(May 23, 2024 at 12:39 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(May 23, 2024 at 12:14 am)Jackalope Wrote: Classic Russian maskirovka.
There's a non-zero chance that some enterprising colonels sold all their nukes for scrap. Jokes aside, I wonder how many of them are viable.
Many of the tanks in the vaunted reserve park of Russian tanks have been found stripped of armor interstices, hence they're pretty useless -- as is shown in the Turret Launch Olympics.
I wonder how much of that same corruption has degraded Russian nuclear capability.
I wouldn't bet real money against it.