Text | Laughing and Drinking
"The F-35 fighter jet relies on dismantling parts to survive!" This is a "tactic" of the US military recently reported by CCTV!
What tactics?
The U.S. military is currently unable to get enough F-35 fighter parts from suppliers, so it came up with a way to dig the East Wall to replenish the West Wall. In any case, some F-35 fighters have also crashed before, some of the above parts if not damaged, can be relocated to other fighters that need repair.
This is not the case, but the Russians do the same.
01
Currently, Russian troops are launching an offensive in Donbas, and some troops have even broken into some villages in Kharkiv Oblast in Ukraine. When dealing with Russian troops, the Ukraine army enjoys talking about its drones--
Even when Ukrainian President Zelensky visited the White House for the third time this year, he promoted Ukrainian-produced drones to US President Trump!
But the Ukrainian drone is not without a X-ray.The Russian side is currently calling for a number of artillery that has been stored for years, which has made good results in the fight against the Ukrainian drone.
There are also media reports that the Russian army unsealed 260 2S7 self-propelled artillery pieces and transported them to the front line--
Of course, these cannons are not for drones, but for attacks on the enemy's vital forces and defensive systems. Interestingly, because these are old Soviet goods, the Ukrainian side also has about 100 similar equipment. Will the two sides seize or destroy each other's cannons for repair and supplement?
It is also that in July 2024, the Russian army transferred 300 M46 missiles produced in the 1950s from its arsenal to the Udo Battlefield, mainly for support of infantry operations.
What if these guns aren't enough?
Perhaps, the naval guns removed from some Russian warships can be used! Recently, for example, Russia announced that its only aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" will be sealed. Before being sealed, some artillery pieces on the ship will be dismantled and can be used by ground troops!
Some analysts believe that the Russian side is relentless. After all, facing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict battled for more than three years, close to entering the fourth year, but the two sides are still in a sticky state, and the Russian army is still far away from the expected victory, it seems to be pleasant that the own stock can be used for some years, part of the so-called "steel flood" to fight Ukraine. Of course, Ukraine also has similar stockpiles. As a result, the Russian-Ukrainian battlefield of the 21st century in parts of the 20th century has played a "hanging machine" model similar to the First World War. Plus the use of drones.
It is revealed that where the war on the Russian-Ukrainian front line is fierce, the lives of soldiers invested by both sides cannot survive 96 hours!
02
Who is the US fighting with?
Venezuela?
US President Trump claims to be cracking down on Venezuelan drug traffickers. Anyway, besides, the US military currently has two major military operations-
One was to send 200 people overseas to Israel, saying that they were to mediate between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
The second is that the National Guard has been deployed by Trump to some of the states where Democrats serve as governors.
The U.S. military currently has no major operational missions.
But the U.S. military is currently doing some excavations of the East Wall to supplement the West Wall not just in the field of F-35 fighters.
A recent report by the U.S. Government Accountability Bureau showed that the U.S. Navy is facing more serious equipment maintenance logistics problems: there are no spare parts to be used during equipment repair, and maintenance technicians must not replace "removing the East Wall to repair the West Wall".
Of course, it is also thoughtful!
After all, as a classical U.S. aircraft carrier, the F-18 took many years, even more stock. Even now there is no new production, those old goods dismantled and can beined for quite a long time. If the military of the third world countries do so, many comments would consider it a good thing for the diligent owners. For example, the U.S. F-14 fighter used in Iran, because Iran's relationship with the U.S. after the revolution broke, can not get spare parts, so can only beined by removing the east wall to replenish the western wall. Of course, in the long process of use, Iran has also developed some accessories, reluctant to replace.
Unlike Iran, this is the United States!
From the relevant reports can be seen that the United States also faces a shortage of parts on some offshore combat ships, Virginia-class submarines and other projects, instead of having to dig the East Wall to replenish the West Wall.
On the surface, removing parts from outdated equipment "to old repair" is not a big problem, many countries have this practice, not only after repair "not new", but also fully able to meet the "available" standard.
But in reality, the U.S. military’s current problem is that a large number of “old items” come from active equipment, which may be waiting for upgrades, temporarily unnecessary or directly used by other non-major forces, and it is clear that the investigation found that the F-35 fighter jets and Virginia class nuclear submarines have nothing to break down.
That is, the relevant suppliers lack spare parts. If this issue is not resolved, it may be a fatal wound to the United States!
At present, it can be seen that the U.S. nuclear submarine Connecticut has been repaired many times, but still cannot be repaired - the maintenance period has been extended repeatedly.
A major reason for this situation is that part of its maintenance steel is imported from Japan and South Korea.
The United States itself has no production of related steel products!
03
Xiaoyin believes that the relevant situations encountered by the United States and Russia are not new in themselves. In the early combat hours of our army, wasn't it common to piece together "new weapons" from seized weapons?
At the national parade, which of the parties that passed, which of the "weapons of the world" was not armed?
But now, it seems that China has gone through the stage of "growing the East Wall and replenishing the West Wall" with old weapons.
It still feels necessary to learn some experience. for example, in the retiree weapons are more capable of fighting, better preserved, the seal is stored!
Of course, our army has summed up some experiences, which are worth in-depth exploration. For example, a large number of J-6 fighter jets were retired and converted into drones. This is quite exciting!