And as bad as Russia is, the Chinese copies of Russian tech is worse.

 

Food for thought. As long as it stays that way and as long as the will to use the West's tech for prudent defense remains, the West can manage these two bullies easily. It is however the matter of will.

 

Current trends don't appear too promising. 

 

Its not a lack of expertise, or technical know how. Clearly, they designed these things with minimal theft of western technologies, and managed to maintain them for decades in a state of relative preparedness, if not the state we in the west were led to believe.

But, I suppose this is the best example of how truly damaging a culture of corruption is to any modern state. By the sounds of everything i read, Airforce, Naval forces, Ground forces, Russia has no effective combat forces at its disposal. I wonder why we haven't seen jihaidsts running around with nukes with cerylic writing all over them. If their strategic forces are as badly mismanaged as everything else is in their military, how do those much more sophisticated units even run? 

Its been 23 years since the fall of the Soviet Union. Other than a small OPV they're selling to some backwaters, have the russians managed to develop anything new? Anything at all? Can't seem to maintain the Soviet kludge they still have limping along (to be fare, that stuff wasn't that well made in the first place and is now a quarter of a century old) i dont see how they could possibly be developing anything new.

Mind you, they do seem to be able to convince India to keep giving them cash to build new planes. If nothing else their marketing must be pretty good. 

4 types of missile

1 particle beam weapon 

1 new type of submarine that works

and 3 new types of spacecraft, while Russia can't even get its old Soyuz to work as well as it once did.  

 

I dunno....F-35.....in three versions comrade.