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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-299
Last week's posts on Moon of Alabama:
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Other issues:
Gaza:
War on Iran:
China:
Europe:
Miscellaneous:
Use as open (not related to the wars in Ukraine and Palestine) thread …
That was followed up by my report on Putin’s always important address to Russia’s annual extended board meeting of the Defense Ministry, “Putin’s Annual Address to the Extended Board Meeting of the Ministry of Defense,” https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putins-annual-address-to-the-extended
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 16 2024 23:18 utc | 129
Posted by: karlof1 | Dec 16 2024 23:57 utc | 132
A bit chaotic but bear with me…
The regular strength of the Armed Forces has been increased to one and a half million servicemen.
To a structure of 900k and 1 million servicemen of improvable operationability we’ve added 500k lean servicemen … while putting aside maybe 350k bayonets for Leningrad and Moscow. We have recruited/retrained reserves 700+300 so 350k for Len+Mosk, 150k for refreshing SMO and 500k left service (one way or the other, or a final one… but wait to see the other guy, skip to last section if confused)
The army and navy are being re-equipped with modern weapons and equipment at an accelerated pace. For example, the share of such weapons in the strategic nuclear forces has already reached 95 percent.
No duds, all ready to fly and make big badaboom
At the same time, it is necessary to improve the methods of conducting military operations, clarify the basic statutory documents, increase the level of proficiency in weapons and equipment, as well as the effectiveness of troop management, especially in the tactical and operational-tactical levels.
No more screw ups… please
The noise immunity of the onboard equipment of missile weapons has been significantly increased, and new ways of completing flight tasks have been worked out. In the future, we need to calculate them in real time for quickly identified targets
Next time I hear about minutes lost in a kill circuit I’ll hang the SOB by the balls
Fifth. To reduce the time spent on decision-making when managing units on the battlefield, an interspecific information exchange system based on mobile devices has been created and has shown its effectiveness. More than six and a half thousand such systems have already been delivered to the troops. As a result of their application, the time for setting tasks was reduced by one and a half to two times.
Every single platoon and even smaller groups on a need to have basis, next time someone does an SMO by cell phone or whatsapp there are still hooks for more ball bearers
I will give you a figure: this year, on average, more than 1,000 people enter the military service under a contract every day.
Remember the million I mentioned earlier? a thousand days times a thousand, yeps, about there.
The priority in the work of all authorities should be to address the social issues of the participants in the special operation, to take care of the families of the victims—I have already mentioned this at the beginning–and those who were seriously injured during the fighting. This should be the focus of our attention. It is necessary to delve into the problems of each of our comrades, his family and really help to solve their problems. This is the task of the Ministry of Defense, the task of the Government of the Russian Federation, and the task of all leaders at all levels of government.
Yes, between widows and wounded they are quite a few and I don’t wan to see a shitty VA here
addendum
He said that the mobilization is happening in Ukraine, and you all know this very well. He mentioned that in this sense, we have a different staff. Last year, more than 300 thousand of our citizens, our men, came to military enlistment offices and signed contracts for service in the Armed Forces–-more than 300 thousand.
Yes, still in the thousand a day ballpark i.e. 1 million total
Now, as for how much money we spend and what it translates into–-an extremely important thing, of course. The Minister said: we spend 6.3 percent of GDP on the military component—on improving and strengthening our defense capability
Sustainable, even for a country without oil or gas, but for one that has, not too much
But nevertheless, this is a lot of money, and here we need to use it very efficiently–-very efficiently, first of all, ensuring social guarantees for our military personnel and the effective operation of the military-industrial complex.
And finally, the already well-proven complex “Hazel”, very powerful. I want to repeat once again–-experts know this, the commander of the Strategic Missile Forces [Strategic Missile Forces] Sergey Karakayev is here, he thinks so and told me about it–-with the combined use, with the group use of several complexes at once, this is comparable in power to the use of nuclear weapons. But it is not nuclear, because there is no nuclear fuel, no nuclear component, no contamination. And this is a very important element in deciding which means of armed struggle we can use.
