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.