An idiot, and his TCLOCKs

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Originally Posted by TominMO

I'm guessing cheap Chinese tubes. Maybe the valve cores are not up to the job. Try replacing just the cores and see if it helps.

A little off-topic, but I've been watching a lot of news reports on YouTube about the progress of this Russia-Ukraine war, and I caught this in one of the reports.


History lesson:


Before the breakup of the Soviet Union, due to their centralized planing economy, they did not have a bunch of competing companies making things, but instead had a bunch of individual ONE BIG FACTORY making all of these different products. And all of these factories were spread around the entire USSR. After the breakup, all of these factories ended up in different countries! So after the breakup if you wanted to build, say, a farm tractor, the engine suddenly comes from a factory in one country, the transmission from another, the chassis from a third, and so on. And a lot of these countries were no longer on speaking terms, shall we say, with Mother Russia.


Well, the result is that the truck tire maker for the old USSR doesn't want to play nice with today's Russia. So the Russian army trucks are running on tires that they buy from China. Those tires seem to be not so resistant to being shredded.


News report:


So what happens is the Russians are running a convoy taking ammo, tank parts, blankets, and turnips up to the front, and one of the trucks gets pasted by a Ukranian RPG. Now there's shredded metal all over the road. So the truck behind the newly-scrapped truck swings out in the other lane and passes, but 100 meters down the road it comes to a stop due to flat tires. Stopped truck = easy target! Another RPG and another Russian truck bites the dust.


That's why they're having such huge logistic problems.


Another problem, by the way, was, back in the good old days of the USSR, all of the military transport airplanes were made by the Antonov Design Bureau. Antonov Design Bureau was located in Kyiv, which is (drumroll, please) in Ukraine. After all, the Ukraine was just an Administrative District within the USSR, but they ain't buildin' no airplanes for the Russkies any more!