limb wrote: lancelot wrote:It probably depends on which systems you are talking about. Not all Russian self propelled artillery has been digitized. And most of the towed artillery has not been digitized either. And if the spotting data comes from a commercial drone there is little chance it is integrated with the existing kill chain.
I see these formalities when russian artillerymen are using MSTA-B, Giatsints, or Malkas. Its unaccesptable that these guns don't even have a rudimentary fire control system. In 2022, and artilleryman should just wait for coordinates, feed them in an analog or 1980s tech digital computer which then automatically moves the barrel, load the gun and fire.
Scribbling complex math on a piece of paper while the enemy is highly mobile and the infantry is in danger is world war 2 bullshit. Its also the responsibility of the artillery observer and GLONASS to give the exact coordinates. If glonass is ineffective for giving artillery coordinates, then the russian artillery is obsolete garbage.
I don't know if you haven't been paying attention , but everywhere in the russian military ,
specially in navy and airforce , including nuclear forces , you see a ton of mechanical switches in their panels from the 70's , that you don't see anywhere in the west.
And why this happen? because Russia military is paper tiger in advanced electronics.
Whenever you see a report of russian doing something high tech electronics , you see technicians working with circuits by hand in a board. this is 70's era of electronics or 80's or 90's. whatever , anything but not a modern way of doing things. And all this poor modernization of russian military digitalization of russian military is directly connected to putin's lack of vision for the entire nation , of relying in the western anglo business world ,that include europe and its asian puppet high tech colonies almost everything in russia advanced electronics . and without the anglo system business
they can do very few things on their own.
When you have incompetent people at the top of the nation with very mediocre vision for the future
of the country , then all this mediocre development and limitations of their military , in high tech electronics and advanced drones technology becomes the norm across the entire military.
While the west vision ,was for world leadership and world domination , and all their domestic and foreign policies aimed for achieving this , what was Putin saying ,he wanted for Russia future ? putin wanted.
1)"nation stability"
2) To make Russia the capital of sports..
3) To make russia the world biggest gas station , a monopoly in oil and natural gas.
4) To makek russia the world major exporter of food..
so all this investment and promotion of the government of so mediocre and out of date , development what cause is that majority of russian scientist in russia and engineers , ends working in Russia energy industry , in sports industry or in the food industry .
Medvedev when he was president , he told ,that one of the major challenges of russia development was find people with russian citizens qualified for their advanced jobs He did not gave more details , but it was not hard to connect the dots , that majority of russian
engineers ,and scientist ends working in this out dated business , because they are paid better there.
There are cosmonauts how resigned their job in space ,to work at gasprom. only in russia that is possible.
so why the russian government keeps dragging their feets , in the development of the country ,
and this in turns force russia ,to delay the full modernization of its military , and force them to do things the old ways , this makes their efficiency to significantly suffer , because of the way they forced to do everything.
se russian drones reality are full of electronics , cameras ,from foreign nation and not domestic ones. and making excuses for this incompetence , is what keeps russia in the past ..
if russia really wanted to defeat the west ,in a very easy way ,all they need to do , is for the entire russian government to resign , specially putin ,and Russia become a colony of China ,
and that chinese government takes control of outdated Russia , and move many of their Advanced factories there and solve the low population problem in russia. and russia-china becomes fully integrated super power ,that completely out gun , and outsmart the west. This extremes measures
of russia becoming a puppet state of china ,are not so bad , when people understand that under the putin's regime , a true development of the nation is almost impossible , with the mentality of the russian government ,that live in the past and have zero ambitions for the future , other than "Stability" ,in the most laziest ways possible of nation development ,since the russian empire era.
The other option for russia fixing the problem ,is also that putin resigns and soviet union system returns in russia. either way , russia as a colony of china , giving away their nukes to them , or russia returning to soviet union era ,is not as bad ,as the alternative , that today russia have with an outdated leadership in power today ,that wants to hold power forever.
This is why i like so much Rogozin , is the only person there ,that tells how it is , and complains openly in public , to expose the incompetence of putin. more people like rogozin needs to be in russian top government positions , people not afraid to tells the truth to their bosses and do it in public to pressure putin , to change.
Rogozing himself told.. two things ,about the reasons for russia very slow development in space ,
1) "he told , they want us ,to lead in space with 1/20 the budget of US and china."
2) "We have many rockets to send to space ,but nothing to put inside." because of the sanctions.
So Rogozin complained about russia space program very low budget , and also complained how they suffering alot ,because their satellites depends a lot of western high tech electronics ,and many of this things can't be done locally, and can't exported either for the sanctions.. And everyone knows
that is putin the one that assign the budget of russian space program and military too , and the ones that tells the direction of the economy , whether as a food energy industry or something else.
And whenever you open a russian drone ,you will see everywhere foreign electronics ,from nations that unfriendly nations ,(who wants to break russia ), like US and europe control. Russian limitations
with high tech electronics ,are self imposed by Russia own government , that do not promote /invest properly in modernizing russia economy.