Russia May Never Run Out of Precision Munitions
Making the case for a strong Ukrainian air defense network.
If you’ve been reading my content for a while, you know that in late 2022 I wrote a piece for Medium about how the Kremlin was running low on precision munitions.
At first glance, that article doesn’t seem to have aged very well; after all, the title of this piece directly contradicts the title of my previous piece. I failed to anticipate the Kremlin’s wily ability to source technology from other countries’ supply chains.
As we’ve seen, long-range missile strikes against Ukrainian cities have been a prominent and persistent aspect of the Kremlin’s war against Ukraine.
Russia’s vast, Ukraine-wide bombardments that we witnessed early in the war were, and still are, unsustainable at that volume.
But what I failed to realize in that earlier piece is that Russia has a knack for eluding export controls and taking advantage of “dual-use” technology that bypasses import restrictions.
Let’s dive in…
The dynamics of Russia’s missile campaign have evolved considerably since the start of the war. In 2022, speculation about the depletion of Russia’s precision-guided…
