Revision as of 06:08, 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]

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 *S300 missile defense against aircraft and ballistic missiles - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-300_missile_system#:~:text=The%20Antey%2D2500%20complex%20is,price%20of%201%20billion%20dollars.] System is $115M, and each missile is $1M. [https://defense-update.com/20130518_how-dangerous-is-the-s-300.html]
 *Patriot missiles - system is $1B, missile is $1-6M a pop. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot]
+*How equipment is moved from US based to Ukraine - [https://theconversation.com/how-weapons-get-to-ukraine-and-whats-needed-to-protect-vulnerable-supply-chains-179285]