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The only valuable thing russia makes is the mi-8, russia is the very definition of "vaporware".
Not really, they have a lot of sectors (mainly military, nuclear, IT) where they are strong
Military? The Ukraine War has been an advertisement for how useless and disconnected from reality the russian approach to war is. For one, it has been thoroughly demonstrated that russian armor design for decades has been fundamentally flawed in a way that would have existentially undermined russia at any previous point as well if the Cold War had gone Hot in the 20th century.
Do you think the rest of the world is looking at russia and thinking "Yeah, I want to buy weapons from THOSE people!"? Russia refuses to stop conducting meatwave assaults that obviously don't work, do you think that impresses the rest of the world and makes us think russia is a military might with sophisticated military technology and doctrine?
lol
I'm not talking about Russian military strategy, it's clear that they have made many mistakes. I'm just saying that many Russian products and services are quite good, see the Sukhoi Su-57 or Rosatom which builds nuclear power plants all over the world for example.
The Su-57 is optimized for high angle of attack and raw performance without the engines to truly take advantage of it at a time where raw performance in a manned jet is becoming the least critical aspect.
The Kizilelma is what russia should have made the Su-57 into, but instead they are stuck with a design that was poorly thought out from the beginning.
The Su-57 is impressive and capable, but it is an Oligarch's vision of what an air superiority fighter is and it fails to see the forest for the trees just as all Oligarchs do.