My vote goes to me.

The gobsmackingly essential point about the Russian military is that it is largely a conscript force.

This has not changed since the collapse of communism and, in a country where the plutocratic few are in the Bill Gates league financially (but rarely on merit), represents an interesting comment on the character of the country.

From that starting point, it’s hardly rocket science to work out the rest in terms of psychology and the ‘thoughts’ of ordinary Russians on the matter…

This thread has become more about politics, technology and economics than commercial aviation, so off to General Discussion it goes.

Hang on to your hats…………….

That’s a shame, as the thread relates directly to commercial aviation and not politics etc.

Basically thats the route book takes, The decision to cancel skybolt was a political farce , a complete assasination of bomber command and lets not forget the scrapping of the promising TSR2 project………so that the deterrent could be handed over to the navy. and the UK does not now have an INDEPENDANT nuclear detterent, we are entirely dependent on the US, for our nuclear weapons. Thank so much for the info chaps,

Does one detect that the original posting was somewhat rhetorical..?