Posted on 12/21/2019 7:51:09 AM PST by tlozo
Sometimes, but not always. Note UAW-built crap piles as one example, the recent and appalling Remington pistols as another.
The big difference here is that the Russians live within a budget.
Argue against that premise at your own peril.
People saying Russia is warmongering aren’t paying attention.
Although there was a serious reduction of Russian military expenditure after the Soviet collapse the military was really defunded and reduced since Putin took power.
It is now about 10% of 1987 strength.
The only forces seriously developed are small rapid-reaction forces to pull Syria-like operation and a nuclear deterrent.
The premise that Russia is going to invade Poland or Germany let alone US is raving insanity.
Warmongering Russia is a myth nurtured to justify a NATO self-licking ice-cream cone.
The big difference here is that the Russians live within a budget.
I always thought B-1 was a response to a Backfire.
If you’re of the generation I am there’s a great Carl Riener movie from the ‘60’s called “The Russians Are Coming’’. Say’s it all about the Russian military.
Equipment made by the Russians during the era of communism was a lot of garbage produced by enslaved, despairing peoples who knew they lived in a rotten, corrupted society and a brutal police state. “The state pretends to pay us so we pretend to work’’ the saying went. In addition millions of those workers were chronic drunks. For a good read on this read Viktor Blenko’s “MiG Pilot’’.
Tu-22M3 bomber, known as “Backfire” to NATO, is a long-range bomber originally designed to strike the continental U.S. with nuclear weapons.
Which begs the question, HOw reliable and stable are Russian nukes?
Thousands of nukes.
Even if of or several of their nukes went off in their silo’s, or where ever they are stored, it would not be good.
Course they may have their own General Turdgeson.
The majority of Soviet-era aircraft have had one major hamstringing ... they”ve never been rightfully ‘blooded’, as most of the aircraft of the West. Therefore, they have aged as one who sat on the couch, in uniform and with gear, by the ever silent telephone.
The population of Russia is decreasing by 750 daily.
I can see the maintenance issues, it is a much higher performance aircraft than a B-52, so higher stresses mean shorter life.
If they use one, the world is over. No one will do it
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