Russia has a Tank problem.

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In Modern history, Russia has long reigned king of tanks when it comes to numerical advantage, but that does not seem to be the case anymore, as dire issues begin to arise. While on paper, Russia seems to be a formidable foe, in reality the case is much, much different.
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The tank, a staple in Soviet doctrine, was produced in huge numbers - with the most produced tank in the world being the T-54/55 Main Battle tank, making western generals anxious as they looked eastwards across the iron curtain.
Today however, this is no longer the case, Russia has been unable to make it’s latest tank in any considerable number, and what Soviet tanks it can modernise - it’s struggling to do so fast enough to meet demand. Not only is the war in Ukraine decimating Russia’s tank fleet, but the poor storage conditions has meant that a large percentage of tanks in reserve need a complete overhaul to work properly again, with many more being utilised as parts bins.
Fresh off these matters, it becomes clear that Russia has a tank problem.
A problem, which is starting to show it’s ugly head, as the recent parade in Moscow, 2023, showed only a single T-34 present out of all Russia’s MBT’s. The problem is more an issue for the future, as Russia slowly runs out of soviet models that can be modernised, and it’s industry grows more and more incapable of producing a brand new tank in fresh numbers, - which would require an economic scenario that Russia simply isn’t in anymore.
In this video, join me as we analyse this problem together.
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SOURCES
“In 1939-1945, The soviet union pumped out 57,000 T-34s”
www.cs.mcgill.ca/~rwest/wikis....
“When we look at Russia’s most popular video games, they are those that are based around vehicle combat.”
www.statista.com/statistics/1...
T-54/T-55 100,000 production number
tanks-encyclopedia.com/coldwa...
“T-72 20,000 production numberthesovietarmourblog.blogspot....
Russian tank numbers
topwar.ru/175191-naskolko-sil...
Russian tank losses
www.oryxspioenkop.com/2022/02...
CREDITS:
Footage -
T34 Production: • T-34 Action footage.
T90M • T-90M Proryv - Russian...
Ukraine tank factory • Abandoned and decommis...
T-14 Footage • ARMATA T-14 .
T72 1977 Parade • The Soviet T-72 tank i...
T-72 Reverse speed • T-72 Tank Platoon Reve...
KF51 Panther • Rheinmetall releases P...
CV90 Footage • CV90 firing MBDA’s 5th...
Footage used from Телеканал Звезда and Минобороны России.
Music by Karl Casey @ White Bat Audio - • Cinematic Retrowave Mi...
#Kaboda #Ukraine #Tanks
Intro 0:00
Tanks in Russian culture 0:30
Cold war tank production 1:16
Plug 1:55
Tank production numbers 2:04
Soviet vs Russian disparity 2:54
The T-14’s Failure 4:11
T90M 6:42
The eternal T-72 7:12
Falling behind 7:38
The problem 8:11
Why this is a problem? 8:45
Bad storage conditions 9:06
Ukraine invasion 10:10
The lonely T-34 10:39
Implications 11:43
Future problem 12:16
Change takes time 13:16
Conclusion 14:12
Outro 14:43
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@madkoala2130 Жыл бұрын

What tank problem, I saw no tanks on parade. If there are no tanks then there is no "tank problem".

@Gaelic-Spirit Жыл бұрын

There was a tank. One tank. From WW2.

@benchrant1782 Жыл бұрын

@@Gaelic-Spirit There was a meme about that : At first, the T-90. Then, the T-72. After that, the T-62. Logically, we could see a T-55 on the battlefield. Even further into the conflict, we could see a T-34 in combat. At this rate, we may see a Tsar Tank in a month.

@Jacky-zt5ch Жыл бұрын

@@benchrant1782 by the end of war they’ll be making reproduction of fardier à vapeur to pull ww2 era lend leased towed anti tank gun

@YouGotToStayFrosty Жыл бұрын

@@benchrant1782 BAHAHAH

@joevicmeneses8918 Жыл бұрын

@@benchrant1782 Char ??

@whitegoose2017 Жыл бұрын

It turns out that if you leave your fleet of military vehicles laying around in the harsh winter for decades most of them quickly become quite unusable due to rust and decay Who woulda thunk?

@Master10k2 Жыл бұрын

I work in vehicle recovery, so come winter, I'll be dealing with tons of vehicles that have been left parked for a mere week.

@jaysdood Жыл бұрын

@@Master10k2 Regardless of that, those tanks lack modern equipment such as night vision and skilled crews to operate them.

@jlinn543 Жыл бұрын

@@Master10k2 not being hostile, but what is your point?

@notcrazy6288 Жыл бұрын

@@jlinn543 I think his point is that a week is much shorter than the decades that the Russian fleet has been parked, and even a week can cause maintenance issues.

@vothbetilia4862 Жыл бұрын

@@Master10k2 we ain't talking about weeks.

@oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Жыл бұрын

Wow, look at that T14's turret spin in circles. I guess it can be used to knock enemies off their feet if they're 15 feet tall.

@matthiaszapf1171 Жыл бұрын

no it doesnt. it is to how you how good the turret looks when it is spinning and doing a turret toss. its just to simulate it :D

@artcraft2893 Жыл бұрын

Well turret is equipped with radar

@fishyfish6050 Жыл бұрын

No the reason its doing that is if an ammunition explosion happens on the tank it can take off like a helicopter and spin around

@2serveand2protect Жыл бұрын

@@artcraft2893 If that turret has ANY "proximity-alert radar" for detecting incoming threats, then I am an Ancient Greece Philosopher! ...GUESS WHAT!...I'm NOT!

@2serveand2protect Жыл бұрын

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@robertbalazslorincz8218 Жыл бұрын

The moment you realose that the most numerous tank ever built isn't the T-34 across all variants but the T-54/T-55

@jlinn543 Жыл бұрын

I know, I learned that in a Smithsonian museum book and it threw me off. To be fair though, they had eastern European industry.

@lorenzooliveira1157 Жыл бұрын

T-54/55 was the T-34 of the Cold War, easy to make and as the comment above me mentioned, the soviets had eastern europe(Checoslovakia, etc) and you get massive numbers of those armored tracks

@arcturus4762 11 ай бұрын

I found out because my country replaced its Pz. 38(t) fleet with T-55s.

@NKVD_Enjoyer 11 ай бұрын

almost like the most numerous tanks the american build is the sherman and not moder abrams 😵

@lorenzooliveira1157 11 ай бұрын

@@NKVD_Enjoyer what’s your point?

@tarask8611 Жыл бұрын

T14's spinning turret is a meme of its own. Some people believe there's a crankshaft connecting the transmission and the turret. That's means you could push start it turning it's turret which is kinda cool

@ArmedSpaghet Жыл бұрын

Try doing that while being fired at

@voidtempering8700 Жыл бұрын

I don't think that is true, at all. People just made that up.

@tarask8611 Жыл бұрын

@@voidtempering8700 *irony*

@voidtempering8700 Жыл бұрын

@@tarask8611 How is it ironic?

@tarask8611 Жыл бұрын

@@voidtempering8700 i wasn't pretending it was true from the start lol

@bartweijs Жыл бұрын

Most Russian also seem to forget the lend-lease act of 1941. There was a time during WW2 wher 90% of the railroad stuff was american. 100 of Thousands of trucks were send. Stalin himself said he would have lost the war without USA help. This is a fact often (and intentionally) forgotten by Russians. Probably because in the current war; the USA stands on the opposite side.

@robertpatrick3350 Жыл бұрын

Not just the US

@andymage7179 Жыл бұрын

Also heard those hungry commies liked the rations the west gave them so much.

