Just when Chinese immersed in the joy of the PLA's massive rearmament that can match or even surpass the new modern equipment of the US army, it suddenly found that in the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the Russian army invested a lot of antique weapons and equipment on the Ukrainian battlefield, such as T-72, T-80, and T-90 tanks. These equipment were destroyed in large quantities by Ukrainian soldiers, causing no small number of casualties. Is it true that the Russian army does not have modern equipment?
In fact, the development time and service time of the T series tanks used by the Russian army and the M series tanks used by the US military are similar, and the gap between the two tanks in terms of performance is not large. But why do people feel that the tanks of the Us army are more advanced than the tanks of the Russian army? On the one hand, the industrial products of the former Soviet Union have always given people a more profound impression of stupid black and rough, and our army has been imitating the equipment of the Soviet army for a long time, and after the reform and opening up, it has found that it has lagged behind the world's advanced level and has further deepened this impression - the equipment of the Soviet Union/Russia is backward. On the other hand, there is american propaganda, which is very good at publicizing and beautifying everything about itself, including its weapons and equipment.
Since the beginning of the new century, due to the development of information technology and the change in the military's operational concept, the development and renewal of many weapons have obviously slowed down. The military has no longer simply pursued the extreme performance of a single weapon, but has turned to informationization and systematization. With the support of informationization and systematization, some old equipment can play a greater role, and informationization and systematic construction have become multipliers of the army's combat effectiveness. Again, the American tank, for example, has not produced a new tank in more than 30 years, and it is more of a tank refurbishment plant than a tank plant. The reason for this is that during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union produced a huge amount of military equipment in order to counter the arms race. After the end of the Cold War, these devices are still very advanced weapons in the eyes of the average country, but there are too many factors that determine whether weapons can be sold, such as the mainland in the last century wanted to buy American equipment, they will not sell to you.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia inherited not only a large number of nuclear weapons from the Soviet Military Legacy, but also a large number of conventional weapons, and it is said that there are more than 40,000 tanks alone! Newly independent Russia is simply unable to maintain such a large scale of weapons and equipment, many intact weapons have been abandoned in the open, compared with the number of abandoned equipment, the loss of equipment in Ukraine can be said to be nothing.
The same old equipment, the gap between the Russian army and the US military is that the US military has been carrying out the development of new tactics, tactics and military technology. In the Iraq War, the US military has begun to try information system combat, this new method of warfare has not been seen before the war, even the US military itself is not sure that it will be successful, the Iraqi army is facing a dimensionality reduction strike, so there is no power to fight back. Just as Germany's blitzkrieg in the early days of World War II caught many countries off guard. If the traditional way of play is adopted, the weapons and equipment lost by the US military in victory over Iraq will not be less. Russia's economy collapsed during the Post-Independence Yeltsin era, and putin's recovery after coming to power was less than satisfactory. In this case, Russia can only afford to protect the construction of its own nuclear military force, while the conventional military is shrinking day by day, let alone to build information and systematization.
The strength of the Ukrainian army has declined even more than Russia, just when independence, the Ukrainian standing army of more than 700,000, thousands of nuclear bombs, almost half of the former Soviet strategic bombers, etc., 30 years later, Ukraine's standing army fell to 250,000, not only nuclear bombs, strategic bombers are gone, even the production capacity does not exist. The Ukrainian army and the Russian army are of the same origin, and they are almost carved out of the mold with the Russian army in terms of combat methods, operational concepts, weapons and equipment. It is reasonable to say that the Russian army should not have such a big loss when fighting against the Ukrainian army, but the Ukrainian army has nato's information support, and the Russian army has suffered losses in this regard.
At present, the right to speak in the world is still in the hands of the West, the United States-led NATO in order to smear the combat effectiveness of the Russian army, but also to fight against the morale of Russia to carry out propaganda warfare, psychological warfare, wanton and even exaggerated reports on the losses of the Russian army, which makes us ordinary people more and more disappointed in the performance of the Russian army on the battlefield. In fact, if you pay attention to the report on the Ukrainian battlefield, you can find that in this military operation, Ukraine's losses are even greater. The prevailing view now is that the Russian military failed to completely destroy Ukraine's command network, air defense bases and other important military facilities in the early stages of the war.
However, this was not the case, and the armored and missile units of ukraine's navy, air force and army were lost in the early stages of the war. Without nato's support behind it, Ukraine would have struggled to survive 2 weeks. Because even if the United States and other Western countries have the right to speak, we can not see from their reports that the Ukrainian army has a large-scale counterattack, let alone the armored group engagement and large-scale air battle between Ukraine and Russia, if Ukraine itself has a little resistance ability, Zelensky will not be begging for assistance all over the world.
Judging from the actual situation of this armed conflict, the loss of the Russian army is not due to backward equipment, but to the lack of informationization and systematization capabilities, and the lack of training of soldiers. After all, it was actual combat, and it was a real battle deep into the territory of the enemy country, and the Russian soldiers did not seem to have entered a state of war. The sinking of the cruiser Moscow is a typical example. Although this warship is 40 years old, but the radar equipment on it can fully detect ukrainian missile attacks, but from the Russian army's own accident report, we actually see that this cruiser actually has no radar to start, and it can be so negligent in the war zone, which can only be said that there is a problem with the training of Russian soldiers.
The performance of the Russian army on the battlefield has given us a lot of enlightenment, and the most important thing is to establish a modern national defense system suitable for the national conditions of the mainland. In terms of technology, it is not only necessary to keep up with the world's advanced level, but also needs to innovate and lead the world as a leader to lead the direction of world military development. We must not stick to the rules in military theory and operational concepts. A strong People's Liberation Army is the foundation for ensuring our prosperity, and the concept of a strong army must be deeply engraved in the bones of each and every one of us.