[Ronin]

It makes sense at the grunt level. Most of their troops were trained with Russian equipment.

[lentulusgracchus]

They still use the BMP extensively as well -- never mind that 3ID and the Marines burned up a lot of what they had.

Their air force was half-Russian, half-French, with a ragbag of French, Russian, and US surface-to-air missiles (they had some I-Hawks integrated with their systems, iirc, and I think they had the French Crotale, too).

Their MBT's were all Russian. Their ASM's and SSM's were French (Exocet), Chinese, and Russian.