Talk:List of Russo-Ukrainian War military equipment

Extension to 2022

The Introduction don't reflect the recent extension to cover the 2022 conflict. Yug (talk) 🐲 16:47, 10 March 2022 (UTC)

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Semi-Automatic Rifles

The KRISS Vector and Beretta Cx4 Storm are not semi-auto only, correct? They should fall under a different category, moreso in Submachine guns if I'm not mistaken. Thoughts? Mimotakito111 (talk) 23:06, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Captured Equipment

Should captured equipment be listed in this article? I think it's fair to assume that if a particular piece of equipment is being used by one side of the war, some units could be captured by the other side. There's no need to double-list that equipment under both Ukraine and Russia.

Even if captured equipment should be listed, it should be clearly marked as such. In addition, Russian equipment captured by Ukrainians should be listed as well - something that wasn't done by the original author, who clearly had a pro-Russian bias (as further indicated by their choice of references). Akhaiet (talk) 04:52, 20 June 2023 (UTC)

No. Captured equimpent is unnecessary. There is no confirmation that a single captured MP40 was ever placed in service not to mention many other firearms and vechicles. To be honest there is so much more problems with this one. Russian hunting rifles? Who is using them? Any source on that? No? Then why were they even listed in here?

But to be fair there is quite a lot of other useless additions for example koalitsia-SV - Russian MoD istelf stated that this system is in a state of development and was not deployed to Ukraine. Or AT105 Saxons (Russian captured) We know that Russians send captured examples to museums so they can be used for a sake of internal propaganda so why are they being listed, as something in active Russian service in Ukraine?

It's like someone turning list of weapons used in a specific war, by two specific armies into a list of all weapons used by that two armies in general plus everything they find abandoned on some random fields os Ukrainian steppe. And that makes this entire article "guano" and broken. KalrinEU (talk) 19:10, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Agreed. Most of the captured equipment either has no references or the references are to Twitter posts of DPR and Russian soldiers posing with Western weapons. This is more of a political statement than legitimate use of the equipment, and no other Wiki page listing weapons uses that kind of standard. I removed all of the "captured equipment" from the list except for that which has clear evidence of its use in service (like Kornet used by Ukrainians or some Ukrainian rifles used by separatists).

Like you mentioned, a lot of the stuff here simply isn't cited at all or not based on reality (e.g. someone literally recently added F18's to the Ukrainian arsenal even though there are only some rumors that the Ukrainian government requested them from Australia), so there is a lot to work on. Akhaiet (talk) 20:32, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

Improvised weapons

The article makes no mention of improvised weapons, such as the Trembita bomb. See also: Improvised artillery in the Syrian civil war. I think an article on Improvised military equipment of the Russo-Ukraine War is justifiable (sourceable). Improvised in the sense of designed and built outside the military industry, such as field innovation or entrepreneurial garage shops. This is different from professional weapons that are repurposed. -- GreenC 05:09, 10 July 2023 (UTC)