@ptonpc Жыл бұрын

If not for USA and UK (British Commonwealth) aid, the Soviet Union would most likely have lost.

@MaxwellAerialPhotography Жыл бұрын

Shhhh don’t tell the tankies and the commieboos.

@jamespocelinko104 Жыл бұрын

The US also sent a handful of Shermans their way. From what I read they were well liked by the Soviet tankers.

@Jedi.Toby.M Жыл бұрын

Russia: you will feel the might of our single museum tank! Poland: go on...show us!

@panzerwolf494 Жыл бұрын

Poland has constantly been tugging on its leash to go in and whoop Rusky ass. I kinda wish NATO would just let go and let them have at it. Would be funny to see Poland roflstomp Russia for a change

@newguy954 Жыл бұрын

@@panzerwolf494 Poland is a sugar baby,it was a sugar baby of the ussr and is now the sugar baby of the eu.

@billymule961 Жыл бұрын

@@panzerwolf494 Poland did it in 1920. Members of the Polish military possess a fierce tenacity when it comes to Russia.

@nursestoyland 11 ай бұрын

Michael Rosen :D

@Cotac_Rastic 11 ай бұрын

@@panzerwolf494 Lol, desperate to become a military highway again for Russians. Its like a fetish at this point.

@MightyRude Жыл бұрын

He didn’t even mention the cross country demonstration video where the t14 was moving very slow with the engine continuously hitting the rev limiter.

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

It’s a prototype

@George_M_ Жыл бұрын

No one put a gun to their head and forced them to use the engine from the freaking Porsche Tiger prototype from 80 years ago. But then again, this is the country that used the same marginally upgraded T-34 engine for all their tanks for 60 years.

@MightyRude Жыл бұрын

@@winstonchurchill8491 It’s already beyond the prototype stage, they even tried to field them late last year and nobody wanted to be part of the first crue to die in a t14.

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

@@MightyRude They never tried fielding it. Evidence?

@MightyRude Жыл бұрын

@@winstonchurchill8491 Intercepted calls, russian telegram channels and sources inside the russian army.

@timurdemetres5041 Жыл бұрын

Who needs toilet paper when you have so many tanks.

@1984Phalanx Жыл бұрын

Before this war started, we all greatly over estimated Russias strength.

@american_supremacy Жыл бұрын

That's a fact brother

@callumchandler9352 11 ай бұрын

Yeah... I used to be in the pro Putin camp, I thought he was a genius and our leaders couldn't do anything, but then I started to see the reality of what this war was going to be.

@american_supremacy 11 ай бұрын

@@callumchandler9352 right? He's not special he's just another rusty ass dictator in russias history.

@jackc3205 Жыл бұрын

You are spot on. Russia isn't the soviet union. The soviets relied upon their satellite states for its manufacturing and knowledge base. When it collapsed and the satellite states declared independence, there was simply nothing to replace it. As we can now see. The Russians are incapable of replicating what was done in the old soviet union.

@dixonpinfold2582 Жыл бұрын

USSR + the Warsaw Pact states: approx. 400m people Russia: approx. 145m people (and falling) Math, even mere counting, is just so unforgiving.

@jedimasterdraco6950 11 ай бұрын

Not to mention quite a number of those former satellites and former territories utterly HATE Russia because of the decades of oppression.

@realnapster1522 10 ай бұрын

Simply untruth. You think Russians are stupid? 😂

@pietersteenkamp5241 10 ай бұрын

@dixonpinfold2582 The formet sattelite states has fewer people combined today than Russia so i don't know what you are talking about. Also the Russian population have been growing for a number of years thought i agree it's not much better than Western European and below replacement levels.

@kdark1n641 10 ай бұрын

@@realnapster1522 they are

@xxhowisuxx 11 ай бұрын

I think one of the things that people don't keep in mind is that it's just about impossible to produce tanks as was done in WWII. The raw resources needed are no longer steel, aluminum, etc. Now you need Uranium, rare and precious metals, semiconductors, etc. etc. All of these have their own seperate processes needed to get them, as did steel, but the fact is that tens of thousands of tanks will never be realistic to produce anymore.

@mormatus 11 ай бұрын

Good that someone mentioned this

@comentedonakeyboard Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the reason for the single T34 on parade was to avoid any questions about "why aint they on the frontlines?" So rather apeal to soviet nostalgia.

@EllAntares Жыл бұрын

Well, tbh, museum had only one working and that's one they could show. And while they tried to revive that four-track monstrous prototype tank, it wasn't successful.

@comentedonakeyboard Жыл бұрын

@@EllAntares the Tsar Tank?

@funkymarilenecat5364 Жыл бұрын

@@comentedonakeyboard object 279 the nuclear tank

@advancetotabletop5328 Жыл бұрын

And it‘s not just the tanks. You need infantry to support tanks, and Russia didn’t even do that at the beginning of the war, resulting in huge losses. Vulhedar is a textbook case of command failure. AFAIK, the command for Vulhehedar was to take it at all costs, which, of course, means you can‘t cut your losses and end up wasting 100+ tanks. As much as everyone talks about equipment, *how* you use it (including maintenance and training) is important, probably moreso.

@jackgamer6307 Жыл бұрын

Russia has been so incredibly garbage at using infantry that they had to invent a new vehicle after the chechen war (Iirc). Ever wonder why the BMP-T series of "tank support vehicles" exist? And more importantly, why no oher country but russia has such vehicles?

@johnteets2921 Жыл бұрын

Everything the MSM wants you to believe is a lie and they know it.

@lorenzooliveira1157 Жыл бұрын

Agreed, plus you need to remember that the lower quality of those tanks hampered Russia’s offensive capacities, whilst still dragging the logistics down. Russia as a nation needs peace, Putin’s Russia as a authoritarian nation needs war. Hopefully things end quickly, no one deserved this invasion.

@12sleep23 11 ай бұрын

didn't age well

@timurnakhipov2399 Жыл бұрын

Great review. Just a little addition, russian tanks wasn't really rotten under the open sky due to lack of maintenance. It was never a goal to maintain them. Half of them was disassembled and sold as parts or even as simple copper wires on a black market. Generals were doing that since 1991 or even long before. One of the reason to go to war for them is to simply cover fact of corruption. They say: war will cover everything.

@ThePurplePassage 11 ай бұрын

It'd be fairer to say the opposite: that war exposes everything - not least the rotten state of the Russian armed forces

@frocoshake2107 11 ай бұрын

The problem with this is that it has put corruption in Russia on full display.

@grindelston5968 Жыл бұрын

How does this channel not have even 4k subs?

@highjumpstudios2384 Жыл бұрын

Reality is cruel and unjust

@samuelsnowdon2271 Жыл бұрын

@@highjumpstudios2384 it barley has videos what do you expect infact for the amount of videos that it has it has more then expected subs just because of quality

@highjumpstudios2384 Жыл бұрын

@@samuelsnowdon2271 sometimes people subscribe when they see quality as opposed to quantity.

@samuelsnowdon2271 Жыл бұрын

@@highjumpstudios2384 yrah thats why i said he has such a high sub count for his amount of vids and don't get me wrong I do love his content.

@highjumpstudios2384 Жыл бұрын

@Sebastian Baez oh? Care to elaborate then?

