The Russian Arms Industry is in Serious Trouble

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As a Russian troll, this video has made me realize my job is pointless. Unfortunately, there are no better jobs in Russia right now ...

Russian jokes are like their soldiers: They never get old

As a Finnish general said some years ago, "never underestimate the Russian tendency to shoot themselves in the leg".

As a Frenchman I can confidently say, once our enemies buy our weapons, they will never threaten NATO again

Ironically, the molotov cocktail isn't even a Russian/Soviet invention.

Crazy to think some of those tanks in the black and white film of mass production may have been actually sent to Ukraine today.

Indo french relations are pretty deep though , they trace back to Cold War and even independence movement. France was the only country with which India had a good relation even during peak cold war.

This war has taught many countries a valuable lesson. "Self sustainability is essential"

Yeah, this is bigger than most people think. Russia is dependent on the export markets to get economies of scale to make defense projects economically viable. If this continues, Russia will not be able to afford to continue to develop the next generation of arms for their own country.

Romania is buying F-16 to replace the MIG-21, and Malaysia is considering to replace the remaining SU-30MK2 with F/A-18E Super Hornet(The same Super Hornet jet that Taiwan ROC is interested in).

One has to remember that a lot of the Soviet arms industry was operated at a technical loss. The Soviet Union often donated or sold arms to allies or states doing proxy wars at really high discounts for soft power purposes. This was subsidised by, you guessed it, the oil and gas industry. It maintained employment, often in areas of the Soviet Union which would otherwise have had no economic reason to exist. After the Cold War ended these factories had to operate at a profit but because their customers still expected low prices and our old friend Russian corruption, the reputation of ‘cheap’ Russian weapons fell through the floor really quickly. You’d be a mad dictator with zero accountability to buy Russian weapons these days. So at least they’ve still got Syria and North Korea then!

If South Korea were in Ukraine's place, Russia would have been no match for them. The war would have been stopped a long time ago by negotiations, probably Russians retreating and handing over some previously occupied lands, reaching some heart-warming co-development agreement for Siberia.

The Soviet Union was a production powerhouse and you cold certainly get a whole bunch of T-72s or MiG-21s from the USSR, but getting spares out of the Soviet supply system a was a PITA. That's why you see a lot of re-engined Soviet tanks and 3rd party manufacturers in all sorts of places making spares for Soviet and Russian equipment.

That Prigozhin falling joke made me LOL and hit the like button.

There is one slight problem with the autoloader, on the newer tanks. It tends to also load the operator's arm, damaging it considerably. But, hey, who's counting?

South Africa bought grippens from Sweden. So we also didn't go Russia there.

It's a compliment, really, if Russian trolls are trolling your channel.

Something that was not mentioned (unless it was and I just missed it), is that foreign arms sales help cover the fixed development cost of new weapons, making it cheaper for Russia to make the weapons for their own use.

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