Generally, when I read opinion about aircraft here I think – those people know what they are talking about (mostly). But now I am quite confused – same people write a lot about the topic they… not quite familiar with. I am Russian and those comments are very amusing (not bothering me) and far from true.
Russians like all other nations think very different things about their army. Now not the Stalins times and those who wants to know capable to achieve any information western reader can achieve and a lot more. Although it’s true about a lot of people that didn’t go to the army, but not like at West. Don’t forget, you have to go even if you don’t want to, so it is pretty hard to sell journalistic BS to somebody who did the army for 2-3 years, so they know how old their airplanes and how “good” their ships. Lots of them were at war (I mean real one, not like UN missions) and not only in Chechnia and used those weapons quite recently, and even if not, once a couple of years they are going to reservists practice and can see personally what is the army. Now multiply number of those people on their family members and friends and you’ll see that Russian knows about their army at least twice more then average westerners.
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