They’re hypersonic shovels.
They’re also getting desperate with their propaganda. Russia GDP is up quite a bit, no reason that they can’t pay their troops.
I have no idea what Russian gdp is and no one does. Russian reporting numbers is China and their numbers
What I am confident about is the vast amount of revenue for Russia came from selling oil and natural gas and byproducts. 70 a barrel was budgeted amount and they haven’t hit that number since 2022.
They may be moving oil but they are not making much on it, natural gas and products like gasoline and diesel are much more problematic
The world is happy to see Russia produce as much as they can as long as they don’t make much.
Wars are generally good for gdp, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Declining revenue, huge declines in infrastructure,education, and healthcare spending and huge increases in domestic security and military spending is not good. Add to that the deaths and injuries and civilian flight from Russia and not so sure a “good” gdp report is an even exchange