Much better navy? Damn right.
Out of six frigates-
Only 1 has Short Range SAM.
Only four have anti ship missiles.
2 have no AA gun.
The youngest frigate is 20 years old and the oldest ones are almost 50 years old.
Most of the frigates are older than their sailors.
As far as I know, the biggest challenge was to get the right engine. That's why building of the frigate was delayed for few month. After the Crimea crisis, Ukarine stopped selling ship engines to Russia. And Russia just started production of theie own ship engines only after 2017. First few...
Nope. MA 6 is 120 mm mortar and MA 6 Mk 2 is 120 mm Extended Range Mortar.
Pistol is MA 5 Mk 2. It is a reverse engineered Glock 19 and nothing to do with SIG-Sauer P226.
New lighter and stronger kevlar vest with add on armour plate are being issued to the frontline units since 2017. Also the new design nylon rigss are being in produced.
There are alot of ongoing modernization programme. Signal Corps just started production of Personal Role Radios for individual...
Two things...
Second batch of Su 30SME and Su 25/39...
Alexander Fomin is Director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation and also hold the post of the Deputy Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation. He is responsible for Arms Exporting.
Do not forget that MAF also uses Yak 130.
So BAF's Yak 130 won't be a game changer at all.
Do not forget that the role of Yak 130 is just a LIFT-Lead In Fighter Trainer.
And also do not forget that BAF pilots took down 3 Yak 130s in just 1 year.
As long as you have unskilled pilots, MAF...