Gelston
05-17-2018, 11:55 AM
While the Kremlin’s newly professionalized military is armed with top-of-the-line ship-launched cruise missiles, flying more capable strike aircraft and firing precision munitions Russia, “does not have the ability to sustain forces far from the border,” a military expert said on Wednesday.
“Syria pushed Russian logistics to its limits,” Anton Lavrov, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and affiliated with the Center for Analysis and Technologies in Moscow, said.
Moscow’s logistical trouble in Syria to maintain the 5,000 personnel, helicopters and aircraft illustrate one of the serious shortfalls in President Vladimir Putin’s drive to pull Russia’s conventional and nuclear forces out of their post-Soviet decay.
“Russia doesn’t have the capability to sustain 20,000” troops in continuous operations far from its borders for any length of time. Even getting there is a challenge — from pier to pier, Lavrov said. The Kremlin had to buy old Black Sea merchant ships in Crimea and convert them into transports to move the soldiers and equipment including large trucks and heavy artillery, to its base in Syria and ports under the control of President Bashar al-Assad.
And that was for movement into an uncontested area at the water’s edge.
Moscow has not invested in amphibious assault in its current modernization program.
https://news.usni.org/2018/05/17/expert-syria-deployment-pushing-limits-russian-military-capability
This is a common theme with Russia, and the Soviet Union before. They've always been more of a regional power with weak power projection. Sure, they have nukes, and that is why they need to be taken seriously... But Saudi Arabia outspends them on Defense.
Hell, they used to have numbers but they don't even have that any more. They have about 2500 tanks on active service, compared to our 9000, and that is straight up M1 Abrams tanks. Theirs is majority T-72s.
Basically, stop being worried about Russia. They are more bark than bite. Those sneaky maple lubed beaver fuckers to the north are who you should be worried about.
“Syria pushed Russian logistics to its limits,” Anton Lavrov, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and affiliated with the Center for Analysis and Technologies in Moscow, said.
Moscow’s logistical trouble in Syria to maintain the 5,000 personnel, helicopters and aircraft illustrate one of the serious shortfalls in President Vladimir Putin’s drive to pull Russia’s conventional and nuclear forces out of their post-Soviet decay.
“Russia doesn’t have the capability to sustain 20,000” troops in continuous operations far from its borders for any length of time. Even getting there is a challenge — from pier to pier, Lavrov said. The Kremlin had to buy old Black Sea merchant ships in Crimea and convert them into transports to move the soldiers and equipment including large trucks and heavy artillery, to its base in Syria and ports under the control of President Bashar al-Assad.
And that was for movement into an uncontested area at the water’s edge.
Moscow has not invested in amphibious assault in its current modernization program.
https://news.usni.org/2018/05/17/expert-syria-deployment-pushing-limits-russian-military-capability
This is a common theme with Russia, and the Soviet Union before. They've always been more of a regional power with weak power projection. Sure, they have nukes, and that is why they need to be taken seriously... But Saudi Arabia outspends them on Defense.
Hell, they used to have numbers but they don't even have that any more. They have about 2500 tanks on active service, compared to our 9000, and that is straight up M1 Abrams tanks. Theirs is majority T-72s.
Basically, stop being worried about Russia. They are more bark than bite. Those sneaky maple lubed beaver fuckers to the north are who you should be worried about.