Ramp up with what?
The skilled workers for Sukhoi and Mig and other Soviet equipment makers have moved on long ago, there simply weren't enough orders for the stuff.
3rd world countries that have to settle for ex-Soviet equipment buy it 3rd, 4th or 5th hand.
And for that matter could we still ramp up with the shrinking military shipyards and factories that we've been dealing with for over 20 years?
Their workers have moved on too.
All I’m saying is underestimate Russia at your peril.
Ok, you’ve made several posts explaining how Russia has basically not updated it’s arsenal, how their arms industry is dead, how their shipyards and aircraft factories are basically silent.
I thought they were a menace to the world, revanchist, and moving to take over eastern Europe and spread around the world and rebuild the USSR, and are a deadly threat to the west....BUT you also say they aren’t building any equipment.
So which is it?
A very large portion of Soviet arms (or parts to mfg. them) were made in what is now Ukraine (and presently contested parts of it.)