@NightshadeX85 Жыл бұрын

Similar things are also happening in Moscow, the Su-57, oh yeah also the newly fabled Su-75 and the other day the unbeatable MiG-45. If you want some more digging to do look at the Helicopter Ka-60 Kasatka "Killer Whale". Seemed to be a pretty decent helo by all accounts, reminded me of Russian version of the Black Hawk. 2 were built, tested and apparently passed their test with Russia ordering a fair number of these (decent replacements for the Mi-8 and Mi-24) this order was made in 1998 (wiki entry was strangely deleted in the past 2 months) still to this day none have been delivered or even made as far as I'm aware, I definitely remember the order number to be 140 something. Maybe the collapse of the Soviet Union is not the correct term. Maybe the collapsing is still happening and Moscow still has not figured that out yet. Every eastern bloc nation has moved on and even many smaller nations east (Chechnya, Georgia, Ukraine and others) are part of the longer process that is still happening. Just look at most Russians, the depression has been so long they know of nothing else other than Russia (whatever that is). Civil war is coming to Russia, this is due, since they have not accepted (at a political level) the death of the Soviet Union nor have they made the necessary changes needed. Look at Germany and Japan post-war see how they changed, what needed changing, people like Willie Brant and such to rebuild a new nation and move on from the past without clinging to the old problems which got them into trouble in the first place. Russia has had no such change. Kremlin is still as it always was, a den of paranoia and madness, look at every leader of Russia from Ivan the Terrible to today. Russia refuses to grow up and learn from their mistakes and instead ops for more of the same insanity. What concerns me most is Moscow will break before then. I'm afraid of the Moscow nuclear arsenal and them using it on themselves no one else (basically Moscow nuking every Russian Oblast), while claiming Russia has fallen due to Russians not willing to fight for Russia hard enough. Kind of like a version of Emperor Nero for Rome. I think we are seeing the early seeds of this with rhetoric from Kremlin and Putin, saying such things to the soldiers as quote "You carry the future of Russia on your backs". Notice how Putin never blames himself, just everyone else. How long before he claims he gave everything to the Russian military and they failed him ? I'm being serious about this. This is a man who has to convince everyone (himself mostly) he is straight.

@brookwhiteman9810 Жыл бұрын

Part of the reason that they create a vehicle or aircraft and then don't build is because NATO will often already have a counter to it so they don't bother build it because they are constantly trying to be able to say that they are the most far ahead. Due to them pushing for specific features on vehicles and aircraft they pay less attention to the core features. For example with the t14 it's the engine. They realised that the tiger engine from ww2 was a perfect fit for the t14 and so just glassed over the fact that's it's super unreliable and used it.

@opus3989 Жыл бұрын

Yes - putin is gay, he love bears 😂

@some_guy9347 Жыл бұрын

@Opus If he loves bears he’s a furry

@Yuki_Ika7 Жыл бұрын

@@opus3989that is an insult to us gays lol

@NightshadeX85 Жыл бұрын

@@peterlangan1181 Wow you know absolutely nothing about military RnD or hardware or the actual fighting of modern warfare. Littoral ships scrapped (oh I agree big question mark over them) no not scrapped in fact 35 have been ordered. Obsolete aircraft carriers (I assume your referring to the Ford-Class) no it is not like building Battleships after WW2 in fact the Aircraft Carrier is a pinnacle of deciding whether you are automatically on the defence or offence. The F-35 Panther you know nothing about I assure you. The F-35 is the premier fighter, do not believe opinion pieces about it when none of them have actually the faintest about it (believe me on this one, really do). Tanks are not a mainstay of modern NATO armies. Haven't been for 50 years. In fact what is the oldest argument in NATO discussions militarily - has the tank had it's day. Military gone woke- oh sure some politicians and so stupid random officer in western militaries paying lip service, practically everyone just nods and carries on with their day. Woke military well it's still better than the Russian Armed Forces (what is left of them). What was the tally recently oh yeah Russia has lost more than Vietnam.

@JAlucard77 Жыл бұрын

The T72 turret chunk is actually a emergency crew ejection system. And it works PERFECTLY

@flakcannonhans6170 11 ай бұрын

T-72 is the best spaceship of the century

@DogeickBateman 11 ай бұрын

@@flakcannonhans6170Elon Musk mars project=still in conceptual stage, will probably get going by the 2030s T-72 turret: Already testing successfully in 2023 Russia aerodynamics space program #1!!!!

@trolleriffic 11 ай бұрын

It also conveniently incinerates the crew which saves the trouble of bringing their bodies home. The designers really did think of everything.

@JULIAN11. 10 ай бұрын

@@trollerifficIt actually has an ashes dispersing system When the T-72/80/90 is hit, it instantly incinerates the crew and disperses their ashes - You dumb westerners wouldn't understand the Russian brilliance!

@YouOnlyIiveTwice Жыл бұрын

Well, based on all the video clips we've seen of the T-14, the turret can definitely rotate.

@mattheww.6232 Жыл бұрын

its to distract you from how slow it is.

@ceballos-exe Жыл бұрын

"sir, it is imperative for the success of the program that you allow me to show a spinny Boi"

@CFox_ 10 ай бұрын

@@mattheww.6232 *cough* *cough* it was sped up *cough*

@haagenslash5963 10 ай бұрын

Unless it can rotate while flying 70 feet in the air it's an automatic downgrade from the 72.

@YouOnlyIiveTwice 10 ай бұрын

True. This needs a feature where every time the turret gets blown off, it has stabilizers in it that will cause it to land on the barrel and stick the landing. Will make gold at the Turret Toss Olympics every time.@@haagenslash5963

@Uselessnoobcow 9 ай бұрын

These videos are absolutely incredible, some of the highest quality on KZfaq- thank you for these absolute masterpieces. Binge watching them all and can’t wait for more!

@KabodaOfficial 9 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@billsoo306 Жыл бұрын

The core industrial problem is corruption. It's true that the former Soviet Union was also corrupt, but it was on a smaller scale and their main problem was inefficiency. Russia has privatized corruption to the point that it's the main driver of production. For instance, recent oil pipelines were laid not on the basis of lowest cost and efficiency, but on the basis of how to embezzle the most money. In industry it is the same. Because corruption is the driving force, the emphasis is on increasing efficiency in order to drain most of the resources away. The best example of this is machine tools. Modern computer controlled lathes and milling machines are complex and expensive. The Soviet Union was behind the West in this technology, but could still produce adequate product with older machines using highly skilled engineers. After the fall, costs were slashed. The old machines were replaced by Western and Japanese NCMs that could be operated by relatively unskilled laborers. The skilled engineers who operated the old machines found other jobs or left the country. The cost savings went right into the pockets of the oligarchs that controlled these industries. Decades later, Russia annexes Crimea in 2014 and Western sanctions take effect. We have all heard of the shortage of Western microchips that now hamstrung Russian industry, but the sanctions also affected the Western NCMs. Without Western maintenance technicians or spare parts, the machines are failing. And there are no replacements. The older Soviet era machines are still in storage, unless they were sold on the black market, but the skilled workforce to operate them no longer exists. The engineers from the 90s 30 years ago have dispersed, died, retired and are otherwise not available. And nobody has trained any replacements. The Armata was introduced just before sanctions went into effect. This is likely the reason they cannot be produced.

@CrniWuk Жыл бұрын

The corruption within the Soviet System also became worse over time. The Soviet Union of the late 1980s was not the same as in the 60s, 70s where you had still a relatively high believe of the population within the Soviet System it self. But due to political alienation between the public and their leadership, the inefficiency of the economic system and cases like the Afghanistan war and not to forget Tschernobyl, things simply started to deteriorate. At some point, there was no way of holding up the Soviet Union anymore. And Russia, sadly, took over a lot of that when Putin got in to power. Russia was actually on a decent path in the past once the cold war was over and the econmy started to improve. But with the change to an autocratic leadership and now a full blown dictatorship, things are just as you say, terrible. Oligarchs rule pretty much everything. Private armies carve their peace of power for themself. Not just Wagner but also with Gazprom. It even begs the question, how much of a legitimate ruler, Putin actually is since he's not a president really but acting more like the head of a crime family. Some even believe, if this war is over, that Russia might end up in a civil war next.

