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T-90 tank destroyed in the Lyman direction by the Anti-tank Company of the 66th Mechanized Brigade (streamable.com)
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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two different philosophies of design that are informed by politics. In a country where you have to manufacture consent for a war, you have to design your military gear with some consideration for the people that will be using it. You're designing gear that you have to market to the soldiers.

In a more overtly totalitarian regime, you can just chuck people into the meat grinder because they can't really say no.

I remember learning about Soviet vs US long range bombers, and how the US designs made arrangements for things like toilets, but the Soviet ones often didnt.