** good one! **
Again, I caution you guys to presume inferiority.
For 10 years Soyuz was the only way US astronauts could reach the ISS. They are far ahead in hypersonics. There is no reason to presume inferiority.
They have their own semiconductor foundries in Russia, and China as well, while we are largely dependent on what is made in Taiwan.
They have superior education. Check our plummeting ACT and SAT scores. And don’t stomp your feet and start talking Democrats and politics. It doesn’t matter why it plummets. It simply does, and that is why they lead in hypersonics and we had to beg for rides to the ISS . . . for 10 friggin years.