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You assume Soviet arms were /ever/ tracked, military assets or not. The Soviet military has a long history of misplacing weaponry...

• jacquesm 8y ago
  That's an interesting possibility that I had not considered. I always think of the military as a giant exercise in logistics and there is no such thing without asset tracking. After all, whether you're talking about bullets or aircraft carriers they're not much use to the state that owns them if the state doesn't know where they are. But if there is enough stuff and a portion of it is misplaced then that would be a real problem. The simple fact that this thing is on display in its present location is worrisome. You could have put it in the back of a car and transported it halfway across Europe to fire it at the base of the Eiffeltower or something stupid like that before anybody would have known it was even there.
• LyndsySimon 8y ago
  The US isn't really much better, especially when in conflict. It's not like infantry are required to write a report every time they use a grenade when involved in active conflict. The hard part would be shipping it back to the US without detection. There's a 3.8 MT nuclear bomb somewhere just off the coast of Georgia. It's been there since the 50s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_collision https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958_Tybee_Island_mid-air_coll...