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Setting aside the nonsense about Soviet tactics, this article is very revealing. (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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Turns out that cheap and reliable weapons that Russia is able to pump out in mass quantities work a lot better than fancy artisanally produced NATO weapons.

https://archive.ph/jW2xn

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[โ€“] Horse@lemmygrad.ml 31 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Turns out that cheap and reliable weapons that Russia is able to pump out in mass quantities work a lot better than fancy artisanally produced NATO weapons.

apparently we need to re-learn this every so often
1000 dudes with half-decent pikes will beat 50 dudes with fancy swords
500 stamped out tanks will beat 10 over-engineered tanks
100 cheap speedboats loaded with explosives will beat an aircraft carrier
etc, etc.

[โ€“] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 5 days ago

But muh wunderwaffe!