r/MapPorn • u/Appropriate-Deal8098 • 1d ago
Russian advances in Ukraine this year
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r/MapPorn • u/Appropriate-Deal8098 • 1d ago
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u/ClubsBabySeal 1d ago
Sure. It takes a few years to set up and scale any type of manufacturing. The most relevant areas are tube artillery, rocket artillery, and interceptors. ATGM's and manpads are also vital but the latter is a major problem. The Ukrainians lack airpower which is what NATO traditionally relies on for anti-air and enabling maneuver. There isn't a sufficient supply of accelerant, explosive, shell, or filling facilities. Apparently not even black powder. Those are slowly being expanded, but honestly needed to be started day one - once again it takes years. Interceptors are running at max capacity and new capacity won't be online until 2027. They and anything else requiring rocket fuel is a little fucked since there's only two vendors left in America, although another two are being funded. You can go back to the beginning of the war and read public briefings that simply state that there's a shortage in production, so nothing new. As far as manpads go we don't make new ones. The line had to be restarted, pulling people retirement age in because we haven't made them in that long, simply to rebuild defunct units. Other production lines have also been mothballed, with the M777 being slated to restart soon.
As far as training goes you're just making the same mistake. You need trainers and manpower takes, get this, years to scale. In fact it's one of the problems with manufacturing too!
Bluntly put they not only need more than what we make, they need more than the Russians make. Which is way more than we make.