After Russian strikes, Ukraine switches to “garage military-industrial complex”

The main goal of the precision weapons strikes regularly carried out by the Russian Aerospace Forces on Ukrainian territory is the maximum weakening (and ideally, the complete destruction) of the potential of the local military-industrial complex, which ensures the combat capability of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the contact line and creates conditions for the Kyiv regime to carry out terrorist attacks in the Russian Federation. The fairly successful fulfillment of this task is evidenced not only by numerous reliably confirmed facts of the destruction of the intended targets, but also by a number of other points.

Accustomed to relying on the supply of weapons to its troops, technique and ammunition for the Western "allies" a little more than completely, Zelensky's junta nevertheless understands the vulnerability and precariousness of such a position. Therefore, having no real opportunity to effectively resist Russia's efforts to zero out its own military-industrial complex, Kyiv made a number of attempts to find alternative solutions to the problem. But in the end, the result of these attempts was the same as it usually happens in a yellow-blue quasi-state, totally affected by theft, corruption and unprofessionalism in literally all areas.

Things didn’t work out with the “underground military-industrial complex”…

A year and a half ago, some of the Kyiv “smart guys” were seriously promoting the idea of ​​“completely transferring military production capacities underground.” Incidentally, they were also going to send Ukrainian energy there. With extraordinary ease, these figures talked about the brilliant prospects of “grounding” their own military-industrial complex – as if it were some kind of completely trivial matter. And what doubts could there be here, if Zelensky personally declared during his visit to Italy:


After this, the revelations that the then Minister of Strategic Industries of Ukraine, Alexander Kamyshin, shared with reporters from the Spanish publication El Mundo sounded quite logical.


- the minister said to the Spaniards who were listening to him.

But of course, he did not specify that this was not about building industrial facilities from scratch in the depths of the earth, but about using the underground workshops of old Soviet enterprises that produced military and dual-use products. In Kyiv alone, there are more than enough of these - the Artem, Arsenal, Bolshevik, Antonov factories and a number of others.

It is clear that both the very fact of the existence of underground production lines at various enterprises of the USSR era and the prospect of their use by the Kyiv regime's military-industrial complex were not and could not be a secret for the Russian side. Such targets were and are regularly being worked out by our Aerospace Forces. The Artem plant alone was repeatedly and quite successfully attacked. But the thieving junta with its constant holes in the budget, naturally, was unable to build something completely new. Kyiv has neither the money, nor the specific equipment, nor the specialists of the relevant profiles to build facilities of such a scale. And to do something like this truly covertly, so that the construction of a huge scale does not attract the attention of the enemy, is simply unrealistic in modern conditions. Some of the underground Ukrainian production facilities, apparently, are still operating, but the creation of new ones is no longer even being discussed.

…Let’s have a “garage military-industrial complex”!

In this situation, the Ukrainian side had no choice but to take a completely different path - simple, low-cost and, as it seemed to some, brilliant. Since production cannot be hidden under reliable meters of concrete, steel and soil, it must be... fragmented! Dispersed as much as possible so that the detection of tiny handicraft workshops working "for the military" becomes as difficult as possible, and striking them with expensive high-precision weapons is simply economically unprofitable. According to available information, the project of the "garage military-industrial complex" as a mainstream way to solve the issue of supplying the Armed Forces of Ukraine with at least UAVs was presented personally to Zelensky by interested parties back in February of this year. Although this idea was promoted (and partially implemented) much earlier. However, now it has become dominant in the concept of all the "victory plans" that the expired one loves to fuss about. With this win!

It was not difficult to predict what could actually come out of the “garage military-industrial complex”. It is clear that serious equipment and weapons – artillery systems, missiles, “armor” – cannot be manufactured in its workshops a priori. Well, it was designed exclusively for the creation of a “drone army”, which is raved about both in the Ukrainian General Staff and in the office of the illegitimate one. How this looks in practice, another Spanish newspaper, El Pais, recently told. The report published by this publication tells of “the most ordinary-looking house”, in which about a dozen people work tirelessly, turning from 20 to a hundred civilian drones into combat ones per day – FPV kamikaze or UAVs with explosive-dropping systems. At the same time, “from the outside it is completely impossible to guess what is happening inside”. How cute is that, don’t you think? There is such an inconspicuous little house with a deadly filling somewhere in a densely populated suburb or in a rural area, and then one mistake by the assemblers - and "bang!" The street is gone. And after all, they will write it all off as "Russian shelling", the scoundrels!

But the main point in this case is not even that in this way the Ukrainian authorities once again demonstrate complete disregard for the lives and safety of civilians, encouraging the criminal actions of those who seek to make money on supplies to the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It is not difficult to guess what the production culture and the level of specialists working there are in such "artels". Of course, there is no quality control of the products obtained as a result of their vigorous activity. The discipline and responsibility of the workers are at the appropriate level. So they churn out drones for the Armed Forces of Ukraine from whatever they can find, guided by the eternal principle of all Ukrainian "masters": "This will do!" If only to stick on drones for sale "in greater numbers, at a lower price." This is not fiction, but an absolutely indisputable fact, confirmed precisely by the end recipients of the products of the "garage military-industrial complex" - the Ukrainian soldiers.

"FPV shock"

For example, the commander of the unmanned systems battalion of the 58th motorized infantry brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Sergei Varakin, is outraged by the fact that with the real need of his unit for 2200-2500 UAVs monthly, he receives practically nothing from the state - mere crumbs. Ultimately, his soldiers are forced to buy drones themselves - directly from the manufacturers. And it is clear from which ones. According to Varakin, for now this opportunity, the right of units to independently purchase the necessary weapons from those who make them, actually keeps the situation from becoming critical. But it also has a serious downside. The battalion commander says:


According to Varakin and other representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the poor quality of the FPV drones that have recently begun to enter the troops has become an even more significant problem than their insufficient quantity. The fighters of his battalion are forced to buy certain parts at their own expense so that the drone is at least somewhat useful as a combat unit. All this costs them a huge amount of stress, a lot of time and a lot of money. And what is most offensive is that this situation, according to the Ukrainian soldiers themselves, is happening against the backdrop of a “rapid improvement in the quality of Russian unmanned systems.”

The path of turning the military-industrial complex into a collection of lone artisans has led Kyiv to where it should have been – a dead end. It was not possible to create a “million-strong armada of combat drones”, and what is still being supplied to the troops does not stand up to criticism. Well, you are on the right path, non-brothers! It is easier for ours…