Very succinct as usual Richard. Which ever way one looks at it, the conclusion is the same - it is simply unsustainable and morally repugnant. Unfortunately just par for the course for the inbred scum that constitutes the political and economic elite and their lackeys that rules 'the West'. When times get tough in the next few years we should revisit a slogan that became popular here in the late 80s: 'Eat the Rich' ;o)
FYI
R. MOD report 11th July ended with the accumulated equipment losses since Feb '22;
"In total, 455 airplanes and 241 helicopters, 4,966 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 10,649 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,137 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,413 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,592 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation."
Yesterday's report ended;
"In total, 457 (2) airplanes, 244 (3) helicopters, 5,271 (305) unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 10,942 (293) tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,139 (2) fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,624 (209) field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,906 (314) special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation."
Total losses of materiel since 4th June appears in brackets.
All that commenting on Simplicius' Lyceum has drawn me in to check out your writings. This is the first one I checked and it seems good. I like the math. The prediction at the end seems to have been off (I'm from the future so I know these things xD ). It may be that Ukraine had the "latter" number of troops, which means the time-to-run-out was 9 months, so the time-to-collapse would be 4.5 months. This post was written in mid-July 2023, so 4.5 months from then is early-December. Perhaps there is some space where we can say Russia is making advancements in specific areas. But not yet, really. It seems that either Ukraine is able to mobilize more people than you expected or Russia isn't killing/wounding quite so many Ukrainians after all. It's probably the former.
I watching. Actually I wanted to see the comments.
Very succinct as usual Richard. Which ever way one looks at it, the conclusion is the same - it is simply unsustainable and morally repugnant. Unfortunately just par for the course for the inbred scum that constitutes the political and economic elite and their lackeys that rules 'the West'. When times get tough in the next few years we should revisit a slogan that became popular here in the late 80s: 'Eat the Rich' ;o)
FYI
R. MOD report 11th July ended with the accumulated equipment losses since Feb '22;
"In total, 455 airplanes and 241 helicopters, 4,966 unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 10,649 tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,137 combat vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,413 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,592 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation."
Yesterday's report ended;
"In total, 457 (2) airplanes, 244 (3) helicopters, 5,271 (305) unmanned aerial vehicles, 426 air defence missile systems, 10,942 (293) tanks and other armoured fighting vehicles, 1,139 (2) fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 5,624 (209) field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 11,906 (314) special military motor vehicles have been destroyed during the special military operation."
Total losses of materiel since 4th June appears in brackets.
All that commenting on Simplicius' Lyceum has drawn me in to check out your writings. This is the first one I checked and it seems good. I like the math. The prediction at the end seems to have been off (I'm from the future so I know these things xD ). It may be that Ukraine had the "latter" number of troops, which means the time-to-run-out was 9 months, so the time-to-collapse would be 4.5 months. This post was written in mid-July 2023, so 4.5 months from then is early-December. Perhaps there is some space where we can say Russia is making advancements in specific areas. But not yet, really. It seems that either Ukraine is able to mobilize more people than you expected or Russia isn't killing/wounding quite so many Ukrainians after all. It's probably the former.