@Galomortalbr 11 ай бұрын

"western microchips" the entire microchip industry is on Asia, what are you talking about?

@billsoo306 11 ай бұрын

@@Galomortalbr I'm including Japan, South Korea and Taiwan in the general umbrella of "western" as these countries are aligned with the west.

@Galomortalbr 11 ай бұрын

@@billsoo306 no one will read the word "western" and think of three Asian countries.

@questionmaker5666 11 ай бұрын

@@Galomortalbr They are at least aligned with the west

@jloiben12 10 ай бұрын

Every time I hear them refer to WWII as the Great Patriotic War I can only think to ask what country was the Soviets allied with prior to 1941

@johnwalsh4857 Жыл бұрын

when you store a tank for say 30 years in the open with very hot summers and very harsh minus 30 C winters. along with corruption, parts cannibalization yep most of them wont work.

@sixgunsymphony7408 5 ай бұрын

Parts will likely be salvaged, the remaining iron scrapped.

@miranda50 Жыл бұрын

Great video. The Military Balance had Russia with around 3,400 tanks in 2022. In 2023 it had them at around 2,000. The US has 2,645 in both years. It was the first time US had more tanks than Russia

@TheRogueminator Жыл бұрын

Are those operational tanks? Im sure both countries have a lot more

@miranda50 Жыл бұрын

@@TheRogueminator yes operational tanks. The US was listed as having another 2,000 in storage, Russia 5,000. The Russian however have taken many out of storage so their number here are declining as well

@ladela7348 Жыл бұрын

@@muhlenberg2608 Some of those Russian tanks probably haven't been moved since before the Soviet Union fell.

@DogeickBateman 11 ай бұрын

Funny note, around 345 T-10s from the 1950s, essentially updated IS-3s, are in storage for use

@Cotac_Rastic 11 ай бұрын

@@DogeickBateman Funny how they still work and you cant sneeze on an American/british vehicle without increasing breakdowns by at least 50%.

@lemon14141 11 ай бұрын

Russia doesn't need high reverse speed, because Russian tanks never retreat! *sarcasm*

@divoulos5758 11 ай бұрын

But your words do, hence "sarcasm" at the end

@lemon14141 11 ай бұрын

@@divoulos5758 "sarcasm" is a clarification, since you can't convey tone by text... Some people take these comments literally...

@johnwalsh4857 Жыл бұрын

well when you are deploying T-62s and 55s are artillery and infantry support vehicles, you know that the Russian management of this war is really bad.

@para-tanker Жыл бұрын

For conscripts they make perfectly sence, just like the leopard 1's and all other other equipment Ukraine is using....aswell T-55's.

@johnwalsh4857 Жыл бұрын

@@para-tanker well true, the Leopard 1s and T-55s are quite expendable and so are the conscripts the elite forces get the best stuff.

@AJPMUSIC_OFFICIAL Жыл бұрын

Probably ammunition issues. It's okay having 50'000'000 shells but they don't last forever. Old cold war stock is probably unusable and the barrels of 152 probably can't be repaired or replaced fast enough. You see a warehouse full of tank rounds... ...and you get an idea

@johnwalsh4857 Жыл бұрын

@@AJPMUSIC_OFFICIAL yah and the Russians dont take care of them, lots of misfires.

@piotrd.4850 11 ай бұрын

Remember, that T-55 or Leopard 1 are - when working - perfectly capable of doing real tank work: fire support infantry and protection against small arms. When you have platoon of such tanks and enemy just so happens no means of readily challenging them .... that still counts as advantage.

@MiCorazonKimchii Жыл бұрын

Love your videos man, this is the first time I've watched your videos as i was searching for something to watch😅 guaranteed subscriber here!🤙🏻

@C.A._Old Жыл бұрын

*I've told my family before: "Russia has lagged behind in terms of military and tanks in technology. The United States is still at the highest level, even though it has come of age."*

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

Thats a good joke America has been using Russian rockets to get to space for decades. Their missile technology is far more advanced.

@hailarwotanaz5848 11 ай бұрын

@@rogerc6533Yeah that’s complete horseshit

@C.A._Old 11 ай бұрын

@@rogerc6533 yeah also German Rocket man too... i dont know remember name. But he is created V-2 Rockets and Strike to Civilians in London 1944 at times.

@Cincy32 10 ай бұрын

@@rogerc6533Nope, we use DPRK rockets for our space program here in the States.

@bazejs8084 Жыл бұрын

Russia has 2700 tanks in units. USSR in late 1980s had 53,400 tanks in units. 17 times (!) more.

@JerelArsImperatoria Жыл бұрын

Great channel! Subscribed. It's important to understand that 1) Ukraine holds a large part of the former Soviet tank production plant, and the German company Rheinmetall has offered to set up production in Ukraine of its new KF-51 Panther tank (think Leopard III). And 2) a large part of the former Soviet Union's warship production used to be in the area around Odesa, and without these facilities, Russia can't build large warships.

@TheArklyte Жыл бұрын

Panther is NOT Leopard 3. It's more of a... hmm, what analogy to use. Think of it as T-62 to Leopard 3's T-64. Panther is a tank that using existing tech and that can be produced in quantity now, which doesn't mean it's going to be bad, on the contrary, it'll be one of the most advanced tanks in the world. BUT. The tank that we nickname Leopard 3 here is being developed from clean slate by germans and french and it'll be a completely new platform. It'll also be much more expensive then Panther.

@JerelArsImperatoria Жыл бұрын

@@TheArklyte Panther is an evolution of Leopard 2. It's my understanding that it's basically a Leopard 2 hull with a new turret.

@Adplusamequalsadam 11 ай бұрын

@@JerelArsImperatoriathey also put the Panther turret on a challenger hull. Rheinmetall said if the KF51 enters production they will design a new hull for it.

@NKVD_Enjoyer 11 ай бұрын

it will end just like the burned leos

@Adplusamequalsadam 11 ай бұрын

@@NKVD_Enjoyer with all the crew surviving? Unlike the T-72s

@Betterhose 11 ай бұрын

I thought you were going to go in a different direction with Russia's "tank problem". Russia might be overly reliant on its tanks. And from a Russian perspective it makes perfect sense. "That's how we beat the Germans, it's how we were planning to fight if the Cold War ever got hot and we have more tanks than everybody else." But this over reliance on tanks is what lead to tank convoys driving into Ukrainian ambushes without any infantry to protect them and the seemingly endless battle for Bakhmut. It almost seems like the Russians forgot how combined arms warfare works...

@JULIAN11. 10 ай бұрын

I'd say that Russians thinking of Ukrainians (at least the western part of the country) as lesser beings didnt help I wouldn't be surprised if someone was kind of concerned about the stupidly long convoy while planning everything but was dismissed becase of something like "what are the Ukrainians going to do?" - Could also explain why the convoys were relentlessly bombed by TB-2s while having SPAA being easily capable of taking any TB-2 down, "There's no need to turn the anti air vehicles on, they will crumble upon seeing such force" or something along those lines is what I imagine

@manwithnoname8229 10 ай бұрын

But they took control of Bakhmut anyway. Fighting continues on the outskirts of the city but Russians have full control of the city.

