Don’t trust the media in what Putin is doing. He used the older equipment to buy time as his factories were ramped up to produce the latest technology that the Russians know how to produce.
He used his old equipment, because they were write-offs anyway. So, why not use them and destroy Ukrainian war machines in the process?
You’re saying Putin KNEW that this war would end up a quagmire? And he started it anyway? I’m sure lots of the families of dead Russian men will find comfort in knowing their dead went to some grandiose plan of the Little Napoleon!
What factories? He lacks imported materials to make anything that will work