NATO re -delivered the old defense debate from the quantity against quality

As NATO countries, including Canada, the intensification of rearmament, they are increasingly facing different ghosts in the Cold War, especially the flexibility of the Russian industry and their ability to connect weapons – although they are often technologically lower than the West – are “good enough” for the war warfare.

Moscow’s ability to produce a lot Drones, missiles, aircraft and other war weapons have been hindered due to sanctions, and quality is eroded in the long run.

“Russia is currently clarifying the construction of new and technically advanced systems,” said Matthew Polij’s report, published by Chatham House residing in the United Kingdom.

“Instead, it depends on the old systems and research dating back to the Soviet era. It also depends on the third party suppliers to replace Western basic components-with the failure of import alternatives and local production to meet the requirements.”

The report, in part, is one of the largest ongoing discussions in the Western defense community at the present time. The 32nd members of the NATO military alliance agreed to significantly expand military spending, with the aim of providing five percent of the GDP of defense spending by 2035. The focus, especially for Canada, is in high technical innovation.

However, experts ask, should the NATO countries invest billions of dollars in expensive weapons systems, such as the F-35 STALHE, and the developers of the very advanced rivers category? Or, should there be more focus on the cheapest and available technology?

While recognition of the discussion is not mutually exclusively, critics of high-spending plans indicate how Russian tanks disable millions of dollars and destroy them by small and inexpensive drones-in some cases drone.

A weapons expert said that focusing on the quantity on quality is something that NATO should pay more attention because it builds his plans for arms.

“This is a long long -term discussion,” said Andrew Rasioles, who was once running the Nuclear Policy and Arms Policy Policy Directorate at the Ministry of National Defense.

“The quantity has its own quality, and the Russians have a quantity.”

He said that it should not be much of the fact that Moscow’s ammunition and equipment are less advanced and that NATO countries, such as Canada, need to look at its investments not through a lens of spending a certain amount of money, but what is logical military.

“The important thing is one side’s ability to deter and defense, if necessary, against the other side,” said Rasyolis.

In many respects, NATO was here before.

When the Cold War reached new horizons in the 1980s, the Soviet Union maintained a massive military presence in Dawla Warsaw with five sections for each division led by the United States. NATO is for this with better technology and nuclear deterrence.

Russia was largely equipped with less sophisticated weapons than the Soviets, which benefited from the common and ammunition, which means that logistical services and simplified training.

The Chatham House report, despite the Kremlin records of military spending, said the current state of its military makers is one of the slope – contrary to what the Kremlin will secure in the world.

The report said: “It is possible that production and slowdown will be simplified over the coming years, while Russia will have to accept the quality of reduced outputs and will suffer from” stagnation of innovation “in its technological research and development.”

“These problems cannot be overcome. Russia will continue to disturb” good enough “systems to pose a continuous threat to Ukraine. But being” good enough “to prolong the war against Ukraine is not the ability to keep pace with Western progress (and Chinese) in long -term military technology.”

Russian knowledge that is shared with North Korea

However, it appears that the quantity against quality will not be just a NATO problem.

Defense intelligence in Ukraine, Kirilo Bodanov, said in early June that the basic technological knowledge of its usefulness in Russia is sharing with North Korea.

On the first of July, he said that Moscow transferred the first batch of surface missile systems to the front to the Kim Jong Un system, and it has provided technology to the drone of a martyr of the designer of the type of Shahid.

It was quoted by Budanov as saying by the Ukrainian media.

He said that modern information indicates that North Korean workers are trained in Russian plants, including facilities in the Alaboga Special Economic Zone, in Taturistan, where modified drones are collected.