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The Russian military is in a pretty terrible state at the moment. They've been starved of funding for so long now there's a serious safety risk to their own crews from their own equipment. Their only aircraft carrier is basically unseaworthy at the moment.
They'd announced a massive upgrade plan building new ships, fighters and missiles, and a potential new bomber was on the drawing board, but that was all to be funded by energy money.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 19 Feb 2015, 11:49,
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