviet T-64B tanks to the level of "Bulat" is underway, which can confidently compete with Russian T-72B3 tanks. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are armed with about 700 T-64, T-72, T-80 tanks of various modifications, and the Ukrainian industry, with all its collapse, is potentially capable of replenishing this fleet by upgrading previously released tanks in storage.
Ukraine was selling its donated legacy of the Soviet past at bargain prices and earning huge sums of money, while not investing a dime in the production of weapons.
What will happen next, no one can imagine
The "Arms and Security-2021" exhibition held in Kiev from June 15 to 18 is compared on the Internet with the "Hunting and Fishing" exhibition. The level of the Ukrainian event with the international exhibition of arms and military equipment "IDEX-2021", which took place in February this year in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is, of course, much lower.
To make modern equipment are needed specialists with good salaries and working conditions. What conditions have been created in Ukraine? Everyone can see. What are the salaries? Everyone understands.
It is quite obvious to people with common sense that no matter how Ukraine develops (falls into six pieces, joins Russia or joins the EU), there is no place for the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. A classic example is the Czech Republic and Poland, which entered the EU and in which there are only two or three military-industrial complex enterprises left. In the Western world, the forge of the military-industrial complex is the United States, France, Great Britain and Germany, and there certainly is no place for Ukraine.
Today Ukraine, of course, is not capable of producing equipment for serious export, it is not even able to supply its own army with weapons. However, Ukraine still has some resources. According to experts, there is a high level of education, there are enough good engineers and designers, there are aviation and rocket schools. But the Ukrainian military-industrial complex can only work on the modernization of Soviet developments in military equipment.
According to experts, if a miracle happens, and Ukraine finds billions for rearmament and the creation of new weapons of its own, it does not enter the top five world leaders in the export of weapons.
Taking a course of tough confrontation with Russia, the Ukrainian authorities took steps to modernize industry, on the basis of the remnants of the dilapidated military-industrial complex. But this did not lead to significant success.
In all types of the armed forces of Ukraine, the state of technology is quite deplorable, Kiev is not able to produce new high-quality equipment in the required quantities, the goverment has no money for purchases abroad, as a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will inevitably degrade and lose their combat effectiveness.
What do we see
Ukroboronprom was given the task to create weapons that are not inferior to Russian ones and to regain positions in the world arms market. Once upon a time, Ukraine was indeed one of the ten largest world exporters, but first of all, the huge reserves left over from the times of the USSR should be thanked for this.
Today's Ukraine is former military districts of the Soviet Union, the most equipped with modern weapons, with an extensive infrastructure for supplying troops and huge reserves of weapons and ammunition. It should not be forgotten that all these thirty years Ukraine has been selflessly selling Soviet weapons all over the world, as a result of which its arsenal has significantly decreased.
Weapons and military equipment were sold to developing countries in Asia and Africa, or even simply sent for scrap. The Ukrainian army practically did not receive new types of weapons - there was no money.
Today, new tanks are not produced in Ukraine, only the modernization of Soviet T-64B tanks to the level of "Bulat" is underway, which can confidently compete with Russian T-72B3 tanks. The Armed Forces of Ukraine are armed with about 700 T-64, T-72, T-80 tanks of various modifications, and the Ukrainian industry, with all its collapse, is potentially capable of replenishing this fleet by upgrading previously released tanks in storage.
Ukraine was selling its donated legacy of the Soviet past at bargain prices and earning huge sums of money, while not investing a dime in the production of weapons.
What will happen next, no one can imagine
The "Arms and Security-2021" exhibition held in Kiev from June 15 to 18 is compared on the Internet with the "Hunting and Fishing" exhibition. The level of the Ukrainian event with the international exhibition of arms and military equipment "IDEX-2021", which took place in February this year in the capital of the United Arab Emirates, is, of course, much lower.
To make modern equipment are needed specialists with good salaries and working conditions. What conditions have been created in Ukraine? Everyone can see. What are the salaries? Everyone understands.
It is quite obvious to people with common sense that no matter how Ukraine develops (falls into six pieces, joins Russia or joins the EU), there is no place for the Ukrainian military-industrial complex. A classic example is the Czech Republic and Poland, which entered the EU and in which there are only two or three military-industrial complex enterprises left. In the Western world, the forge of the military-industrial complex is the United States, France, Great Britain and Germany, and there certainly is no place for Ukraine.
Today Ukraine, of course, is not capable of producing equipment for serious export, it is not even able to supply its own army with weapons. However, Ukraine still has some resources. According to experts, there is a high level of education, there are enough good engineers and designers, there are aviation and rocket schools. But the Ukrainian military-industrial complex can only work on the modernization of Soviet developments in military equipment.
According to experts, if a miracle happens, and Ukraine finds billions for rearmament and the creation of new weapons of its own, it does not enter the top five world leaders in the export of weapons.
Taking a course of tough confrontation with Russia, the Ukrainian authorities took steps to modernize industry, on the basis of the remnants of the dilapidated military-industrial complex. But this did not lead to significant success.
In all types of the armed forces of Ukraine, the state of technology is quite deplorable, Kiev is not able to produce new high-quality equipment in the required quantities, the goverment has no money for purchases abroad, as a result, the Armed Forces of Ukraine will inevitably degrade and lose their combat effectiveness.
