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Originally Posted by Mr K
They can have all the equipment in the world but if they run out of soldiers to use them, then not much good.
If we want to stop Putin then supplying arms isn't enough.
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Ukraine has more volunteers than it can integrate at present, mostly from within its own population. Manpower really isn’t their issue. The sorts of arms we supply is the issue, and as the things they need for the next phase of the war are the sorts of things that carry heightened escalation risk, I think we’re less likely to hear about them much.
That said, I believe our top men are presently trying to work out how to modify the Royal Navy’s obsolete ship-to-ship Harpoon missiles so they can be accurately fired from the shore. We were in the process of retiring these anyway, so if a way can be found to deploy them, Ukraine can basically have the lot. That will make it more or less impossible for the Russian navy to manoeuvre within 50 miles of Ukraine’s southwestern coast around Odessa.