"All of Vlad's forces and all of Vlad's men, are out to put Humpty together again." (5 Viewers)

[GrauGeist]

Pretty sure world military leaders have been watching this conflict closely, and have inside tracks to Intel that would show just how well Russian equipment is performing in combat.

Surely Vladolph Putler cannot believe that his yapping away at a conference, with these fantastic claims, takes precedence over hard Intel...

 

[WARSPITER]

Pretty sure world military leaders have been watching this conflict closely, and have inside tracks to Intel that would show just how well Russian equipment is performing in combat.

Surely Vladolph Putler cannot believe that his yapping away at a conference, with these fantastic claims, takes precedence over hard Intel...

He is safe at home so long as people there are fed the right 'information' diet.
It has to hit sooner or later though (sanctions and quality of life aspects) ?

 

[vikingBerserker]

Their tanks have been light years ahead of others with lunching their turrets into space.

 

[WARSPITER]

Their tanks have been light years ahead of others with lunching their turrets into space.

Yep. At a precise 39 spins Per...

 

[GTX]

Russia claims 'sabotage' as military base in Crimea goes up in smoke

Russia blames the blasts at an ammunition storage facility in Crimea on an "act of sabotage" without naming the perpetrators.

www.abc.net.au

 

[GTX]

Ukraine received two Mi-17 and two Mi-2 helicopters from Latvia

 

[GTX]

Take with pinch of salt noting source:

Russiaâs cutting-edge Su-57 fighter proves its worth in Ukraine operation â defense firm

It is reported that Russiaâs Aerospace Force will receive 22 Su-57 fighters by late 2024

tass.com

 

[GTX]

Ukraine gets more M109 howitzers from Latvia to counter Russia

Latvia has supplied 6 M109 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov. According to the minister, 6 more M109 howitzers that have recently arrived in Ukraine from Latvia are already showing results on the battlefield. "I‘m sincerely grateful to...

defence-blog.com

 

[Glider]

Putler's brain is obviously not firing on all cylinders.

Putin brags that Russian weapons are 'years, perhaps even decades' ahead of rivals as his army pulls old Soviet-era tanks out of deep storage due to losses in Ukraine

Heavy armor losses in Ukraine forced Russia to pull obsolete tanks out of storage to replace more modern tanks destroyed or damaged in combat.

www.yahoo.com

The article did get one thing right

He also claimed that military professionals think highly of the weapons and that most of them have been used in combat multiple times,

First by the Russians, and then often by the Ukraine

 

[GTX]

Russia’s Repeat Failures

Moscow’s new strategy in Ukraine is just as bad as the old one.

www.foreignaffairs.com

 

[Glider]

Take with pinch of salt noting source:

Russiaâs cutting-edge Su-57 fighter proves its worth in Ukraine operation â defense firm

It is reported that Russiaâs Aerospace Force will receive 22 Su-57 fighters by late 2024

tass.com

Even this has a habit of backfiring

Russia's Aerospace Force will receive 22 Su-57 fighters by late 2024 and their number will increase to 76 by 2028. The first Su-57 fighter was delivered to the Russian troops in 2020

So between 2020 and 2024 they were planned (note past tense) to build about four a year, and a further fifty two at thirteen a year by 2028. Ignoring the lack of money, technology and technical expertise with which to meet this.

Has anybody any idea how many F35's are planned to be built by 2028?

Also remember that India walked away from the project as it was missing almost all its design and performance goals. Sounds like a typical run away success. At least a Ukraine farmer hasn't got one yet

 

[GTX]

Has anybody any idea how many F35's are planned to be built by 2028?

Tentatively 1800 give or take

 

[J_P_C]

Tentatively 1800 give or take

respect for LM!

 

[GTX]

respect for LM!

There are over 825 delivered so far.

 

[GrauGeist]

Well, in all honesty, Putin was not stretching the truth when he claimed Russian armor is technologically superior - it's just that he omitted the part where it should have stated:
"vastly superior to WWII era hardware."

 

[Admiral Beez]

Ukraine gets more M109 howitzers from Latvia to counter Russia

Latvia has supplied 6 M109 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov. According to the minister, 6 more M109 howitzers that have recently arrived in Ukraine from Latvia are already showing results on the battlefield. "I‘m sincerely grateful to...

defence-blog.com

Now that's faith in NATO. Latvia has Russia right next door and provides Ukraine with weapons to kill Russians.... and doesn't worry that the Russians might seize upon a weakened Latvia. Of course Latvia isn't weakened because NATO battlegroup is there.

 

[GrauGeist]

So far Putin is getting a taste of NATO hardware courtesy of the Ukraine military, but if he draws NATO into the mix, that taste will turn into a full seven course meal complete with after-dinner mints...

 

[Snautzer01]

I think he getting whiff of combat training western style. Ohh and he is lost the info war.

 

[Jabberwocky]

Has anybody any idea how many F35's are planned to be built by 2028?

Plan for the moment is:
144 to 150 this year
152 in 2023
156 per year for 2023 to 2028

LM could (theoretically) build more. From memory, there is line capability for better than 180 per year and output could probably top 200 aircraft per year if necessary.

The main problems are insufficient numbers with the test/simulator environment (slowing pre-delivery testing down of each aircraft), delays at Pratt & Whitney with engine deliveries and the mess that was caused when Turkey was ejected from the programme (which meant some key supplier agreements had to be torn up and re-tendered elsewhere).

Also the F35B and F35C are slowing things down too. The B takes 25-35% more man hours to build than the A, and then 50% more manhours for rework and rectification. The C takes 40-50% more manhours to build, and about 250% more manhours for rework and rectification.

LM built and reworked 189 F35As in 2020 and 2021, taking just under 900,000 man hours (average of 47,590 per aircraft). In the same time, it built/reworked 38 F35Bs taking just over 242,000 man hours (63,770 per aircraft) and 17 F35Cs taking just under 140,000 man hours (82,275 per aircraft).

Put another way, if LM had been building just As, it theoretically could have built 80 aircraft instead of 55 Bs and Cs. Of course, that leaves the Navy and the MC sweet out of luck though.

 

[Admiral Beez]

Plan for the moment is:
144 to 150 this year
152 in 2023
156 per year for 2023 to 2028

LM could (theoretically) build more. From memory, there is line capability for better than 180 per year and output could probably top 200 aircraft per year if necessary.

The main problems are insufficient numbers with the test/simulator environment (slowing pre-delivery testing down of each aircraft), delays at Pratt & Whitney with engine deliveries and the mess that was caused when Turkey was ejected from the programme (which meant some key supplier agreements had to be torn up and re-tendered elsewhere).

Also the F35B and F35C are slowing things down too. The B takes 25-35% more man hours to build than the A, and then 50% more manhours for rework and rectification. The C takes 40-50% more manhours to build, and about 250% more manhours for rework and rectification.

LM built and reworked 189 F35As in 2020 and 2021, taking just under 900,000 man hours (average of 47,590 per aircraft). In the same time, it built/reworked 38 F35Bs taking just over 242,000 man hours (63,770 per aircraft) and 17 F35Cs taking just under 140,000 man hours (82,275 per aircraft).

Put another way, if LM had been building just As, it theoretically could have built 80 aircraft instead of 55 Bs and Cs. Of course, that leaves the Navy and the MC sweet out of luck though.

It's going to be a long time before the two Queen Elizabeth class can sail with full CAGs, and a whole lot longer before the RCAF has the entirety of its small order.