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Originally Posted by curves2000
I can see them really moving away from the Soviet era stuff that was in their fleet and almost completely move towards western weapons.
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Ukraine has a huge arms industry (shipbuilding, small arms, guided munitions, aircraft, tanks, etc via
Ukroboronprom) inherited from the Soviet Union collapse that has worked with Poland and others on defense projects. I really doubt they will go full western when they have a lot of local arms expertise. There really isn't anything horribly wrong with the mechanical parts of the Russian systems themselves either, just the use/maintenance has been horrible by the Russians.
We'll probably see a lot more Ukrainian co-developed or modernization defense projects that integrates western components, once all the western provided arms run out. Which I doubt happens any time soon.