—”I’m sure they can write their own software or buy off the shelf software”
Why yes, Amazon will have it there tomorrow, and you are an expert in hydrodynamic modeling of oil and gas fields!
Unless you are saying that nobody can purchase it, it is purchasable. If it purchasable, there is no reason that a scientist from Russia cannot go buy it somewhere.
There are tons of super advanced machinery for oil and gas industry which wasn’t used because joint projects required Western counterparts.
A year ago it was said that Russia would be unable to increase LNG offer due to a lack of access to advanced pumping equipment. Domestic pumps are there for 6 months and so is LNG.
The idea that the group that could design a tank in 3 weeks, sent the first man in space and uploaded HD imagery from the surface of Venus before you knew what the digital picture is unable to design simple technology is stupid.
Yeah, that was spoken like the sorta guy who gets told it will take 4,000 man-months to code software, and decides he’ll have it in a month with 4,000 people working on it.