See, remember what I said about the sale of technology to Iran in that other thread...
Sure, you can have some very capable equipment...But unless you ar trained and have capable people running the show...You are just another target waiting to go bye bye...
Russia is just trying to make a buck...They’ll sell to the aboriginies if they thought they could make money off of it...They don’t care if they implement the technology agressively and correctly...
“Russia is just trying to make a buck...They’ll sell to the aboriginies if they thought they could make money off of it...They don’t care if they implement the technology agressively and correctly...”
But maybe they should. After all, it can’t be good for sales to have militaries armed with Russian/Soviet weapons trounced every time they go up against Western militaries with Western weapons. Look at the MiG-29, by all reports a pretty decent airplane, but it’s consistently underperformed when the going got tough. I can’t even recall an instance where a MiG-29 had an actual kill. At least it’s contemporary, the Su-27/30, has a handful of kills (notably the MiG-29).
Aren’t they at least embarrassed by the incompetent use of their (albeit export quality) weapons? It makes it seem as if their weapons are proverbial spitballs. Now, a T-80 or T-90 isn’t going to compare favorably to a M1-A1, Leo2, Challenger 2, Leclerc, etc. on a one-to-one basis, but then again, it’s not meant to be in the same class. However, that doesn’t mean that they should be completely ineffective.