The president requires defense companies to “study the arsenal that is being used against us” at the front in order to “improve our weapons” and urges to increase production in factories
The head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, has ordered the military industry to “carefully” study Western-made weapons that Ukraine uses in the war in order to use that knowledge in the “modernization” of the Russian arsenal. Putin conveyed this demand to the managers of companies assimilated to national defense on Tuesday afternoon, a few hours before the speech to the nation this morning in which he has decreed a partial forced recruitment and urged the Government to increase budgets intended for weapons manufacturing.
The request reveals Moscow’s concern about the sophisticated military equipment sent by the United States and NATO allied countries to kyiv, whose damage is more than evident. This deployment has facilitated the overwhelming advance of the Ukrainian Army in Kharkov and represents a current threat to other enclaves conquered by Russia and the separatists in Donbas, now again in dispute. Since the beginning of the war, the US alone has sent kyiv 19 military aid packages valued at 10,673 million euros and has announced another 3,000 million between this and next year. After Washington, the United Kingdom has become the second largest supplier. His new prime minister, Liz Truss, announced a few hours ago before the UN that London will guarantee military aid of 2,600 million euros in 2023, exactly identical to this year’s item.
Putin responds to the claims proposed from different sectors of the Army and its environment in the sense that it is necessary for the military industry to take a turn to adapt to the new rules of war. His call to strengthen the defense business complex in this morning’s speech goes in that direction. In fact, the president exchanged impressions with the businessmen in their meeting yesterday about what means they need and what the future job portfolio should look like.
From mines to drones
Russia urgently requires thousands of spare howitzers, missiles, landmines and cannons for those already worn out, but also a more up-to-date approach to battlefield intelligence. The invasion is showing that advances and defeats are no longer defined according to the traditional rules of combat but rather in the field of information and new military technologies. That is why the Russian president asks for an update that, according to the strategists, must be specified especially in the communication systems, which have failed miserably in the recent disbandment of Kharkov, as well as in the methods of surveillance and monitoring of the enemy. If these last few weeks of conflict demonstrate anything, it is the value of information, the use of drones and precision artillery.
Putin has demanded the so-called DIC, the country’s military-industrial complex, to increase production and shorten manufacturing deadlines. After seven months of invasion, Russian reserves appear to be showing very noticeable signs of depletion in keeping with the heavy destructive pace imposed on this war as it rages in southern and eastern Ukraine. Already in April, Moscow had exceeded the total number of bombs it dropped during World War II, and to this must be added the material destroyed by Ukrainian troops through precision bombing and the abandonment of armor and ammunition by the Russians themselves in their withdrawals .
Russian armor destroyed by the Ukrainians /
The Kremlin’s apparent problem with weapons also demonstrates the variable asymmetry of this war where nothing is written. Although in principle the powerful Russian arsenal gave the impression to the intelligence services of the whole planet of an indisputable superiority, the balance has been rebalancing in favor of Ukraine. The defense of the country depends entirely on Western arms aid, but as long as this does not fail, kyiv has the double advantage of not having to manufacture its own weapons or face the burden of a limited production capacity as is now happening to its opponent. .
Just as significant as those perks are, your War Depot has received a major refresh. After the first few months in which the West exported old material and, so to speak, many of its “surplus” reserves, Ukraine now receives more technological and advanced equipment, as well as the necessary training, in line with NATO armies. The Zelensky government even recently invited international defense companies to test their latest-generation weapons on the Ukrainian battlefield, including those that are still in the experimental phase. The Executive’s eyes are set, for example, on a new, more lethal and maneuverable combat tank.
Putin aspires to neutralize that difference. In his meeting on Tuesday, the president agreed with the main businessmen in the sector that the Russian arsenal resists Western weapons well, but must be improved in relation to its latest models. “All stocks in NATO arsenals are actually used to support the current regime in kyiv,” the president said. This means that we must and can study the arsenals, what there is and what is being used against us, qualitatively increase our capabilities and, based on the experience gained, improve our weapons when necessary. It must be done as quickly and efficiently as possible », he ordered.
Their words could be given specific names. Experts are aware of the damage caused by javelin projectiles and the famous HIMAR multiple launch rocket systems, developed by the United States and which have turned the offensive upside down by multiplying the Ukrainians’ artillery capacity and speed. But the Kremlin is also interested in finding out how to counter the power of the Western anti-radiation systems that kyiv is equipping to nullify its radars and how to also deal with the growing threat of surveillance and attack drones that spread terror and casualties to its forces on the front lines. “In Ukraine, many types of foreign-made self-propelled guns are used,” military expert Alexei Leonkov warns in ‘Izvestia’.
fire outlines
Putin and his General Staff consider that the espionage of Western intelligence and communication methods is vital to “develop reconnaissance and fire contours” of their own. That is, deepen the investigation of drones, satellites, reconnaissance tools and undetectable communication lines, since it has been shown that some of Russia’s basic errors in the occupation have been due to information and planning failures. The assassination of many of its high command or the location of Russian operational bases have also been a consequence of the ease of Ukraine and its allies to detect military communications.
The last chapter in this field is yet to be written and essentially depends on Washington. Bolstered by the latest victories in the northeast, Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky has now promised his citizens to reconquer the entire Donbas and even the Crimean peninsula, annexed to Russia. In search of this purpose, he takes advantage of each speech to pressure the West and urge new supplies and, very especially, the White House. Zelensky asks US President Joe Biden to provide him with missile systems capable of traveling 300 kilometers in search of their targets, a request that the tenant of the Oval Office resists out of sheer prevention: although kyiv guarantees that it will not use those rockets to attack the interior of Russia, Washington is suspicious that, depending on the outcome of the war in the coming months, Ukraine will not direct them against Crimea to persevere in its desire to “liberate” this territory. Such a decision could lead to an unpredictable reaction from Moscow. Putin himself has already referred today in his speech to “NATO” that snoops on Russia’s southern flank and to the gangs of “destabilizers” that have promoted violent incursions into the peninsula.
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