@kaischmidt730 Жыл бұрын

interesting video, nice selection of footage! thanks!

@igorc.k.3184 Жыл бұрын

I thought this was a War Thunder video about the russian tech tree

@MaticTheProto Жыл бұрын

In war thunder russian vehicles are made stronger than irl

@02suraditpengsaeng41 Жыл бұрын

@@MaticTheProto ah yes, APDSFS right through ammo

@Orcawhale1 Жыл бұрын

The picture you use at 3:25 is of the 103rd repair plant in Chita, which is infact in Russia. The picture with the engines is however in Ukraine(Malyshev).

@StritarD Жыл бұрын

Oh baby yeah! Kaboda is back!

@kazekamiha Жыл бұрын

Honestly; what doubts I had of a Ukrainian victory evaporated after the parade. To have such a weak showing, to not even show off more T-34s or their T-14s... One wonders how bad it really is behind the scenes.

@comentedonakeyboard Жыл бұрын

Very Bad. Suposedly they even resorted to reimport T34 from Laos, for parade purposes.

@CyrilSneer123 Жыл бұрын

You judge all that from a parade? Jesus wept you ukrops live in a lie.

@collinwood6573 Жыл бұрын

@@comentedonakeyboardthe T-34 in the parade wasn’t from WW2 and it wasn’t even Russian. Designed in Ukraine, built in Czechoslovakia, exported to Laos, and finally exported again to Russia.

@collinwood6573 Жыл бұрын

@@comentedonakeyboardthe T-34 in the parade wasn’t from WW2 and it wasn’t even Russian. Designed in Ukraine, built in Czechoslovakia, exported to Laos, and finally exported again to Russia.

@comentedonakeyboard Жыл бұрын

@@collinwood6573 Czech made? Well at least the Russians got a good quality one.

@Grayfox988 Жыл бұрын

Russia's humiliation will be complete when they place their first order for tanks with Norinco.

@some_random_wallaby Жыл бұрын

It's not just a production problem for the T-14. It's nothing more than a showpiece.

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

This. I dont get why everyone is so fixated on Russias supertank when the wests own vaunted and expensive supertanks have been a complete disappointment in this conflict. Supertanks are just as vulnerable to artillery and missiles as a basic tank. What actually matters is Russias ability to field and manufacture sufficient amounts of good enough tanks; which it can whilst for the west who only makes expensive heavy mbts, I have my doubts about.

@aidanquiett668 11 ай бұрын

@@rogerc6533 The Russians cant supply their soldiers with guns, how are they producing tanks? Especially when we know many of their tanks and aircraft require western parts. On top of that, NATO can build cheaper tanks or at absolute worst just grab stuff from storage. The US alone probably has enough random pre m1 Abrams tanks to supply the war, assuming congress agrees. And frankly, the US will never use them even if the mainland is somehow invaded, so it would save the country money to throw them to Ukraine

@jamesondonnell4054 11 ай бұрын

@@rogerc6533I wouldn’t call the wests tanks super tanks, they are just up to modern standards lmfao. They haven’t even been a disappointment considering only small numbers have been destroyed or disabled which is expected in a total war scenario. The most important part is that the tank crew survives. Which had been seen in ever one of the western tanks we have sent over, you can always replace a tank but never the experience of the crew. Also the T-14 is just a dead end designed hampered by a shitty engine that has been modified from a failed Porsche tiger engine with old French night vision optics it is most definitely a symbol because it has no practical use in the modern battlefield

@jamesondonnell4054 11 ай бұрын

That and it’s a dead end design and they don’t know what to do with it lmao

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

@@jamesondonnell4054 Is the western nations struggle to supply more than a couple dozen of these modern mbts also part of those modern standards?

@SargentGunnery Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video mate

@199dan199 Жыл бұрын

Loving your content mate. keeping an eye on your channel and hoping you take off soon! also hoping to see you on the nafo round table one day! Cheers from Aus.

@KabodaOfficial Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

@princesscadance197 Жыл бұрын

The whole thing of Russia leaving its tanks outside, exposed to the harsh elements gives me vibes of those people we all know who make absolutely no effort to care for their belongings, then are completely outraged when their stuff just stops working.

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

Ukraine did the same. Thats why their own weapons stocks were rapidly exhausted and they solely reply on western handouts to be supplied now.

@trolleriffic 11 ай бұрын

@@rogerc6533 And yet you still haven't defeated them! What does that say about the mighty Russian armed farces?

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

@@trolleriffic they beat Ukraines existing stocks of weapons and are slowly grinding away all the equipment Nato can afford to send lol.

@jonathanbaron-crangle5093 Жыл бұрын

Something to note about the 2023 Victory day parade. Notice that the troops marching weren't too good at the marching, like they were out of practice for an important parade. That's because the core professional army, such as the VKV & Spetnaz all got chopped into mincemeat I understand during the Ukrainian Kharkov counter-offensive (I'd say Putin was pretty desperate to hold onto that area) So you have a death spiral occurinng within Russian units, where the conscripts keep filling the ranks, but with no-one to teach them the basics of the front. The loss of experienced troops will be felt for a very long time, not just because of a loss of combat power, but the ability to train new troops. With the rebel incusions into Russia showing they can't even secure their own border, it's a really bad sign for Putin, sooner or later, he's going to be out on his arse.

@jaysdood Жыл бұрын

Dunno if Putin will be out on his arse, but certainly the Russian military can never recover from this. Assuming they CAN rebuild their training capabilities, by the time they do the demographic crisis they are facing will have completely neutered them.

@theredrisen9520 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was wondering why the parade units marched in a disorganized manner.

@hazzardalsohazzard2624 Жыл бұрын

It's rumoured that they were using officer cadets and civilians for the marching. Which would explain why they weren't so good at it this year. They looked young and unhealthy

@burningphoneix 11 ай бұрын

The Kharkov counter offensive didn't chop up anyone because all there was were scattered DPR troops, Rosgvardia and BARS units. That's why the Ukrainians advanced so fast. Why haven't the Ukrainians, with modern NATO equipment now, not been able to replicate Kharkhov in the recent counter offensive? Why are they being pushed back in Kupyansk, which was one area liberated by the Kharkhov Counteroffensive if all the professional troops in the area were "turned into mincemeat" and there's no one left to train the conscripts?

@trolleriffic 11 ай бұрын

@@burningphoneix So Russia still has all these elite units intact but aren't rolling back the Ukrainian advances? What does Ukraine having NATO equipment matter? Are you saying that NATO weapons are much better than Russian ones?

@jackrackham3406 10 ай бұрын

The hilarious thing to me is that, even if Russia could produce the Armata, take a close look at the footage they've released. That gun...sure is moving around a lot, huh? I don't mean spinning in circles, I mean the down-the-barrel POV footage. That's real shaky footage given that pretty much every MBT since 1948 has a gun stabilizer. ...It does have a gun stabilizer, right?

@rrolf71 10 ай бұрын

I'm sure it does! After all, it's a modern design. Whether it has a _working_ stabilizer though, is a different question...

@Lync512 Жыл бұрын

Really like the content of this channel! Keep it up!

@chrisblack6258 Жыл бұрын

Forget about tank, I think they have more of a tankie problem

@oscarsusan3834 Жыл бұрын

T14 was costed to produce at $5 -$7million per tank and that’s the reason it’s not produced. The T 90 is $3 million , basically double the number and double the corruption in the status quo.why rock the gravy train?

