Revision as of 06:52, 28 March 2022

Numbers

Russian Economy - Russia is 11th at 1.6T. [1]. SA is #1 at about 10x that, $20T. Ukraine is $110B.
Military spending - USA 800B, Russia 60B [2]
Military population - Ukraine 200k, with 900k reserves [3]. Infographic - [4]. Ukraine has 1M, Russia 3M, but Russia has 1M active. [5]
What does Ukrainian army cosist of at end fo March? 300k active duty, 150k have been called from reserves [6]
March 21, 22 - Europe provides $1.1B in military aid. [7]
UK sends another 6k antiarmor/plane missiles to Ukraine by March 23 [8]
By March 12, 17k antiarmor missiles [9], 300 Javelins at least. 2000 more are coming? [10]
45k Javelins and 12k of their launchers have so far been produced, 18+ countries have them [11]. 70k Stingers were made - [12]. 10k NLAWs were made.
Stingers and NLAWs are $38k. [13]. Javelin - $100k launcher, $78k missile. [14]
S300 missile defense against aircraft and ballistic missiles - [15] System is $115M, and each missile is $1M. [16]
Patriot missiles - system is $1B, missile is $1-6M a pop. [17]
How equipment is moved from US based to Ukraine - [18]

From [19] - 9K33 Osa surface-to-air missile. [20]. 26 countries have them.
MiG 29 - $5-8M each - [21]. But the West shit its pants as it could be escalatory.

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 *From [https://coffeeordie.com/ukrainian-mig-29-pilot-interview/] - 9K33 Osa surface-to-air missile. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K33_Osa#Description]. 26 countries have them.
-*MiG 29 - $5-8M each - [https://www.airforcemag.com/polands-new-offer-mig-29s-in-exchange-for-buying-used-u-s-aircraft/#:~:text=Commercially%2Davailable%2C%20used%20MiG%2D,the%20jets%20was%20not%20disclosed.]
+*MiG 29 - $5-8M each - [https://www.airforcemag.com/polands-new-offer-mig-29s-in-exchange-for-buying-used-u-s-aircraft/#:~:text=Commercially%2Davailable%2C%20used%20MiG%2D,the%20jets%20was%20not%20disclosed.]. But the West shit its pants as it could be escalatory.