looooool, now it makes sense why you get banned from this forum so often, dude. Come-oooown, maaaaaaan!!!
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yes, planes fall everywhere but now russian arms industry is undoubtedly going dead due to lack of money;; mostly russia still uses 1980s designed soviet arms;; since 1991 collapse of soviet, it has NOT made many arms like soviet did;; and it also very slowly develops new arms, which seem even unreliable after being used in many recent conflicts like syria, azerbaizan vs. armenia skirmish, and etc;;; I really doubt if russia experiments its new arms enough before deploying them;;; anyway we would see more often russian plane crashes
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soviet spent hundreds billions of dollars for military budget every year;; russia no longer has such money for arms race;; this changes everything;; most russian arms replacements fall few decades behind its original schedule;; PAKFA/SU57 was scheduled to service in 1990s; PAKDA was first discussed back to the late 1990s; yasen class SSN was scheduled to service in the mid 1990s; russia entirely canceled building the following large surface ships in 1990s;; (as you say) russia NEVER says it will stop developing them but it important to note that it also eventually NEVER get them done since the collapse of soviet union;; making such new arms requires at least few-billions-dollars-budget every year;; it also seems like russia eager for indian big money to offset the lack of its budget but NOT feasible for india to offset it;; I just want to explain what russia did and where it is now
If Russia is ACTUALLY financially down and cant compete, then explain why Russia still possesses the 2nd best military force in the world. you're here spewing theories as if you work in finance and you're using McNamara fallacy- military power and performance isnt based ONLY ON RESEARCH DOLLARS, Look at US with infinite money, just lost the Afghan war and the world can see.
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I guess such military ranking is very controversial;; (as you say) weakly armed taliban defeated the world's strongest US troops because there're many other factors than military itself;; once we calculate such rankings, it only means arms scale and techniques;; such rankings does NOT mean it wins over the other in fighting;; back to your question, soviet union arms-raced against US thru its enormous financial and production systems but such systems lost once soviet collapsed in 1991;; now its been 30 years and russia technically falling a generation behind US, quantitatively downsizing its arms and troops almost one-fourth to one-fifth of what soviet was in 1980s, only maintaining politically sensitive nukes in scales (perhaps against US);; now it mostly has aged fleet, planes, and ground vehicles, while new arms in only small quantity;; technology develops every year and russia could NOT catch up by its current financial and production systems;; I really wonder how long russia could stay with its aging arms
