"Ukrainian forces reverse-engineer spare parts" Topic
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 Editor in Chief Bill  | 18 Sep 2022 2:59 p.m. PST |
…Some members of a roughly 50-member repair team showed reporters images of damaged United States-provided arms, including M777 howitzers, that in the West would have long been considered beyond the scope of repair. Not in Ukraine.Ukrainians are managing to bring these weapons back into battle, thanks to guidance from US forces and manufacturing prowess by Kyiv allowing it to reverse-engineer spare parts… Aljazeera: link |
 Legion 4  | 18 Sep 2022 5:30 p.m. PST |
"Necessity is the mother of invention." … Unless you're in the Russian Army it appears. |
| Oberlindes Sol LIC | 18 Sep 2022 6:01 p.m. PST |
The Ukrainians have necessity, and the Russians don't. So the maxim is still true. |
| Legion 4 | 19 Sep 2022 8:54 a.m. PST |
Yep ! The "vaunted" Russian army we trained to go to war against during the Cold War. Has proven to be a paper tiger, if that. It may have been different during the Cold War ? But today … they are marginal at best. |
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