Russian solider in Syria in 2016. Kremlin Photo
USNI News: Expert: Syria Deployment Pushing the Limits of Russian Military Capability
While the Kremlin’s newly professionalized military is armed with top-of-the-line ship-launched cruise missiles, flying more capable strike aircraft and firing precision munitions Russia, “does not have the ability to sustain forces far from the border,” a military expert said on Wednesday.
“Syria pushed Russian logistics to its limits,” Anton Lavrov, a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and affiliated with the Center for Analysis and Technologies in Moscow, said.
Moscow’s logistical trouble in Syria to maintain the 5,000 personnel, helicopters and aircraft illustrate one of the serious shortfalls in President Vladimir Putin’s drive to pull Russia’s conventional and nuclear forces out of their post-Soviet decay.
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WNU Editor: The recent Russian military buildup and modernization plan was (and still is) focused on building up the Army, nuclear weapons, certain high-tech weapons, and keeping the borders safe. Building up a naval and air fleet to sustain military operations in a faraway country has not been the priority for the Kremlin .... and will not for the foreseeable future.
1 comment:
Russian logistics.. lol... the US Army used narrow Artificial Intelligence for Logistics already back in 1991 - check it out.. codename DART.. fast forward, 30 years later and Russia is like "we so strong, uh wait, no we not.. where's our stuff? freaking logistics..." :P
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