A few years ago I talked with a NASA executive who had gone to Russia on business. They went to one of the Russian space bases that was co-located with an Air Force base.
Said he was out at lunch one day and saw a row of fighters several hundred yards away. He was able to walk right up to then, on the other side of a chain-link fence.
Mig-29s. Birds nesting in uncovered intakes, tires flat. Said the whole military side of the base looked like that.
not enough money to keep the tires operational but puttie claims he is going to rebuild the russian military?