This is legitimately the kind of thing I'd expect to see out of ISIS, not the world's ostensibly 3rd strongest military. [edit] It's pretty embarrassing, and I

This is legitimately the kind of thing I'd expect to see out of ISIS, not the world's ostensibly 3rd strongest military. [edit] It's pretty embarrassing, and I think tells a bigger story. I strongly suspect that part of the reason the Ukraine invasion was so bungled is that the military procurement folks were getting cheap knock-off equipment and pocketing the difference. Leadership was told stories of cutting-edge tech while reality on the ground was very different. I suspect the whole army looks either like this - mixed in with whatever was left over after the collapse of the Soviet Union. I do agree that the PJSC United Aircraft Corporation [2] (a merger of Ilyushin, Irkut, Mikoyan, Sukhoi, Tupolev and Yakovlev design bureaus) has some decent, modern designs but I'd argue a lot of that is carry-over from the cold war too. Their F-35 competitor (Su-35S/Su-27M) are improved variants of the Su-27 which debuted in 1977. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-35 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-35 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Aircraft_Corporation