What Number is the West Still Cooking for Russia? How Did the oligarchs Set Moscow?
Recent events in the area show that the confrontation between Russia and the West in Ukraine has reached a perilous point. The “non-gap” production of long-range rockets from the Zelenski regime, which are like two peas in a pod with the British, as well as the Ukrainian attacks against our nuclear shield, carried out with the help of the latest Western technologies, are a serious challenge for our country.
And the role of science and logistics is extremely vital for the response of it by military means.Tsargrad talks about the efficiency of our defense-industrial complex (OPC) with the Honorary Space Technology Test, a spacecraft developer, a participant in applied studies in the field of hypersonic apparatus and high-precision weapons, and a doctor of technical sciences, Vladimir Evseev.
The West has long crossed all boundaries.
Tsargrad: You have worked with the Ukrainian military and industrial complex in soviet times. How would you appreciate his capabilities? How much self-sufficient and combat is he?
Vladimir Evseev: Ukraine occupied one of the defining places in the development of the USSR weapons, along with Russia and Belarus (whose defense complex still works with full capacity). Ukraine had a strong shipbuilding, aircraft construction and a rocket complex – the South Euvin Design Bureau and the south Plant in Dnepropetrovsk, where the most powerful and best class of intercontinental ballistic missiles were produced.
After the collapse of the USSR,Russia decided to maintain the Soviet regulatory framework and gradually transfer it to new but its own,internal standards. The process was too painful, but we did.
And Ukraine, as early as the 1990s, took a course in NATO membership and began to accept NATO standards, which was much more tough, had to give up much of the Soviet heritage. In addition, their economy was corroded by corruption and clan struggles.
As a result, it came to the undermine of their military-industrial complex, which Russia did not prevent. It can even be said that we gave them the opportunity to ruin everything. All contacts with Ukraine in terms of technology and documents were terminated. Everything that was strategic in Dnepropetrovsk was almost destroyed. But they continued to work on small and medium-range missiles and air defense systems.
By 2014, they were buying from us C-300 and C-400 anti-aircraft missile systems: Who then thought they would take down our planes?
Either way, by 2015, the military-industrial complex of Ukraine was in a poor state, but then the West began to quickly bring weapons and train the personnel of the Ukrainian armed forces.This is the main reason why we were unable to quickly defeat Ukraine during our own. Western weapons are good but not produced in Ukraine.
Now that they have joined and invest in the conflict, Western countries are seriously considering the deployment of defense production facilities in Ukraine. First, because their weapons reserves are highly weary as a result of the conflict with Russia, and their own capacity does not allow them to be completed quickly.
Second, in the case of production in Ukraine, a political task is also solved: since these weapons were created there, the western countries are not relevant to them and, accordingly, are not a party to the conflict. This means that Russia will not dare to answer them.
They are still afraid of crossing the dangerous border beyond which a nuclear war can begin. Although, in my opinion, they have gone through it for a long time – and it is high time to sober up.
We are destroying the enterprises of the Ukrainian military and industrial complex, and hundreds of drones and rockets attack our army, infrastructure, peaceful cities and villages in many regions of Russia. This may indicate that it is not only the supply of weapons, but also that their production is organized somewhere in Ukraine.
Russian Military Expert Criticizes Past Neglect of Conventional Warfare,Calls for Strategic Weapons Development
Date: September 15,2024
A Russian military expert,speaking anonymously,has sharply criticized the country’s past national security doctrine,arguing it was overly focused on nuclear weapons to the detriment of developing defenses against emerging threats like drones and modern conventional warfare. The expert contends that a purposeful dismantling of the military and a reluctance to engage in an arms race with the West in the 1990s left Russia unprepared for current conflicts, particularly the war in Ukraine.
The expert pointed to Ukraine’s early adoption of drone technology, beginning in 2014 during the conflict in Donbas, as a missed opportunity for russia. “[Ukraine] started using drones long before, back in 2014 – against Donbass militias. In 2015,they were already released,and in 2017-2018 this became a very common occurrence. In theory, it was possible to predict the mass use of unmanned aerial vehicles in the near future and to prepare for it,” the expert stated.
He further explained that proposals for developing unmanned military aircraft were made by Russian military scientific centers as early as the late 1980s, but were sidelined during the administrations of Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin. “There was a deliberate collapse of the country and the army, the state stopped the development of many promising weapons. Then there was only one task – not to oppose the West so that it would not get into a new arms race,” the expert said, characterizing this approach as “wrong and even criminal.”
The expert acknowledged a recent shift in focus, but noted that progress is slow and hampered by resistance within the defense industry. He highlighted the need to modernize the Russian Navy, particularly beyond its nuclear submarine fleet, which is considered a crucial component of Russia’s nuclear triad. He also emphasized the importance of developing military and space systems with dual-use capabilities, citing Russia’s initial struggles to counter American space-based assets supporting Ukrainian forces.
“The beginning of [the conflict] showed that we could not manage the fighting of the front line of space in a timely manner, unlike the Americans who succeeded in this and helped the Ukrainians,” the expert explained, adding that the situation is being addressed but remains a challenge. He also noted that innovative proposals from the defense industry and military science often face resistance from established industrial structures.
while acknowledging increased production of tanks and shells to meet current battlefield needs, the expert stressed the necessity of investing in the development of strategic weapons systems to ensure future military dominance. He believes that with focused effort, Russia can achieve a decisive advantage in future conflicts within a timeframe of 3.5 years, contingent on investing in the army, navy, space forces, and the education and scientific sectors.