Ukrainian soldiers prepare to fire a French-made CAESAR self-propelled howitzer towards Russian positions near Avdiivka, Donetsk region on 26 December, 2022 (AP)
Murat Aslan & Tanya Goudsouzian, Middle East Eye: Russia-Ukraine war: Are we about to see a new kind of 'super-combat'?
Demands of high-intensity modern warfare are rapidly depleting the weapons and resources of all parties in Ukraine. What might come next should worry us all
In February 2022, Russian forces invaded Ukraine in what many analysts predicted would be a quick regime change of the Zelensky government in Kyiv.
The Kremlin expected a short operation, like the Crimea takeover of 2014 or, at worst, low-level warfare similar to the Syria conflict, with some cities resembling Aleppo by the end. Instead, what Russia and the world have seen is a protracted, gory conflict and a return to high-intensity warfare on a scale not seen since the Second World War.
The scale and scope of modern precision intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) technology, along with the use of mid-20th-century tactics, has seen a dramatic increase in the degree of battlefield destruction.
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WNU Editor: The Kremlin has woken up to the possibility that they may run out of weapons and resources for this war, hence we now have this .... Russia's Military Factories Are Now Working ‘Around the Clock’ (January 2, 2023).
Here is a prediction. I expect in the coming weeks/months the West will also be rushing in measures to have their military factories churning out weapons and military resources 24/7.
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Northrop Grumman is up 41% this year.
Lockheed Martin is up 37%.
Raytheon is up 16%.
The S&P 500 is down 20% and the NASDAQ is down 35%.
Also U.S has 100s of the still great M109 SP howitzers they can give out of stock .
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