Russia fully modernizing their hardware?
They haven't built a new TU-22 Backfire since the Cold War. Or Tu-160 Blackjack.
They haven't started a new hull larger than a frigate since the Cold War.
“Make threats to someone who is as well armed as you are, and with a much bigger, better armed friend, you are lucky if all you get is ‘aggressively buzzed’”
Tell me about it. We get so cocky beating up on third world countries for sport, we forget that it’s not so easy to do the same against a country that has FULLY MODERNIZED their weapons for 25 years while we sat on our butts enjoying the ‘peace dividend’ and claiming ‘the end of history’.
While I feel bad for the French sailors who are about to used as cannon fodder by their child-president, I do hope it ends with that, and I suspect that it will.
Yep, and Yep.
But you are a lot more optimistic than I am that it will be limited to that..
Russia fully modernizing their hardware?
They haven't built a new TU-22 Backfire since the Cold War. Or Tu-160 Blackjack.
They haven't started a new hull larger than a frigate since the Cold War.