It was basically designed to “take apart a Soviet tank,” says Jeffery S. Underwood, a historian at the United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Fo

It was basically designed to “take apart a Soviet tank,” says Jeffery S. Underwood, a historian at the United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Just in case the collapse of the rouble, precipitous drops in oil prices (traded in dollars printed somewhere else), problems in Ukraine, the technical inability to extract vast hydrocarbons found in the Arctic, and a list of other issues, have a negative impact on Russian decision making.