According to NATO's official website, the defense ministers of NATO member states met on February 15, and they decided to create a new joint NATO-Ukraine analysis, training and education center to share lessons learned from the Russia-Ukraine war and provide a learning and training structure for Ukrainian and allied forces. The meeting also mentioned that NATO allies will unite to provide Ukraine with 1 million drones, and 20 member states have already agreed to form a demining alliance to provide new support for Ukraine. In addition, more air defense systems will be provided to deal with frequent Russian air strikes, including a new package of weapons for Ukraine, which has also been introduced by Finland, which has also been newly added.
From a series of long-term support from NATO, it can be seen that the Russia-Ukraine war will continue. Although the war almost depleted NATO's ammunition stockpiles, it succeeded in making the NATO alliance aware of the problem, and the various member states not only stepped up to restore military production capacity, but also became more closely coordinated, like a real war rehearsal. The same change is also Russia, this war completely woke up Russia, although it has modern equipment that is not weaker than the US military, but it cannot do the same effect as the US military, one of the most important reasons is that there is only quality and no quantity, with the recovery of Russia's military production capacity, the Russian army is rapidly replenishing the quantity.
Although NATO's potential is greater than that of Russia, NATO has never been a unified country, and even if its member states become close, it will not be able to "enforce orders" as efficiently as Russia. With the increase in production capacity, the advantages of the Russian army on the battlefield are being established little by little, especially the large-scale use of three weapons, which directly crushed the defense of the Ukrainian army and put NATO's weapons at a disadvantage.
The first heavy weapon was the glide guidance kit, with which the Iron Bomb could also be turned into a long-range precision munition. In addition to its own production, the Russian army also has kits from Iran, although the quantities are still not up to the mark, but they are much better than at the beginning of the war. At the beginning of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, due to the serious lack of precision-guided munitions, Russian fighters could only drop iron bombs at low altitudes, which not only did not destroy many targets, but also caused Russian fighters to be shot down frequently. With the extensive use of gliding guidance kits, there are very few cases of Russian fighters being shot down, and the strike accuracy of these gliding guided bombs can reach the meter level, and a large number of defensive facilities of the Ukrainian army have been accurately destroyed.
On the Avdiivka front, for example, Russian warplanes drop about 100 high-powered bombs equipped with glide guidance kits almost every day, such as 500 kg, 1,000 kg and 1,500 kg super-heavy bombs. The latter, in particular, can basically take out a building about 10 stories tall with a single piece. Through aerial photographs, it can be seen that almost all the high-rise buildings in Avdiivka have been pierced by high-powered aerial bombs of the Russian army, which were originally natural positions, but now they are all ruins. The Ukrainian army originally relied on the advantages of high-rise buildings to build a lot of observation posts and firepower points, but now they have basically been cleaned up.
The air defense systems of the Ukrainian army on the front line are unable to intercept these bombs, including the short-range air defense systems provided by NATO, and they cannot hit the fighters that launch these bombs, since they are all launched outside the interception range of the front-line air defense systems. The range of Russian military missiles equipped with gliding guidance kits is basically 50~70 kilometers because of their different weights and ranges.
The second heavy weapon is a superb missile. Although Ukraine has repeatedly claimed to have intercepted 100% of the Dagger's superb missiles, the videos circulating on social media of the Dagger missiles hitting Ukrainian targets prove that the Ukrainian military is lying. From the last month of last year to the present, the Russian army has used Daggers more and more frequently in large-scale air strikes, and for the first time, another high-tech bomb "Zircon" has been used. These high-powered bombs hit not only Ukrainian targets, but also the determination of NATO countries to end the game. Some NATO members have been trying to wait for Russia to enter the war after Ukraine is tired of fighting, such as the United Kingdom, which has plans to enter the war, and Poland, which is carrying out a massive military buildup and redress. And the frequent use of high-speed ammunition can repel those NATO members who have a wait-and-see attitude.
The third is the Geranium 2 suicide drone. It is equipped with a jet engine produced in Russia, which greatly increases the flight speed, and the Ukrainian army's anti-aircraft artillery and machine guns cannot keep up with its speed, and it is difficult to intercept it, so it can only be intercepted by missiles, which can consume the few anti-aircraft missiles of the Ukrainian army and create conditions for the ground missiles launched by the Russian army. Every time the Russian army strikes, it will first launch geraniums to attract Ukrainian anti-aircraft fire, and then launch missiles, which can improve the hit rate. The Ukrainian army's Hippocampus rocket launchers have already suffered losses, and the first damaged Hippocampus has been transported to the United States for repair by an An-124 transport aircraft, although it is not mentioned that it was damaged, but it is likely to be a suicide drone.