60 M1A2/month is what that plant produced when they were building them from scratch. They can refurbish that many without affecting their other production at all.
Poland just ordered 250 M1. They will be built starting in 2025. So they have earlier contracts too. Production is not ramped up, apparently.
Ukrainian President Zelensky will not launch a long awaited major offensive as he ran out of tanks, artillery and ammunition.
"Ukraine can’t start the next counteroffensive due to a shortage of weapons, including heavy equipment and fighter jets, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun."
Zelensky: Ukraine can’t start counteroffensive yet due to weapon shortage
Ukraine can’t start the next counteroffensive due to a shortage of weapons, including heavy equipment and fighter jets, President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun.news.yahoo.com
"``We can't start yet. We can't send them out," he said, revealing the serious shortage of weapons."
Litwin, looks like he is totally finished while the West is also depleted. Last option will be fighter jets, but they would "provoke Russia".
It is ridiculous to pit the industrial capacity of Russia against that of the US. The US economy is over 13 times the size of the Russian economy.
They are not fighting Russia, Ukraine is, so in 13 months of fighting, Russia has been unable to defeat Ukraine.
I did not say they had ramped up. I said they were capable of producing way more than 12 tanks a month.
About 5 times larger. It doesn´t change that Russia has ammo while the West has to ask Pakistan and other countries.
But you said the operations manager said that they would just need contracts. So, they have contracts and you come up with a new reason why production has not been increased.
What contracts? Poland knew deliveries wouldn't begin before the end of 2024. The customers who ordered the new tanks aren't at war, the US is not at war. 31 used tanks for Ukraine isn't reason to start adding shifts, lol.
Just the opposite is true. The nominal gdp is the only way to compare economies but the PPP shows how well the local economy can fare.About 5 times larger. It doesn´t change that Russia has ammo while the West has to ask Pakistan and other countries.
You guys always take nominal GDP to measure an economy´s size, btw, but that is impossible. Since the true size of an economy is measured by produced goods and delivered services and not by the prices that were paid for them, nominal GDP cannot be taken to compare countries. You must take GDP PPP, another name for this is Real GDP, to compare countries. In Real GDP, a product will have the same price, whether produced in the US or in Russia: The US price. Of course, this doesn´t reflect the actual amount of cash that flowed (nominal GDP shows that) but it helps to understand the actual economic performance in terms of production and services. It means, Russia is the 6th largest economy. Most stuff is very cheap there, that is why the Russian nominal GDP is so low.
List of countries by GDP (PPP) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
"GDP (purchasing power parity) compares the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates is the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States."
www.cia.gov
If they have no other contract why would they start to produce the Polish tanks in 2025 and not earlier? Poland wants them now, you know? The German tanks they would get for their T-72 they sent to Ukraine are trash, they didn´t take them and ordered M1, instead. I am sure, they will present Germany the bill soon: $6bn.
That must be why everyone is trading in their dollars for rubles.
GDP is the only way to compare economies. It doesn't have to be in dollars but the relative sizes of the nation's output wll be the same. PPP takes into account lower prices within the local economy, so the people of one country may be better off than the GDP would suggest, but it tells you nothing about the size of he economy or its industrial capacity."GDP (purchasing power parity) compares the gross domestic product (GDP) or value of all final goods and services produced within a nation in a given year. A nation's GDP at purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates is the sum value of all goods and services produced in the country valued at prices prevailing in the United States."
Real GDP (purchasing power parity)
They are already started. The production slots are allocated when the orders are finalized. The order was placed middle of last year. It's a 2 year production cycle. First finished tanks will be coming out the latter half of 2024. A production rate say, 20/month would put final deliveries around end of 2026.
They can want what they want. They knew the time frame when they ordered the tanks. It's no different than any other production order.
Oh well... That's between Germany and Poland. If Germany wants to pay for Poland's M1's I don't really care...
I heard production starts in 2025, not delivery. You have a source on that?
Yes, it tells you about the actual production that took place, not capacity or theory. It means Russia is not bad off. For real, Ukraine is bad off. The longer the war will take the worse the country will fare.
