Years ago their was a poster here who was assigned to Egypt as part of Peace Keeping force. He said you would not want to fly on any of the Russian helos. Poor maintenance. No maintenance.
Exactly. Every piece of Russian machinery is designed and built with the most incompetent drunk operator in mind.
Everything from Russian powertools to Mach3 aircraft is made as foolproof as possible. It may look rude and lo-tech but it has to be like that.
The reason it still fail often is simply because stupidity of some end users is really unlimited.
Factual reliability of Soviet aircraft statistically on par with Western designs and far ahead considering operational environment.
Not so long ago they had an incident with Tu-154 (727-ski) which had major electric failure due to a pre-flight maintenance error. A pilot managed to land a plane to an abandoned WWII airfield which has complete decayed runway. This runway was too short and a plane ploughed a few hundred yards of thick forrest. Not only everyone on board has walked away from this, a plane itself flew on it’s own from there after a little repair a week later.
If it was Airbus it could be 200 fatalities.