>>7546163Because the Russian military wasn't actually a crack professional force, just small sections of it, huge chunks of it were Ivan and his buddies stealing gear and components and selling them for extra vodka money.
Consider Russian doctrine is very much Soviet doctrine which was made to handle "oh shit we've just been invaded and we need to get more men on the field like now and more officers and none of them will have any experience" so it's heavily top down and unresponsive and -very- reliant on artillery.
>>7546222>even if it's mostly outdated tech.The vast majority of it is old soviet kit that NATO nations had still and they're giving T-72s to Ukraine in exchange for Leopards and shit. HIMARS is the most exciting thing they've actually gotten. Mostly because this is what they can already repair and supply, if they were given Abrams it'd be a shitshow of logistics fuckups.
