(September 22, 2022 at 4:06 pm)Helios Wrote:(September 22, 2022 at 3:19 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Their weapons aren't great, and of course many of them are indeed outdated. But I think they're pretty capable of developing some very high-tech stuff if they could find the funding, which has been the main thing hamstringing the Russian military for the last three decades. They didn't need a war to develop the S-500 or the Kalibr cruise missile, among other programs, for instance.Funding and of course political infighting on military priorities
It isn’t as much infighting as it is corruption. When you build 1000 tanks and mothball them for years while the officers in charge pocket the funds allocated for upkeep, it tends to affect combat readiness.
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