Do the Russians actually have that much genuinely serviceable stuff?
Well since the wall came down in 89, Mikhail Gorbachev retired and the western world decided the cold war was over, and all those capitalist pig companies
like Shell and BP went across there and showed Ivan how to make money out of oil and gas, they have over the last 20 years or so been slowly rebuilding with quality rather then quantity. Everything they tend to build nowdays tends to be a well developed package which is as good as anything we make and in some ways, better
Only in the dark arts of electronic warfare are they maybe still behind a little but due to espionage (by themselves and there chinky friends) they are catching up very quickly
I cant remember the numbers but have a look at what they have spent over the last 20 years.
The days of them getting the old Warsaw Pact countries to take the brunt of the battle has well and truly gone and they can really look after themselves
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