@jamesondonnell4054 11 ай бұрын

It’s not only price but it’s a failed design. With a really bad engine which is a modified Porsche tiger engine from ww2 and using old French night vision optics it just is a symbol now because it makes zero sense to produce any of them, they spent a lot of time and money into its production but they have realized it’s shortcomings and stopped any sort of meaningful production

@drextercharles2389 11 ай бұрын

Very well put together

@sharoyveduchi Жыл бұрын

I disagree with some of what's being implied here. If there was no war, there would be no convincing reason to start further investing in tank production and other state industries. For example, the Russian Elbrus CPUs were being produced by Taiwanese TSMC. There was no real desire to develop Russian semiconductor fabrication because the companies always thought they could use Taiwan for production. Now they're forced to actually invest in building up the Russian semiconductor industry even if it takes years to get results and in the mean time they might use Chinese fabrication because even that would be better than US allied Taiwan.

@nookbandit 9 ай бұрын

“ if there was no war” and yet they invaded another country

@sharoyveduchi 9 ай бұрын

@@nookbandit ok?????? Thanks for the meaningless comment

@rick7424 6 ай бұрын

So the video is correct. Russia lacks to industrial and technnological basis needed produce masses of tanks. Since Russia uses appeals to the Great Patriotic War and claims to be a world class power this information helps debunk their claims.

@kiryu2281 Жыл бұрын

The T-14 Armata is just a helicopter in disguise

@richardarriaga6271 Жыл бұрын

No, they fixed the turret problem

@trolleriffic 11 ай бұрын

Like how Moskva is actually world's first Guided Missile Cruiser Submarine

@user-xq9pf4pi8c Жыл бұрын

Thanks man 👍 I almost agree with that point.

@adrianlang6550 Жыл бұрын

Excellent narrative. Time to subscribe. Cheers

@DrevorReal Жыл бұрын

Absolutely brilliant video!

@markbeaumont3292 Жыл бұрын

Even the troops at the May Day parade were out of step so many times - clearly cadets etc

@YouGotToStayFrosty Жыл бұрын

how do you not have 100k subs

@xBINARYGODx Жыл бұрын

because he doesn't have that many, thats how

@KabodaOfficial Жыл бұрын

A man of pure genius

@giod6266 11 ай бұрын

Good video! Thanks!

@2serveand2protect Жыл бұрын

Interesting channel. Thank You for the video. Best regards from Poland. PL&UA&UK&USA ! ✌✌✌

@sangomasmith Жыл бұрын

The T14 is a good example of the hollowing out of institutions. The issue runs from bottom to top: the good engineers leave the country, and the engineers that stay are not competent enough to identify and avoid problems in the design phase. Their managers, in turn, are unable to separate good ideas from bad, or work out when timelines are realistic or not. And THEIR managers are unable (or don't care) to distinguish ordinary cost overruns and issues with being bullshitted by motivated liars. Add in nepotism, cronyism, corruption and the rise of yes-men and you end up with projects like T14: technology demonstrators that never reach full-rate production even as they burn through money. And all the while the promises and rhetoric around them grow ever bigger as everyone up and down the line assure each other that everything is fine.

@zerochance8581 Жыл бұрын

Well done!

@markdoppelganger7810 Жыл бұрын

Excellent episode, thank you

@HT-ww3zg Жыл бұрын

Good job, Brother - great videos.

@KabodaOfficial Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@JoonsGoofs Жыл бұрын

30 minutes to go, lets go!!

@thingamajig Жыл бұрын

I still can't guess what was the reasoning behind the lone T-34 on the parade (unless they literally don't have a few dozens tanks to spare, even trainers or ones with broken guns)...was it they thought people would complain why these aren't at the front too (like that makes a difference)? or what is the symbolism here? They could have borrowed them from Lukashenko and quickly repaint them or movie props or something. I'm usually good at this but I can't even come up with the usual russian fake-bullshit-whataboutism-sablerattling spin on this other than "we really got no tanks"

@tedparkinson2033 Жыл бұрын

All I can guess is they literally couldn't put out more than that. I'm kind of surprised they even put out that one, all it did was make the absence of more oh so much more noticeable.

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

They have tanks but it’s more a matter of they didn’t have people to plan the event. Russia has hundreds of T-72s that maybe can’t fire but can still drive for a parade and get a new paint job

@FaustLimbusCompany Жыл бұрын

No crew to spare

@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis Жыл бұрын

It is a celebration of WWII victory, so that probably had something to do with it.

@andyt2979 Жыл бұрын

My guess is they're either out of drivers, out of fuel, or the remaining T-34s have been cannibalised for spare parts.

@riotcailin Жыл бұрын

Great content man

@martinlucas3860 11 ай бұрын

And not to mention we have thousands sitting in the desert that can be easily refurbished

@pvtj0cker Жыл бұрын

Modernized versions of the M48/60, Leo1 and AMX 30 can still pose serious problems for infantry and basically every vehicle excluding probably modern tanks in the frontal arc. I don't think any Russian or Western tank can survive a 105mm APFSDS shot on the side armour.

@scandited2763 Жыл бұрын

Sights are okay

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

Same goes for the T55s being brought out by Russia. More than capable of ruining a Mrap or Ifvs day.

@trolleriffic 11 ай бұрын

@@rogerc6533 A Western IFV would waste a T-55 before its crew even knew an enemy was out there because our vehicles have good optics and targeting systems, unlike a T-55. Russia can't even produce the necessary sensors for these things and has to buy them from the French.

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

@@trolleriffic lol even "outdated" Russian guns (including the T55s 100mm rifled) doesnt need good optics to snipe western armor from long range if youve been paying any attention to how drones have absolutely revolutionized the power and accuracy of artillery in this conflict. Face it all your expensive high tech western gizmos are cost ineffective and completely vulnerable to the simple combination of thousand dollar drone and 70s era artillery guns. Has a Leopard even claimed any armor kills in this conflict?

@user-qv1vl8bn2m 10 ай бұрын

@@trollerifficRussia has long been producing those under french license and has been upgrading T-55s with thermal imagers Not to mention they're basically all being used as artillery anyway While a western ifv could theoretically destroy russian tanks it doesn't matter much when in reality they're hitting mines and being destroyed by artillery long before they even reach russian lines, which is literally what happened to Leopard and Challenger

@philv2529 11 ай бұрын

It's called the T-14 because they made 14 of them.

@pbluma 11 ай бұрын

lel

@DavidNaval 5 ай бұрын

Less than 14

@TimChuma Жыл бұрын

Using T-55s as mobile artillery now

@li___ek Жыл бұрын

The T14 may have a lot of issues but i love the funny spin it can do :P

@HibikiKano 11 ай бұрын

I don't know how Russia even has the money to modernize those T-72. Modernizing a the Yugoslavian T-72 spin-off M84a to the Croatian-Slovene M84a4 standard in 2008 cost € 3,5 million per tank. Those hulls are at the absolute limit of what can be squeezed in or added on top.

@divoulos5758 11 ай бұрын

Better than buying other western tanks

@HibikiKano 11 ай бұрын

@@divoulos5758 Not sure. Thats 2008 money and if you add Slovene and Croatian PPP it's in the ball-park of a modern western tank. + You end with a tank that has an upgrade path, and has not reached it's ultimate or panultimate form.

@burningphoneix 11 ай бұрын

Because contrary to popular opinion, Russia is not broke.

@GeorgeMerl 10 ай бұрын

What's up with all of the T-14 clips of the turret just spinning around seemingly for the fun of it?

@bongwelll 11 ай бұрын

Look how much the T-14 barrel is moving around during a simple 360 maneuver.