As discussed, the kinetic yield is at least a couple of magnitudes smaller so there is something here that bridges that gap… at least in some usages. The “combined” part could maybe explain one magnitude, but there is still one or two that need further clarification.
No grift/graft or the usual waste or theft please
Karlof’s IMO
One thousand people daily enlist, but what of the great shortage of skilled workers estimated to be 3 million; when will the demographic problem begin to bite Russia’s military? IMO, these words bear repeating:
Just 1/3 of that gap is the military’s fault, yes, they’re currently taking almost 50% of young men coming to age, but even if they didn’t it would be 2 million short… but that is not the whole truth, 3 million would allow cheap labour, you need “expensive” work that believes in making more babies.
He noted that NATO was currently switching to a new combat readiness system that is expected to allow it to deploy a 100,000-strong grouping along Russia’s western borders within ten days, a 300,000-strong grouping within a month, and a 800,000-strong grouping within 180 days.
Weeee! that’s almost enough to hold the 10 days and the 3 months at AFU losss level. Now try to recruit more 😀
RF had to basically handle each of those numbers in the shorter term, did once, will do again.
5,x to 1 (there were worse times) average, I think RF does not want to let it be known how deadly this has really been, maybe not to scare the plebes in the west. AFU permanent losses are in the 3 million ballpark
Posted by: Newbie | Dec 17 2024 0:26 utc | 129
Doesn’t look like b saw my message to release this from Typepad, so I’ll try to break it up into couple of post and try.
Thanks for another great week, and the forum to vent, b.
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As I’ve said here and elsewhere for a while now, Trump will start a war with Iran in his 2nd term. Said it in 2020 if he was re-elected and I would bet the mortgage on it now.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 15 2024 15:25 utc | 5
They are hopefully not stupid enough to think any form of land war is feasible, but I don’t rule out all manner of covert action (assassinations, bribes, sabotage of utilities/cyber attacks, color revolution) or military air/missile strikes against crucial Iranian military (and alleged nuclear) infrastructure and armaments/AD.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Dec 15 2024 16:42 utc | 9
Tom, this appears to be the prevailing thought at the bar, so I thought I’d take some time to address it.
Iran has been at war with the empire for 45 years. The war started then, not now.
I’ve been watching and thinking about the “Iran issue,” or war on Iran for nearly 20 years, and here is my conclusion: TINA Tom, TINA. The only way to solve this gordian knot is through negotiated settlement. There is no alternative. Here is why:
A shooting war on Iran would be too costly to contemplate. Some call it MAD, I call it balance of terror. Since the fall of Syria, many now claim that Iran is weak and should be attacked. The only way Iran is weak, is if it can’t fire its missiles, and drones. Period. That was the case before the fall of Syria, and is the case now. We live in an age where naval and air supremacy has given way to missiles, and drones. All the empire’s bases, ships, and carriers, anywhere, are vulnerable.
These very many also hold two opposing thoughts in their head: Iran is weak, so it should be attacked now, but wait, Iran is strong, so it’s coming to suck your children’s blood.
Let’s take a look at a summary of the situation.
Khamaaas: yes, Hamas is degraded, but not defeated. The original stated goal of the entity of grinding Hamas to dust, and releasing the hostages has not yet been achieved. If anything Hamas has more recruits than it knows what to do with. All the people who lost their families are now firmly in Hamas’ camp.
Khezbollah: yes, Hezbollah is degraded, but not defeated. We saw how the ground invasion into Lebanon went. Hezbollah had to agree to a ceasefire because it is political entity as well as military one, and was sensitive to the collective punishment meted. As for re-supplies, new ratlines will be set up. People have to eat, and feed their families, and will do anything. So the cost of shipping may have gone up, but the supplies will still get through. Fall of Syria will not affect that.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Dec 17 2024 19:18 utc | 156
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