Posted on 12/11/2017 10:11:27 AM PST by sukhoi-30mki
Agreed.
Russia & India have been dance partners for many years, hard to understand why, easy to suppose Indians ready for different music & a new partner.
Yet Russia has a hard time of providing the reliability, advanced technology, and close tolerances needed for top notch weapons systems today. They lack the financial and technical resources because their economic base is too small for the task. To support their great power aspirations, the Russians thus resort to touting prototypes and announcing programs that will never enter production. The Russian arms industry is in decline and is of diminishing consequence in international markets. Russian weapons today may be cheap but they are, with limited exceptions, obsolete and inferior.
‘’’Russian weapons today may be cheap but they are, with limited exceptions, obsolete and inferior.’’’
That’s rather dated way to see things and it is not only about weapons. I’d say most Russian-made consumer goods nowadays are better than average. I mean these are closer to the German quality that to a Chinese one.
You won’t have much trouble even with newer Lada these days.
Please, never use the word quality and China in the same sentence.
I suspect that India’s politicians and bureaucrats find that Russia is an easy partner in the graft that tends to invest the Indian procurement process.
I have no idea about that because Russian consumer products rarely find their way to my venue at the northern edge of Florida. I have fired an AK-47 though. It impressed me as crudely made but fully deserving of its lethal reputation. It is now considered obsolete though due to its relative lack of accuracy and unsuitability for attachments.
AK47 is like 70 years old vintage.
The AK-47 can be described as even older in that it combined major features of the US M-1 Garand and the German Sturmgewehr 44, iconic infantry weapons of WW II that were developed in the 1920s based on WW I experience. Supporting my larger point, the Russian arms industry has proved unable to produce an acceptable modern successor to the AK-47. In part, this may be because instead of seeking greater accuracy in their main infantry weapon, the Russians have put much effort into better sniper rifles and equipment.
Not related to AK and vastly superior. Tries to replace AK as a standard-issue rifle since 1971 and would probably succeed starting next year. As for a sniper's rifle it was actually Russia's weak point until just recently. SVD was not exactly a sniper rifle in international terms and the only more accurate alternative was Mosin. SVD has its pros but you certainly wouldn't like to use it in a sniper duel with someone who are more than 800 yards away and has a real sniper rifle.
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