A Sustainment Engineering Approach to Defending Ukraine In 2023 And Beyond

By Justin Gerhard

The ongoing war in Ukraine has illustrated a weapon system capability gap between Russia and Ukraine, particularly in artillery. Ukraine, having a 2018 gross domestic product (GDP) of $130.9 billion, would be hard-pressed to maintain the same military capability as Russia with a 2018 GDP of $1.657 trillion. The current western approach to maintaining military parity between these two warring nations is to provide western weapon systems (e.g. HIMARS rocket artillery, Abrams tanks, etc.) to Ukraine. Instead of taking the western defense model and applying it to Ukraine, what if a country's weapon systems were developed based on their ability to be operated, sustained and manufactured with minimal outside support?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Justin Gerhard
• Release date: Oct 15, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223948490

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