re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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According to our sources in the army, difficulties have already begun with barrels for self-propelled guns, howitzers and heavy guns.

Barrels need to be changed regularly, or they will fail. When they fail, if lucky, you only get them to banana, as the explosive gasses breakthrough. If not, you get an explosion that injures and kills personnel.

Let’s just say these failures are terrible for morale. Artillerymen know the barrels need changing. They also know what happens and likely why when barrels fail.

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After the successful destruction of 11 Russian ammunition depots by the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the troops began to experience an acute shortage of ammunition for artillery, tanks and MLRS.

We have seen this in fewer fire missions. Ukrainian HIMARS continue to pound supply depots, so expect this to grow. It’s more than eleven at this point.

”It will take several weeks to compensate for this shortage. And it still needs to be understood that if the shells are again shove just where, then they will again be launched into the wind, ”says the Russian staff officer.

The problem they have is they don’t have the trucks to drive these from bases inside Russia. Nor do they know how to do that. Russia would need something like the Red Ball Express after the Allies landed at Normandy. They don’t have the trucks at this point.

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”August will be really bad. We will not see new equipment, and there will be nothing and nothing to repair the old one. If the Armed Forces of Ukraine go forward at this moment, then we will have nothing to stop them, ”says another Russian staff officer.

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This is the implication because the tank factory supposedly stopped running due to sanctions; they are still producing some new tanks. It’s just not for the war effort. They are using whatever they still have to fulfill an export order.

Put yourself in the shoes of the general staff for a damn second. You need tanks, but the export market is taking priority in the middle of a war. Incidentally, they are no longer producing Armatas either. This is as dysfunctional as it gets.

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The Russians are trying something similar. We all have seen the jack-in-the-box turrets. Crews don’t survive that. But the vehicles need to be repaired. Like American crews, Russians first need to clean these tanks from human remains, hardly a pleasant job.

If you thought this was a job for military troops, it was in the US military. It’s not for Russia. They are bringing factory workers to do this grizzly job. They are paying people within Ukraine 300,000 rubles per month and on the Russian side 150,000.

Realize the money is really good. They cannot keep technicians

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