Russia would be seriously outclassed by NATO's land, sea, and air forces in a conflict and would lose fast, the UK's Admiral Sir Tony Radakin said.
    • SolidGrueEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      Where else? Personal stockpiles, but that’s hardle a point versus your assertion of one factory doing national production.

      Certainly numbers are dwindling for US manufacturing, but (without data at hand) this asserton smells of rhetoric. Talking points. It would.be strategic suicide to allow that state of affairs to exist in this day and age, and yet, … You might be right. Darn you.

      My point is, “point taken.” Now I gotta go look up US domestic ammunition production, except I wasn’t planning to sign up for new government watchlists this weekend.

        • SolidGrueEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          I cede my point. Well argued, and no I really don’t have any data on US arms production at hand to argue otherwise.

        • Brave Little Hitachi WandEnglish
          5•1 year ago

          This is what scares me - the idea that we could run out of conventional weapons during a hot war, and start having to think of all those nukes lying around “doing nothing”

          Some powers really are too much for humans. We’re not ready

          • @FarceOfWill@infosec.pubEnglish
            4•1 year ago

            Western military uses bombs and missiles from planes not artillery. There isn’t much artillery ammo because our military isn’t set up to use it.

            Ukraine doesn’t have the air superiority to risk doing the same thing so the way they fight doesn’t match the way Europe or the us does.