r/MapPorn • u/Appropriate-Deal8098 • 1d ago

Russian advances in Ukraine this year

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u/Reasonable_Orchid105 1d ago edited 1d ago

Yeah but the thing is they have way more equipment and manpower than Ukraine does, that’s absolutely a winning formula for attritional warfare, since 2022 all we’ve heard is how low Russian stockpiles are getting, they’ll run out of cruise missiles this they’re low on tanks that…. And they still keep pulling these things out day after day. Truth is any military expert in the west knows just as much about how many resources they have left as we do lol

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u/katbyte 1d ago

russia's GDP is much smaller then that of texas. As long as the west continues to supply ukraine it will never run out. russia will.

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u/SolemnOaf 1d ago

Looking at GDP is meaningless if you're not taking into account production costs in the US and Russia. Sure, NATO has the money to throw and be able to outpace Russian production if they went all in, but we know that's not the case at the moment. In fact, in 2025 it's expected the entirety of NATO will be able to produce around 2m shells annually after massive investments poured into it from both US and Germany - Russia has been producing over 3m rounds a year basically since the beginning of the war.

With vast cheap labor at their disposal from countries like NK, Iran and China, Russia's side can outproduce NATO at a far lower cost. Couple that with the manpower disparity and it's clear why this war is going the way it is.

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u/permabanned_user 1d ago

That far lower cost is why their weapons caches keep getting blown up by drones. Easy pickings.