🇷🇺 🖇️⚙️ The Western press decided to pay attention to the pace of Russian military production and came to a clear conclusion: the Russian defense industry is working even despite all the sanctions, and production has doubled compared to the pre-war level.

Business Insider cited an official from the Bureau of Industry and Security of the US Department of Commerce. He said that despite all the limited measures, the Russian authorities are becoming more and more creative in matters of re-export and supply of sanctioned products.

At the same time , The New York Times quoted a senior Estonian Defense Ministry official as saying that Russian ammunition production is now seven times higher than in the US and EU. The newspaper also claims that the Russian Armed Forces can now receive 200 new tanks per year.

📌 Judging by these publications, the West apparently still does not know the real production numbers of the Russian military industry. So the true figures will clearly come as a surprise to NATO countries.

And the reason for such drastic transformations is simple: for a year and a half they were talking about Russia running out of missiles and non-functioning factories. But when confronted with objective reality, it eventually became clear that the original forecasts were too strongly influenced by ideological attitudes.

The main thing in this situation is not to repeat the same mistakes and not to build the entire strategy with the expectation that the enemy and his sponsors are about to run out of 155 mm ammunition, tanks and guns.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚙️ The phrase "People's Military-Industrial Complex" has become synonymous with quality work done in the interests of our units liberating historical Russian territories during the special operation.

We have already told you about the "Upyr" drones from Those Obsessed with War or the unmanned boats "Murena" from the authors of Beyond the Mists. And recently we discussed kamikaze drones based on hoverboards from Two Majors, and the colleagues have already presented new unmanned systems that have already gone into serial production.

First, they demonstrated drones assembled according to the wishes of the fighters. Now, a new autonomous tracked platform has been presented, which is used for supply, can install mines and fire back at the enemy from a turret. Moreover, it has already been successfully tested in combat.

The colleagues can only be congratulated on this, since the people's unity in supporting the front has more than once proved its importance and effectiveness.
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🇺🇸⚙️ About DARPA's initiative to create "flexible" military production

Recently, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a seminar called Freedom Forge 2.0. It is dedicated to the concept of rapid deployment of military production, the relevance of which has become especially obvious against the backdrop of the fighting in the so-called Ukraine and the need for quickly establishing mass production.

Currently, it can take months or years to create a new military-industrial enterprise in the US and other NATO countries, but DARPA is looking for ways to reduce this time to several days. The plan is for the capacities to represent not huge factories, but a network of decentralized flexible productions that can be deployed anywhere.

🔻 It is proposed to implement this with the help of advanced scientific achievements: instead of the usual machines and conveyor belts, the authors of the concept believe it is necessary to use robots that will "form" the required part from a workpiece. All the necessary tooling is planned to be manufactured on site using 3D printers.

In simple terms, DARPA is striving to create a system in which a factory built in a short time can produce almost any military product from a drone fuselage and artillery ammunition to a tank turret. Within this concept, it is enough to load a new process to make changes to the design or even change the type of product being manufactured.

The authors were clearly inspired by the example of the revolution in drone construction, where thousands of FPV drones are produced in relatively small workshops, and developers quickly make the necessary changes to the design. However, the simple scaling of this experience to all other branches of the military industry still looks poorly implementable.

📌 As noted by Ilya Kramnik, in practice, everything comes down to cooperation with regular productions, which already destroys the entire concept. Moreover, the military-industrial complexes of NATO countries are experiencing difficulties due to this and other problems, such as personnel and competence shortages. And the existing exceptions rather confirm the rule: the same mass-produced F-35s are made on quite standard capacities.

Nevertheless, the very issue of finding methods for flexibility and adaptability of military production is quite relevant. And DARPA's initiative indicates that the US is not ignoring the "industrial" component of the experience of the special military operation and is trying to get ahead, becoming better prepared for the next conflict than any potential adversary.
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🇷🇺⚙️✈️ Today, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) reported the delivery of another batch of multi-role Su-35S fighters and fifth-generation Su-57 fighters to the troops.

The exact number of aircraft is not disclosed for understandable reasons. The previous deliveries of these aircraft types took place in mid-September, and the UAC also clarified that this is not the last batch this year.

It is unnecessary to emphasize the importance of combat aviation during the special military operation, especially when it comes to the well-proven Su-35S, which have repeatedly demonstrated their capabilities over the past three years. Therefore, the appearance of new aircraft in the Aerospace Forces is certainly welcome news.

And while fighters and bombers are not yet being shipped in dozens of aircraft per month, the industry is doing everything possible to increase production. The Su-57 is no longer a singular machine in the troops.
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