Soldato
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I’m sure someone will be along soon to tell you that is a myth, Russian technology is the dogs danglys and they are holding back the good stuff, so the west doesn’t see what they really haveThis morning I looked up Russia's military budget. In cash terms, it's about the same as the UK and France, a little higher than Germany's. That's all. About a twelfth of the US, or a quarter of China.
With that it's claiming the largest force of tanks in the World, the most self propelled artillery, the largest number of towed artillery and rocket launchers, and the 3rd largest number of armoured vehicles. On top of that it claims the second largest number of planes and the second largest navy. Over 50x as many tanks as the UK has on the same budget.
Now I know Russia pays its soldiers in buttons, and so on, but military equipment is sold on a global market. It's no wonder that they're turning out to have poorly maintained crap, their military is so vastly bloated over what they're actually paying for that it cannot possibly be maintained at a globally competitive level.
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