Lately they did not have much stimulus to work on their weapon, but now they will, unfortunately. Secondly, there is difference between what they sell and what they have themselves and how they use it.
When your entire army is drunk, it doesn’t matter what kinds of high-tech weapons they have. And the idea that the Russians sell their crap and keep the good stuff for themselves is ludicrous. All their stuff is crap. It’s been proven over and over and over.
The Chechens destroyed two entire Russian armored brigades in Grozny in 1995, using only rocket-propelled grenades. The Russian KIA rate in the two Chechen wars was ten times that of the U.S. in Iraq, even when the Russians were fighting with no rules of engagement whatsoever other than “Kill everybody.”
If the Russians ever decide to fight the U.S. military, it’s going to be just pitiful.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of troglodytes, though.
