![]() ![]() A Soviet T-34 tank in the Victory Day parade in Volgograd on May 9, 2018. Russia went on to produce effective warships, nuclear submarines, fighter and bomber aircraft, missile defense systems and all kinds of rockets and missiles including heavy ICBMs. The T-34 also featured an independent suspension system originally designed by J Walter Christie in the United States. ![]() Russian products included the world’s most successful tank, the T-34, the first modern battle tank with sloped armor. Even during World War II, Russia churned out fighter aircraft such as the Yak-3, the Lavochkin LA-7 and the Ilyushin-2 Stormovik. While some of the disaster can be attributed to poor command and poor training including a lack of troop motivation, in many cases the equipment has simply not measured up. Why? The answer tracks with modern Russian history.ĭuring the Soviet period, Russian weaponry was built robustly, even if it lacked the bells and whistles of American and other Western armaments. The staggering loss of tanks and armor, the failure of the Russian air force to enforce air superiority over a comparatively tiny Ukrainian adversary and the sinking of the Moskva flagship of the Russian Black Sea fleet illustrate the Russian military’s many war failures. The Ukraine war has revealed many serious weaknesses in Russian warfighting equipment. ![]()
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