Both sides have been using them. Somehow Ukraine ended up with an absurd number of Maxim guns (like 30-40k) stuffed in an armory somewhere. They've been making more advanced modifications than the militia guys though.
There where pictures of maxim guns (with carriages) being used by Luhansk/Donetsk militias from the start of this mess
As a lover of peace who is against kidnapping you're going to be so mad when you hear what Russia's been up to.
Yeah I was gonna say, that's actually a pretty high dollar value amount of classic firearms, far more than the usual dreck they're working with.If only there was a way to import them those LPR guys could make bank selling all that to US collectors and like go on vacation to Turkey instead of getting killed in the war.
Even just the Tokarevs are worth 2500-3000 USD each.
Another day, another kidnapping in the shithole known as Russia.
meanwhile in Russia...still using lend-lease weapons...get your Thompson Sub Machine gun everyone!
Clash Report (@clashreport)
New Russian LPR Army guns: Simonov (SKS) self-loading carbine (1949) Degtyarev light machine gun (1945) Sudayev (PPS) submachine gun (1943) Shpagin (PPSh-41) submachine gun (1941) Tokarev (SVT-40) self-loading rifle (1939) Lend-Lease Thompson submachine gun (version 1938)nitter.net
Really illustrates the size of the front on which the battle is taking place. THX.
Here's a very interesting map of Ukraine showing the locations of battles/troops
Nice BFG.Both sides have been using them. Somehow Ukraine ended up with an absurd number of Maxim guns (like 30-40k) stuffed in an armory somewhere. They've been making more advanced modifications than the militia guys though.
Who knows. There’s so much intentional disinfo I wait for battlefield results.Something is afoot—I’ll leave it to the military college experts to decipher this.
Something is afoot—I’ll leave it to the military college experts to decipher this.
Damning.Best propaganda in the world... until the paychecks stops...
Does this mean we will see less of @Young Grasshopper and all his adorable deplorables?Best propaganda in the world... until the paychecks stops...
I hope so; that asshole deserves to get on Putin bad side....Does this mean we will see less of @Young Grasshopper and all his adorable deplorables?
arms-industry executives in the U.S. and Europe complain that a declining number of suppliers have led to long lead times and higher prices.
Securing specialty metals is one of several supply-chain challenges facing the sector, where shortages of chips, rocket engines and other components have hindered efforts to arm Ukraine and replenish supplies sent there.
Britain’s steel industry has declined in recent decades, meaning the West’s second-biggest military spender after the U.S. is reliant, for example, on French imports of the metal to build its next generation of nuclear submarines, a program valued at almost $40 billion.
KNDS’s Ketzel said the biggest risk to ballistic steel supplies in Europe is if the wider regional steel industry falls away. Western steel production has shrunk for at least a decade under pressure from cheaper imports and amid more costly regulations related to reducing carbon emissions.
Truly, if it takes us multiple years to even restart production lines. China has to be rather upset that this lead time, this weakness, is now a lost opportunity that they can no longer exploit.China can't be happy about all the changes this war has brought to the west. Not only were arms industries stagnating but their suppliers were disappearing. Now that all is changing in a rather notable way as factories and countries are re-investing in critical defense industry supply production. The UK nationalized one of their few remaining, and struggling military grade steel producers to keep them around. Germany's KNDS bought it's own steel foundry that was in insolvency to ensure they had a proper steel supply
@Young Grasshopper generally ignores any and all questions that would require him to be critical of Russia in any way.@Young Grasshopper has dodged all questions relating to him being a Russian has he not?
Truly, if it takes us multiple years to even restart production lines. China has to be rather upset that this lead time, this weakness, is now a lost opportunity that they can no longer exploit.
OTOH, ground weapons are probably not related to the air / naval battle ahead. Perhaps we will never ramp up production for those assets, and China won't have as much of an issue from Russia's land war as we would like to think?