The Ukrainian model of the Armed Forces differs from NATO standards. If only because the United States at one time made a big bet on the marine component and aviation. Instead, we, following the Soviet model, are artillery and tank troops.
This was told in an exclusive stream for Channel 24 by the head of the Come Back Alive Foundation for Qualified Army Assistance Chmut. He also noted that the fleet and aviation are conditional whales on which American power rests.
We, in a way, are the heirs of the Soviet architecture of the Armed Forces, where accounts for tank troops and artillery,” says Chmut.
According to him, since 1991 we have been reducing everything and came to the conclusion that aviation could not realize the potential that is expected of it.
planes are expensive and long, before they were unrealistic opportunities for us. Therefore, we invested in more understandable and simple things, so to speak, “explains the head of Come Back Alive”.
Taras Chmut
“Come back alive” leader
Since 2014, artillery has proven to be God on the battlefield. It is with its help that the main defeat of the enemy occurs.
However, Taras Chmut says that we are unlikely to re-equip in such a way as to adjust our Armed Forces to NATO standards.
None of the NATO countries has conducted such wars as we are waging and I would gladly see how Germany or France, with their stock of several hundred tanks, would be enough in the confrontation with Russia. – he adds.
“How much would their aviation be enough for their air defense system and aircraft fleet, which is in Russia. In our case, you can not rely on one type of weapons or equipment,” Chmut explains.
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Therefore, according to Taras Chmut, weapons are always a diversified history and aviation is perhaps the only weapon that can simultaneously work in three planes: land, air, sea. But at the same time, aviation is a very expensive component of defense, he concludes.
