The part about armssales to China sounds pretty accurate,but the portion about Russia's military is atrocious.Russia's only carrier,the Kuznetsov is conventionally powered,not nuke-powered & if im not mistaken,during last year's exercises,It sailed on it's own.The Russians may be retiring their cumbersome Typhoon class subs,but they still have the Delta-4 & Delta-3 class boats in service,so how does that leave their navy with no strategic strike capability????They are also due to induct a new class of SSBNs called the 'Borei' class,which will be armed with a naval variant of the Topol-M.Anyway,the START treaties mandate both superpowers at having an equal number of SSBNs.Plus you have to take into account the fact the Russian SSGNs & Surface ships also carry long-range cruise missiles,which maybe N-tipped.The Russian navy has more or less decided to concentrate on guided missile corvettes & frigates as their principle surface combatants,rather than obsolete Sovremenny clas ships.Anyone who reads the fineprint about Russia's military cutbacks will know that quantity is being dumped for quality.What is the use of having 3000 fighter jets,if your pilots can only train 90 hours an year??Their decision to mothball Mig-29,Mig-27 & TU-22 squadrons has to be seen in that light & focus on better training,induction of PGMs & new cruise missiles.Moreover,the cuts in the ICBM force make sense as a huge chunk of Russian ICBMs are liquid fuelled & hence useless unless you're talking about a first strike & difficult to base on mobile transporters.The Russians are moving towards a flexible concept of both silo launched & road mobile strategic missiles-so one of those assets will have a much higher chance of surviving a first strike.
About Russian armssales to China,China has always got downgraded weaponry from Russia a fact evident in the delay it took for them to get weapons like the Klub SSM.
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