@al-sir Жыл бұрын

As this war continues do you think Russia will decide to send in tanks older than T-54 like IS-10s, T-40s, T-34s or have these vehicles only to be use for scrape metal.

@sinsley1 Жыл бұрын

If something doesn’t run you can’t send it to battle

@KabodaOfficial Жыл бұрын

I’m not actually sure, I do think T-62’s will see more use, but T-34’s just aren’t common enough or useful enough.

@TheOnlyKingBee Жыл бұрын

@@KabodaOfficial I mean they are using T-55s as mobile artillery. Imagine the waste of fuel

@johndoeyedoe Жыл бұрын

@@TheOnlyKingBee well... As all Russian combat vehicles up to the t90m use the V2 engine and often share chasie with BMP, mobile arty etc. That's why the t14 uses the same crappy engine as the German tiger 1.

@moritzm.3671 Жыл бұрын

It's very unlikely that they will send T34s. Russia just bought T34s because they had to few for parade duty. So it's quite unlikely that they have enough for military use.

@penskepc2374 Жыл бұрын

The bears in the US are like twice the size of the Bears in Russia 😂

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

Who cares this video is about tanks

@majorborngusfluunduch8694 Жыл бұрын

@@winstonchurchill8491 I for one, found this fact amusing.

@tjarkschweizer 11 ай бұрын

Depends on the region. Brown bears reach very different sizes across Eurasia and north America.

@ornerylurker8296 Жыл бұрын

Kekle, I got a farm tractor advertisement immediately, alright google algorithm, you did good.

@mrjackpots1326 Жыл бұрын

South Korea is more powerful than Russia and is manufacturing state of the art MBT's, 155mm self propelled howitzers, and fighter aircraft. They made a deal with Poland to supply them with 1000 K2 Black Panther tanks, 820 of which will be manufactured in Poland. The other 180 have already begun arriving and are in use by Polish armored brigades. Poland is also buying 672 K9 Thunder 155mm SPGs and the first batch arrived in country in December. Poland was able to transfer 100's of their older tanks to Ukraine and sell them a batch of their own Polish KRAB 155mm SPGs because of the deals with South Korea.

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

How is South Korea more powerful. Less population. Less resources. Smaller military. Smaller country. Smaller economy What

@corneliusmcmuffin3256 Жыл бұрын

@@winstonchurchill8491 Fun Fact: The South Korean GDP was 1.8 trillion USD vs Russias 1.77 trillion USD as of 2021, the Ukraine war has only made this worse as Russias GDP has fallen significantly to 1.6 trillion in 2023. South Korea’s Military budget is only a little behind Russias, with 50 billion USD expenditure as apposed to 62 Billion, But how much of that “military budget” gets fed into the pockets of politicians in Russia? With current trends the military of South Korea will no doubt become larger than Russia, that’s not to mention the fact Russias population has been on a downward trend since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

@@corneliusmcmuffin3256 South Korea has a much lower birthrate and little natural resources

@richardschipper5989 Жыл бұрын

@@winstonchurchill8491 you're not to bright are you? the land mass size has nothing to due with the ability to produce and manufacture

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

@@richardschipper5989 Yes landmass does matter in the ability to produce and manufacture It matters because of the available resources and space. Liechtenstein can’t have a large industrial base because it’s small jus5 like your brain

@fluttzkrieg4392 Жыл бұрын

All I can think when I see Armata propaganda: "You spin me right 'round, baby, right 'round Like a record, baby, right 'round, 'round, 'round"

@amyrichard3203 Жыл бұрын

Russia’s latest military parade in Moscow had only one tank, a T-34. Talk about bogus and sad!

@the.starman 6 ай бұрын

"I spin my turret round, right round...."

@panzerwolf494 Жыл бұрын

Well, not only rotting, but Russian paperwork has no oversight. the papers say you have 13k, then you have 13k, and report it to your superiors you have 13k. No one actually goes and actually counts, they just say "ok, we have 13k" and the cycle repeats. Their military is a joke. Putin destroyed the military as a place to go and have a career and turned it into a place you go just to get credit to more opportunities in future private life. All to prevent any challenger from coming up to coup Putin from office. This is honestly a repeat of history. Putin purged the military like Stalin, then invaded Ukraine like Stalin did Finland. The only difference is the world stood against the invaders this time

@naksachaisaejane1982 Жыл бұрын

Well, Stalin invaded Finland in the midst of WW2, when major allied nations were focusing on Hitler's Germany. They weren't slacking off, just hands fully loaded. Putin, however, invaded when the world's not going at war like that, so spotlights are on him immediately.

@TheMarelis Жыл бұрын

Ukraine solves problems

@tasman006 Жыл бұрын

Awsome vid you got a subscriber. Just one question are you related to Laser Pig but more serious.

@tylerclayton6081 Жыл бұрын

Nice vid. And thing is that of Russia’s modern tanks have now been lost in Ukraine. I don’t think they’ll ever again have as large an active tank fleet as they had in the beginning of 2022

@stevea2909 Жыл бұрын

When you oversleep for 40 yrs and the world has moved on, Ladies and Gentlemen: Russia!

@nickatiah1 Жыл бұрын

Nice video. A bit too quiet though.

@nimbusshadow-wings Жыл бұрын

How long before Russia says they have "transcended the tank" as an excuse for why they dont have any

@biohazard0482 Жыл бұрын

this is a brilliant analyzation of the current situation, well done!

@CyrilSneer123 Жыл бұрын

If you're an idiot yeah.

@akriesman Жыл бұрын

Nice video. You get the feeling that Ukraine will surpass Russia in Military capability in the near future. At that point, the key is to make sure Ukraine does not turn into another Russian autocracy. Being a member of the EU and NATO should help keep that from happening. At least, one would hope.

@XA1985 11 ай бұрын

A big bad bear ON PAPER only 😂

@lilasnowflake5632 11 ай бұрын

"Okay i think were stretching it too far its not that bad" ... "Its bad"

@gareththompson2708 Жыл бұрын

Russia may not even be able to keep modernizing the T-72 chassis. Nevermind that the T-90M may be about as modernized as the T-72 chassis can get. But this war probably gutted their technological base for making further improvements in the first place. It certainly doesn't look like their brain drain is going to decelerate anytime soon. I really don't see them getting anything better than the T-90M anytime soon, or even modernizing a significant chunk of their tank fleet to the standards of the T-90M. The T-90M is certainly an ok tank for the 2020s. But will it still be in the 2030s or 2040s?

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

It holds up very well other than the abysmal reverse speed it’s a good tank with about 300 in service and more being produced

@gareththompson2708 Жыл бұрын

@@winstonchurchill8491 Holds up well? The T-90M has only been in service with the Russian army for about 4 years. It's a brand new tank. There hasn't been enough time for it to "hold up" either well or poorly. Again, it is a good tank today. Will it still be a good tank in 10 or 20 years?

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

@@gareththompson2708 Considering how slow tanks are developed it will still be good in 10 years. Considering that 15 year old tanks today are still very modern. I really meant on paper though

@gareththompson2708 Жыл бұрын

@@winstonchurchill8491 Tanks that were cutting edge 15 years ago are still good today. The latest variant of the Abrams 15 years ago, the M1A2 SEP, is still a good tank today, but it is no longer at the top of the food chain. The M1A2 SEPv3 is *cutting* *edge* today, while the older M1A2 SEP is now only *good* . Unfortunately for the T-90M, it is not starting at cutting edge. It was good when it entered service in 2019, but not cutting edge. It was impressive in how much it managed to catch up to western tanks, but it didn't introduce anything new. And don't underestimate how quickly tank development has been progressing, nor assume that it won't accelerate in the near future. We may not have invented many new chassis in the last few decades, but the kind of technologies that are being put on those chassis is breathtaking (automatic target tracking, active protection systems, etc). And with the kind of technologies that are just around the corner, plus the political boost from near-peer nation-state threats, I expect tank development will only accelerate in the near future.

