Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Russian forces fighting in Ukraine are facing a "catastrophic" shortage of reliable modern armoured vehicles, and instead have to rely on antiquated Soviet "shit that burns and kills our soldiers". ⬇️

https://x.com/AncientAlien01/status/1882739169166004696

2/ The Russian Voenkor Kotenok Telegram channel highlights the problems that Russian troops are having due to their reliance on old Soviet armoured vehicles, which cannot withstand landmines or drones. The blogger blames the greed and inaction of Russian manufacturers.

3/ "We have a huge problem with the delivery of infantry and the movement of infantry in the frontline area and its direct defeats there even by small arms.

4/ "The means of delivery of infantry – both BMP (1-2-3), BMD (1-2-3) and wheeled APCs – absolutely do not correspond to the realities of modern combat. Moreover, very often the consequence of their use can be called high losses of personnel. I am putting it mildly.

5/ "At the front line they express themselves more directly: "This is complete sh@t that burns and kills our soldiers ..."."

6/ "But... everything was shelved, because it is much easier to pour money into the advertised "Armata", "embroider", beating everyone in a row in tank biathlon, and now it is easier to send people to assault on something that is cumbersome, inconvenient,…

7/ …that burns and penetrates through. This is a different reality, which everyone does not need to know about, right?

8/ "The feeling is that those who are responsible for rearming the army with AFVs and tanks, in contrast to the "rifle" of "Kalashnikov", from the same developers of FPV and manufacturers of artillery systems, where at least something breathes and moves, …

9/ …froze and abstracted themselves from the problems of the front and the Armed Forces of the warring country.

10/ "It feels like those responsible for armored vehicles, together with the monopolists, are not just "paving over" rearmament, but also don't want to change anything – the much-hyped Armata has sunk into oblivion, the remaining projects exist in single, unfinished copies." /end

Source:
t.me/voenkorKotenok…