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Originally Posted by -GrayOwl-
Gorshkov: Buy ANY Chinese goods - and you learn what it is technology! 
You can learn it - only from the bad party.  |
And possibly that is why Russkie military industry buys now Chinese machine tools because their own machine industry bellied-up. Go somewhere else propagate your BS about Russian "R&D power", buddy.
PS. Russia is now finished as modern military and industrial power. It is decades behind the West in new technologies. Again and again refurbished the same old Soviet junk is the best proof of deplorable Kremlin's position. Now Russkies go to the West cadging for new weapons and equipment (warships, UAVs, TIs and so on) because their own stuff is ridiculous or non-existent. So don't tell us about Russian lead in submarines - Chinese not only bought from Russia what they needed but also robbed Russia from "top secret" technologies, too. Now China has five times bigger military budget than Russia and they do not have such overwhelming mess as it is present in Russia so the result of such technological race is rather obvious.
You also apparently confused Russian Navy with US Navy because the latter in fact decreased submarine fleet two times since the Cold War. Yet Russian Navy shrinked about ten times from 362 subs in 1985 to about 35 seaworthy subs now. Well, this is not surprising if you remember on average Russkies introduce now one sub every ten years instead of several ones yearly then. However US military still twaddle to Congress some Sci-Fi stories about "powerful Russian subs" most probably to get more funds to counter fictional threats. Yeah, and many new Mr. Boeings are happy to give them money...do you remember "missile gap" and race to the Moon? That is how this machine works.
So go to fool naive public showing them stuff from the Red Square parades with Brezhnev's era junk! My advice to you is to watch much less Putin's TV news about "resurgent Russian power" and similar idiocy.