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Western-made armor isn't working in Ukraine because it wasn't designed for a conflict of this intensity, Ukrainian analyst says

TL:DR western war machines suck at doing a cheeky world war.

Western-made armor is failing in Ukraine because it wasn't designed to sustain a conflict of this intensity, a military analyst told The Wall Street Journal.

Taras Chmut, a military analyst who's the head of the Come Back Alive Foundation, which has raised money to purchase and provide arms and equipment to Ukraine, said that "a lot of Western armor doesn't work here because it had been created not for an all-out war but for conflicts of low or medium intensity."

You heard it here first, folks. Western vehicles are literally made to kill poor people and eat shit when put toe-to-toe with a peer military.

"If you throw it into a mass offensive, it just doesn't perform," he said.

It's also breaks going to the offensive, during the offensive, and when retreating from the offensive.

Chmut went on to say Ukraine's Western allies should instead turn their attention to delivering simpler and cheaper systems, but in larger quantities, something Ukraine has repeatedly requested, the newspaper reported.

maybe ww2 tech like Sherman tanks would serve them best at this point

Despite Chmut's comments, some advanced Western systems Ukraine has received were conceived with the highest-intensity combat in mind — NATO going head-to-head with Soviet forces. The US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles and Abrams main battle tanks were built specifically to counter Soviet ground forces.

All Bradley can do is eat hot chip, get suck in mud, roll onto landmine, and die

But like other armored systems, they are susceptible to artillery and mines, both of which have proven fearsome challenges as Ukraine presses against Russian defensive networks.

Real talk, any system would be eating shit when being sent into prepared killzones.

Less than 5% of tanks destroyed since the start of the war had been taken out by other tanks, Ukrainian officials said in the Journal report, with the rest falling to mines, artillery, antitank missiles, and drones. This means the relative sophistication of a tank is no longer as important, the paper says.

True. There probably should be a redesign towards improving anti-air capabilities. Maybe even moving towards lighter and cheaper tanks as infantry support.

Maj. Gen. Christian Freuding, Germany's director of planning and command staff, said Western military strategists had not yet accepted that quantity trumps quality.

I'm sure general dipshit can appreciate the quantity of the repair bill for the quality of their shit tanks.

"You need numbers; you need force numbers. In the West, we have reduced our military; we have reduced our stocks. But quantity matters; mass matters," he told the Journal.

Wait isn't this general dipshit saying the opposite?

Even so, Ukraine continues to ask for more sophisticated tanks and military equipment from its allies.

More king tigers for the reich

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has repeatedly criticized Western allies for delays in the deliveries of weapons, saying earlier this month that slower arms shipments were hurting Ukraine's chances of success in its ongoing counteroffensive.

It's the west's fault Russian mines are deleting Ukrainian forces in record numbers

A July report compiled by the Kiel Institute for the World Economy said Ukraine's allies had only delivered about half of the heavy weapons that had been promised.

Lmao place your bets to reasons why they only got half of their shit. My bet is that the shit that was promised was mothballed so bad it'd kill the user if used for anything.

"The gap between promised and delivered military aid is wide," Christoph Trebesch, the head of the team creating the tracker, said.

Lol cope

Meanwhile, Ukraine's defense minister, Rustem Umerov, told The Economist last week his country was prioritizing domestic ammunition production. "Anything that can be produced locally must be produced locally," he said.

More targets for cruise missiles.

Sergej Sumlenny, founder of the German think tank European Resilience Initiative Center, previously told Insider that Ukraine was stepping up its domestic production in part because of concern that Western deliveries would not keep up with its military needs.

Hope those factories are well-hidden.