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He is safe at home so long as people there are fed the right 'information' diet.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...
Yep. At a precise 39 spins Per...Their tanks have been light years ahead of others with lunching their turrets into space.
The article did get one thing rightPutler'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
Even this has a habit of backfiringTake 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 2024tass.com
Tentatively 1800 give or takeHas anybody any idea how many F35's are planned to be built by 2028?
There are over 825 delivered so far.respect for LM!
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.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
Plan for the moment is:Has anybody any idea how many F35's are planned to be built by 2028?
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.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.