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Cheap Chinese tires may explain Russia's 'stalled' 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:40 pm
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"When you leave military truck tires in one place for months on end," the sidewalls get brittle in the sun and fail like the tires on the Pantsir-SR, he wrote. "No one exercised that vehicle for one year."
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Bit of a tire expert here. Those aren't Soviet-era heavy truck radials. Chinese military tires, and I believe specifically the Yellow Sea YS20. This is a tire I first encountered in Somalia and Sudan; it's a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin XZL military tire design.
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Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:42 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:42 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Them baws don't have Nitto's?
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:43 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Heard a similar story with Russia's dependence on shoddy Chinese comms equipment.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:45 pm to Jimmy2shoes
They aren’t buying recalled Firestone tires?
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:45 pm to Jimmy2shoes
You can buy them right off Alibaba
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:46 pm to Jimmy2shoes
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it's a bad Chinese copy of the excellent Michelin XZL military tire design.
This is true of literally everything made in China. It’s a bad copy of something someone else made. They can’t design anything more elaborate than an egg roll.
This post was edited on 3/4/22 at 2:47 pm
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:48 pm to Jimmy2shoes
The other issue is mud.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:48 pm to Jimmy2shoes
It’s actually very plausible. You can buy almost brand new US military tires online very cheap. They go by the date the tire was made, and not the tread ware or things like that.
My old 4Runner hardly got used for about 3 years, and had brand new tires on it. I tuned it up, and started driving more often, and within 3 weeks had to replace all 4 tires.
My old 4Runner hardly got used for about 3 years, and had brand new tires on it. I tuned it up, and started driving more often, and within 3 weeks had to replace all 4 tires.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:50 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Posted on 3/4/22 at 2:55 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Delaying the offensive until after the Olympics means a lot of frozen ground has thawed. Trucks probably can't get around stalled vehicles ahead of them.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:04 pm to Jimmy2shoes
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excellent Michelin
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:16 pm to Jimmy2shoes
Talk of a bridge being blown up. Probably a more likely reason.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:34 pm to Darth_Vader
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This is true of literally everything made in China. It’s a bad copy of something someone else made.
It’s the land of Sun Tzu and gunpowder, yet Europe invented the gun.
What a strange country
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:35 pm to Jimmy2shoes
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Cheap Chinese tires may explain Russia's 'stalled' 40-mile-long military convoy in Ukraine
That and a blown bridge.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 3:41 pm to Jimmy2shoes
I'm normally a tire snob, but an unfortunate series of events (plus supply chain issues and looming deadlines) has me driving around on a set of "Landsail 588 UHPs." (Not to be confused with "Landwhales.")
I am deeply uneasy about this development.
I am deeply uneasy about this development.
Posted on 3/4/22 at 4:07 pm to Jimmy2shoes
"Yuri, check the tire! We have to get to Kiev before nightfall!"
"Da, comrade commander!"
"Da, comrade commander!"
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