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

@@gareththompson2708 It doesn’t need to introduce anything new to be a good tank

@rageburst Жыл бұрын

Tanks aren't the most important assets in this war. They're more for direct line of fire confrontation, and while this is all well and good, things have changed a lot since WWII. The main problem with tanks are precision guided munitions. Gone are the days where you can run massive amounts of tanks to quickly take over territory. PGMs are an asymmetric counter to tanks. As a result, the modern army now requires tanks as part of a combined arms unit including infantry, artillery, air support, and armored vehicles. They work together to mitigate the threat of PGMs before running the tank through. In today's conditions, their use case is more limited especially in a war of attrition where tanks are outranged by artillery and vulnerable to PGMs. I would like to see what you would think about the balance of artillery.

@KabodaOfficial Жыл бұрын

Always glad to answer! Artillery is an area where Russia has a good level of strength in, and should not be underestimated, so far I would say in conventional artillery they still have the advantage - however I could well be wrong in this regard. In general I agree with your statement also!

@lugerun 11 ай бұрын

Yeah, this vid is good propaganda. Where is the western poduction which is made up to be so strong? When was the last Challenger produced? Where is europes 5th gen fighter? Why weren't they able to produce even a small batch of new prototype tanks? They can't even produce artillery shells in sustainable quantitys and have to use cluster shells becuse its the only thing left in stock. And while Russia might produce less tanks than the Soviets, they still produce more than the US. All this while completely outmatching the west in EW, air defense and artillery.

@questionmaker5666 11 ай бұрын

@@lugerun The ASCOD, CV90, KF41 Lynx and Puma are all currently produced in Europe, showing the underlying capabilities needed to produce tanks are still strong in Europe. If you don't need new tanks, there's no need to produce prototype tanks. Europe is producing 4.5gen fighters and will produce the Typhoon. Over a thousand F-35 have been produced, while less than twenty SU-57 have been made.Contracts have already been signed for massively increased quantities of shells. The US if it needed could produce more tanks, it still has heavy industry and the technological knowhow. They don't outmatch the West in EW (the West has extensive EW capabilities), nor air defence (Patriot and IRIS-T SL have been highly effective), and Western SPGs are superior, but are lesser in number.

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

King of the battlefield, its quite concerning that Nato has run out of artillery munitions and has to resort to sending stockpiles of cluster weapons. It does seem that the wests manufacturing base has atrophied far more than even the former Ussrs... Thats what a neo liberal service economy does to nations.

@rogerc6533 11 ай бұрын

@@questionmaker5666Europe is fucked. Look at their energy crisis right now. Their heavy industry is about to go dodo. America only makes overpriced weapons with lied about advanced performance. Remember when they devaluated the patriots effectiveness from near 100% to less than half in the wake of the Gulf War? That was against ancient Scud missiles and Patriot missiles are still hit to kill to this very day. This high tech obsession really tells too because theyve clearly neglected the basic aspects needed to wage war with the inability to supply ukraine with standard artillery munitions.

@noradrenalin8062 Жыл бұрын

This is a really well made video for such a small channel. You found yourself a new subscriber!

@KabodaOfficial Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@Feelthefx 11 ай бұрын

Tanks are worthless if the crew sells the fuel for food, smokes and vodka

@Clockwork-re9ty 11 ай бұрын

personally, the most most interesting, if ironic aspect of Russia's tanks, is that some of their models run on an engine that was designed by WW2 Germany

@morstyrannis1951 11 ай бұрын

That's an incorrect internet fable started by a UK KZfaqr. He has since retracted the claim.

@jamesking2699 11 ай бұрын

@@morstyrannis1951can you please state your source

@morstyrannis1951 11 ай бұрын

@@jamesking2699 The video was by someone calling themselves lazerpig. If you search “lazerpig T14” there are many videos on KZfaq critiquing his rant as well as his response. Lazerpig’s videos are presented in the form of a humorous drunken rant. They’re entertaining but highly subjective.

@tjarkschweizer 11 ай бұрын

Lazerpig has been corrected on that. The engine in question has been heavily modified and modernized.

@multipl3 Жыл бұрын

If Putler didnt invade Ukraine, everyone would still think they are a formidable force to be feared! Thanks Putler 😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ijusthatenormiesihavenooth1164 10 ай бұрын

Russia should test it's nooks on nato cities

@jacksonteller1337 10 ай бұрын

The T-14 production is so problematic Russia restarted the T-80 production. In addition to the increase in the T-90M production that was temporary as they ran out of surplus outdated French optics.

@rogerwilco2 Жыл бұрын

The money has been spent on mega yachts and luxurious villas. It has not been invested in the future of the country. Just the fact that the economy of Germany was run mainly on Russian exports of raw materials shows how poor Russian industry is. The German economy is almost 3 times that of Russia, while Russia's population is almost twice as big and has many more resources.

@AtomicExtremophile Жыл бұрын

A big problem with Russia's arms industry is that it usually requires exports of products to bring down the cost of serial produced machines. No one wanted to buy the expensive Armata all the while the cheaper T-90 series did the job. For sure Russian exports will be bad going forward because all their equipment has performed really badly. The Soviet empire asset stripped all the satellite Soviet states just to provide Russia with the money to build all those tanks etc... it's an option not available now. I'd be amused if China invaded a weakened Russia lol

@the_tactician9858 Жыл бұрын

I wouldn't. China is getting at a critical point at which it needs to expand to truly challenge the USA on hegemony. If China started border disputes with Russia, or even pressed claims on Russian territory, a victory could embolden their foreign policy, which could lead to a hot war on the ROC.

@mdd4296 Жыл бұрын

No need, at this state China can easily buy them off

@piotrd.4850 11 ай бұрын

Their equipment did just fine; Russia and all client armies trained by them has cultural problem and they'd fail as hard - potentially harder - with M1 SEPv3.

@HoneyLover64NthngHppnd89 Жыл бұрын

Russia is just Nigeria with snow and nukes (or whatever is left operational in their silos)

@winstonchurchill8491 Жыл бұрын

Russian cities aren’t slums like Nigeria is

@unatco6554 Жыл бұрын

If Russia is just Nigeria with snow, what does that make Ukraine? After all, they lost so much hardware to the snow nigerians that they need the entire logistical weight of NATO to hold territory they are slowly losing anyway. The vehicles given to them by NATO such as the Leopard 2A4s/2A6s and Bradleys are already being blown up in the current Ukrainian counter-offensive. Ukraine would of course be more comfortable in their own tanks than in the NATO tanks but of course, their good tanks don't exist in large number anymore. Snow nigerians huh......."fellas" are such hapless fools LMAO

@stevencolor3389 Жыл бұрын

why did they put their factories in the outer states? In the event of a war it would leave their factories closer to being overrun or disabled and leaves the opening for breakway states to take out a chunk of the nations tank production.

@Lordofthedawgs 11 ай бұрын

Planners never thought the Union would fall

@stevencolor3389 11 ай бұрын

Even still, border production facilities are at risk of being overran during an invasion. I would think the planners would have been aware of ehat happened less than 50 years ago when they had to move factories away from nazi invaders