In the past in this blog I've written about Russia's ongoing military modernization efforts. One point I have made is whether or not Russia can financially sustain its modernization efforts. The latest ISCIP Analyst presents a good argument that Russia will have a very difficult time paying for its modernization.
According to the posting, Russia has begun to underfund it's modernization efforts and many of the technical, command and control, and other like functions and the ability to produce them have atrophied in Russia in the past couple of years. The fact that Russia is now looking to purchase UAVs from Isreal and a Command and Control Helicopter Carrier from France is indicative of the fact that Russia has fallen so far behind in this area that it is willing to buy them from the outside in an effort to jumpstart their ability understand both how systems like this are created but then also are integrated both doctrinally and operationally speaks to how far Moscow still has to travel before it can truly leave the old cold war ghost of the Red Army behind it. Sphere: Related Content
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