Has Russia pulled any other WWII era weapons out of mothballs for active service?

Quote: Leadership capabilities!?!

I have yet to see a clip of that, would be interesting to see and, I just watched a video y'day of the Ukrainians using an M101 105mm howitzer which I believe delivered in July of this year. Russian armaments, unit tactics and the overall strategy continue to perplex many of us.

On the other side of the coin, there are disturbing report coming out of the Ukraine of modern Western weapons shipments going missing. Especially small arms, ammunition and anti tank weapons.
Seems corruption amongst officials isn't entirely a Soviet thing during a time of war....

Absolutely dt. Ukraine has been, for very many years, one of the most corrupt places on earth. it is a known fact that both parties here...but mostly one in particular was all over the place, necks deep in corruption. And now....after we just concluded one twenty year war, in which our military commanders and our leaders lied to us for decades...about training the Afghan security forces to "stand alone"......or even about little PR things...remember that female soldier who was captured when the trucks in her support team took a wrong turn, and the military made her out to be a female Rambo....but none of that was true.... or the lies they told about the death of Pat Tillman, a true hero...but they covered up the fact...known to them at the time, that it was a friendly fire event......yet we must belief that hundreds of billions of dollars are not being thrown down a rat hole in Ukraine?

And, while it was brought up earlier that the US is in a position to provide more weapons than EU or NATO nations can...that may be true...but they can certainly pony up more cash to cover the costs being eaten by the US taxpayer... yet again! Some of us are quite sick and tired of being the ally that pays the freight.

Respects, Morris

Vp, ....we,( meaning the US and Europe) should have been shedding tears for the children and innocent civilians who died when Putin dogs shot down a passenger liner during their take-over of Crimea. That was the prelude to Ukraine.

We all should have been concerned that Putin`s obvious, long-term, goal was to leverage energy supplies and pipelines to Europe to pay for his "adventurism" and to hold Europe hostage.

Hell, we all know that the left in Europe and here was financed and used to create unrest over independent-energy production....meant to destroy our own ability to empower ourselves....to help create that leverage for Putin and Russia. Anyone who didn`t see that ...is a fool.

So we follow a no-nothing elf...and get rid of nuclear power plants, we get rid of an all-in production of our electric grids, and instead move ourselves to reliance on less reliant wind and solar, hell we are now even seeing a move by so called environmentalists to close down 8...EIGHT hydroelectric dams, at a time when they demand more EV`s....at a time when we already have power outages and brown-outs...and all that in the midst of a drought in the US west.

This was all something that we should have woke up to see. Most didn`t, blinded by virtue signaling, moronic, shortsightedness.

So, a nation that now has the highest GDP to debt ratio in history ( since WW2) spends billions on fighting an evil tyrant that is an existential threat ( together with China) and all because we were railroaded for years into blindly accepting that our greatest existential threat is climate change!" And we are supposed to spend that money without question, without accountability and without an audit? Pure BS!

I feel for those poor Ukrainian children and civilians who have been pounded into dust by Putin.....but it is just a bit too damn late to wake up to facts....and cry about it now. We should have kept our eyes on the ball...instead we allowed little Greta to pied piper us into a bad place....and Ukrainians are paying the heavy price.. Putin was empowered by our ignorance of what was really going on.

Respects, Morris