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by kbelder
1464 days ago
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>This way their entire military gets actual combat experience, the troops are always fresh, and the moral is high. Same with equipment, regular maintenance, etc. Russia's military, of course, noted for their experience, freshness, and high morale. Along with having properly maintained equipment. |
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I also think you entire missed the tense of my answer, which is that they are _getting experience_ in the present, while staying freshly rested. Like it or not its a fact. And ever since the first week (when they arrested 450 officers of various ranks for a litany of failures), you haven't seen mass desertions on their part.
So yes, compared to the Ukrainian Army they are fighting, their morale is actually very high.
And as for repairs and maintenance, spend some time on Russia propaganda channels. Among the voluminous thrash you can discard, you'll see vids of the various large field repair centers where yes they do replace on the regular artillery cannon tubes and a lot of parts for a lot heavy stuff they have, not including their own ghanima.
Also, in regards to maintenance, see above commend about arrests.
Moreover, according to various unconfirmed but western sources, 4500+ mechanics've reportedly been hired by the Russian MIC last 3 months. They gotta be working on something don't they ?
And again, Ukraine, if look the large amount of defeatist interviews of western and ukrainian leaders (including their chief of staff), is completely unable to do any of that, and is losing badly.
Modern wars are as much wars of industry as wars of logistics.
I suggest this article by the oldest think tank of them all, which you can hardly accuse of russianophilia: https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentar...